man/ia Stanimir Dimitrov Published March 2022 ISBN 978-1-912960-92-7 A6 Size, 16 printed pages, Colour Print run of 200 Writers Centre Kingston Chapbook #15 SLB0205 Price – £2.60 BUY man/ia (£2.60 + £1.20 P&P)
Designed to evidence the remarkable contemporary and innovative poetry being written by current and recent Kingston University Creative Writing students, this series of beautifully designed pamphlets each features a suite of poems, most often on one theme or in one style, by a solo author. The series mark the first publications of many poets who are very likely to be significant presences on the UK scene and beyond in the coming years. www.writerskingston.com
The area is dominated by orchestral musicians during the 1930s. The suburb was growing at this time, with railway stations opening at Berrylands (1933) and Tolworth (1938). It was the home of two of the greatest exponents of their respective instruments: Charles Draper (The Grandfather of English Clarinettists) and Jack Mackintosh (The Cornet King).
Discover the homes and lives of 1930s musicians who lived and worked in Tolworth, Berrylands and Surbiton. This book contains a map and short biographies, from famous residents to more forgotten names.
Laurence Lumley-Holmes (flute) – 111 Surbiton Hill Park, KT5
Charles D. Matthews (clarinet) – 73 The Ridings, Berrylands KT5 8HH
The Berrylands Hotel – 107 Chiltern Drive, KT5 8LS
The names and addresses of musicians in this book have been sourced from 1930s Musician’s Union handbooks. Every effort has been made to research and verify information and we are grateful to those experts who have helped in the making of this series. If you know any additional information or corrections then we would love to include them in future editions.
Alban Low is a London-based artist. He co-hosts The Vinyl Thread on Radio Nope, and is artist-in-residence on the radio programme A World in London. http://www.albanlow.com
Thank you to M.G. Thomas; The National Jazz Archives; Melody Maker; NME; The British Newspaper Archives; The National Archives; The Community Brain; Robin Hutchinson; the team at A World In London (DJ Ritu, Sophie Darling, Norman Druker, Lucas Keen); Radio Nope (Bob, Conan, Deb & Brian); the Furlong family; and my wife Natalie.
Iain Britton is an Aotearoa New Zealand poet and author of several poetry collections. His work has been nominated in the UK for a Forward Prize for Best Single Poem and Best First Collection. Poems have been published or are forthcoming in Harvard Review, Poetry, The New York Times, Poet Lore, Wild Court, Molly Bloom, New Humanist, The Scores Journal, Stand, Agenda, New Statesman, Prototype, Poetry Birmingham, Blackbox Manifold, and Poetry Wales. THE INTAGLIO POEMS was published by Hesterglock Press (UK) 2017.
PROJECT CONSTELLATION Iain Britton Published February 2022 ISBN 978-1-912960-90-3 A6 Size 20 printed pages Colour Chapbook 45 SLB0203 Print run of 100 Price – £2.99 BUY PROJECT CONSTELLATION (£2.99 + £1.20 P & P)
Discover the homes and lives of 1930s musicians who lived and worked in and around Crouch End and Stroud Green. This book contains a map and short biographies, from famous residents to more forgotten names.
Leonard Day (organ/piano) – 38 Haslemere Rd, N8 9RB
Richard Walton (trumpet) – 1 Haringey Park, Crouch End, N8 9JG Bernard Walton Jnr (clarinet) George Walton (cello) Bernard Walton (harp) John Walton (bass)
Walter Paskin (producer) – 8 Sandringham Gardens, N8 9HU
Francis Hughes (clarinet) – 5 Derwent Court, Cecile Park, N8 9AT
David Wolfsthal (violin) – 82 Stapleton Hall Rd, Stroud Green, N4 4EH
George Orrell (violin) – 18 Albany Rd, Stroud Green, N4
The names and addresses of musicians in this book have been sourced from 1930s Musician’s Union handbooks. Every effort has been made to research and verify information and we are grateful to those experts who have helped in the making of this series. If you know any additional information or corrections then we would love to include them in future editions.
Alban Low is a London-based artist. He co-hosts The Vinyl Thread on Radio Nope, and is artist-in-residence on the radio programme A World in London. http://www.albanlow.com
Thank you to M.G. Thomas; The National Jazz Archives; Melody Maker; NME; The British Newspaper Archives; The National Archives; BBC; the team at A World In London (DJ Ritu, Norman Druker, Sophie Darling, Lucas Keen); Radio Nope (Bob, Conan, Deb & Brian); and my wife Natalie.
Sarah Hill Wheeler was the Short Story Winner of the Urban Tree Festival 2021 writing competition made possible through support from the Mayor of London. As well as becoming the Story Writer-in-Residence for the Urban Tree Festival 2022, Sarah also won the opportunity to create a limited edition chapbook; hence this beautiful collection of stories, Hen Story, was born. Filled with precise observations of life at its most precarious, these flash fictions explore genesis, evolution and hope. Hen Story is a fabulous collection with a breathable, fragile shell and a rich yoked heart. You’ll want to crack it open over and again.
