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Grateful to @mabib.liotheque for collaborating and to @megancamille.roy for reading and to everyone who listened to me talk about it. May it be some kind of little craft boat for navigating the times. Now available from MA BIBLIOTHÈQUE Earthy colours with traces of translucent milky neons. A river flowing through a forest where you come to drink, kneeling down and cupping the flow with your hands. Sometimes the water is clear, green straight to the bottom moss, animals meet there. The sound in your head when you lick with your tongue. When your eyes feel like they’re touching something unsolid like a horizon line. Night School is the synthesis of dreamwork and bookwork, combining collaboration with dream-vision report, creative writing, and AI—a ‘Media Archaeology of Dreams’. Its central character is the author’s voice in this process through ekphrasis. What/where is the separation between the ekphrastic object, the dream, and its description? Layers of the narrative mind, the textual mind, and their translation onto the page, form a collage of mediums: thresholds of the body, actual media, and the voices of others.The reader witnesses themselves reading, in the epistemological shedding of the ‘I’ and the tossing and turning of personhood through first and third, a threshold and a veil. It is a portal of unlearning, a becoming ever arriving. ‘Night School resists gender with a truth that is fundamental but stubbornly unfamiliar: what is life but the morph of one being into another? This insight powers the book to ride waves of transformation. Nothing obeys expectation. A woman digs a a “black pit of earthy soil with tiny green shoots miraculously curling little slivers of green here and there at her feet like some eyelashes” in a theatre toilet to plant a garden. Although the eyes would associate such a scene with shit, “the smell was of overwhelming fresh and moist hummus under forest leaves, bright cold and full of minerals.” Unsettling and beautiful, tender as well as cruel, this book refreshes everything it touches, and it touches much: sex, mother-daughter, all the physical elements. I’m grateful for its new horizons of experience.’ –> Camille Roy

From the ass pockets at @brussels.assbookfair 💜 Still upholding that this is a good time to write letters to Enheduanna, first recorded author, whose authorship sounds like publishing to me, doubleheaded dildos as literary devices aside. Thank you to my co-readers and hosts in Paris @_orphique_ @raz.daram @after.8.books and Brussels @chloechignell @rile.books @nenehnoi last week 🌹🌹🌹continuing in a few weeks @garg_bookstore and @bgsqd and finally @chertluedde as part of Real Ekphrasis… @uglyducklingpresse ::: link in bio to order or get one at a reading///

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Staking this little piss plaza drain on the eastern slope of the Treptower Park bridge for wheatpasted notes. Previews of works in process, ingredients of some soups cooking, some poems, tables of contents, any empty Shiraz bottle messages not mine. - an excerpt from a bilingual Icelandic-English poetry collection by Ásdís Óladóttir - the table of contents and an excerpt from NIGHT SCHOOL - a recently discovered poem by Cody-Rose Clevidence GOT A HOT CONTENDER FOR THE TUNNEL wheatpasted book launch, a dictionary by the initials JG / stay tuned

See you at @glasgowzinelib zine fair —— in very good company! I think it’s the perfect time and place to debut the insomnia chatelaine for bookmaking xxx

Perfecting wheat paste ratios in this old dishsoap bottle - is this publishing/If I pasted every page of a book in this tunnel and called it a launch would you come?

A gathering on May 8th @cafe_karanfil_bar to hear from the authors and editors of new and recently printed texts by Emma Bleck, Scott Caruth, Iz Östat, and Haytham el-Wardany. Emma Bleck @emmalvcia will introduce their zine, 'PALESTINE IN BERLIN / EXISTING IS RESISTING' Scott Caruth @capoofcapoof will introduce 'Guiding Genocide,' a document of the working experiences of tour guides in Berlin who operate within the city’s economies of Holocaust history, in the context of the ongoing genocide in Gaza. Iz Östat @izoztat will introduce their zine collection, written in collaboration with Çağla Özbek, a joint research into the enduring complexity of the Faustian myth. Haytham el-Wardany @hythmwrdny will introduce ‘Labour of Listening.’ Half of sales go to @elsclegal /// Thanks to Cafe Karanfil for hosting!

