IN SITU site-specific residency begins this Sunday at 1pm.
I will be there every day and every day there will be durational performances taking place. No specific times are scheduled, it’s an ongoing process. Visit us anytime during Sun-Wednesday within opening hours to see what is happening.
PV: 12th of May 6-8.30pm. Including a London launch of this year’s NOON magazine with @lucieelven and Lara Pawson.
We look forward to seeing you soon!
Opening Times:
Sunday 1pm to 5pm
Monday 11am to 6pm
Tuesday 11am to 5pm
Wednesday 11am to 6pm
The new LRB has a long piece on Agota Kristof. Annoyingly, it appears when her major work, the Notebook Trilogy, is not available: Penguin will take over publication in November and I've been told to stop selling the CBe edition (but still have copies: contact me if interested).
The LRB piece by Sarah Resnick is good and reveals new research on Kristof's childhood. Blog post here (copy and paste):
/2026/04/agota-kristof.html
CBe newsletter (sent today), abridged version:
Axholme by Mike Bradwell – available from the website for pre-order now – will be published in June on what will be his posthumous birthday (he died in April last year). Bradwell founded Hull Truck theatre and was director of the Bush Theatre, a few streets from this desk. Axholme portrays a childhood in a village in Lincolnshire in the 1950s in the voice of a nine-year-old kid. It’s rude and funny and not in the slightest bit sentimental. Mike Leigh: ‘A wonderful, moving evocation of a vibrant community – funny, poignant, and above all, real.’
Fourteen Ways of Looking by Erin Vincent was published by CBe in March, and is now also published in Australia, the US and Canada. Sarah Manguso: ‘Magnificent, simply one of the best books I’ve read in ages. I read it in a reverie of blissed-out, horrified amazement.’
Early next year – which, if we get there, will be CBe’s 20th birthday – CBe will publish its largest and longest book to date. Testimony by the poet Charles Reznikoff (1894–1976) happens to be – and I’m not entirely alone in thinking this – one of the major English-language works of the past century, and has never been published in the UK. It was originally published between 1934 and 1978; in 2015 in the US Black Sparrow gathered the whole thing into one volume, and this is the edition – 608 pages! – that CBe will publish in the UK.
The poems in Testimony are derived from court records from across the US between 1885 and 1915. Other poetry titles from CBe based on documentary records of the lives of others are Sarah Hesketh’s 2016, Caroline Clark’s Sovetica, J. O. Morgan’s Natural Mechanical and Long Cuts, and Dan O’Brien’s War Reporter and New Life, and Testimony may be the mother and father of them all.
This little van is motoring out of the 1950s and onto the cover of a book that should arrive from the printer, traffic conditions permitting, next week.
Stendhal (Henri Beyle) died on this day, 23 March, in 1842. “He had no belief in an afterlife, but one has to believe in it for him,” wrote FWJ Hemmings. An Overcoat (2nd pic) imagines his afterlife: jogging in the park, learning to drive, difficulties with women ...
An Overcoat, published in 2017 and described in the TLS as "the most innovative, intelligent, vertiginous novel to appear in years", is available from the CBe website (copy & paste):
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Farah Ali talks Telegraphy with Lara Pawson at Brick Lane Bookshop on Tuesday, 24 March - tickets from the bookshop website. Telegraphy also available from the CB editions website.
Count them. Happy publication day, Fourteen Ways of Looking by @erinvincentauthor . "A wrenching and true reckoning" (Guardian). It is not a book about sonnets.
The annual NOON (edited by Diane Williams) has landed, with cover image and inside portfolio (of works from A Pale Girl's Dream, also from Bags for Life) by @nataliazagorskathomas . Also an interview with NZ-T. Also work by another of the CBe gang, Lara Pawson.
For weird legal reasons NOON is not for sale in the UK, but if anyone really wants a copy I'm sure we can do something about that.
It's 14 degrees here and sunny and it's 14 days until the official UK publication of Fourteen Ways of Looking by @erinvincentauthor but you don't have to wait: /ErinVincent.html