HENSTORY Sarah Hill Wheeler Published January 2022 ISBN 978-1-912960-85-9 A6 Size 20 printed pages Colour Museum of Walking Chapbook 9 SLB0198 Print run of 100 Price – £2.60 BUY HENSTORY (£2.60 + £1.20 P&P)
Christopher Cuninghame was the Poetry Winner of the Urban Tree Festival 2021 writing competition made possible through support from the Mayor of London. As well as becoming the Poetry Writer-in-Residence for the Urban Tree Festival 2022, Christopher also won the opportunity to create a limited edition chapbook; resulting in this wonderful collection of poems, Small Change. Casting a careful eye over the subtle shades of time’s movements over the natural world and the relationships within it, Small Change is an elegant collection reminding us to look and look again at what surrounds us.
SMALL CHANGE Christopher Cuninghame Published January 2022 ISBN 978-1-912960-88-0 A6 Size 16 printed pages Colour Museum of Walking Chapbook 11 SLB0201 Print run of 100 Price – £2.60 BUY SMALL CHANGE (£2.60 + £1.20 P&P)
Discover the homes and lives of 1930s musicians who lived and worked in and around Lewisham, Brockley and New Cross. This book contains a map and short biographies, from famous residents to more forgotten names.
1. Alexander Gifford (piano/organ) – 25 Granville Park, Blackheath, SE13 7DY 2.Cyril Cyphus (organ) – 16 Belmont Grove, Blackheath, SE13 5DW 3.Frederick Dumayne (singer/conductor) – 46 Caterham Rd, Blackheath, SE13 5AR 4.Les Perry (flute/bandleader) – 55 Lee High Rd, SE13 5NS 5.Gaumont Palace – Junction of Molesworth Street and Rennell Street, SE13 6.Freddie Finch (trumpet) – 18 Jerrard St, Lewisham SE13 7TA 7.Stanley Stray (piano) – 28 Sandrock Rd, Lewisham, SE13 7TS 8.Franklyn White (violin) – 66 Loampit Hill Lewisham, SE13 7SX 9.Arthur Kipps (organ) – 3 Darling Rd, SE4 1YQ 10.Art Jennings (saxophone) – 26A Tressillian Rd, SE4 1YB 11. Walter Stiasny (conductor) and Sylvia Patriss (vocalist) – 55 Tressillian Rd, London SE4 1YA 12.Edward Swingler (flute) – 94 Tressillian Rd, SE4 1YD 13.Peter Wise (accordion) – 80 Wickham Rd, Brockley, SE4 1LS 14.William Lodge (saxophone/violin) – 81 Millmark Grove, Brockley, SE14 6RH 15.Stanley Van Raalte (piano) – 102 St Donatts Rd, SE14 6NT 16.Goldsmiths Music Studios – 286 New Cross Road, SE14 6AF 17.Steve Gauna (guitar) – 21 Jerningham Rd, New Cross, SE14 5NQ 18.New Cross Kinema – 325-327 New Cross Road, SE14 6JP 19.New Cross Empire – 483-485 New Cross Road, SE14 6TQ
The names and addresses of musicians in this book have been sourced from 1930s Musician’s Union handbooks. Every effort has been made to research and verify information and we are grateful to those experts who have helped in the making of this series. If you know any additional information or corrections then we would love to include them in future editions.
Alban Low is a London-based artist. He co-hosts The Vinyl Thread on Radio Nope, and is artist-in-residence on the radio programme A World in London. www.albanlow.com
Thank you to M.G. Thomas; The National Jazz Archives; Melody Maker; NME; The British Newspaper Archives; The National Archives; BBC; the team at A World In London (DJ Ritu, Sophie Darling, Lucas Keen); Radio Nope (Bob, Conan, Deb & Brian); Norman and Tom Druker; George, Maggie and Felix; and my wife Natalie.
SUNDAY FOR SEVEN DAYS (ALL OVER LONDON) – Seven print stories and geolocated audio.
IF IT TAKES A WEEK TO WALK A FORTNIGHT… – Seven print stories (plus seven more companion stories) and geolocated audio.
THE WALKING CURE – an immersive detective story. Geolocated audio for a 30 minute two-person sound walk experience.
A WEEK TO WALK A FORTNIGHT Flash fiction with links to geolocated audio NG Bristow and Andrew Stuck Published October 2021 ISBN 978-1-912960-69-9 A6 Size 40 printed pages Colour Museum of Walking Chapbook 10 SLB0200 Print run of 200 Price – £4.99 BUY A WEEK TO WALK A FORTNIGHT (£4.99 + £2.20 P&P)
Original artwork by Alban Low.
