Ok, myself and @essencepress have some exciting news: we're currently working towards the first selected edition of Edwin Morgan's (@EdMorganTrust) concrete, visual, & sound poetry. And we're delighted to have just signed a contract with @reaktionbooks to publish the edition 🚀🚀
ALT Edwin Morgan in front of a visual rendering of his poem, “A Rolling Stone Gathers No Moss,” published in Proverbfolder (Openings Press, 1969). Photo by Marshall Walker, 1975, courtesy of Elsie Walker.
ALT Cursive "colour poem" in black and blue text. From Colour Poems, a set of screenprints published by the Third Eye Centre, 1978
Artists Helen Douglas and Jake Harvey invite viewers into a “compressed universe” in their exhibition 'Meeting Point: within the Lewisian' at Taigh Chearsabhagh, North Uist.
Read writer @Gregchthomas review here 👉 bit.ly/meeting-point-within-…
Writer and editor @Gregchthomas visited Lotte Gertz’s Layers of Silt exhibition at Cample Line Gallery - a dreamlike blend of the personal and the archetypal.
Read his review here: bit.ly/3V8IRGf
ALT Lotte Gertz, detail from work 'Children, compost, seedlings', (2025)
ALT Lotte Gertz, 'We have come to cover you with wool', (2025)
ALT Lotte Gertz, 'Seahorses with pregnant male', (2025)
“Plunge into the everyday.” ✨
Writer @Gregchthomas explores Dreams of the Everyday: Paintings by Winifred Nicholson & Andrew Cranston in a new post on our website.
🔗 Read here: bit.ly/dreamsoftheeveryday
ALT Andrew Cranston '(This infinitesimal twinkling of) tiny signs' (2021). Image courtesy of the artist and Ingleby Gallery
It’s been a record year for UK butterflies. How serendipitous to have published @gregchthomas’s minimal butterfly poem in the summer issue therefore! 🦋🌀 Issue 10 on sale now.
Here’s my wee sparkles of time woven poem - it fits in my hand, as do the others in this work-in-progress series. Prints of this cutie are available now from @Gregchthomas at Oo Press 🤍
This is how I made sparkles of time, my woven poem out now with @Gregchthomas at Oo Press. It’s delicate & tiny (it fits in the palm of my hand), & is made by weaving strips of text from a second-hand copy of Lorna Doone 🖤✂️
There are two new poem-postcards for sale over at Oo-press.com, just in time for the summer solstice. £5 for Nicky Melville's *how is now* and @em_filtness's *sparkles of time*
Oo-press.com/postcard-poems
There are two new poem-postcards for sale over at Oo-press.com, just in time for the summer solstice. £5 for Nicky Melville's *how is now* and @em_filtness's *sparkles of time*
Oo-press.com/postcard-poems
There’s a new Oo poem-object in the world.
*parenthesis poem (moons horns hulls)* is a duo of Jesmonite poem-objects cast from 3D-printed originals, with detail in black acrylic paint pen. Posted in black presentation box. Its sold out but I thought folks might like to see it.
Good critical / theoretical texts on collaboration in art and literature? Esp. poetry. Definitions and aesthetic theories, politics, economics, sociology, &c, of collaboration....