Chapbook

a zed & two o’s – An anthology of poems on the animals of Shaldon Zoo

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Shaldon Wildlife Trust is a zoo like no other. Nestled on a hill, a stone’s throw from the sea, in a beautiful corner of South Devon. It is a residence to binturongs, loris’, armadillos and poets. In 2024 and 2025, SJ Fowler, as part of his residency in the zoo, organised a series of walking tour events, inviting poets from across the UK, to read to an audience of various animals. This pocket-sized anthology brings together the best of those new poems, each written for and read to an animal of Shaldon. The anthology also includes an introduction by Zoo director Zak Showell.

Featuring SJ Fowler, Colin Herd, Danica Ignacio, Will Rene, Matt Sokulsky, David Spittle, Vilde Bjerke Torset, Cameron Wade, Eleanor Wilders and Ellen Wiles.

Introduction by Zak Showell, director of Shaldon Wildlife Trust

a zed & two o’s
An anthology of poems on the animals of Shaldon Zoo
SJ Fowler, Colin Herd, Danica Ignacio, Will Rene, Matt Sokulsky, David Spittle, Vilde Bjerke Torset, Cameron Wade, Eleanor Wilders and Ellen Wiles.
Published 2025
ISBN 978-1-915505-54-5
A6 Size
28 printed pages
Colour
SLB0267
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39 Steps – An Anthology of Writing inspired by John Buchan’s The Thirty-Nine Steps

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An Anthology of Writing inspired by John Buchan’s The Thirty-Nine Steps
39 stories of 39 words with an introduction by NG Bristow

The stories in this anthology were selected from a micro-story writing competition for stories of 39 words or under. They were judged by Nick Sayers and Mary Loring, edited by Annemarie Lopez and illustrated by Alban Low.

39 Steps
An Anthology of Writing inspired by John Buchan’s The Thirty-Nine Steps
Stacie Bates, Krista Carson, Lesley Cartwright, Jed C, Francisco Cruz, Christopher Cuninghame, Bridget Daly, Lee Dillon, Jaune Evayt, Catherine Girardeau, Peter Isaacson, MJ Malleck, Kitiera Morey, Jacquar Roston, Sarah Royston, Erica Sharlette, Jane Sharkey, Arthur Sparrow, Michael Wahlgren.
Published 2025
ISBN 978-1-915505-51-4
A6 Size
20 printed pages
Colour
Walk Listen Create Chapbook 5
SLB0264
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The competition was dedicated to Geoff Nicholson, author and former competition judge who sadly passed away in January 2025. We would especially like to thank Caroline Gannon, Geoff’s partner for sponsoring a competition prize.

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.

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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Emptpy Poems – Martin Wakefield

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“Martin Wakefield’s ravishing sequence of ‘Emptpy Poems’ is elegant, spare and haunting. And haunted. The spectral traces of Apollinaire’s poems are still just visible beneath Wakefield’s enigmatic creation. There seems to be a strange attraction between the poems on the surface and the ghost poems beneath such that, in places, the surface poems shiver into italics to mirror the font change of the trace poems. Sometimes this becomes an ‘interference’ caused by the spectral poems, mysteriously pushing at words within the poems above, or pulling them into new spellings, compressions and splittings. This resonates powerfully with the operations of the mind itself and how it responds to the energies and interruptions of its memories, its subconscious, and its physical embodiment, as well as reflecting on the way all language is similarly shaped and inhabited by ghosts.”
— Susie Campbell

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Emptpy Poems
Martin Wakefield
Published December 2022
ISBN 978-1-915505-14-9
A6 Size
28 printed pages
Colour
Chapbook 47
SLB0227
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Rouen – Wayne Sleeth

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Old master of sleight-of-hand,
conjuring cathedrals
out of thin air

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Inspired directly by Monet’s sublime series of paintings of the façade of Rouen Cathedral, Sleeth has composed thirty new haiku on the subject to accompany a selection of his numerous paintings and ‘pola-paintings’ of ‘Notre Dame de Rouen’. This limited edition chapbook, published in an ongoing collaboration with Sampson Low, marks a chapter in a body of work which Sleeth will present to the public in a series of exhibitions starting in 2023…

Rouen
30 haiku and artworks
Wayne Sleeth
Published November 2022
ISBN 978-1-915505-13-2
A6 Size
16 printed pages
Colour
Chapbook 46
SLB0226
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Anglo-french artist and writer Wayne Sleeth has since 2018 been painting, sketching, photographing (with a battery of polaroid cameras) and writing haiku about the Cathédrale de Rouen, an iconic presence since the Middle Ages, especially for Sleeth’s mentor in art—the impressionist Claude Monet.

CANOPY 3 – An Anthology of Writing for the Urban Tree Festival 2022

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This anthology is published to coincide with the Urban Tree Festival in May 2022. The pieces included were selected from over 100+ entries to a competition run in Spring 2022. Entrants were asked to write about “Healing Trees” as poems or stories in 250 words or fewer.

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The theme of “Healing Trees” was set by our previous winners: Chris Cuninghame for poetry and Sarah Wheeler for prose. They chose the theme as they felt it was pertinent to these challenging times and wanted entrants to reveal “the power of trees to heal themselves and us, to contribute to well-being and to sustain ecosystems.”

They also volunteered to be judges in this year’s competition, joined on the poetry side by Anita Roy, writer, editor and environmentalist, and on the prose side by N.G. Bristow, a screen writer, director and visual artist, rooted at Goldsmiths University of London, where he runs the MA in Directing Fiction.

Canopy 3
An Anthology of Writing for the Urban Tree Festival 2022
Nancy Charley, Sally Duffin, M.L. Grieve, Daniel Harwood, Gina Headden, Jude Higgins, Rosaleen Lynch, Cheryl Markosky, Jackie Morrison, Sara Stegen, Laurence Sullivan and Joanna Wolfarth
Published May 2022
ISBN 978-1-915505-07-1
A6 Size
24 printed pages
Colour
Museum of Walking Chapbook 12
SLB0220
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Edited by Chris Bestwick
Illustrated by Alban Low

PROJECT CONSTELLATION – Iain Britton

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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
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