NG BRISTOW is a writer / director and artist. He runs the MA in Directing Fiction at Goldsmiths, University of London. Credits as screenwriter / director include commissions by FilmFour, C4, BBC, UKFC, BFI, NIFC, NI Screen and the Arts Council. He has acted opposite Vivian Stanshall in the Tale of the Long Sky; terrified audiences with his binaural nightmare, The Ever-Expanding Cabinet of Unnameable Horrors, and brought theatre to the terraces of Millwall Football Club. He is a former Irish men’s sabre champion, though his fencing is a little rusty these days…
ANDREW STUCK is the founder of The Museum of Walking, created to bring people together and showcase walking pieces and performances. He is also a podcaster, interviewing creative people who use walking as a catalyst for their practice. Talking Walking is now in its twelfth year with more than 100 episodes. www.talkingwalking.net
Bad drivers, sweaty tourists, unnecessary inspections — is travel worth the bother? Or are the irritations actually part of the adventure? A dozen of the world’s best current poets offer differing views of the ups and downs of going abroad.
Travels and Travails Poems of going abroad Amit Majmudar, Marilyn L. Taylor, Mike Cooper, Anthony Lombardy, Jean L. Kreiling, Ed Shacklee, Max Gutmann, Julia Griffin, D.A. Prince, John Beaton, A.E. Stallings, Tom Vaughan Published August 2021 Series Editor Robin Helweg-Larsen Illustrated by Alban Low ISBN 978-1-912960-84-2 A6 Size 16 printed pages Colour Potcake Chapbook 10 SLB197 Print run of 250 Price – £2.60 BUY Travels and Travails to a UK address (£2.60 + £1.20 P&P) BUY Travels and Travails to a non-UK address (£2.60 + £2.20 P&P)
The “Potcake Chapbook” series is named for the dogs of the Bahamas and the Caribbean – strays that live off the burnt scrapings of cooking pots. The poems in the series are a mixed bunch – but the potcake of our logo wears a bow tie to show that he and all the poems are formal. These poems are memorable in part because they rhyme and scan, as all truly memorable poetry does. We subscribe to the use of form, no matter how formless the times in which we live.
A unique epistolary poetry collection and a collaborative feat of rare acumen, Flowers Won’t Grow contemplates mundanity and gratitude with a mix of polite curiosity and tender contempt. The lettered, prose-ish poems of Sandhu and Fowler speak to a luminous private public exchange, and the writeable unspeakables of a long London summer. These are playful, complex poems, of a city, of soap and fizzy water, of a search for commonality in quiet, of paper birds and hardened workers.
Flowers Won’t Grow SJ Fowler & Karenjit Sandhu Published June 2021 ISBN 978-1-912960-70-5 A5 Size 40 printed pages Colour Cimera Series #5 SLB0183 Print run of 200 Price – £4.99
‘Exchanges, transfers and transferrals of intimacy and stark urgency – a work of posed questions, thumbed noses and drawn blood’. Eley Williams
‘This is a nurse’s attention on a knife edge. A pin-prick of address, a poem that says “let’s get out of here” to and about itself. Everything is external, but you can’t get outside, even if you don’t what to know what’s inside. It’s a hostile take over of mundane objects and day-to-day experience in a language that asks us to settle for fruit syrup but reaches beyond to the universe’ Prudence Bussey-Chamberlain
Karenjit Sandhu is a poet and artist. Her debut poetry collection young girls! is forthcoming with the 87 Press (2021). Karenjit’s poems appear in Judith: Women Making Visual Poetry (Timglaset Editions, 2021), Writing Utopia (Hesterglock Press, 2020) and Nemeses (HVTN Press, 2019). Her work has also appeared in Magma in collaboration with Ryan Ormonde (2020), as well as online at Digital Poetics (87 Press, 2020), Junction Box (2020) and DATABLEED (2019). Her performance work has led to collaborations with the Sir Denis Mahon Foundation, the Institute of Contemporary Arts, Flat Time House and Camden People’s Theatre (London), Arnolfini (Bristol) and Galerie Eric Dupont (Paris). Karenjit is one of the judges of the 2021 Streetcake Writing Prize. @k_ren_sandhu
SJ Fowler is a writer, poet and artist who lives in London. His writing has explored subjects as diverse as prescription drugs, films, fight sports, museums, prisons and animals and his work has been commissioned by Tate Modern, BBC Radio 3, Somerset House, Tate Britain, London Sinfonietta, Southbank Centre, National Centre for Writing, National Poetry Library, Science Museum and Liverpool Biennial amongst others. He’s been translated into 27 languages and produced collaborations with over 150 artists. He has pioneered the fields of performance literature, literary curation, visual, photo and fifilm poetry, collaborative poetry and Neuropoetics. ‘Flowers won’t grow’ is his 44th publication and the 17th to be collaborative. www.stevenjfowler.com
Sampson Low 