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RETAIL/TRADE ORDERS worldwide shipping via... @antennebooks , London and Central Books, London and Ourselves . . ANTENNE: God's Fox II — Charles Gordon Montgomery, words by Austin Collings (2025) Photography archive, mental health provision, 1980s, Mark E. Smith, Nico. limited edition photobook 205x205mm RRP £29.99 . . Linden Archives — Stuart Linden Rhodes @linden_archives , foreword by Russell Tovey @russelltovey (2024) Photography archive, reportage, LGBTQ+, 1990s. limited edition photobook 228x284mm RRP £49.99 . . Out & About with Linden — Stuart Linden Rhodes, foreword by Harry Clayton-Wright @hclaytonwright (2023) Photography archive, LGBTQ+ testimonials, 1990s. limited edition photobook 205x205mm RRP £24.99 . . 3300 — ed. Nirvana Hiere (2024) Found photography archive, IRA bombing, abstract photography. limited edition photobook 205x205mm . . CENTRAL: Exposure / Ideal Palace — Melissa Lee Houghton (2024) Verse, long poem, confessional, double feature. paperback RRP £14.99 . . Passing Time — Michel Butor, trans. Jean Stewart (2021) Republication, nouveau roman, deindustrialisation, memory, mental unease. a-format paperback £13.99 . . Obscenity & the Arts — Anthony Burgess, introductory essay by Andrew Biswell @anthonyburgessfoundation (2018) Non-fiction, archival documentation & photography, exile, censorship. a-format paperback £9.99 . . The Myth of Brilliant Summers — Austin Collings (2014) Short stories, micro fiction. a-format paperback £8.99 . . OURSELVES: God's Fox — Charles Gordon Montgomery, words by Austin Collings (2020) *SOLD OUT Photography archive, mental health provision, 1980s, Mark E Smith, Nico. limited edition photobook RRP £14.99 . . Infernal Edition Pamphlets... Scale Heavenly — Hamish Rush (2024) *SOLD OUT Verse, verse theatre, place writing. limited edition pamphlet with dust jacket £9.99 . A Promenade — Sam Fairbrother (2023) Verse, Ukraine War. limited edition pamphlet with dust jacket £11.99 . I'll Splinter — Tom Branfoot (2021) *SOLD OUT Verse, ecopoetry, poetry of crises. limited edition pamphlet with dust jacket £9.99 . . Contact us directly, or view the backlist at pariahpress.com/catalogue . . #Books

Publication Day 🎉 LINDEN ARCHIVES isbn 9781919629650 228x284mm 180pp. RRP £49.99 Trade Orders: @antennebooks Author: Stuart Linden Rhodes @linden_archives Foreword: Russell Tovey @russelltovey Art Direction & Cover Design: @ra_bear Layout & Typesetting: PARIAH PRESS Sequencing: Stuart Linden Rhodes & PARIAH PRESS Photo Edit: @davidncaines Scans: @origamiunicorn LINDEN ARCHIVES is a strictly limited edition, selected archival work capturing the 1990s LGBTQ+ club, pub and Pride scene across the UK, from Brighton to Newcastle — with excursions to Berlin and Gran Canaria. Celebratory in tone, it is the second publication by photographer Stuart Linden Rhodes (following on from ‘Out & About with Linden: A Queer Archive of the North’, 2022/3). A large-format photobook that seeks to encapsulate a peoples defiant in the face of the AIDS crises and discriminatory laws. Included in this work are many images that have fallen foul of Instagram’s unjustly censorious algorithm — alongside uninhibited photographs of Vivienne Westwood, Jean Paul Gaultier, Derek Jarman, Take That, Julian Clary, Peter Tatchell, Paul O’Grady, East 17 and many more. Russell Tovey has provided a foreword to the work. Cover design by Adam Griffiths is based around the ‘Equality for Absolutely Everybody’ placards, as seen in image six (Birmingham, 2000). Rainbow foiled on heavy Gmund Electric Blood glitter-flecked stock (the spine featuring a quote from Russell Tovey’s foreword)… supplied by, and with project support from: @gfsmithpapers . Interior photography is litho-printed on a glossy Magno Satin stock with images trimmed to three distinct dimensions (+ two double-page spreads). The book itself has extra width to allow for a greater sizing of landscape images. Each copy comes with inserts from selected mid-1990s issues of the now defunct and hard-to-find APN magazine—written reviews and photography by Stuart Linden Rhodes. Printed in Wales. Special thanks to @somuchtoanswer and @georgegracegibson for helping us out of a last-minute pickle/palava. . . #WorldPhotobookDay #LindenArchives #Photobook #PublicationDay #IndiePublishing #1990s #lgbtq🌈 #LGBTQIA #1990sFashion #Queer #QueerArt

