How to Fix a Human – Robin Vaughan-Williams & Stéphanie Barbetta

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Robin Vaughan-Williams and Stéphanie Barbetta met at RuptureXIBIT’s Lawless Imagination exhibition in Hampton Wick (London) in December 2023. Their artistic and personal experiences brought them together around the theme of repair. In this collaboration, Robin’s words collide with Stéphanie’s images, throwing up alternative and layered readings that take us on a submarine route through subjectivity and the human condition. How do you make two universes resonate? How can a text meet an image, overlap, merge or simply breathe differently within a visual composition?

How to Fix a Human
Robin Vaughan-Williams & Stéphanie Barbetta
Published May 2024
ISBN 978-1-915505-36-1
A6 Size
16 printed pages
Colour
Chapbook 50
SLB0249
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Robin Vaughan-Williams is a poet, producer, and author of The Manager (Happenstance Press). He has run live literature events like Spoken Word Antics in Sheffield and Word of Mouth in Nottingham, and pioneered collaborative poetry improvisation. ‘How to Fix a Human’ is the first in a sequence of poems
exploring the human as variously mechanical, commodified, split, and out of sync with itself.
Find out more @robinrvw on Instagram or www.zeroquality.ne

Stéphanie Barbetta is an Italian-Swiss multidisciplinary artist. After a master’s degree in literature and post-graduate studies in theatre, she developed a practice that combines images, writing and performance. Laureate of the PEG in 2020 for her text Exploser d’amour, she mainly writes poems.
Her visual research is exhibited and published internationally (www.substancebrute.com/). Her first solo exhibition was held in Geneva at the Manoir de Cologny in 2023. A monograph on her project Empty Home will be published in May 2024.

Proceedings of the Remediators – Jane Partner, Sarah Messerschmidt, Sylee Gore, and Simon Tyrrell

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Proceedings of the Remediators
Jane Partner, Sarah Messerschmidt, Sylee Gore, and Simon Tyrrell
Published February 2024
ISBN 978-1-915505-35-4
A6 Size
32 printed pages
Colour
Chapbook 49
SLB0248
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Prefatory Remarks on the First Proceedings of the Remediators

The convivial library is also a commons. We welcome you. The architecture of a library serves as the organising principle of this volume, arranged around four books that are linked by areas for circulation, exchange and conversation. Libraries are spaces that contain an enormous variety of texts and images, which are activated and re-combined by those who use them. Opening each of the following sections invites you to participate in a transfer of energy. As visual artists, we ask how to inhabit the language world, and so our offerings are deviant, playful, and unexpected; expressive, fluid and tender. As writers, we ask how to and new ways of looking at words as visual objects. Perhaps we reclaim ‘realia’ – those naturally occurring or human-made ‘real world objects’ failing to fit traditional categories of library material. Non-documentary items not rejected for being not manuscripts or not immediately useful for understanding them. Although contained here on the page, our writings speak to the tendencies of the human body: words exist as light in the eye, as electricity in the brain; words are breath and music, and they emanate from the same vital impulse that produces gesture, dance and movement.

MOLD – Oscar Rodriguez

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With a growing stain, Mold follows the downward spiral of sexual addiction and its consequent ruin on the self. Fuelling the descent through abstraction, constraint poetry and visual stimulation; there is no denial of degeneracy. Laid between confessional and fictive, Mold is telling of a new wave of the sexual revolution. So, give in and melt your brain.

MOLD
Oscar Rodriguez
Published February 2024
ISBN 978-1-915505-33-0
A6 Size,
16 printed pages,
Colour
Print run of 200
Writers Centre Kingston Chapbook #20
SLB0246
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Oscar Rodriguez (he/they) is a Salvadoran American poet based in Kingston. Avid writer since childhood, his migration to London for studies was a manifestation of resilience. Their poetry reflects on trauma, religion, identity, and queerness. He collaborates with Writers Kingston frequently and in the past with Spotify Radar. With their debut Sampson Low pamphlet, Mold, and upcoming performance at the National Gallery’s Lates, he is always exploring poetry and its many forms.

BEES – Jessica Pritchard

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A young woman stands alone in the fierce aftermath of grief. After the sudden death of her father, she is forced towards the impossible task of moving forward. Bees explores the chaos of bereavement through a blend of poetry and prose, capturing the most poignant and personal moments of a young woman in pain. Part memoir, part fiction, Bees is a love letter to the children who survived.

BEES
Jessica Pritchard
Published February 2024
ISBN 978-1-915505-34-7
A6 Size,
16 printed pages,
Colour
Print run of 200
Writers Centre Kingston Chapbook #21
SLB0247
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Jessica Pritchard is a screenwriter and poet studying at Kingston University. Jessica has a particular interest in writing about the human condition, through film and poetry. Her poetry characterises the experiences of childhood bereavement and its difficult connection to womanhood. Jessica has an upcoming published work in Heroica magazine, and often collaborates with Writers Kingston. She has an upcoming performance at the National Gallery Lates event in March.

A Seasons of Seasons – SJ Fowler & Jules Sprake

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A unique document in experimental poetry that celebrates the bone deep passion and pain football inflicts upon its followers. Written ostensibly to follow the turbulent 2022 / 2023 premier league season from the perspective of two lifelong fans of Crystal Palace and Everton respectively, A Seasons of Seasons then spirals out in the mass language ether of the world’s most popular game. Unusual for it’s methodology as well as its content, dragging in British poetry revival stalwarts alongside Pier Paolo Pasolini, Roy Hodgson and Sean Dyche, this book is a fusion of poetry, found text, collage, illustration, redaction and ground up collaboration.

