Wednesday 2nd October 2011, 19:30-21:00
UK Launch readings for the Veer Books:
'sable smoke' by Gilbert Adair
'Black, Grey and White - a book of visual sonnets' by David Miller
'My Camp' by Tom White.
Room 112, Birkbeck College, 43 Gordon Square Building, Bloomsbury, London WC1H 0PD
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034 Gilbert Adair – ‘Sable Smoke’
Veer Publication 034 [ISBN: 978-1-907088-23-0]
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There’s only one method: throw yourself into the darkness which is (at least) the darkness of ink and death. Lose yourself in strange demotics, restart-loops, flarf-like overspills, sleuthy overhearings, scatological flingings of language, self-reflexive poetics questions: these proverbs of death. If ‘sable smoke’ is an embarrassed reference to death then these are death grunts after the events, the transcriptions of voices, vampires, the graphology of emphasis for the ear—nothing random. A little openness to punning, infantile abandonment, language-ploy, goes a long way. You’ll hear these death rattles laughing.'
(Robert Sheppard)
US Letter size. 172 pages. November 2010. £10.00
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041 David Miller – ‘Black, Grey and White - a book of visual sonnets’
Veer Publication 041 [ISBN: 978-1-907088-32-2]
Shimmering lines of grey-black space gather and release intensity, swell and withdraw to elicit song from a reader’s white stare. Visual translations of the sonnet form. Landscape seen for the first time, time and memory.
A5 size. 40 pages. November 2011. £5.00
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047 Tom White – ‘My Camp’
Veer Publication 047 [ISBN: 978-1-907088-37-7]
Tom White’s My Camp tracks the Hitler experiment in its most distinct outreaches, against the grain of fake ethics and comfortable morality, interrogating the language. Watch out for bits of your face in the glissant mirror.
A4 size. 48 pages. November 2011. £5.00
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