We are delighted to announce via @worms.mag the publication of Melissa Lee-Houghton’s twin-book return… Exposure / Ideal Palace A refusal to limit the work to conservative editorial standards — this is a collection accommodated by radical form: a landscape format tailored for long and unrestrained lines, embracing the full and vast vision of the poet. Melissa’s definitive work to date, a long time in the making and a collection that proved too great a challenge for many editors and publishers. Pre-order from us directly, at an exclusive discount — link-in-bio.: ships July 2024. Our thanks to Worms for commissioning this interview with Melissa and @nadirawallace which marks Melissa’s dynamic and fearless return to poetry (link-in-bio.) We’re grateful to @arcadiamolinas for her keen and swift editorial work. . . ~ Synopsis ~ ‘Exposure / Ideal Palace’ is a compelling double-feature presented in a bespoke landscape format. A lyrical exploration of excess, sensuality, desire, mental wellbeing, homelessness, metaphysics and impossible love. Written between Manchester, London and Sparty Lea, it interrogates a tumultuous career and a culture of fear and hypocrisy.   ‘Exposure’ bears lyric witness to a woman and artist living under increasingly impossible social and personal conditions. These original and sophisticated poems are addressed to lovers, family, friends and imagined others. As well as being mischievous and biting critiques of contemporary poetry and wider culture — volatile recompense for abusers, exs and literary betrayals.   ‘Ideal Palace’ takes influence from Ferdinand Cheval’s naive architecture. Exploring psychoanalysis, science and history wielded into a radical dreamscape. . . Trade orders: Central Books Ltd. Art Direction: @ra_bear Melissa photo: @2110jacko . . #Poetry #PoetryCommunity #MelissaLeeHoughton #Wythenshawe #Literature #SpartyLea #Lancashire #Blackburn #Poesy #Confessional #LongPoem #Mirror #IndependentPublishing #GraphicDesign #Publishing

@linden_archives OUT & ABOUT May through June 2026... Thursday 14th May 18:00 @hydeparkph for @situation_leeds £5 . . Thursday 4th June 14:45 @leedsconservatoireevents as part of Nurturing Queer Creatives FREE . . Wednesday 17th June Sheffield City Library @shefflibraries FREE . . Sunday 28th June 19:00 @thecommonpress London £TBC RSVP to the venues themselves or check Eventbrite. Books will be available at all events. #ArtistTalk #Photography #LindenArchives #LGBTQIA

11:17 on the morning of Saturday 15th June 1996, the Irish Republican Army detonated a lorry bomb on Corporation Street, Manchester city centre. 3 3 3 0 (edited: @nheire1 / published 2024) is found 35mm photography as geographic exposition. A trip from inside the bombed out Rylands Building, along a mangled Market Street and on to what was accessible of Cross Street. June 2026 sees the thirty year anniversary of the explosion and the creation of the new, beige Manchester. To compliment 3 3 0 0 we're seeking testimony from persons with anecdotal impressions of the day of the blast. Contact us: [email protected] 3 3 0 0 is distributed by @antennebooks "A record of the consciousness of the photographer in a state of heightened attention." @sourcephotographicreview "A remarkable find." @jemsoutham "An important and thought-provoking book." @alisonmccauley "Destined to become a cult touchstone for all who seek to understand New Manchester." @isaac__rb #Manchester #FoundPhotography #IRA #Photobook #RylandsBuilding

