& in order of appearance:
° THREE poems (from DELTAS)
Leonie RUSHFORTH
° (A piece of) LOBSTERS
Wayne HOLLOWAY-SMITH
° TWO poems / TWO observations
Vilde BJERKE TORSET
° TRUTH WINDOW
Raegan BIRD
° HYMN to the STRAY DOG
Chloe ARIDJIS
° ONE poem & THREE sonnets;
FAIL FOLIAGE
Luca BEVACQUA
° TWO mountains / TWO outlooks / TWO poems
Tim MacGABHANN
° Pasaje ESTRELLA
Kate FELD
° A WATERLESS WHITE SAND BEACH UNDERNEATH
A LOW PURPLE SKY, PERFECTLY STILL
Nathan DRAGON
° I AM A FILM
—a dispatch from THE LIBERATED FILM CLUB
(Tenement #2)
Stephen WATTS
° THREE songs—
PLAINSONG, BY LIKENESS, & OR NEW
Lila MATSUMOTO
° RADIANT CITIES
Kyra SIMONE
° THREE COUNTERFACTUAL PICTURES
Doug DIBBERN
° GENERIC LOVE or THE REALISM OF ROMANCE
(THE CONSUMER AS HERO)
Mark McGURL
° RAISE, or HOW TO BREAK FREE OF THE GROUND,
or THE LAKELAND DIALECT FOR ‘SLIPPERY’ IS ‘SLAPE’
& TO FORM IT IN THE MOUTH REQUIRES
AN ACT OF FALLING
° —A story shortlisted for THE DESPERATE LITERATURE PRIZE, MMXXI
Katie HALE
° An excerpt from a book called
TROISIÈME VAGUE
Lucy K SHAW
° TWO POEMS—
‘Big Swallow’ & ‘Come’
Sarah Jean ALEXANDER
° (Notes on) A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE WORLD
A dispatch from THE LIBERATED FILM CLUB
(Tenement #2)
Chloe ARIDJIS
° COLOURING IN
Sam BUCHAN-WATTS
° THE DOG of TITHWAL
Saadat HASAN MANTO, translated by Khalid HASAN
° TWO POEMS—
‘My Second Vision of True Love at the Bank of a Bender’
‘Washing at the End of the Night which is the Next Day’s Afternoon’
Sarah FLETCHER
° HAPPY HOUR (JULY 20th)
Marlowe GRANADOS
° Michèle BERNSTEIN has forgotten to die;
& ON THE PASSAGE OF MICHÈLE BERNSTEIN
THROUGH TIME;
a TEXT & a FILM
Clodagh KINSELLA
° SIX SWANS—
‘Come to My Cremation,’
‘Dominion Piece,’
‘Puppy Season,’
‘My Surfaces, My Services,’
‘The Emperor’s New Noose,’
& ‘None of My Powers are Secret’
Poems from a book called I FAILED TO SWOON
Nadia de VRIES
° CATMINT—A short story
Ben PESTER
° LOVE POEMS <3—FOUR DEDICATIONS
‘For Sean,’
‘For James,’
‘Sappho Poem for Verity,’
& ‘For Ryan Before He Goes to the University of Kansas’
Sam WESELOWSKI
° EAT YOUR PINEAPPLE—A (critical) Exquisite Corpse
A dispatch from THE LIBERATED FILM CLUB
(Tenement #2)
Juliet JACQUES
° THREE poems—THE WAY AHEAD IS SPRING
i. ‘ON THIS, THE DAY OF BLUE BEARS’
ii. ‘FLY! A GENTLE WORD ... ’
iii. ‘ZANGEZI (a FRAGMENT from a SUPERSAGA
Velimir KHLEBNIKOV, translated by Natasha RANDALL
° IN A SLEEPY, BLUE, SORT OF PHOSPHORESCENT WAY
A cut from (and conversation around) a book called SEVASTOPOL
Emilio FRAIA
Zoë Perry
° FOULNESS ISLAND
Readings & writings
from a book called VLOED
Lucia DOVE
° SHALL WE MEET IN MUSIC /
A DRUNK HACKS AT THE STRINGS
A cut from a book called WHEREVER WE ARE
WHEN WE COME TO THE END
Richard BARNETT
° THREE Poems—
‘Heaven’s Expense,’ ‘Lark,’
& ‘Nuptials’
Maria SLEDMERE
° TWO Poems, (from a book called) HOME
‘The Verdict,’ & (the first of) ‘Two Lessons’
Emily CRITCHLEY
° ZEN & MUSHROOMS—
CUTS from an ANTHOLOGY called WE WROTE IN SYMBOLS;
‘A WEDDING NIGHT FOR ZEN,’ ‘THE MOST EXPENSIVE MUSHROOM,’
‘YOU DON’T SATISFY’ & ‘EPIGRAM’
by (respectively) ...
the pseudonymous SALOMÉ;
Mariam BAZEED;
ANONYMOUS, translated by Abdullah al-UDHARI;
& Ulayya bint al-MAHDI, translated by Yasmine SEALE
° IMPORTANT BOOKS
(or, MANIFESTOES READ BY CHILDREN)—
Excerpts & Asides from PARTS #1 & #2;
The COMMUNIST MANIFESTO,
as read by BOY, 8, SOUTH EAST LONDON;
& SPEECH GIVEN by SOJOURNER TRUTH at the
WOMEN’S CONVENTION in OHIO, 1851,
as read by GIRL, 6, KENT
Stanley SCHTINTER
° SMOKE GETS IN YOUR EYES
A short story by
Izumi SUZUKI,
translated by Aiko MASUBUCHI
° PHONICA #1—The first of a multipart monthly SEASON
curated by Christodoulos MAKRIS
PRECIPICE of an END & CARRER DELS ESCUDELLERS
(respectively)
Suzanne WALSH
& Roy Claire POTTER
° FALCO’S MIRADA:
A TEN PHOTOGRAPH EXCHANGE
after a book A PERFECT CEMETERY
Federico FALCO
& Jennifer CROFT
° FOUR poems, on the publication of THE YAK DILEMMA
‘your bird / my bird,’ ‘Hotel Poem, Fatih, Istanbul,’ ‘Room in Edinburgh,’
& ‘Poem in which I am an Interloper in an Art Gallery’
Supriya KAUR DHALIWAL
° SIX poems, on the publication of THE TUMBLER (Tenement #1)
‘Preludi,’ ‘El saltamartí.’ ‘EDA,’ ‘El Temps,’ ‘Hotels’ & ‘Poema’
Joan BROSSA,
translated by Cameron GRIFFITHS
° ‘ZARA-ZARA’ & ‘BO’
—Readings and writings from
a book called FIFTY SOUNDS
Polly BARTON
° ‘An Interview with myself’
—On the publication of a novel
called POETICS OF WORK
Noémi LEFEBVRE,
translated by Adrian BRIDGET
° DOGS ... BIRDS ... BLUE HORSES
After a book called
REPUBLIC OF DOGS / REPUBLIC OF BIRDS
& a film called THE REPUBLICS
Stephen WATTS & Huw WAHL
° GOOD NIGHT THE PLEASURE WAS OURS
A reading by ...
David GRUBBS
° LET IT PERCOLATE:
A MANIFESTO FOR READING
Sophie SEITA
° The LARGE DOMESTIC OBJECT
A short story by ...
Adrian BRIDGET
° FITTING IMAGE:
On the films of MIKE DIBB
Geoff DYER
° NOT A PROUD & FORTHRIGHT RAIN ...
