Reprints from Materials

Pleased to finally be able to put back into print a number of out-of-print titles from Materials, among them a re-typeset and re-designed second printing of D.S. Marriott’s Duppies, previously published by Materials in 2017 and in a US edition with Commune the following year, and out of print for a few years now. I’ve wanted to put this back into circulation for some time, especially since the folding of Commune Editions also put the US edition out of print. (I’d also highly recommend D.S. Marriott's subsequent books of poetry, Before Whiteness from City Lights and the forthcoming Letters from the Black Ark from Omnidawn.) Here’s the cover (Clarence Major’s painting At the Turning Point opens up the book inside.)

The full list of books now back in print: 

D.S. Marriott, Duppies (2017)
Lisa Jay Jeschke, The Anthology of Poems by Drunk Women (2018)
Anne Boyer, Money City Sick as Fuck (2019)
Laurel Uziell, T (2020)
Tongo Eisen-Martin, Waiting Behind Tornados For Food (2020)
James Goodwin, Faux Ice (2022)
Candace Hill, Short Leash Kept On (2022)

You can find them all on the Materials website at the links above, or at the main page here: https://material-s.blogspot.com/

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Also:

On newly-available footage of Albert Ayler for The Wire: ‘Eye and Ear Control’.

On Will Rowe for English Studies in Latin America: ‘No More Burial Remedies’.

News and Views

In February I was interviewed about A Black Arts Poetry Machine by João Paulo Guimarães (University of Porto) and Elina Siltanen (University of Turku) for the online Poets Talk Politics Series hosted by the University of Porto. Thanks to João and Elina for the questions and discussion, and to João for the invitation. The event was live-streamed and should be uploaded to the Youtube channel of the Instituto de Literatura Comparada Margarida Losa in the next few weeks. For now, it's available on Facebook, as embedded below (no need for an account) or at this link.

 

Also online is the video of the online launch for Present Continuous back in January, hosted by Malvika Jolly and with responses from Tyrone Williams, Linda Kemp, Ciarán Finlayson, and Ghazal Mosadeq, can be seen on the Pamenar Press Youtube channel here, or in the video embedded below. Many thanks to Malvika for hosting and Ghazal and Hamed for publishing, designing and typesetting the book!

Some photos from the 'Electro-Acoustic Responsiveness' gig at IKLECTIK with Eddie Prévost (percussion), John Butcher (tenor and soprano saxophones), N.O. Moore (guitar), Emmanuelle Waeckerlé (voice, objects), and Tony Hardie-Bick (electronics), courtesy of film-maker Stewart Morgan, whose film on Prévost should soon be nearing completion. 

Photo credit - Stewart Morgan Hajdukiewicz

And some photos from the Materials/Materialien reading at Halle für Kunst Lüneburg, with James Goodwin (launching the new collection Faux Ice), Lütfiye Güzel and Laurel Uziell: thanks to curators Ann-Kathrin Eickohf and Elisa R. Linn. 

James will be doing a UK launch for his book at Café Oto in Dalston on Sunday 9th April; this will also be the launch for Candace Hill's astonishing book-length poem Short Leash Kept On. James will be in conversation with Nisha Ramayya and I'll be in conversation with Candace via Zoom. (Fred Moten will be reading, in his trio with Brandon Lopez and Gerald Cleaver, later in the evening.) Tickets from the Café Oto website.

Finally, in further Materials news, Anne Boyer's Money City Sick as Fuck and Lisa Jeschke's The Athology of Poems by Drunk Women are back in print and can be purchased from the Materials website at the following links: Boyer here and Jeschke here.

New from MATERIALS: Books, Readings, Launches

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ANNE BOYER – MONEY CITY SICK AS FUCK

Available for Pre-Order

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Very pleased to announce that Anne Boyer’s Money City Sick as Fuck is available for pre-order. Selected from a sequence of 100 poems written on a long day in the summer of 2013, Money City imagines writing a poem "in a confederacy of exception [...] called 'wages for tenderness and nothing else'". Situated between Pompeii and Olympus, at "Texaco in ruins" or the amusement park, in a bar called Lethe, at &the saddest prom in history, taking "every odd route", these poems passionately survey and survive the streets and jails of the modern-day polis,"sunbathing in Atlantis", oracles IRL.

The peak consequence —

             this port

                        of pleasure —

                                  we will

                                or will not

                                  realize —

Reserve your copy at http://material-s.blogspot.com/

Also: MATERIALS Reading Series. Charlotte Thiessen, Marty Hiatt and Joel Scott will read at SET, 27A Dalston Lane, London E8 3DF, on Monday 27th May. Further details at: https://www.facebook.com/events/2271144293103838/

And: Double book launch for two new books from Bloomsbury's Critical Poetic series, A Black Arts Poetry Machine and Lyric Pedagogy and Marxist-Feminism at May Day Rooms, Fleet Street, London, on Saturday 11th May, 7pm. David Grundy and Sam Solomon will provide a brief overview of the books and will share discoveries for their research. The presentations will be followed by an open discussion. See: https://maydayrooms.org/whats-on/