As the move to Cornwall approaches, a look back over some of the titles defined by, and defining our own gestation and beginnings in The North... . . 07.06.21 — 'Passing Time' Michel Butor [trans. Jean Stewart] a-format softcover Ed.: Jonny Walsh & Cath Annabel Cover Art: Steven Cherry Typesetting: Alex Billington Distro.: Compass/Central . . 'Passing Time' is a re-edited (over lockdown) and re-published edition of the original English translation of Michel Butor's 1956 psychohistorical odyssey: 'L'emploi du temps' (Faber, 1960). Butor was a teaching assistant @officialuom 1951-52, living in Whalley Range & Burnage. Jacques Revel, economic migrant, arrives in Bleston — a thinly disguised & misremembered Manchester. We follow his diary & subsequent mental deterioration as the sooty atmosphere & architecture closes in, while mysterious fires erupt throughout the city. Can he solve the puzzle of 'The Bleston Murder' & free himself from the labyrinth of his mind!? We accurately billed 'Passing Time' as the great, forgotten Manchester novel. Lee Rourke even called it 'the greatest Manchester novel ever written'. A truly polyvalent, hyperstitional and disquieting work wether you're familiar with Manchester or not. Nevertheless, coverage was difficult in the provinces & nationally — the book was probably the very last thing people wanted to read after quarantine. @thebafflermag & The Modern Novel did review thoughtfully. But again, our wonderful reps got us zero retail sales within the city — and to this day we sell more copies in the US than in Manchester. . . Thanks to @annabel5637 for all her hard work in the edit... check out her Passing Time blog for further insight into the novel, and to David Bellos (RIP) who stated that he would teach the new edition on his course at Princeton Uni, hurrah. We began excerpting the work, daily (automated initially) over on Twitter (ButorTime), but ceased when the site became a fash hellscape — Butor himself had witnessed Paris occupied by the Nazis as a child. A start was made on an interactive map. Such things fall apart, unfortunately. We still haven't had a launch event. #Books #NouveauRoman #FrenchLiterature

As the move to Cornwall approaches, a look back over some of the titles defined by, and defining our own gestation and beginnings in The North... . . 23.09.18 — 'Obscenity & the Arts' Anthony Burgess with: Germaine Greer, Andrew Biswell & Adam Griffiths a-format softcover Ed. Jonny Walsh & @profbiswell Cover Design & Art Direction: @ra_bear Layout: Pariah Press Distro.: Compass/Central . . It was an honour to be the first publishing house to disinter material from the archive of @anthonyburgessfoundation , in what became billed as Burgess's first new work to appear for over twenty years (technically untrue). 'Obscenity & the Arts' is a non-fiction compendium of primary source materials & learned explication around Burgess's exile in Malta 1968-1974. Correspondance with Burgess's former friends & associates was a memorable process — chats with Dick Cavett & agent on the phone, letters from Martin Scorsese (beautiful envelope) & Terry Eagleton (who grew up just down the road), remotely fixing Desmond Morris' computer and much misty-eyed testimony from Tony Palmer, Erica Jong, Jonathan Lethem, et al.. (And also ignored by Jean Michel Jarre, Princess Caroline of Monaco & Melvin Bragg.) Harold Bloom, no little careworn, promised: "I will review your little book" and wrote warmly of his time with 'the contessa' (Liana Burgess). Previewed in The Guardian and syndicated to Dazed and dailies in Belgium, The Netherlands and India. Reviewed in: TLS (Drabble), Il Giornale, @aigaeyeondesign and the Times of Malta. Telly in Malta too. Our reps got us zero sales in Manchester, god bless them, but it seems to have gone reasonably well everywhere else. . . Shout outs to: Anna Edwards, Graham Foster & Will Carr, for their help and patience. Andrew Biswell's signed copies are currently on the market for north of £80. . . We've still not held a launch event. #bookstagram #AnthonyBurgess #publishing #books