An excerpt from a novel called
TOMORROW THEY WON’T DARE TO MURDER US
Joseph ANDRAS,
translated by Simon LESER
° MICROBURSTS; ‘what we did not know,’
‘lost wax casting’ & ‘ghosts’
Elizabeth REEDER
& Amanda THOMSON
° SACRIFICIAL LAMB, Parts #7 & #8
Dominique de GROEN
° Four Poems (after Peter GREENAWAY)—
‘The Falls’(Peter Greenaway, 1980),
‘Drowning by Numbers’ (Peter GREENAWAY, 1991),
& ‘The Greenaway Alphabet’ (Saskia BODDEKE, 2017)
SJ FOWLER
° Three Poems—‘Depraved Indifference,’ ‘Waltzing in Blue’
& ‘Year Zero’
Mark LANEGAN
° ‘ALONG THE RIVER RUN’
—An excerpt & an interview;
Paul BUCK;
in conversation with Jess CHANDLER
° ‘THE SOLERA PROCESS’
Ivan VLADISLAVIC,
in conversation with Dominic JAECKLE
° ‘SUBVERSE’—A performance at Amsterdam’s MUZIEKGEBOUW
Diamanda DRAMM (with notes from SJ FOWLER)
° Atmosphere of Mona—Various Cuts & Images
Matthew SHAW
° Four Poems—‘Still Life Without Bible,’ ‘White Noise,’
‘Weemoed’ & ‘Strange Weather’
Kevin GRAHAM
° Three Poems—‘harvesting,’ ‘the water park’ & ‘montgat’
Madeleine STACK
° ‘...the language(s) of bureaucracy’
Ruby COWLING & Linda MANNHEIM in conversation
° (A long poem called) ‘Final Destination’
Tyler MAXIN
° Two Poems—‘Small Talk’ & ‘Fact’
Sára IVÁNYI
° (A poem called) ‘Sustainable Living’
Ruby SILK
° ‘You Can’t Come Home’
Lorenzo MANDELLI
—Shortlisted for the DESPERATE LITERATURE prize, MMXX
° ‘Fragments of Stories in a Minor Key’
Fionn PETCH,
in conversation with Thomas CHADWICK
° ‘The Fight of the Century’
Ivan VLADISLAVIC
° ‘On Panpsychism’
Rebecca TAMÁS
° Four Poems—‘Time’s Arrow,’ ‘The Eyes of a Snake,’
‘A Network of Relations’ & ‘Tut’
Grzegorz WRÓBLEWSKI; translated by Piotr GWIAZDA
° Two Poems— ‘FLEA | F-L-E-A’
& ‘WATER SEE THROUGH DARK HARD-HARD’
Raymond LUCZAK
° ‘What is Sprayed on the Fruit Chest Killed and Thrown’
Nathan Dragon
° Three Poems—‘her ass is international,’
‘the psychic always knew she’d be a psychic,’
& ‘the summer the fish arrived in the net precooked’
Susannah DICKEY
° DEAD GIRLS
Selva ALMADA;
translated by Annie McDERMOTT
° ‘An Obituary for a Whiteleaved Oak’
Stanley SCHTINTER
° (A Suite of) Plague Poems
Mark LANEGAN & Wesley EISOLD
° (Two cuts from a record called) Stone House
Yamachan
° ‘Excerpts from a pale blue notebook with silver stars’
Angela FINN
—Winner of the DESPERATE LITERATURE prize, MMXX
° A cut from Revolutionary Lists III—(un)Worthy Farm
℅ Museo de la Bomba and the Museo de la Soledad
Stanley SCHTINTER
° (A cut from a poem called) EX-DAEMON
Arno VAN VLIERBERGHE;
translated by Jonathan WILLIAM BEATON
° (Several) Songs for Ireland
Robert Herbert McCLEAN
° ST. LUKE on a Rump Roast
Jeffrey VALLANCE
° MAKE MONEY WHILE YOU SLEEP OR WORK UNTIL YOU DIE
Ben TIPPET, in conversation with Thomas CHADWICK
° PERSONAL EFFECTS (Inventory of Bougainville’s Travel Case)
Hervé GUIBERT;
translated by Jeffrey ZUCKERMAN
° Five Poems—‘Felicity,’ ‘Two types of the same return,’ ‘Moss’
& ‘Sketch for a’
Imogen CASSELS
(Excerpted from Hotel #6)
° THE MACHINE STOPS An open letter on the end of
THE LIBERATED FILM CLUB
Stanley SCHTINTER
° The Mi’raj of Angels /
The Account of the Angel of the Right Hand
Khaled NURUL HAKIM
° DREAMY IDIOTIC VISIONS OF THE FUTURE
Rachel GENN
(Excerpted from Hotel #6)
° The Movie is Better than the Book—An unpaginated index of first lines
Sam RIVIERE
° WE ARE ALL EITHER IN PRISON OR ON STAGE
Levina VAN WINDEN
° A CONVERSATION—IN WHICH a musician talks to her mother;
IN WHICH a musician talks to her daughter
Diamanda LA BERGE DRAMM & Ann LA BERGE
° ANIMAL DRUMS (& associated objects)
SJ FOWLER
& Joshua ALEXANDER
& Iain SINCLAIR
° Four Poems—‘Daughter of Marxism,’ ‘Spring Morning,’
‘The Left Hand of Darkness’ & ‘States of Bewilderment’
Jess COTTON
° HOKUSAI or WHERE GHOSTS APPEAR
Duncan WHITE
° Three Poems—‘lark sings,’ ‘a small reckoning in a big room’ & ‘videoheaven’
Charlotte GEATER
° A DEEP RED FLUID THROUGHOUT
SOLANO CANYON
Shane JESSE CHRISTMASS
° Three Poems (or NIGHT BLOOMS)
Angus CARLYLE
° Several rounds of WOULD YOU RATHER?
Max PORTER & Will OLDHAM
° ‘TOWN CALLED DISTRACTION’
Jen CALLEJA
° ‘EVERYTHING IS POSSIBLE HERE’
Daniel PANTANO, in conversation with Fee GRIFFIN
° Four Poems (from & for Shia LaBeouf)—‘Aurora, Mile End,’
‘sparrow’s wet dream,’ ‘the evening’s sun licks a single tear,’
& ‘something like, I forgive everything’
AK BLAKEMORE
° (I HADN’T HEARD OF MUNROE’S PLEA)
A reading from this is no longer entertainment
Christodoulos MAKRIS
—after the Vitamin D readings, Amsterdam MMXX
° Four Poems—‘Australia Day,’ ‘And a mild throbbing,’
‘white dog’ & ‘an eight horse song’
Edwina ATTLEE
° ‘VITAL ACOUSTICS’
Jorge CONSIGLIO, in conversation with Thomas CHADWICK
° Four Poems—‘Hello,’ ‘One Good Thing,’ ‘Who Else’ & ‘Don’t Worry’
Crispin BEST
° ‘An Author’s Note’
Jorge CONSIGLIO;
translated by Carolina ORLOFF & Fionn PETCH
° ‘TURN TO THE NEXT PAGE’
SJ FOWLER
° THE LIVE INs /Allegados
Ernesto GARRATT;
translated by Jessica SEQUEIRA
° SUNDAY
Marie-Pascale HARDY
° Two Poems—‘Lessons from Three Paws’ & ‘M.’