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SJ Fowler & Jules Sprake
Published October 2023
ISBN 978-1-915505-31-6
A5 Size
36 printed pages
Colour
Cimera Series #6
SLB0244
Print run of 200
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“Football, like poetry, is an artform that not so much encourages obsession as demands it. The back and forth between Fowler and Sprake perfectly captures this baroque particularity. Talking about football with a poet is usually like talking about tofu with a mountain lion: they know what it is, but they don’t see how it applies to them. So it’s a pleasure to read A Seasons of Seasons, a text, at last, for the intersection of the Venn diagram, perfect for a cold, wet Tuesday night in Stoke.”
Tom Jenks

INVITATION TO ELSEWHERE – Katerina Koulouri and Alban Low

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Katerina Koulouri and Alban Low, poet and artist respectively, first worked together as part of the
Camarade project organised by poet and curator SJ Fowler in October 2023. The Camarade series explores collaboration between poets, taking the form of events which pair writers to produce and premiere new collaborative poems or artworks, to be performed live.

This pamphlet is part of that collaboration and performance.

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INVITATION TO ELSEWHERE
Katerina Koulouri and Alban Low
Published October 2023
ISBN 978-1-915505-32-3
A6 Size
16 printed pages
Colour
Camarade Poetry Series 1
SLB0245
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Bouquet of Goodbyes – Laurence Sullivan

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Goodbyes. They can be casual, bittersweet, celebratory, emotional, and sometimes even final. Bouquet of Goodbyes is an assortment of stories reflecting on that theme, some new, others previously published and prize-winning – appearing in places like Popshot Quarterly, FlashFlood and Foliate Oak Literary Magazine.

As runner-up in the Wicked Young Writer Awards: Gregory Maguire Award for Fiction, Laurence Sullivan has appeared in over 70 publications, such as Londonist, The List and NHK World-Japan. He became inspired to start writing during his studies at the universities of Kent, Utrecht, and Birmingham – after being immersed in all forms of literature from across the globe and enjoying every moment of it. In 2023, he completed his PhD at Northumbria University, analysing literary portrayals of women’s domestic medicine during the eighteenth century.

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Bouquet of Goodbyes
Laurence Sullivan
Published October 2023
ISBN 978-1-915505-29-3
A6 Size
16 printed pages
Colour
Illustrated by Alban Low
Design by Carina Low
Chapbook 47
SLB0242
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Walking 2023

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This anthology is published in support of Sound Walk September 2023. Cheryl Markosky and Tony Horitz, walk · listen · create’s two Writers-in-Residence, chose the theme of Walking A/way, that’s Walking away or Walking a way, for this year’s competition. Entrants were invited to submit poems or stories; they could be fictional, factual or memoir, and were limited to a maximum of just 250 words.

The winning poems were judged by Ralph Hoyte (poet, soundwalks producer) and Tony Horitz. The winning stories were judged by S. A. Greene (author) and Cheryl Markosky.

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Walking 2023
An Anthology of Writing inspired by “Walking A/way” Sound Walk September 2023
Ricky Abbott, Shani Cadwallender, Kevin Cheeseman, Lorraine Collins, Chris Cuninghame, Amelia Hodsdon, Rosaleen Lynch, Jan Martin, Isabella Mead, Eilín de Paor, and Richard Westcott.
Published 2023
ISBN 978-1-915505-30-9
A6 Size
28 printed pages
Colour
Walk Listen Create Chapbook 3
SLB0243
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Canopy: Secrets of the trees

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This anthology is published to coincide with the Urban Tree Festival in May 2023. The pieces included were selected from over 160 entries to a competition run over the winter months of 2022/3. Entrants were asked to write about “Secrets of the Trees” as poems or stories in 250 words or fewer.

The theme of “Secrets of the Trees” was set by our previous winners: M.L. Grieve for poetry and Joanna Walworth for prose. They chose the theme as they felt that “Our urban trees have stood central to the story of urban development and urban living for centuries. What human stories have they witnessed? Time to give the urban trees a voice!”

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Canopy: Secrets of the trees
An Anthology of Writing for the Urban Tree Festival 2023
Galia Admoni, Julian Bishop, John Bowen, Adam Elms, Em Gray, Lizzie Gwinnell, Andrew Halsall Smith, Rayna Haralambieva, Cheryl Markosky, Arthur Sparrow, Penny Walker, and Kyra Williams.
Published 2023
ISBN 978-1-915505-17-0
A6 Size
24 printed pages
Colour
Museum of Walking Chapbook 13
SLB0230
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The Book of Matthew – Matthew J. Sokulsky

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In Matthew Sokulsky’s brilliant debut publication, religion remains unsimple. Revealed in a suite of poems as strange, jarring and complex as its namesake. Questioning, while enveloping religious realities, this booklet of surreal admiration celebrates the essentially human, eccentric and faith-ish in poems from a new voice in Australian and British literature.

The Book of Matthew
Matthew J. Sokulsky
Published March 2023
ISBN 978-1-915505-16-3
A6 Size,
16 printed pages,
Colour
Print run of 200
Writers Centre Kingston Chapbook #19
SLB0229
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Matthew Sokulsky is poet and writer, born in Muswellbrook, New South Wales in 1999. He currently lives in London, having studied at Kingston University and … he has been commissioned by The National Gallery and this is his debut publication.