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Cover of Anthologie Douteuses (2010—2020)

Rotolux Press

Anthologie Douteuses (2010—2020)

Élodie Petit, Marguerin Le Louvier

€22.00

Élodie Petit et Marguerin Le Louvier écrivent des poèmes brûlants, sexuels, politiques et les autoéditent depuis leurs chambres sous la bannière commune des Éditions Douteuses. En une décennie, ils produiront des dizaines de textes courts et incisifs, imprimés en noir sur papiers colorés, parfois fluo, formats A5 ou A6 agrafés. À tirages variables, ils seront diffusés lors de soirées lectures-performances dans des bars ou des institutions artistiques, dans des salons de micro-éditions underground ou parfois sous le manteau. L’Anthologie Douteuses (2010—2020) rassemble pour la première fois ces textes en un seul volume, où l’arrangement chronologique donne à voir une certaine évolution de leur pratique littéraire sur dix ans. 

« Des incendies savamment allumés au fuel de l’ironie, du fun et du détournement, de la critique sociale et sexuelle, de la pensée radicale et de la poésie merveilleuse. Des contre-feux révolutionnaires joyeusement embrasés par une gouine et un pédé mal repassés du col, qui écrivent, baisent, dessinent, dansent, et s’asseyent en gloussant sur le visage de tous les «culs cousus» et autres suceurs de vieux noyaux. (...) Oui, cette tendresse, leur tendresse, celle d’Élodie et de Marguerin, je crois, nous guérira de tout et leurs merveilleux textes, enfin réunis en un seul et même volume, il faudra les lire quand le courage de vivre, d’aimer et de faire la révolution viendra à nous manquer. Moi, c’est ce que je ferai. » Extrait de la préface d’Anne Pauly.

« Le feu, dans cet ouvrage, est partout invoqué, sussuré, explosé. Il se coule dans les pratiques poétiques queer, matérialistes et révolutionnaires des deux artisan·e·s de ce programme politique. Les éditions douteuses sont un mode d’emploi pour des alliances radicales trans-pédés-gouines-et-au-delà, un appel à une nécessaire profusion-collusion de nos appartenances, de nos situations, et à la production d’intervalles de revendications et de combats partagés. » Extrait de la préface de Thomas Conchou.

Language: French

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Rotolux Press

Jangal

Ana Pi, Léna Araguas and 2 more

Jangal est un ouvrage collectif avec la participation d’Ana Pi, Julien Creuzet, Léna Araguas et Éva Barois De Caevel. Il a été conçu lors de l’exposition « Cet ailleurs, qui rejaillit en moi, lorsque je suis là (…) » de Julien Creuzet à la galerie NaMiMa de l’École nationale supérieure d’art et de design de Nancy.

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Lingua Press

For Chris Mann (Open Space Magazine #22)

Dorota Czerner, Elaine Radoff Barkin

Special issue of this US magazine dedicated in its entirety to the late Australian artist/compositional linguist/raconteur Chris Mann, who died in 2018. The magazine contains tributes from Mann associates and admirers, including Warren Burt, Amanda Stewart, Pi-0, Ronald Robboy, Linda Kouvaras, Alvin Lucier, Ruark Lewis, Annea Lockwood, as well as Mann’s own writing and an interview with him by Philip Blackburn.

88 pages bound in soft-cover glossy colour cover by Brigid Burke.

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Kelsey Street Press

Incubation: a space for monsters

Bhanu Kapil

Poetry €23.00

New edition of this long out of-print classic of diasporic literature, featuring a forward by Eunsong Kim, an afterword by Emgee Dufresne, and new endnotes by Bhanu Kapil.

Incubation: a space for monsters is a formally innovative, hybrid-genre book that incorporates poetry and prose. Set in a shifting narrative environment, where human bodies, characters, and text are neither one thing nor another, this fragmentary-diaristic text journeys through the spaces in-between. Originally published in America in 2006 by Leon Works, and out of print for the last seven years, this is the first time this seminal text has been available in the UK.

