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Reading Ovid’s Metamorphoses at @castelloroccasinibalda ahead of our artist residency in June We will be hosting online conversations for the wider Sendb00ks community for paid subscribers via Substack While our 6 sleeve making artists are now confirmed we welcome you to consider the prompt of - transformation- and send any propositions (writing especially) to [email protected]

This weekend Sendb00ks is delighted to be sharing a table with @zolo.press at @offprint_projects OFF PRINT London. The fair for independent and experimental publishers, at 180 Studios, 15–17 May, free entry. Our first fair, we will be presenting sendb00ks editions dating back to the primordial days of 2018, some coveted editions of Stages (@thickpress @rachelkaudernalebuff , @stormcloudsmith ), Okiki Akinfe (@okikiakinfe ), Tali Lennox (@talilennox ), Anousha Payne (@anoushapayne ), Grace Atkinson (@grrraceatkinson ), Batool Abu Akleen (@batool_abu_akleen ), Jessica Luost (@jessicaluostarinen_art ) and many more We have also printed some oversized Show me your books tees, reworked vintage classics, softest cotton, and some @coucouintimates intimates baby tees looking forward to showing you our b00ks IRL ♡

Since Bianca Pozzi ( @biancaapozzi )wrote to me at the beginning of the year with the magnificent proposal of running a Sendb00ks residency at Rocca Sinibalda my months have become threaded with new research and inspiration, huge webs of joy for Mina Loy, Ovid, The Black Sun Press. Books are openings to so much. Thank you Bianca for sending me this poem: Ephemerid by Mina Loy. Something -transformative- to read mid-scroll this sweet summer sunday “The dilating wing billows from her shoulders the wondering of windows… Loy (1882-1966) was an artist, poet, playwright, feminist, inventor, and entrepreneur who moved among 20th-century avant-garde circles, including Futurism, Dada, and Surrealism, yet was contained by none

Portrait of Caresse Crosby, American patron of the arts and inventor of first patented brassiere, in Castello di Rocca Sinibalda, Italy Co-founder of Black Sun Press. Publisher of Joyce, Pound, Hemingway. Every morning she rowed her husband to his job at J.P. Morgan along the Seine in a red canoe because it was “good for the breasts!” She is credited with teaching Henry Miller and Anaïs Nin how to write erotica. She bought this castle and made it an artists’ commune and as part of her Thirty-Year plan she designated the Rocca a “Humanist Center for the Creative Arts”. This June, we have the chance to host six artists here as they respond to Ovid’s Metamorphoses More soon

Delighted to have contributed my favourite book of knots to the @apartamentomagazine @jilsander Reference Library. ➰ R D Laing was a Scottish psychiatrist and one of the leading figures of the anti-psychiatry movement in the 1960s. He deliberately published Knots as a literary work, play, or collection of poems rather than a clinical one. As a protest against the language of diagnosis, the patterns are deliberately playful because Laing was fascinated by how we learn emotional scripts in childhood and then replay them our whole lives. A book often passed between lovers, kin, fathers and sons, it interrogates the all-too-familiar exchanges between well-meaning people who end up pulling each other apart or back together again. Similar to weaving and untangling, the book both elegantly knots and unravels upon reading. What better companion than a book that allows us the posibility to laugh at ourselves, at our innocent absurdities, through interrogation and release. It is satisfying to tie a knot. And just as satisfying to untie it. On view until April 24 Thank you for the super invite @apartamentomagazine @mvassociati and @grrraceatkinson for first giving me this book last year Photography by @andrewgoughphoto

Show us the world you would build if you had a star of your own This Sunday, Sendb00ks, Emergency UK and @newvisionart_gallery invites readers to re-design a cover for The Little Prince. The Mission: You have just discovered your own tiny planet in the sky. a ‘Utopia.’ There are no seeds, houses, or plots here yet. This is a place where you make all the rules. What do you want your planet to look like? What is a utopia? Sometimes, the world we live in can feel a bit loud, messy, or even unfair. A Utopia is a word for an imaginary place where everything is exactly the way you need it to be to feel happy and safe. The workshop will be led by @ranana.t and @electrasimon Thank you to @newvisionart_gallery Tickets available via the link in bio

A castle born from the mountain itself, hosts our first residency: Stone permeates Ovid's Metamorphoses in a remarkable variety of shapes, sizes, and types. Aconae, calculus, cautis, lapis, molaris, pu-mex, rupes, saxum, scopulus, silex, and tophus are the words Ovid uses in Metamorphoses to describe his petrified realm, from the smallest polished pebble in a stream to the largest boulder upon a mountain. In its stoniness, Ovid's poem evokes the geology of the Mediterranean world, the hardness and austerity of its terrain. Rocca Sinibalda Castle, a Grade I Listed building, has stood since the 11th century on a spur of rock overhanging the Turano Valley. Its current appearance originates from a bold zoomorphic design by the Renaissance architect Baldassarre Peruzzi: a powerful military fortress doubling with a sumptuous aristocratic palace. -Rana Tabatabaie Coming soon June 2026 @biancaapozzi @castelloroccasinibalda @ranana.t @gemmajanes @sendb00ks @umbertagb

6 Artists 6 book sleeves Inspired by Ovid’s Metamorphoses Six selected artists are invited to reinterpret The Metamorphoses, creating a new work of art as a detachable book sleeve for a limited edition of the Latin narrative poem, in its English translation. The artist residency will take place in the Castle of Rocca Sinibalda in the Lazio region of Italy. The castle is the only zoomorphic castle in Europe with a cycle of Renaissance frescoes, attributed to Girolamo Muziano, depicting Ovidian myths. The fresco cycle offers a visual prompt for the artists. Built in the 11th century It is simultaneously geometric and zoomorphic designed as an architectural representation of an eagle with folded wings for some, as a scorpion for others, or as a sinister hybrid of the two for the more visionary. Truly a castle of metamorphoses, where interior and exterior spaces, images and lights, and unique collections to inspire creation and transformation. Coming soon June 2026 @biancaapozzi @castelloroccasinibalda @ranana.t @gemmajanes @sendb00ks

Hurry slowly / festina lente Italo Calvino wisdoms. I’m preparing a talk on digression 🦀

One of the things I miss when living in Paris is not having the same chance to walk into a charity shop and let a book reach out to me and influence my day. So cool to wander through the Marais today and tumble across this spot with a shelf in English and these two ! The Dorothea Tanning memoir Tali has been talking about for months and which Ive had in my Abe book basket (but how I hate to shop online especially for books) and another on women and humor in Ancient Greece such a relief given I’m plowing gladly through Ovid’s metamorphoses both adoring it and also deploring its rape after rape and cruelty towards the women and between each other too. I love book shop and especially when they’re second hand and cheap 🤎🐿️ The owner restocks the shelves daily, 3 books for 10€ Magic, merci Paris 🐣