Jake FOURNIER
° Four Poems—‘Core Values,’ ‘The silence is too warm.,’
‘Ebb’ & ‘Sense’
Frances TUORINIEMI
° ‘SOMETHING TO HOLD ONTO IN THE SEA’
Brenda LOZANO & Annie McDERMOTT;
a conversation translated by Carolina ORLOFF
° Two Poems—‘I Dry (Like Blood or Mustard)
Hannah LEVENE
° ‘TERMITE DELUXE’ —On Manny Farber & Paint & Memory
Michael ALMEREYDA
° ‘Painting as Public Statement’
On Miró, 1968 & the Autonomy of Color;
a conversation as precursor to Pere Portabella’s Miró, l’Altre
Stanley SCHTINTER in conversation with Colm TÓIBÍN
° ‘The Arcadian’
Shola VON REINHOLD
—From the DESPERATE LITERATURE prize shortlist, MMIXX
° TWO STANDARDS—‘Standard Birth Poem’ & ‘Standard Mortality Poem’
Cat WOODWARD
° ‘TRY TO BE BETTER’—on the strange practices of W.S.GRAHAM
Sam BUCHAN-WATTS, in conversation with Kate BRIGGS
° ‘TRY TO BE BETTER’—Excerpts from an Anthology
Lucy MERCER, ‘Night Dial;’
& Nancy CAMPBELL, ‘Untitled 1974,’ by Roger Hilton;’
& Lesley HARRISON, ‘Waiting for the Ferry, Rousay’
° ‘THERE’S A PLACE FOR US’
...screening Portabella’s ‘The Supper’ at Brixton Prison
Stanley SCHTINTER
° Three Poems—‘hatching plans,’ ‘under the host’
& ‘it’s always lighter at the horizon’
Eloise HENDY
° ‘The Automatic Tour Guide’
Emmanuelle PAGANO;
translated by Jennifer HIGGINS & Sophie LEWIS
(An excerpt from Hotel #6)
° Two Poems (& One Animation)
—‘Collateral Damage’ & ‘The First People’
Astrid ALBEN & Zuzanna PEDRASIK
(An excerpt from Hotel #6)
° ‘In Search of Soledad’
Stanley SCHTINTER
° Two Poems—‘Notions of Sex’ & ‘Old Lives’
Emily S. COOPER
° Portrait/Self-Portrait
Lee FRIEDLANDER
° ‘Parasites of the Symbiocene’
SJ FOWLER & Joe TURRENT
° (An excerpt from a novel called) FATHERHOOD
Caleb KLACES
° Two Solifores/Two Translations
Iris COLOMB & Eta DAHLIA
° Noite Dentro Da Noite—Night Within Night
Joca REINERS TERRON;
translated by James YOUNG
° Four Poems—‘Poem from a Niedecker Line,’ ‘Garden Remarks,’
‘It feels like you’re playing with another place’ & ‘Matins’
Alex MacDONALD
° ‘Some Numbers of Cruelty’
Honor GAVIN
° ‘30 VARIATIONS on a Theme & a FUGUE’
Jake SPEARS
—From the DESPERATE LITERATURE prize shortlist, MMIXX
° Trigger Transformer: Strobe Light, Power Drill, Witch Hunt:
Reading THE CRUCIBLE with Christine BLASEY FORD
So MAYER
° (A short story called) ‘If yes’
Ben PESTER
° Four Poems—‘books should be broken,’ ‘i’d rather bleed,’
‘belting fast while seating’ & ‘ibs’
Vilde VALERIE BJERKE TORSET
° ‘The Commission’ (excerpts)
Gregg NISSAN
° TREATMENT #2
Adrian BRIDGET
° ‘Licking the Spoon’
Nathan DRAGON
° Three Poems—‘Gladiola,’ ‘anthurium,’ ‘nepenthes northiana’
Charlotte HEATHER
° (A short story called) ‘OZ’
George MACBETH
° (A short story called) ‘The Oily Cape’
Chris NEWLOVE HORTON
° ‘Reality-Adjacent-Fiction’
Elvia WILK & Sam DIAMOND in conversation
° ‘The Economy of the City is Complex’
Pierre SENGES (& KILLOFFER);
translated by Jacob SIEFRING
° ‘Manhattan via Paris’
Frederic TUTEN & Jon AUMAN in conversation
° Four Poems—‘Trade,’ ‘My Hands on your Body,’
‘Volta’ & ‘Sufficiently Charged’
Jack PARLETT
° ‘Wherever you Smell Shit, You Smell Life’
Jean-Baptiste DEL AMO & Thomas CHADWICK in conversation
° (A short story called) ‘Frog’
Alice ASH
° Three Poems— ‘Everything Goth is Perverse,’ ‘Choose your Fighter’ & ‘Aggression Quest’
Nadia de VRIES
° ‘FRICTION THAT ARISES IN CONTRAST’
Ariana HARWICZ & Thomas CHADWICK in conversation
° ‘CHAPELLE de POULET’—An Essay in XIII Pieces
Jeffrey VALLANCE
° Two Poems—‘Somewhere there is a history of progress’
& ‘Nevertheless, there was terror’
Manuela MOSER
° (Five) Pharmacy Poems—‘writing a poem,’ ‘i made the coffee,’
‘it doesn’t matter who you are,’ ‘i made that chocolate cake’ & ‘my back hurts’
Joseph GRANTHAM
° Three Poems—‘Safe,’ ‘I Have Brought Several Changes of Hat with Me,’
& ‘Cardinal Virtues’
Livia FRANCHINI
° A Scatological Eschatology called ‘HOLY SHIT’
Jeffrey VALLANCE
(excerpted from Hotel #5)
° ‘Going Home’ (Rushes) / LIKE GOLD / LIKE GREY
Zi WEI
° ‘The Women I Like in Romance Novels’
Ryunosuke AKUTAGAWA;
translated by Ryan C.K. CHOI
° ‘What is Really Happening?’—On (or After) Dexter Dalwood
Michael BRACEWELL
° Two Poems—‘The Egg Lady’s Death’ & ‘Waves’
Michael NAGHTEN SHANKS
° Two Poems—‘i.’ & ‘ii.’
Kate SCHNEIDER
° ‘Practice Notes’
(words towards a novel called WE ARE MADE OF DIAMOND STUFF)
Isabel WAIDNER
° ‘Headlights’
Samanta SCHWEBLIN;
translated by Megan McDOWELL
° RECONSTRUCTIONS; Five Photo-Poems
Steafán HANVEY & Bobbie HANVEY
° ‘Surrealists at the End of the World’
Roisin DUNNETT
° ‘Menu of the Future’
Raul GUERRERO
(excerpted from Hotel #5)
° ‘Brady is Everyone’s’
Drew BUXTON
° Two Poems—‘a good career move’ & ‘you have no new messages’
Susannah DICKEY
° On and After ‘ANIMAL DRUMS’
A reaction to SJ FOWLER & J ALEXANDER’s motion-picture-poem
David SPITTLE
° ‘Exhibit A’ (on Brion Gysin’s Birthday)
John AKOMFRAH
° From ‘THE LAND OF HUNGER’ to ‘THE ROAD TO DAMASCUS’
Wayne HOLLOWAY
° (A short story called) ‘LOVE STORY’
Caleb KLACES
° ‘Germaine Gets Slade’
—A Short Study of Editorial Policy in the Hashtag Era
(ANONYMOUS/Name of SENDER)
Dostoyevsky WANNABE
° (A short story called) ‘LADY CERO’s LETTERS’
Kyle COMA-THOMPSON
° (An explicatory-poem called) ‘NO SHOW’
Chris PETIT—Mordant MUSIC—purge.xxx
° (A short story called) ‘BURNING’
Lily HACKETT
° A poem called ‘An Undisclosed Distance’
Lauren DOSTAL
° Two Works—‘A Man Asleep on a Canvas’ & ‘Overlap’
Martin JACKSON
° ‘BEIGE WRITING’
Ahmed NAJI in conversation with Sam DIAMOND
° (The opening acts of) BAD MAN STANDING
Jonathan CHANDLER
° TRIPLICATE / Three Poems
1. ‘House—Painting’
2. ‘Mothers: Pearls’
3. ‘Stars Boys: Boys Stars’
Alistair McCARTNEY
° ‘Sour Lemonade’
Hiromi SUZUKI
° (A short story called) ‘Due Process’
Jen CALLEJA
° ‘Reading into Gertrude Stein’
Anna CATHENKA
° Three Instructional Paroxysms
Wayne KOESTENBAUM
° Three Fragments from a multipart poem, ‘Coming Out/Betrayal’
Justin BURNELL
° A poem called ‘Sentient Junk’
Chris BARTON
° ‘IN THIS VAMPIRIC WAY...’
Garth GREENWELL
in conversation with Katie Da CUNHA LEWIN
° THREE STEMS / Three Poems
Rowan EVANS
° ‘Positions of CUTE in Post-Internet Poetry’
Lucy BURNS & Charles WHALLEY
° Three Poem—‘Quiditty,’ ‘Haecceity’ & ‘Mythology’
David BRIGGS
° Three Poems— ‘1.,’ ‘3.’ & ‘6.’
Sam WESELOWSKI
° Five Poems (from WAITRESS IN FALL)—
Kristín ÓMARSDÓTTIR;
translated by Vala THORODDS
° ‘DataSexual’—On MOROZOV, LANIER & GOOGLE
Joshua COHEN
° ‘Quantum Leap’
Hisham BUSTANI
° From THIS IS NO LONGER ENTERTAINMENT
Christodoulos MAKRIS
° ‘3500 CHARACTERS’
Alejandro ZAMBRA in conversation with Ellen JONES
° Three Gestures: ‘Mother,’ ‘Dinner,’ & ‘Fiction’
Adrian BRIDGET
°A poem called ‘Water’
Adrianne KALFOPULOU
° ‘RED INK’
Jean FRÉMON
° ‘Crossing the Puddle: On CHARCO PRESS’
Editors Carolina ORLOFF & Samuel McDOWELL
in conversation with Ellen JONES
° ‘65 RECENT LIBRARY CHECKOUTS (for R. Youngs)’
Alan LICHT
° Selections from ‘MY GEOPOLITICS’
° Two Poems—‘Total Eclipse’ & ‘Ex’
NJ STALLARD
° Two Poems—‘Swamp Song’ & ‘Steady Now’
John GREY
° (A short story called) ‘Just Above Complete Creatures’
Molly GUNTHER
° ‘Epitaphs’
Jackson ARN
° A ‘Black Gold Mastiff’
Owen VINCE
° (A short story called) ‘Harvest Moon’
Jessica BONDER
° A poem called ‘Message Withdrawn’
Susannah DICKEY
° A poem called ‘Carelessly we have entangeled ourselves’
Vala THORODDS
° ‘Mapping the CITY, Mapping CHANCE’
James ATLEE, in conversation with Thomas McMULLAN
° ‘Magick SQUARES & Future BEATS’
Genesis BREYER P-ORRIDGE
° A poem called ‘Naazim Richardson, Lately’
Oliver GOLDSTEIN
° SALVAGED from OBSOLESENCE
Patrick LANGLEY in conversation with THOMAS CHADWICK
° Four Poems—‘this year a delayed heat,’ ‘(untitled),’
‘imagine / every name we share is precise’ & ‘Sussex Envoi’
George TTOOULI
° ‘The New Grotesque’
D.I.
