Poetry WTF?! #2 Presents Howie Good and Dale Wisely

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Usually, the titles of films and artworks act as
headlines and meaningful signifiers, secondary to the works themselves. Poetry WTF?! #2 turns all of that on its head as film and artwork titles take centre stage, turned into the building blocks for a startling series of poems.

Howie Good’s eye for the unusual picks out evocative phrases and assembles them into a surreal poetic landscape that reveals our collective anxieties and fears, hopes and dreams. Dale Wisely’s subtle illustrations provide the perfect accompaniment.

Howie Good is professor of journalism at
State University New York and a prolific author.
http://apocalypsemambo.blogspot.co.uk

Dale Wisely is a writer, poet, digital artist, and an epistemological comptroller for a major catastrophe. He edits RightHandPointing.com, OneSentencePoems.com and, with Howie Good, prose poetry at WhiteKnucklePress.com
https://sites.google.com/site/dalewisely/literary

Poetry WTF?! #2 Presents Howie Good and Dale Wisely
Authors – Howie Good & Dale Wisely

Editor – Maartens Lourens
Published January 2017
ISBN  978-1-910578-37-7
A6 Size
16 printed pages
Colour
Poetry WTF: Chapbook #2
SLB046
Limited print run of 100
BUY Poetry WTF?! #2 (£2 + £1.20 P&P to UK Address)

Travel Chapbook Series – Kevin Acott

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We’re excited to launch a new series of chapbooks at Sampson Low, all from the pen/camera of Kevin Acott as he travels around the globe in 2017. Kevin launched our chapbooks series in November 2015 with South, which proved an instant success, selling-out its print run in a matter of weeks. He now embarks on a new adventure that starts in North Carolina before heading west to Vancouver. He then hitches a lift down the Pacific Coast to San Francisco where he’ll study for a month in a Zen retreat before travelling to the frozen world of Greenland to take up his a position as writer-in-residence in Qaqortoq. The final stop is Limoux, France for four months of writing amongst the vines in the heat of summer.

map_3_50Over his 8 month adventure Kevin will be publishing 6 chapbooks with us and we’d like to offer you the chance to subscribe to the full collection. You’ll receive each book in the mail before anyone else and read about his adventures. Your subscription will support Kevin during this time and your name will appear on the back page of each chapbook (If you’d prefer to remain anonymous then that’s fine too).

Each chapbook has an ISBN and a copy will be archived at the British Library, The Bodleian Library, Cambridge University Library, the National Library of Scotland, the National Library of Wales and the Library of Trinity College, Dublin.

Kevin’s chapbooks will have a limited print run of just 100 copies.

We have now closed subscriptions to Kevin’s first chapbook series but keep in touch with Kevin Acott on Medium.

Garden – Francesca Albini

9781910578360_garden_Francesca_AlbiniSome gardens grow flowers.
This one grows treasures, flotsam and jetsam washed ashore from far away.

Francesca Albini is a collector and curator of memories, with pockets full of pebbles.
Her job is to write and make pictures.
http://www.franvisionsworld.com/

Also published by Francesca Albini for Sampson Low.
Dreamtime Reflections (December 2015)

Garden
Francesca Albini
Published November 2016
ISBN  9781910578360
A6 Size,
16 printed pages,
Colour,
Dreamtime Chapbook 1
SLB045
Price – £2
BUY Garden (£2 + £1.20 P&P to UK Address)

The Seethingographer: #1 Winter 2016

9781910578353_SeethingographerA collection of writing and images by Robin Rutherford, Paul Miner, Sharon Zeqiri, The Historier, Katharine Scott, Simon Tyrell, Sinead Keegan and Lisa Davison.
Edited by Lucy Furlong.

Welcome to the first issue of The Seethingographer, which brings together some of the writing and images from the Seethingography blog, a place for writing inspired by and written in and about Seething, or by Seething Writers.

We are the Spinners of the Yarn….
Lucy Furlong

For more information see http://www.seethingography.wordpress.com or join the Seething Writers meet up at The Museum of Futures in Surbiton. http://museumoffutures.org/

The Seethingographer: #1 Winter 2016
Robin Rutherford, Paul Miner, Sharon Zeqiri, The Historier, Katharine Scott, Simon Tyrell, Sinead Keegan and Lisa Davison.
Edited by Lucy Furlong.
Published November 2016
ISBN  9781910578353
A6 Size
16 printed pages
Colour
Seething imprint chapbook #1
SLB044
Price – £2
BUY The Seethingographer #1 (£2 + £1.20 P&P to UK Address)

 

Inger’s Forest – Eskild Beck

9781910578285“Over the sea, close to a town called Aabenraa, exactly 184 steps from the beach, there is a small forest, small, about the size of a football field. It is named Inger’s Forest.” Eskild Beck, 2016.

Inger’s Forest is a beautiful and simple chapbook featuring the words, photographs and drawings of Danish artist Eskild Beck and the illustrations of I.P. Junggreen Have. Deceptively evocative, it documents the world of a small copse near the town of Aabenraa, Denmark. It is a poetic affirmation of life itself with the mystery of our waking journey lurking amongst its leafy layers.

Eskild Beck is an internationally respected artist, his imagined world drawings have been exhibited around the world. His work has an ethereal quality that often transcends the physicality of this world. Although Inger’s Forest is a real place it is also a place that lies in all of our hearts.

Eskild made this chapbook in memory of his late wife Inger, and the forest that was part of her childhood.

