This second edition features pieces from 40 contributors that range from soup recipes to poetic essays to drawings to music recommendations to a screenplay and beyond.
the netherlands has been the home of irishman charlie jermyn for the last 5 years; it’s a nation that has been dredged up from the water and which attempts, to this day, to hold back the persistent tide. in this brilliant and very-hard-to-describe debut novel, jermyn brings the common and absurd to crisp, shimmering life through his essays and short non-fiction pieces, reminding us to take note of the mad and brilliant world around us before the tide comes in again.
illustrated by samuel van heijningen
published commonly, no no no expounds an experimental poetic offering, both text & art.
each issue features a limited edition artwork. which can be tacked or framed or stored in a drawer.
celestial in nature, no no no takes the form required, and necessary.
In Derek McCormack's home province, farm boys with growing pains enjoy a little-known meal called bed-supper, a hearty bowl of sweet breakfast cereal enjoyed as a midnight snack. Here McCormack has composed a peculiarly salacious bed-supper, where the long secret sweet-tooth of the Marquis de Sade glints as it sinks into the dirtiest of dishes. This useful book will more than stay your appetite until breakfast — Castle Faggot is also a manual of redecoration, a musical, a puppet show, a theory of cosmetics, a work of poetics, and a glorious celebration of the French decadence. — Lisa Robertson, author of The Baudelaire Fractal
Derek McCormack is a writer who lives in Toronto. His previous books include The Show that Smells and The Well-Dressed Wound (Semiotext(e)).
A shape-shifting, metaphysical thriller where sensorial, sexual, and revolutionary impulses are aligned for the purpose for anarcho-transcendent-communal escape, The Swarm circles around a sundry of anomalous and dead beings who plot their way out of Hungarian fascist rule in the thermal baths of Budapest.
Based in Berlin, Dalia Neis is a writer, filmmaker, and lyricist and vocalist for Dali Muru & The Polyphonic Swarm. Previous publications include Zephyrian Spools: An Essay, a Wind (Knives, Forks & Spoons), and Hercules Road (Ma Bibliothèque).
Gorge Bataille, Marc Buchy and 2 more
Founded in 2023, A4 is a poetry review which showcases and explores contemporary writings practices. Run by Littérature Supersport collective, the object is seen as the extension of their events. The review takes the form of 4 postcards which, when placed side-by-side, form an A4-sheet. A light (even precarious) format for literature that slips into the back pocket of pants and hangs on fridge doors. Each issue features unpublished texts by 4 authors. Wrapped in colors, A4 is distributed by post and available in good bookshops, in Brussels, Liège, Paris and Marseille.
This fourth issue presents texts by: Gorge Bataille, Marc Buchy, Samy Manga, Elke de Rijcke.
Matthew Stuart, Harriet Moore and 1 more
Guest edited by artist Helen Marten and literary agent Harriet Moore with Matthew Stuart, this volume of the journal considers what it means for a publication to be an allegorical container. A simple box in which to gather multiple things, an economical set of permutations — rational in one sense, yet defiantly flexible to move. Contributors were approached with an open invitation; some explored the multiplicities of containing or containers, while others filled the printed vessel with their own ongoing preoccupations. The following pages perform as envelope, bag, shell, net, fold, alarm, letter and instruction. There are holes to disappear within; smoke to knot and wind; shadows to unfold — a context that takes in and binds, finding new kinships from unforeseen proximities.
THE FIRE FLOWERS AND THE FLOWER LIGHTS UP –
Lucy Mercer
(spine)
WE SHALL GREET THE MOON AGAIN
Walter Price
(front cover)
BACK PAGES OF ALGIERS DIARIES 2018
Lydia Ourahmane
(inside front & inside back cover)
AN INTRODUCTION TO / NOTES ON / INSTRUCTION FOR THE FRONT NOVEL
Eliza Barry Callahan
(pp.1–16)
SATURDAY MORNING
Kathryn Scanlan
(pp.25–29)
KILLDEER
Jason Schwartz
(pp.33–38)
ALARMS AND EXCURSIONS
Rosmarie Waldrop
(pp.45–61)
"THE BATHROOM"
Najwa Barakat
(pp.67–76)
ARMY ROLLS, A CIRCUMSCRIPTION
Roy Claire Potter
(pp.81–91)
CONCHOMANIA
Felix Bernstein
(pp.95–109)
O-POEM
Line-Gry Hørup
(pp.113–129)
THIS MUSCLE
Cally Spooner
(pp.133–153)
STERLING PARK IN THE DARK
Susan Howe
(pp.159–179)
COCONUTTERY
Mathelinda Nabugodi
(pp.183–193)
YOUR SELF CONFIDENT BABY
Aurelia Guo
(pp.197–206)
BIOGRAPHY OF A NET: HOLDING A VOLUME
Daisy Hildyard
(pp.211–225)
A GUIDE TO THE POETRY OF LI HO
Eliot Weinberger
(pp.229–235)
WOMEN SMOKING
Charline von Heyl
(throughout & p.239)
INFRATHIN
Marcel Duchamp
(throughout & p.239)
THE MAZED WORLD
Rachael Allen
(bookmark insert)
UNTITLED
Helen Marten
(back cover)