° Four Poems—‘the girl on the 4th floor wants me to die,’
‘use of prevailing tendency,’ ‘portable,’ & ‘storage #’
Angelos KYRIOU;
translated by Theodoros CHIOTIS
° Two Poems—‘the new men’ & ‘date’
AK BLAKEMORE
° (A short story called) ‘THE HOLE’
Leah DWORKIN
° ‘Yellow Fragments’
Nina MINGYA POWLES
° ‘Things’
Brian DILLON
° (A short story called) ‘THE HITCHER’
Jonathan CHANDLER
° ‘Skylight Recording’
David GRUBBS
° ‘Achillion’
Glykeria PATRAMANI
° ‘Mind the Gap’
Imogen REID
° ‘How to Sharpen your Knife’
Kate FELD
° ‘Rhine’
Esther KINKSKY
° ‘Nights of Poor Sleep’
Rachael ALLEN & Marie JACOTEY
° ‘BAD SCIENCE’
Jason SHULMAN,
in conversation with Dominic JAECKLE
° ‘lemon, egg, bread’
Laura ELLIOT
° ‘IDIOTs’
Oliver ZARANDI
° ‘175 MINUTES in MIZIL’
Geo BOGZA;
translated by Diana DUTA
° ‘The Past’s Future is Not our Present’
David HAYDEN
° ‘The Sympathetic Observer’
Rainald GOETZ
° ‘SUNDAY Evening,
WINTER Morning,
NOVEMBER Dusk’
Anne MICHAELS
° ‘The Other Zone’
Tommy HAZARD
° (A short story called) ‘Facts’
Gareth EVANS
° ‘A Land that I’ve Dreamed Of...’
Joe BUCCIERO
° ‘To Become a Mermaid...’
Veronica Scott Esposito
° ‘ATLANTIS’
Mary RINEBOLD COPELAND
° ‘CITIZENS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY’
Lucy SANTE, in conversation with Jon AUMAN
° ‘The Photographs of RE Meatyard’
Carol MAVOR
° ‘On the Island of Malhado’
Russell PERSSON
° ‘Tremendous MAJESTIES’
Jakob NOLTE;
translated by Amanda DeMARCO
° From ‘MY LITTLE ENLIGHTENMENT PLAYs’
Sophie SEITA
° ‘Moments Before & After’
Frank WITZEL;
translated by Amanda DeMARCO
° (A short story called) ‘WITHOUT A FISHER KING’
Joanna RAFAEL GOLDBERG
° Three Poems—‘Kinky Thumbelina,’ ‘Sea Bear’
& ‘Instructions for the Peaceful Transition of Power’
Sarah MARINA
° Three Poems / Three Dances—‘Ritual Dance,’ ‘Bacchic Dance’
& ‘Pyrrhic Dance’
Jazmine LINKLATER
° ‘Études de Silhouettes’
Pierre SENGES;
translated by Jacob SIEFRING
° Three Interludes: ‘DAVID BOWIE lives in my House’
Anna CATHENKA
° (Two Pieces of) SARAH
Scott McCLANAHAN
° ‘PIER ONE AESTHETICS (are taking over Art)’
Nick ZEDD
° ‘PRODUCING MY CREDENTIALS’
An Unfinished Libretto in V Pieces / A season in V episodes
Sophie JUNG
° ‘POEM-BRUT’ (Parts i & ii)
SJ FOWLER
° ‘The Unknown Soldier’
Lucy SANTE
° ‘YOUR EXISTENCE WATERED MY CROPS:’
Unscrambling Perception with Ariana Grande
Jack GOLDSTEIN
° Three (Untitled) Poems
Jacob McGUINN
° ‘Farrag und Freunde’
Joseph TURRENT
° Three Poems—‘Seven Studies for Marie-Hortense,’
‘Rilke on the Place de la Concorde’
& ‘Two Dozen Mongoose-Hair Brushes’
MAITREYABANDHU
° Three Poems—‘Oysters,’ ‘I Don’t Know How to Clothe this Loving Body’
& ‘Interim’
Emma MACKILLIGIN
° ‘Balsa Jericho’
Cal REVELY-CALDER
° Four Poems—‘Thin Girls,’ ‘Pang from Pang,’
‘The Roses of Heliogabalus’ & ‘Angiogram’
Helen CHARMAN
° ‘LODGING & DISLODGING the Little Magazine’
A Google-Doc Conversation
Sophie SEITA & Danny SNELSON
° (A short story called) ‘The Racer’
Jonathan CHANDLER
° (A short story called) ‘The Light Sculptor’
Leah DWORKIN
° ‘Carl Stone & the Kalifornia Dreamstock of the Yankee...’
Carl STONE, in conversation with Jack GOLDSTEIN
° Three Poems—‘Three Summers,’ ‘Sensory Notes...’ & ‘Only Instead of a Star’
Amy KEY
° Three Poems, Three Dedications & ‘Past Filmic Tense’
Emily CRITCHLEY
° ‘WOEFULLY UNDETERMINED’
Sam RIVIERE, in conversation with Joe McCARNEY
° After the PXL-MAD Lectures
Kenneth GOLDSMITH,
in conversation with Thomas CHADWICK & Gert-Jan MEYNTJEN
° Two Poems—‘not the mirror image but the reverse side of the mirror’
& ‘Sonnet for the relative elasticity of your skin’
Tse HAO GUANG
° ‘The UNIVERSITY & the UNDERCOMMONS’
Stefano HARNEY & Fred MOTEN
° ‘(Three of) THIRTEEN RAYS’
Rachel BLAU DUPLESSIS
° Two Stories—‘Alma Mahler attends a Party...’
& ‘Valentine’
Joanna RAFAEL GOLDBERG
° ‘Re-Threads’
James R. HUGUNIN
° ‘Clumps (of Roussel)’
Mark VON SCHLEGELL
° ‘Magnificent Frigatebird’
DE STEWARD
° ‘Four Paintings of People’
Yating HE
° Four Poems—‘A simulation..., ‘Geometry,’ ‘How things are not’
& ‘A skylight in a basement’
Martin JACKSON
° Two Poems—‘Rest/Stop’ & ‘What Happens, or Doesn’t’
Chris CAMPANIONI
° ‘The Future of Reading’
John HOLTEN
° ‘AN UNSUBTLE METAPHOR’
Jacques TESTARD, in conversation with Thomas CHADWICK
° Two Poems—‘Desert, Desert, Garden’ & ‘Maratea’
Ollie TODD
° ‘The Rupture’
Alison FRANK
° ‘TALKING TO TEST CENTRE’
Jess CHANDLER & Will SHUTES,
in conversation with Jen CALLEJA
° Two Poems—‘Self-Portrait as a Circle’ & ‘Gravy’
Edward DOEGAR
° ‘self assembly is...’
Owen VINCE
° (A short story called) ‘A THREAT’
Oliver ZARANDI
° ‘GREEK LANDSCAPES’
Martin JACKSON
° (A short story called) ‘Erwin Schrödinger Blues’
Colm O’SHEA
° ‘I Love you, Lieutenant’—ON Peter FALK and self-knowledge
Victoria MANIFOLD
° Three Poems (after Antonioni—‘Anna,’ ‘Jeanne Moreau’ & ‘Vittoria’
Jess COTTON
° ANADIPLOSES
Hannes BAJOHR
° ‘A Collection of Quotes from former #1 pound-for-pound MMA fighter, Ronda Rousey;
& her Mother, the first U.S. Citizen to win a World Judo Championship’
Amanda DeMARCO
° Two Poems—‘Unboxing, Teardown;’ ‘1.’ & ‘2.’