BUY Inger’s Forest (£2 + £1.20 P&P to UK Address)
Eskild Beck
Published March 2016
ISBN  978-1-910578-28-5
A6 Size
16 printed pages
Colour
Chapbook 11
SLB037
Price – £2

The Scotch Egg Diet – David Bushell

9781910578292David Bushell’s wonderfully evocative selection of vignettes span the social awkwardness experienced throughout our lives from childhood to our current adult self doubts. Even though the British scotch egg was invented in 1738 by Fortnum and Masons the hue of Bushell’s egg has a late 20th century e-numbered tinge to its breadcrumbs. Its odour is of a P’tang, Yang, Kipperbang coming-of-age nostalgia, with the air of a smarting Chinese burn and static shocks from nylon trousers.

These heartwarming tales of love and misadventure come from the author of “Undernourished In Osidge”. The pages of David Bushell’s chapbook are just like the delicacy itself with a breadcrumb cover, sausage meat inner pages and a yolk core.

BUY The Scotch Egg Diet (£2 + £1.20 P&P to UK Address)
David Bushell
Published March 2016
ISBN  978-1-910578-29-2
A6 Size
16 printed pages
Colour
Chapbook 12
SLB038
Price – £2

Glovewatch: The Lost Gloves of Seething – Robin Hutchinson

Glovewatch_2016In December 2014 a single glove started a passion. Robin Hutchinson just wondered how many single gloves there might be lost in the Surbiton area. To discover an answer he asked people via Facebook to look for and record any sightings. Over a period of five months 819 were spotted. In November 2015 Robin decided to repeat the experiment but introduced a ‘glove spotting’ season running from the 1st of December to the 31st January.

The result from the Glovewatch 2015/16 Season is a remarkable 692 Lost Gloves of Seething.
If you want to join in the 2016/17 season then ‘like’ the Glovewatch – The Lost Gloves of Seething page on Facebook.

Note to readers – Seething is a ‘state’ dedicated to using creativity to bring people together. It is open to everyone to join in whenever and wherever they like. We believe that by creating things and bringing people together through that activity we can release talents and energies in our varied communities.

BUY  Glovewatch 2016 (£2 + £1.20 P&P to UK Address)
Robin Hutchinson
Published February 2016
ISBN  978-1-910578-26-1
A6 Size,
Fold out A3 poster, 5 sides
Colour
Seething Chapbook 2
SLB035
£2

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The Ghost And The Dog – Simon La Brea

9781910578247_aA short story written in free narrative verse, this farce is based on true events. The identities of the guilty and locations have been changed. Simon La Brea is an author and has had short stories published under a pseudonym in the more distant past. He has also written several unpublished novels, novellas, poetry and essays.

Author’s Note
This short story is written in the form of narrative verse, common in medieval times but all too rare in the modern age. Geoffrey Chaucer, through his Canterbury Tales, is the best known exemplar of this style. It lends itself superbly to a comic tale or even farce such as is presented here. The present example is in free verse and rhyme, unlike past practice which generally employed iambic pentameter.

Simon La Brea’s Literary Page is available on Facebook. Follow Simon La Brea on Twitter at @Simon_LaBrea

BUY The Ghost And The Dog (£2 + £1.20 P&P to UK Address)
Simon La Brea
Published February 2016
ISBN  978-1-910578-24-7
A6 Size
16 printed pages
Colour
Illustrations by Alban Low
Chapbook 9
SLB033
Price – £2

The Exchange at Brunswick East

On Tuesday 16th February 2016, 6pm we’ll be showing 5 of our creative chapbooks at the Official Opening of the Independent Artist Bookstore in Gillett Street, Dalston, London.

25%_The_exchange_feb_2016The Exchange is an independent artist bookstore formed from an (ever growing) collection of independently produced artists books, zines and comics from over 50 artists and arts collectives. All items within the collection are available for sale with all proceeds going directly to the artists (it’s important to know that not only do artists receive 100% of the money collected on their behalf from works sold, but that artists are not charged any fees to display/sell through The Exchange.It’s a rare Exchange for us artist folk, especially in the cutthroat capital.

Some of the Sampson Low authors will be there so come and join us. Afterwards why not visit The Vortex on Gillett Square to experience the  inspirational Michelson Morley in concert.

Our chapbooks will be selling for £1 and include –
Dreamtime Reflections by Francesca Albini
Murmurations: A visual exploration of individuality and community by Stella Tripp
Vertical Prose by Peter S Smith
Adam’s Story by Bryan Benge
Pasta Prose 2016 by Robin Hutchinson and the Hungry Poets

Adam’s Story – Bryan Benge

Bryan_BengeBryan Benge’s debut chapbook is the tale of Adam, a robot who finds himself in the very strange world we call Earth. Adam tries to navigate our society through his wit and observational logic. Bryan Benge is a conceptual and digital artist who had been a member of the London Group for many years. He regular exhibits and organises exhibition across the UK with the artist’s group CollectConnect.

Adam’s Story is the first in a trilogy of chapbooks from Bryan Benge.
(1) Adam’s Story
(2) Eve’s Story (The Opera Singer)
(3) The Journey Man

BUY Adam’s Story (£2 + £1.20 P&P to UK Address)
Bryan Benge
Published January 2016
ISBN  978-1-910578-22-3
A6 Size
16 printed pages
Colour
Chapbook 8
SLB031
Price  – £2