Recently I was too sick to have the conversation at @ccaberlin with @jimmyvaleryrobert about his artist book “distinguish the limit from the edge” a book in dialogue with Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s work. Here are some books I had set aside to bring: (This only a selection of many I have come across that are speaking to and through her work but aren’t on my shelf ) First: “distinguish the limit from the edge” published by @bookworksuk last year. The fold becomes the literal hinge between Cha’s archive and Robert’s practice. Two spines/folds with myriad possible sequences. … This reprint of Dictée was assembled for an evening in 2020 at @hopscotchreadingroom when we held a marathon reading of Dictée — or maybe we called it something else - and Theresa’s niece and nephew joined us in the courtyard. A very special reading. For the occasion I riso-printed a small run of copies for attendees as the book was still out of print then and not so easy to find. … UPPLESTUR is my unofficial translation of Dictée into Icelandic — my only other tongue I feel myself inside so far. Translation as the most intimate reading. Lots of languages in this book, to be clear, I only translated the English parts. … LABOUR OF TONGUES by @nenehnoi is a CUTT PRESS publication whose title comes from a line in Dictée. Built from two channels which are two voices running parallel, neither resolving into the other — an elder speaking in one, a knot of generational fabulation in the other. The textual fold, literalised. … BAROQUE BEEKEEPING designed by @petschetschjan // is a poetry zine I quietly began in 2022 (three issues now exist) - the first issue is an homage to Dictée in the form of an ekphrastic sonnet crown: a poetry form that ends where it begins and some kind of answer to Cha’s search for “the roots of language before it is born on the tip of the tongue.”

↭Labour of Listening by Haytham el-Wardany↭ An early version of this text was read at “Politics of Listening” - an iteration of the public program at the Italian Pavilion during the 2024 Venice Biennale. This edition of 100 is a 4-page unbound booklet “The dead. They have a plan. And their plan is simple. It is called Sumoud صمود. To stand fast and start all over again. The dead. They direct us to the open graves, desecrated by bulldozers. A severed hand. A mutilated tongue. A stained truth, beside a suitcase of books. The dead. They are hungry, and they have a plan. Their plan is to summon us to the soil. Where they are not buried anymore. And insist that we stand fast, and start from there, all over again. Haven’t written to you for a while. But you crossed my mind today. My earache made me think of you. It is a pain that has worsened since the genocide in Gaza غزة began.” Available at @after.8.books in Paris and more bookshops TBA Join us May 8th at @cafe_karanfil_bar for a reading!

/// The Oracle of Lips /// The Oracle of Tongue /// The Oracle of Teeth Edition of 200 / Each edition is composed of three pamphlets bound together (by The Oracle of Teeth) "Could a narrative hole, this moment where the text stops, be a text-mouth? We speak of (written) text having a body, a head(ing), foot(notes), a voice. And if there’s a voice there could be a mouth, too. A mouth that speaks/voices into the body of the text. A speaking hole for once, not a gap, a caesura, a lacuna, a wound, but a hole endowed with a voice—or voices." THE HOLE. AN INSURRECTIONARY POETICS by @Kathyludwig was recently published by @mabib.liotheque ⚪️ In parallel/in interruption with this book are three opuscules—The Oracle of Lips, The Oracle of Tongue, and The Oracle of Teeth—published by CUTT PRESS ⚪️ Join us this Sunday at Cafe Plume for the launch - Katharina Ludwig will be joined by visiting poet, Susan Gervitz @susangevirtz and Charlotte Thiessen.

PROVERBS OF A SHE-DANDY BY LISA ROBERTSON @office_for_soft_architecture - Back in print and available at @after.8.books /// or email to order: [email protected] These proverbs were originally published in 2018 in Vancouver by the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery. With permission from the author the text has been styled into a bootleg. This is the second reprint in an edition of 100. The first was in 2024. 🌑“Menopause, Gardanne said in 1821, is the loss of the signs of female reproductive ability. ‘Huge dangers’, he warned, ‘precede, accompany, follow the cessation of this function’. The illustration on the cover of his book shows a broken ceramic pitcher. Gardanne was at the forefront of what now would be called the ‘medicalisation of menopause’, which is to say, its treatment as an ailment, both physical and psychosomatic, of the female body.”🌑 🌚THAT SHE EXISTS AND MOVES IN THE CITY IS AN AFFRONT TO THE WILL OF CAPITAL. COUNTLESS CLINICS ARE DEDICATED TO PREVENTING HER APPEARANCE.🌚