Micscha FOSTER POOLE
° ‘(Several) Studies in Poetry’
Hoagy HOUGHTON
° ‘CRIMINAL AESTHETICS’
Les Fugitives, in conversation with Dominic JAECKLE
° Mary RINEBOLD COPELAND
‘DOING COKE WITH YOU (A Venal Shine)’
° THREE poems (from DELTAS)
Leonie RUSHFORTH
° (A piece of) LOBSTERS
Wayne HOLLOWAY-SMITH
° TWO poems / TWO observations
Vilde BJERKE TORSET
° TRUTH WINDOW
Raegan BIRD
° HYMN to the STRAY DOG
Chloe ARIDJIS
° ONE poem & THREE sonnets;
FAIL FOLIAGE
Luca BEVACQUA
° TWO mountains / TWO outlooks / TWO poems
Tim MacGABHANN
° Pasaje ESTRELLA
Kate FELD
° A WATERLESS WHITE SAND BEACH UNDERNEATH
A LOW PURPLE SKY, PERFECTLY STILL
Nathan DRAGON
° I AM A FILM
—a dispatch from THE LIBERATED FILM CLUB
(Tenement #2)
Stephen WATTS
° THREE songs—
PLAINSONG, BY LIKENESS, & OR NEW
Lila MATSUMOTO
° RADIANT CITIES
Kyra SIMONE
° THREE COUNTERFACTUAL PICTURES
Doug DIBBERN
° GENERIC LOVE or THE REALISM OF ROMANCE
(THE CONSUMER AS HERO)
Mark McGURL
° RAISE, or HOW TO BREAK FREE OF THE GROUND,
or THE LAKELAND DIALECT FOR ‘SLIPPERY’ IS ‘SLAPE’
& TO FORM IT IN THE MOUTH REQUIRES
AN ACT OF FALLING
° —A story shortlisted for THE DESPERATE LITERATURE PRIZE, MMXXI
Katie HALE
° An excerpt from a book called
TROISIÈME VAGUE
Lucy K SHAW
° TWO POEMS—
‘Big Swallow’ & ‘Come’
Sarah Jean ALEXANDER
° (Notes on) A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE WORLD
A dispatch from THE LIBERATED FILM CLUB
(Tenement #2)
Chloe ARIDJIS
° COLOURING IN
Sam BUCHAN-WATTS
° THE DOG of TITHWAL
Saadat HASAN MANTO, translated by Khalid HASAN
° TWO POEMS—
‘My Second Vision of True Love at the Bank of a Bender’
‘Washing at the End of the Night which is the Next Day’s Afternoon’
Sarah FLETCHER
° HAPPY HOUR (JULY 20th)
Marlowe GRANADOS
° Michèle BERNSTEIN has forgotten to die;
& ON THE PASSAGE OF MICHÈLE BERNSTEIN
THROUGH TIME;
a TEXT & a FILM
Clodagh KINSELLA
° SIX SWANS—
‘Come to My Cremation,’
‘Dominion Piece,’
‘Puppy Season,’
‘My Surfaces, My Services,’
‘The Emperor’s New Noose,’
& ‘None of My Powers are Secret’
Poems from a book called I FAILED TO SWOON
Nadia de VRIES
° CATMINT—A short story
Ben PESTER
° LOVE POEMS <3—FOUR DEDICATIONS
‘For Sean,’
‘For James,’
‘Sappho Poem for Verity,’
& ‘For Ryan Before He Goes to the University of Kansas’
Sam WESELOWSKI
° EAT YOUR PINEAPPLE—A (critical) Exquisite Corpse
A dispatch from THE LIBERATED FILM CLUB
(Tenement #2)
Juliet JACQUES
° THREE poems—THE WAY AHEAD IS SPRING
i. ‘ON THIS, THE DAY OF BLUE BEARS’
ii. ‘FLY! A GENTLE WORD ... ’
iii. ‘ZANGEZI (a FRAGMENT from a SUPERSAGA
Velimir KHLEBNIKOV, translated by Natasha RANDALL
° IN A SLEEPY, BLUE, SORT OF PHOSPHORESCENT WAY
A cut from (and conversation around) a book called SEVASTOPOL
Emilio FRAIA
Zoë Perry
° FOULNESS ISLAND
Readings & writings
from a book called VLOED
Lucia DOVE
° SHALL WE MEET IN MUSIC /
A DRUNK HACKS AT THE STRINGS
A cut from a book called WHEREVER WE ARE
WHEN WE COME TO THE END
Richard BARNETT
° THREE Poems—
‘Heaven’s Expense,’ ‘Lark,’
& ‘Nuptials’
Maria SLEDMERE
° TWO Poems, (from a book called) HOME
‘The Verdict,’ & (the first of) ‘Two Lessons’
Emily CRITCHLEY
° ZEN & MUSHROOMS—
CUTS from an ANTHOLOGY called WE WROTE IN SYMBOLS;
‘A WEDDING NIGHT FOR ZEN,’ ‘THE MOST EXPENSIVE MUSHROOM,’
‘YOU DON’T SATISFY’ & ‘EPIGRAM’
by (respectively) ...
the pseudonymous SALOMÉ;
Mariam BAZEED;
ANONYMOUS, translated by Abdullah al-UDHARI;
& Ulayya bint al-MAHDI, translated by Yasmine SEALE
° IMPORTANT BOOKS
(or, MANIFESTOES READ BY CHILDREN)—
Excerpts & Asides from PARTS #1 & #2;
The COMMUNIST MANIFESTO,
as read by BOY, 8, SOUTH EAST LONDON;
& SPEECH GIVEN by SOJOURNER TRUTH at the
WOMEN’S CONVENTION in OHIO, 1851,
as read by GIRL, 6, KENT
Stanley SCHTINTER
° SMOKE GETS IN YOUR EYES
A short story by
Izumi SUZUKI,
translated by Aiko MASUBUCHI
° PHONICA #1—The first of a multipart monthly SEASON
curated by Christodoulos MAKRIS
PRECIPICE of an END & CARRER DELS ESCUDELLERS
(respectively)
Suzanne WALSH
& Roy Claire POTTER
° FALCO’S MIRADA:
A TEN PHOTOGRAPH EXCHANGE
after a book A PERFECT CEMETERY
Federico FALCO
& Jennifer CROFT
° FOUR poems, on the publication of THE YAK DILEMMA
‘your bird / my bird,’ ‘Hotel Poem, Fatih, Istanbul,’ ‘Room in Edinburgh,’
& ‘Poem in which I am an Interloper in an Art Gallery’
Supriya KAUR DHALIWAL
° SIX poems, on the publication of THE TUMBLER (Tenement #1)
‘Preludi,’ ‘El saltamartí.’ ‘EDA,’ ‘El Temps,’ ‘Hotels’ & ‘Poema’
Joan BROSSA,
translated by Cameron GRIFFITHS
° ‘ZARA-ZARA’ & ‘BO’
—Readings and writings from
a book called FIFTY SOUNDS
Polly BARTON
° ‘An Interview with myself’
—On the publication of a novel
called POETICS OF WORK
Noémi LEFEBVRE,
translated by Adrian BRIDGET
° DOGS ... BIRDS ... BLUE HORSES
After a book called
REPUBLIC OF DOGS / REPUBLIC OF BIRDS
& a film called THE REPUBLICS
Stephen WATTS & Huw WAHL
° GOOD NIGHT THE PLEASURE WAS OURS
A reading by ...
David GRUBBS
° LET IT PERCOLATE:
A MANIFESTO FOR READING
Sophie SEITA
° The LARGE DOMESTIC OBJECT
A short story by ...
Adrian BRIDGET
° FITTING IMAGE:
On the films of MIKE DIBB
Geoff DYER
° NOT A PROUD & FORTHRIGHT RAIN ...