As the move to Cornwall approaches, a look back over some of the titles defined by, and defining our own gestation and beginnings in The North... 31.10.14 — 'The Myth of Brilliant Summers' Austin Collings a-format softcover & ebook Ed. Jonny Walsh & Jamie Lee Art Direction: Steven Cherry Distro.: Compass/Central . . The Bookseller called it 'the definitive Mancunian title'. Which is a stretch but a righteous start nevertheless — with assorted newbie editorial blunders. Also reviewed in: New Statesman, 3am, Hot Press, Huffington Post, Quietus & The Skinny. 'Myth' is a menacing collection of short, sharp fiction established in an unnamed northern town/suburb. Narrowly typeset, the stories should be read as demented hymns. It's a work bleaker even than Ernst Junger's 'Storm of Steel'. Collings had previously co-written 'Renegade: The Life & Tales of Mark E. Smith' for Penguin. . . image 3: Nat Curtis #Bookstagram #ShortStories #FlashFiction #AustinCollings #Publishing

The full Linden archive @linden_archives is now part of The Rylands @thejohnrylands Special Collections @officialuom . Stored in perpetuity for educational and research purposes, in temperature controlled stasis, on Deansgate, Manchester. Stuart's work resides alongside that of luminaries such as Delia Derbyshire, Walt Whitman, Julia Margaret Cameron, Jeff Nutall, Alan Turing, John's Bunyan Milton & Ruskin and Mary Queen of Scots. Both our titles with Stuart are part of the collection — Linden Archives (2024) / Out & About with Linden: A Queer Archive of the North (2nd ed. 2022), as are a full set of APN magazine back issues and selected Gay Times. Congratulations to Stuart, we're glad to have steered him towards The Rylands after a touch of jiggery-pokery with other research institutions in the UK. Our thanks to Anne Anderton and Joe Devlin. To make an appointment with The Rylands Special Collections, email — [email protected] #Research #Libraries #Photography #Archive #LGBTQ #1990s #1990sfashion

New Publication: GOD'S FOX II Charles Gordon Montgomery 978-1-9196296-7-4 205 x 205mm exhibition catalogue 56pp. 37 photos 2 new & exclusive essays from #AustinCollings Cover: debossed @foilcoltd Fjord Blue on Novatech 350gsm board, with French flaps Interior: 170gsm Novatech Silk Litho-print throughout Edition of 200 Trade: @antennebooks Art Direction & Cover Design: @ra_bear Layout & Typesetting: Pariah Press Essay Inserts: Xevi Soler Print: @pressisionltd Published on the occasion of — God's Fox: The Photography of Charles Gordon Montgomery @digbethartspace , Birmingham [fine art prints available] 14.11.25 – 10.01.26 Product & exhibition images by @ra_bear , @realbadtime for @villagebooks.co , @charlesclifford87 and Pariah Press. . . ##bookstagram #newpublication #photobook #MarkESmith #Nico #TheFall #Prestwich #MentalHealth

New work with @pariah_press for the launch of God’s Fox II - The official catalogue published on the occasion of the exhibition God’s Fox: The Photography of Charles Gordon Montgomery at @digbethartspace Foiled cover + Litho with original photopack flaps, printed by @pressisionltd with @foilcoltd Fjord Blue Published by @pariah_press Art Direction & Cover design - @ra_bear Sequencing and interior - @wonnyjalsh Includes two new & exclusive essays from Austin Collings @antennebooks for trade orders

New book incoming ⏳ published on the occasion of @boundartbookfair launching next weekend. Visions of Ecstasy is a collaborative visual essay and ‘conversation’ through collected, multifaceted imagery exploring the close relationships betweek ‘peak experiences’ - sex, death, drug highs, religious mania, achievements on the sports field. A compendium of ecstasy and fervour through the found image, web sources, family archives and original photography. Compiled and produced by @ra_bear + Jonny Walsh Published by @pariah_press 125mm x 160mm 124 pages Available next weekend at Bound @whitworthart