The sixth and final instalment in Kevin Acott’s travel series draws together his 6 month journey in an elegant 16 page chapbook.
What I Did On My Holidays
Kevin Acott
Published November 2017
ISBN 978-1-910578-72-8
A6 Size
16 printed pages
Colour
Acott Travel Chapbook 6
SLB080
Print run 0f 100
Price – £5
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“On the 29th March, 2017, in the midst of the travelling he’d done so much to encourage, my friend Paul died. He was an astonishing person, someone whose mere presence made you feel you too were an astonishing person. I wish I could have shown you his words – always elegant, witty, compelling and compassionate – but it didn’t feel right. Instead, here are some texts I sent him while he was living so vigorously and brilliantly with the inevitable.”
Kevin Acott
Outthinking Wenger:
A One-Sided Conversation
Kevin Acott
Published September 2017
ISBN 978-1-910578-61-2
A6 Size,
16 printed pages,
Black and white
Acott Travel Chapbook 5
SLB069
Print run of 100
Price – £5
Outthinking Wenger (£5 + £1.20 P&P to UK and Worldwide Addresses)
The fourth chapbook in Kevin Acott’s 2017 Travel Series. This one comes from Qaqortoq where Acott was writer in residence for a month.
“Early morning. You wander down to the harbour. The sun’s shining. The water’s a million times more than blue. For a few moments, there’s absolute, pin-drop, quiet. A sound grows towards you: a murmur, a moan, a groan, a rhythm, a wave, repeating, plaintive, metallic, lost. You wonder if it’s the creak of masts and rope and wood and hooks or the crying of children, an ancient hymn, some melancholic assembly. You shiver.
You watch a JCB heading away from you, a police car heading towards you. There’s only room on the bridge for one of them. The police car wins. You turn to the man with the knife. He’s standing over a mass of moist, red-black flesh, cutting into it carefully, easily, with all the nonchalance of someone who’s done this all our lives. Intestines. Organs. Blood. The whiskers are still there. You watch, fascinated, dispassionate. A woman comes up, begins haggling over part of the once-alive thing. You wonder what part it used to be. You think there should be a smell, but there isn’t. You ask the man if you can take photos. He smiles, yes.
You watch, for an age. Finished, finally, with the show, you wander off, find your eye caught by something down by the water. And there’s the skin: perfect, laid out, waiting. A seal. A seal, obviously a seal, smooth and grey and beautiful. And there’s its fat layer: white and sickly and dead.
They say the Greenlanders hunt with respect, the Canadians hunt to exterminate. I don’t know. I don’t know what I think. But when I get back here, I wonder whether to show anyone the pictures, decide not to, and wonder why. ”
Kevin Acott
www.kevinacott.com
The Seal
or The Wedding of Thorstein and Sigrid
Kevin Acott
Published August 2017
ISBN 9781910578599
A6 Size,
16 printed pages,
Colour
Acott Travel Chapbook 4
SLB067
Print run of 100
Price – £5
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Inukshut is the second chapbook in Kevin Acott’s series as he travels down from Vancouver to San Francisco via Seattle, Washington State and Oregon.
“In March this year, I went to a First Nations restaurant in Vancouver and had one of the best meals of my life. While I was waiting to be served, the manager bought me a book to read. It was a book about the systematic removal, abuse and stripping of identity of hundreds of thousands of First Nations, Metis and Inuit children in Canada. Earlier that day, I’d been reading on the Guardian website about the forced deportation of children from the UK to Australia and the discovery of the remains of hundreds of babies in a mass grave in Tuam in Galway. I found myself momentarily resenting the bloke in the restaurant for showing me the book: all I wanted was an ‘exotic’ meal…”
Kevin Acott
Kevin Acott is a London-based model, cult singer, poet and astronaut. He’s currently having a few months off to wander about a bit, take photos, hang around, watch, be watched, talk, listen, write down everything everyone says to him, worry about injuries to Spurs players and eat cheese.
This book is dedicated to Misha, to the Salmon ‘n’ Bannock in Vancouver and to the survivors, families, journalists and supporters who are keeping the fight going.
Inukshut
Kevin Acott
Published April 2017
ISBN 978-1-910578-49-0
A6 Size,
16 printed pages,
Colour
Acott Travel Chapbook 2
SLB058
Print run of 100
Price – £5
Inukshut (£5 + £1.20 P&P to UK and Worldwide Addresses)
The first instalment in Kevin Acott’s chapbook travel series as he traverses the globe in search of adventure and literary inspiration. Breathe Through This If You Can is a chapbook full of longing, a poetic work whose heroes are missing. The trace of their lives live on in forgotten objects, in places vacated and the narratives that are captured in this chapbook.
Kevin Acott is a London-based model, cult singer, poet and astronaut. He’s currently having a few months off to wander about a bit, take photos, hang around, watch, be watched, talk, listen, write down everything everyone says to him, worry about injuries to Spurs players and eat cheese.
This book is dedicated to the people of Enfield, Middlesex and Enfield, North Carolina.
Breathe Through This If You Can:
The truths of Virginia Dare, lost colonist
Kevin Acott
Published March 2017
ISBN 978-1-910578-48-3
A6 Size,
16 printed pages,
Colour
Acott Travel Chapbook 1
SLB057
Print run of 100
Price – £5
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The Acott Travel Series (1-6) is kindly supported by Robert Birtwell, Stephen Hoole, Aidan Putland, Bill Mudge, Deborah Alma, Fiona Coffey, Deborah Gibbs, Alison Smith, Danny Jones, Fredwyn Hosier, Liz Lefroy, Mary Dearth, Andrew Ratcliff, Dawn Costello, Mark Rudman, Neil Hatswell, Kathryn Yates, Iain Inglis, Jacob Beeson and Harvey Wells.
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