An excerpt from a novel called
TOMORROW THEY WON’T DARE TO MURDER US
Joseph ANDRAS,
translated by Simon LESER
° MICROBURSTS; ‘what we did not know,’
‘lost wax casting’ & ‘ghosts’
Elizabeth REEDER
& Amanda THOMSON
° SACRIFICIAL LAMB, Parts #7 & #8
Dominique de GROEN
° Four Poems (after Peter GREENAWAY)—
‘The Falls’(Peter Greenaway, 1980),
‘Drowning by Numbers’ (Peter GREENAWAY, 1991),
& ‘The Greenaway Alphabet’ (Saskia BODDEKE, 2017)
SJ FOWLER
° Three Poems—‘Depraved Indifference,’ ‘Waltzing in Blue’
& ‘Year Zero’
Mark LANEGAN
° ‘ALONG THE RIVER RUN’
—An excerpt & an interview;
Paul BUCK;
in conversation with Jess CHANDLER
° ‘THE SOLERA PROCESS’
Ivan VLADISLAVIC,
in conversation with Dominic JAECKLE
° ‘SUBVERSE’—A performance at Amsterdam’s MUZIEKGEBOUW
Diamanda DRAMM (with notes from SJ FOWLER)
° Atmosphere of Mona—Various Cuts & Images
Matthew SHAW
° Four Poems—‘Still Life Without Bible,’ ‘White Noise,’
‘Weemoed’ & ‘Strange Weather’
Kevin GRAHAM
° Three Poems—‘harvesting,’ ‘the water park’ & ‘montgat’
Madeleine STACK
° ‘...the language(s) of bureaucracy’
Ruby COWLING & Linda MANNHEIM in conversation
° (A long poem called) ‘Final Destination’
Tyler MAXIN
° Two Poems—‘Small Talk’ & ‘Fact’
Sára IVÁNYI
° (A poem called) ‘Sustainable Living’
Ruby SILK
° ‘You Can’t Come Home’
Lorenzo MANDELLI
—Shortlisted for the DESPERATE LITERATURE prize, MMXX
° ‘Fragments of Stories in a Minor Key’
Fionn PETCH,
in conversation with Thomas CHADWICK
° ‘The Fight of the Century’
Ivan VLADISLAVIC
° ‘On Panpsychism’
Rebecca TAMÁS
° Four Poems—‘Time’s Arrow,’ ‘The Eyes of a Snake,’
‘A Network of Relations’ & ‘Tut’
Grzegorz WRÓBLEWSKI; translated by Piotr GWIAZDA
° Two Poems— ‘FLEA | F-L-E-A’
& ‘WATER SEE THROUGH DARK HARD-HARD’
Raymond LUCZAK
° ‘What is Sprayed on the Fruit Chest Killed and Thrown’
Nathan Dragon
° Three Poems—‘her ass is international,’
‘the psychic always knew she’d be a psychic,’
& ‘the summer the fish arrived in the net precooked’
Susannah DICKEY
° DEAD GIRLS
Selva ALMADA;
translated by Annie McDERMOTT
° ‘An Obituary for a Whiteleaved Oak’
Stanley SCHTINTER
° (A Suite of) Plague Poems
Mark LANEGAN & Wesley EISOLD
° (Two cuts from a record called) Stone House
Yamachan
° ‘Excerpts from a pale blue notebook with silver stars’
Angela FINN
—Winner of the DESPERATE LITERATURE prize, MMXX
° A cut from Revolutionary Lists III—(un)Worthy Farm
℅ Museo de la Bomba and the Museo de la Soledad
Stanley SCHTINTER
° (A cut from a poem called) EX-DAEMON
Arno VAN VLIERBERGHE;
translated by Jonathan WILLIAM BEATON
° (Several) Songs for Ireland
Robert Herbert McCLEAN
° ST. LUKE on a Rump Roast
Jeffrey VALLANCE
° MAKE MONEY WHILE YOU SLEEP OR WORK UNTIL YOU DIE
Ben TIPPET, in conversation with Thomas CHADWICK
° PERSONAL EFFECTS (Inventory of Bougainville’s Travel Case)
Hervé GUIBERT;
translated by Jeffrey ZUCKERMAN
° Five Poems—‘Felicity,’ ‘Two types of the same return,’ ‘Moss’
& ‘Sketch for a’
Imogen CASSELS
(Excerpted from Hotel #6)
° THE MACHINE STOPS An open letter on the end of
THE LIBERATED FILM CLUB
Stanley SCHTINTER
° The Mi’raj of Angels /
The Account of the Angel of the Right Hand
Khaled NURUL HAKIM
° DREAMY IDIOTIC VISIONS OF THE FUTURE
Rachel GENN
(Excerpted from Hotel #6)
° The Movie is Better than the Book—An unpaginated index of first lines
Sam RIVIERE
° WE ARE ALL EITHER IN PRISON OR ON STAGE
Levina VAN WINDEN
° A CONVERSATION—IN WHICH a musician talks to her mother;
IN WHICH a musician talks to her daughter
Diamanda LA BERGE DRAMM & Ann LA BERGE
° ANIMAL DRUMS (& associated objects)
SJ FOWLER
& Joshua ALEXANDER
& Iain SINCLAIR
° Four Poems—‘Daughter of Marxism,’ ‘Spring Morning,’
‘The Left Hand of Darkness’ & ‘States of Bewilderment’
Jess COTTON
° HOKUSAI or WHERE GHOSTS APPEAR
Duncan WHITE
° Three Poems—‘lark sings,’ ‘a small reckoning in a big room’ & ‘videoheaven’
Charlotte GEATER
° A DEEP RED FLUID THROUGHOUT
SOLANO CANYON
Shane JESSE CHRISTMASS
° Three Poems (or NIGHT BLOOMS)
Angus CARLYLE
° Several rounds of WOULD YOU RATHER?
Max PORTER & Will OLDHAM
° ‘TOWN CALLED DISTRACTION’
Jen CALLEJA
° ‘EVERYTHING IS POSSIBLE HERE’
Daniel PANTANO, in conversation with Fee GRIFFIN
° Four Poems (from & for Shia LaBeouf)—‘Aurora, Mile End,’
‘sparrow’s wet dream,’ ‘the evening’s sun licks a single tear,’
& ‘something like, I forgive everything’
AK BLAKEMORE
° (I HADN’T HEARD OF MUNROE’S PLEA)
A reading from this is no longer entertainment
Christodoulos MAKRIS
—after the Vitamin D readings, Amsterdam MMXX
° Four Poems—‘Australia Day,’ ‘And a mild throbbing,’
‘white dog’ & ‘an eight horse song’
Edwina ATTLEE
° ‘VITAL ACOUSTICS’
Jorge CONSIGLIO, in conversation with Thomas CHADWICK
° Four Poems—‘Hello,’ ‘One Good Thing,’ ‘Who Else’ & ‘Don’t Worry’
Crispin BEST
° ‘An Author’s Note’
Jorge CONSIGLIO;
translated by Carolina ORLOFF & Fionn PETCH
° ‘TURN TO THE NEXT PAGE’
SJ FOWLER
° THE LIVE INs /Allegados
Ernesto GARRATT;
translated by Jessica SEQUEIRA
° SUNDAY
Marie-Pascale HARDY
° Two Poems—‘Lessons from Three Paws’ & ‘M.’