Following protagonist Laloo – Cyborg, girl, mother, child, immigrant, settler – on a roadtrip through American landscapes, genre styles, and form, Incubation creates radical space for what is ‘monstrous’. Appropriating iconic American tropes, and the structure of Jack Kerouac’s On the Road, Incubation explores the challenges faced by immigrants in attaining such notions of freedom in so hostile an environment. In this fragmentary document there is a celebration in the cobbling together of lives; global in scope, with an intimate focus on interior voice, this landmark text evidences the early innovations and talents of this T.S. Eliot prizewinning author.

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Nightboat Books

Apparitions: (Nines)

Nat Raha

Poetry €18.00

Injecting the disruptive potential of collective action into the body of the poem, Nat Raha's invigorating experiment resuscitates Anglophone poetry.

Amidst the violence of capitalism and state and imperial power, there is Nat Raha's apparitions (nines) in its "charred golden minidress," ushering us into a space of grief and resistance, the embodiment and intimacy of queer, trans, and diasporic Black and brown people. Written as a series of "niners," a poetic form consisting of nine nine-syllable lines, apparitions (nines) is at once a brash and subversive rejoinder to the Anglophone sonnet, as well as an ode to beauty, collectivity, and tenderness which emerges from—and far surpasses—constraint.

"These poems are eccentric in the most literal sense, Raha’s writing pushing at the edges of the mainstream of poetry, presenting a punk, transfeminist revision of poetic norms. . . apparitions (nines) deserves to be read—for its insights and newness, and the studs of pleasure it doles out." - Lou Selfridge, Frieze

“Welcome the poems that split us open, ‘frequencies/ to be removed from the air.’ Nat Raha has sharpened the lines, their serrated letters leaving us marked, poems to touch again on the skin, feel our doom undo its direction for enduring solidarity; the best love.” - CAConrad

Dr Nat Raha is a poet and activist-scholar whose previous books of poetry include of sirens, body & faultlines (2018), countersonnets (2013), and Octet (2010). Her work has appeared in 100 Queer Poems (2022), We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics (Nightboat, 2020), Liberating the Canon: An Anthology of Innovative Literature (2018), on Poem-a-Day, and in South Atlantic Quarterly, TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly, Transgender Marxism,and Wasafiri Magazin. With Mijke Van der Drift, she co-edits the Radical Transfeminism zine and has co-authored articles for Social Text, The New Feminist Literary Studies, and the book Trans Femme Futures: Abolitionist Ethics for Transfeminist Worlds. Nat completed her PhD in queer Marxism at the University of Sussex, and is Lecturer in Fine Art Critical Studies at the Glasgow School of Art.

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Les Figues Press

+|'me'S-pace

Christine Wertheim

Poetry €20.00

+|`me'S-pace, doc. 001.b is book 1, volume 2 of a wider, ongoing project known as "For Love Alone" Christina'S-tead, a poetic enquiry into the current state of the English tongue.

"In a time when many are questioning if we still need formalism and feminism, Wertheim's +|`me'S-pace, doc. 001.b is a spirited and fun defense of both. Written in part as a didactic instructional manual that cannot keep itself from constantly going astray into beautiful and challenging language play, this is a book that asks crucial questions and reconfigures recent histories. It is essential for its arguments. But even more, it is fun to read for its word play"—Juliana Spahr.

Introduction by Dodie Bellamy and art by Lisa Darms.

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And Other Stories

Hardly War

Don Mee Choi

Poetry €18.00

Hardly War, first published in the USA in 2016 and finally published in the UK in 2025, splices the personal and political to dizzying effect in a poetry fluid with forms and genres including reportage, memoir, opera libretto, archival photos and drawings. Using artefacts from Choi’s father, a professional documentary photographer during the Korean and Vietnam wars, she explores her paternal relationship and heritage. Here poetry and geopolitics are inseparable twin sisters, conjoined to the belly of a warring empire.

Choi’s KOR-US Trilogy (Hardly War and the subsequent DMZ Colony and Mirror Nation) brings us a new poetic language to learn. Suggestive and subtle in its connections and allusions, there is an exhilarating freedom in its playful form, all while looking straight at the brutality of colonialism and dictatorship.