Jake FOURNIER
° Four Poems—‘Core Values,’ ‘The silence is too warm.,’
‘Ebb’ & ‘Sense’
Frances TUORINIEMI
° ‘SOMETHING TO HOLD ONTO IN THE SEA’
Brenda LOZANO & Annie McDERMOTT;
a conversation translated by Carolina ORLOFF
° Two Poems—‘I Dry (Like Blood or Mustard)
Hannah LEVENE
° ‘TERMITE DELUXE’ —On Manny Farber & Paint & Memory
Michael ALMEREYDA
° ‘Painting as Public Statement’
On Miró, 1968 & the Autonomy of Color;
a conversation as precursor to Pere Portabella’s Miró, l’Altre
Stanley SCHTINTER in conversation with Colm TÓIBÍN
° ‘The Arcadian’
Shola VON REINHOLD
—From the DESPERATE LITERATURE prize shortlist, MMIXX
° TWO STANDARDS—‘Standard Birth Poem’ & ‘Standard Mortality Poem’
Cat WOODWARD
° ‘TRY TO BE BETTER’—on the strange practices of W.S.GRAHAM
Sam BUCHAN-WATTS, in conversation with Kate BRIGGS
° ‘TRY TO BE BETTER’—Excerpts from an Anthology
Lucy MERCER, ‘Night Dial;’
& Nancy CAMPBELL, ‘Untitled 1974,’ by Roger Hilton;’
& Lesley HARRISON, ‘Waiting for the Ferry, Rousay’
° ‘THERE’S A PLACE FOR US’
...screening Portabella’s ‘The Supper’ at Brixton Prison
Stanley SCHTINTER
° Three Poems—‘hatching plans,’ ‘under the host’
& ‘it’s always lighter at the horizon’
Eloise HENDY
° ‘The Automatic Tour Guide’
Emmanuelle PAGANO;
translated by Jennifer HIGGINS & Sophie LEWIS
(An excerpt from Hotel #6)
° Two Poems (& One Animation)
—‘Collateral Damage’ & ‘The First People’
Astrid ALBEN & Zuzanna PEDRASIK
(An excerpt from Hotel #6)
° ‘In Search of Soledad’
Stanley SCHTINTER
° Two Poems—‘Notions of Sex’ & ‘Old Lives’
Emily S. COOPER
° Portrait/Self-Portrait
Lee FRIEDLANDER
° ‘Parasites of the Symbiocene’
SJ FOWLER & Joe TURRENT
° (An excerpt from a novel called) FATHERHOOD
Caleb KLACES
° Two Solifores/Two Translations
Iris COLOMB & Eta DAHLIA
° Noite Dentro Da Noite—Night Within Night
Joca REINERS TERRON;
translated by James YOUNG
° Four Poems—‘Poem from a Niedecker Line,’ ‘Garden Remarks,’
‘It feels like you’re playing with another place’ & ‘Matins’
Alex MacDONALD
° ‘Some Numbers of Cruelty’
Honor GAVIN
° ‘30 VARIATIONS on a Theme & a FUGUE’
Jake SPEARS
—From the DESPERATE LITERATURE prize shortlist, MMIXX
° Trigger Transformer: Strobe Light, Power Drill, Witch Hunt:
Reading THE CRUCIBLE with Christine BLASEY FORD
So MAYER
° (A short story called) ‘If yes’
Ben PESTER
° Four Poems—‘books should be broken,’ ‘i’d rather bleed,’
‘belting fast while seating’ & ‘ibs’
Vilde VALERIE BJERKE TORSET
° ‘The Commission’ (excerpts)
Gregg NISSAN
° TREATMENT #2
Adrian BRIDGET
° ‘Licking the Spoon’
Nathan DRAGON
° Three Poems—‘Gladiola,’ ‘anthurium,’ ‘nepenthes northiana’
Charlotte HEATHER
° (A short story called) ‘OZ’
George MACBETH
° (A short story called) ‘The Oily Cape’
Chris NEWLOVE HORTON
° ‘Reality-Adjacent-Fiction’
Elvia WILK & Sam DIAMOND in conversation
° ‘The Economy of the City is Complex’
Pierre SENGES (& KILLOFFER);
translated by Jacob SIEFRING
° ‘Manhattan via Paris’
Frederic TUTEN & Jon AUMAN in conversation
° Four Poems—‘Trade,’ ‘My Hands on your Body,’
‘Volta’ & ‘Sufficiently Charged’
Jack PARLETT
° ‘Wherever you Smell Shit, You Smell Life’
Jean-Baptiste DEL AMO & Thomas CHADWICK in conversation
° (A short story called) ‘Frog’
Alice ASH
° Three Poems— ‘Everything Goth is Perverse,’ ‘Choose your Fighter’ & ‘Aggression Quest’
Nadia de VRIES
° ‘FRICTION THAT ARISES IN CONTRAST’
Ariana HARWICZ & Thomas CHADWICK in conversation
° ‘CHAPELLE de POULET’—An Essay in XIII Pieces
Jeffrey VALLANCE
° Two Poems—‘Somewhere there is a history of progress’
& ‘Nevertheless, there was terror’
Manuela MOSER
° (Five) Pharmacy Poems—‘writing a poem,’ ‘i made the coffee,’
‘it doesn’t matter who you are,’ ‘i made that chocolate cake’ & ‘my back hurts’
Joseph GRANTHAM
° Three Poems—‘Safe,’ ‘I Have Brought Several Changes of Hat with Me,’
& ‘Cardinal Virtues’
Livia FRANCHINI
° A Scatological Eschatology called ‘HOLY SHIT’
Jeffrey VALLANCE
(excerpted from Hotel #5)
° ‘Going Home’ (Rushes) / LIKE GOLD / LIKE GREY
Zi WEI
° ‘The Women I Like in Romance Novels’
Ryunosuke AKUTAGAWA;
translated by Ryan C.K. CHOI
° ‘What is Really Happening?’—On (or After) Dexter Dalwood
Michael BRACEWELL
° Two Poems—‘The Egg Lady’s Death’ & ‘Waves’
Michael NAGHTEN SHANKS
° Two Poems—‘i.’ & ‘ii.’
Kate SCHNEIDER
° ‘Practice Notes’
(words towards a novel called WE ARE MADE OF DIAMOND STUFF)
Isabel WAIDNER
° ‘Headlights’
Samanta SCHWEBLIN;
translated by Megan McDOWELL
° RECONSTRUCTIONS; Five Photo-Poems
Steafán HANVEY & Bobbie HANVEY
° ‘Surrealists at the End of the World’
Roisin DUNNETT
° ‘Menu of the Future’
Raul GUERRERO
(excerpted from Hotel #5)
° ‘Brady is Everyone’s’
Drew BUXTON
° Two Poems—‘a good career move’ & ‘you have no new messages’
Susannah DICKEY
° On and After ‘ANIMAL DRUMS’
A reaction to SJ FOWLER & J ALEXANDER’s motion-picture-poem
David SPITTLE
° ‘Exhibit A’ (on Brion Gysin’s Birthday)
John AKOMFRAH
° From ‘THE LAND OF HUNGER’ to ‘THE ROAD TO DAMASCUS’
Wayne HOLLOWAY
° (A short story called) ‘LOVE STORY’
Caleb KLACES
° ‘Germaine Gets Slade’
—A Short Study of Editorial Policy in the Hashtag Era
(ANONYMOUS/Name of SENDER)
Dostoyevsky WANNABE
° (A short story called) ‘LADY CERO’s LETTERS’
Kyle COMA-THOMPSON
° (An explicatory-poem called) ‘NO SHOW’
Chris PETIT—Mordant MUSIC—purge.xxx
° (A short story called) ‘BURNING’
Lily HACKETT
° A poem called ‘An Undisclosed Distance’
Lauren DOSTAL
° Two Works—‘A Man Asleep on a Canvas’ & ‘Overlap’
Martin JACKSON
° ‘BEIGE WRITING’
Ahmed NAJI in conversation with Sam DIAMOND
° (The opening acts of) BAD MAN STANDING
Jonathan CHANDLER
° TRIPLICATE / Three Poems
1. ‘House—Painting’
2. ‘Mothers: Pearls’
3. ‘Stars Boys: Boys Stars’
Alistair McCARTNEY
° ‘Sour Lemonade’
Hiromi SUZUKI
° (A short story called) ‘Due Process’
Jen CALLEJA
° ‘Reading into Gertrude Stein’
Anna CATHENKA
° Three Instructional Paroxysms
Wayne KOESTENBAUM
° Three Fragments from a multipart poem, ‘Coming Out/Betrayal’
Justin BURNELL
° A poem called ‘Sentient Junk’
Chris BARTON
° ‘IN THIS VAMPIRIC WAY...’
Garth GREENWELL
in conversation with Katie Da CUNHA LEWIN
° THREE STEMS / Three Poems
Rowan EVANS
° ‘Positions of CUTE in Post-Internet Poetry’
Lucy BURNS & Charles WHALLEY
° Three Poem—‘Quiditty,’ ‘Haecceity’ & ‘Mythology’
David BRIGGS
° Three Poems— ‘1.,’ ‘3.’ & ‘6.’
Sam WESELOWSKI
° Five Poems (from WAITRESS IN FALL)—
Kristín ÓMARSDÓTTIR;
translated by Vala THORODDS
° ‘DataSexual’—On MOROZOV, LANIER & GOOGLE
Joshua COHEN
° ‘Quantum Leap’
Hisham BUSTANI
° From THIS IS NO LONGER ENTERTAINMENT
Christodoulos MAKRIS
° ‘3500 CHARACTERS’
Alejandro ZAMBRA in conversation with Ellen JONES
° Three Gestures: ‘Mother,’ ‘Dinner,’ & ‘Fiction’
Adrian BRIDGET
°A poem called ‘Water’
Adrianne KALFOPULOU
° ‘RED INK’
Jean FRÉMON
° ‘Crossing the Puddle: On CHARCO PRESS’
Editors Carolina ORLOFF & Samuel McDOWELL
in conversation with Ellen JONES
° ‘65 RECENT LIBRARY CHECKOUTS (for R. Youngs)’
Alan LICHT
° Selections from ‘MY GEOPOLITICS’
° Two Poems—‘Total Eclipse’ & ‘Ex’
NJ STALLARD
° Two Poems—‘Swamp Song’ & ‘Steady Now’
John GREY
° (A short story called) ‘Just Above Complete Creatures’
Molly GUNTHER
° ‘Epitaphs’
Jackson ARN
° A ‘Black Gold Mastiff’
Owen VINCE
° (A short story called) ‘Harvest Moon’
Jessica BONDER
° A poem called ‘Message Withdrawn’
Susannah DICKEY
° A poem called ‘Carelessly we have entangeled ourselves’
Vala THORODDS
° ‘Mapping the CITY, Mapping CHANCE’
James ATLEE, in conversation with Thomas McMULLAN
° ‘Magick SQUARES & Future BEATS’
Genesis BREYER P-ORRIDGE
° A poem called ‘Naazim Richardson, Lately’
Oliver GOLDSTEIN
° SALVAGED from OBSOLESENCE
Patrick LANGLEY in conversation with THOMAS CHADWICK
° Four Poems—‘this year a delayed heat,’ ‘(untitled),’
‘imagine / every name we share is precise’ & ‘Sussex Envoi’
George TTOOULI
° ‘The New Grotesque’
D.I.
° Four Poems—‘the girl on the 4th floor wants me to die,’
‘use of prevailing tendency,’ ‘portable,’ & ‘storage #’
Angelos KYRIOU;
translated by Theodoros CHIOTIS
° Two Poems—‘the new men’ & ‘date’
AK BLAKEMORE
° (A short story called) ‘THE HOLE’
Leah DWORKIN
° ‘Yellow Fragments’
Nina MINGYA POWLES
° ‘Things’
Brian DILLON
° (A short story called) ‘THE HITCHER’
Jonathan CHANDLER
° ‘Skylight Recording’
David GRUBBS
° ‘Achillion’
Glykeria PATRAMANI
° ‘Mind the Gap’
Imogen REID
° ‘How to Sharpen your Knife’
Kate FELD
° ‘Rhine’
Esther KINKSKY
° ‘Nights of Poor Sleep’
Rachael ALLEN & Marie JACOTEY
° ‘BAD SCIENCE’
Jason SHULMAN,
in conversation with Dominic JAECKLE
° ‘lemon, egg, bread’
Laura ELLIOT
° ‘IDIOTs’
Oliver ZARANDI
° ‘175 MINUTES in MIZIL’
Geo BOGZA;
translated by Diana DUTA
° ‘The Past’s Future is Not our Present’
David HAYDEN
° ‘The Sympathetic Observer’
Rainald GOETZ
° ‘SUNDAY Evening,
WINTER Morning,
NOVEMBER Dusk’
Anne MICHAELS
° ‘The Other Zone’
Tommy HAZARD
° (A short story called) ‘Facts’
Gareth EVANS
° ‘A Land that I’ve Dreamed Of...’
Joe BUCCIERO
° ‘To Become a Mermaid...’
Veronica Scott Esposito
° ‘ATLANTIS’
Mary RINEBOLD COPELAND
° ‘CITIZENS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY’
Lucy SANTE, in conversation with Jon AUMAN
° ‘The Photographs of RE Meatyard’
Carol MAVOR
° ‘On the Island of Malhado’
Russell PERSSON
° ‘Tremendous MAJESTIES’
Jakob NOLTE;
translated by Amanda DeMARCO
° From ‘MY LITTLE ENLIGHTENMENT PLAYs’
Sophie SEITA
° ‘Moments Before & After’
Frank WITZEL;
translated by Amanda DeMARCO
° (A short story called) ‘WITHOUT A FISHER KING’
Joanna RAFAEL GOLDBERG
° Three Poems—‘Kinky Thumbelina,’ ‘Sea Bear’
& ‘Instructions for the Peaceful Transition of Power’
Sarah MARINA
° Three Poems / Three Dances—‘Ritual Dance,’ ‘Bacchic Dance’
& ‘Pyrrhic Dance’
Jazmine LINKLATER
° ‘Études de Silhouettes’
Pierre SENGES;
translated by Jacob SIEFRING
° Three Interludes: ‘DAVID BOWIE lives in my House’
Anna CATHENKA
° (Two Pieces of) SARAH
Scott McCLANAHAN
° ‘PIER ONE AESTHETICS (are taking over Art)’
Nick ZEDD
° ‘PRODUCING MY CREDENTIALS’
An Unfinished Libretto in V Pieces / A season in V episodes
Sophie JUNG
° ‘POEM-BRUT’ (Parts i & ii)
SJ FOWLER
° ‘The Unknown Soldier’
Lucy SANTE
° ‘YOUR EXISTENCE WATERED MY CROPS:’
Unscrambling Perception with Ariana Grande
Jack GOLDSTEIN
° Three (Untitled) Poems
Jacob McGUINN
° ‘Farrag und Freunde’
Joseph TURRENT
° Three Poems—‘Seven Studies for Marie-Hortense,’
‘Rilke on the Place de la Concorde’
& ‘Two Dozen Mongoose-Hair Brushes’
MAITREYABANDHU
° Three Poems—‘Oysters,’ ‘I Don’t Know How to Clothe this Loving Body’
& ‘Interim’
Emma MACKILLIGIN
° ‘Balsa Jericho’
Cal REVELY-CALDER
° Four Poems—‘Thin Girls,’ ‘Pang from Pang,’
‘The Roses of Heliogabalus’ & ‘Angiogram’
Helen CHARMAN
° ‘LODGING & DISLODGING the Little Magazine’
A Google-Doc Conversation
Sophie SEITA & Danny SNELSON
° (A short story called) ‘The Racer’
Jonathan CHANDLER
° (A short story called) ‘The Light Sculptor’
Leah DWORKIN
° ‘Carl Stone & the Kalifornia Dreamstock of the Yankee...’
Carl STONE, in conversation with Jack GOLDSTEIN
° Three Poems—‘Three Summers,’ ‘Sensory Notes...’ & ‘Only Instead of a Star’
Amy KEY
° Three Poems, Three Dedications & ‘Past Filmic Tense’
Emily CRITCHLEY
° ‘WOEFULLY UNDETERMINED’
Sam RIVIERE, in conversation with Joe McCARNEY
° After the PXL-MAD Lectures
Kenneth GOLDSMITH,
in conversation with Thomas CHADWICK & Gert-Jan MEYNTJEN
° Two Poems—‘not the mirror image but the reverse side of the mirror’
& ‘Sonnet for the relative elasticity of your skin’
Tse HAO GUANG
° ‘The UNIVERSITY & the UNDERCOMMONS’
Stefano HARNEY & Fred MOTEN
° ‘(Three of) THIRTEEN RAYS’
Rachel BLAU DUPLESSIS
° Two Stories—‘Alma Mahler attends a Party...’
& ‘Valentine’
Joanna RAFAEL GOLDBERG
° ‘Re-Threads’
James R. HUGUNIN
° ‘Clumps (of Roussel)’
Mark VON SCHLEGELL
° ‘Magnificent Frigatebird’
DE STEWARD
° ‘Four Paintings of People’
Yating HE
° Four Poems—‘A simulation..., ‘Geometry,’ ‘How things are not’
& ‘A skylight in a basement’
Martin JACKSON
° Two Poems—‘Rest/Stop’ & ‘What Happens, or Doesn’t’
Chris CAMPANIONI
° ‘The Future of Reading’
John HOLTEN
° ‘AN UNSUBTLE METAPHOR’
Jacques TESTARD, in conversation with Thomas CHADWICK
° Two Poems—‘Desert, Desert, Garden’ & ‘Maratea’
Ollie TODD
° ‘The Rupture’
Alison FRANK
° ‘TALKING TO TEST CENTRE’
Jess CHANDLER & Will SHUTES,
in conversation with Jen CALLEJA
° Two Poems—‘Self-Portrait as a Circle’ & ‘Gravy’
Edward DOEGAR
° ‘self assembly is...’
Owen VINCE
° (A short story called) ‘A THREAT’
Oliver ZARANDI
° ‘GREEK LANDSCAPES’
Martin JACKSON
° (A short story called) ‘Erwin Schrödinger Blues’
Colm O’SHEA
° ‘I Love you, Lieutenant’—ON Peter FALK and self-knowledge
Victoria MANIFOLD
° Three Poems (after Antonioni—‘Anna,’ ‘Jeanne Moreau’ & ‘Vittoria’
Jess COTTON
° ANADIPLOSES
Hannes BAJOHR
° ‘A Collection of Quotes from former #1 pound-for-pound MMA fighter, Ronda Rousey;
& her Mother, the first U.S. Citizen to win a World Judo Championship’
Amanda DeMARCO
° Two Poems—‘Unboxing, Teardown;’ ‘1.’ & ‘2.’
Micscha FOSTER POOLE
° ‘(Several) Studies in Poetry’
Hoagy HOUGHTON
° ‘CRIMINAL AESTHETICS’
Les Fugitives, in conversation with Dominic JAECKLE
° Mary RINEBOLD COPELAND
‘DOING COKE WITH YOU (A Venal Shine)’