Hotel CORDEL

_{Hotel CORDEL takes its cue from traditional Spanish “Cordel” literatures. A nineteenth century pamphlet culture that owes to the Portuguese literatura de cordel (translating as a “string” or “thread” literature), Pliegos de cordel [cordel sheets] are a cousin to the bibliothèque bleue [blue library] in French publishing tradition; a brother to the German Volksbuch [people’s book]: an inexpensively printed pamphlet containing folk novelettes, poems, political statements and songs. So named because they were hung from strings in marketplaces to display these texts to their potential readers, CORDEL sheets would conform to the traditional chapbook format; printed on a single sheet and then folded into a paper concertina of either 8, 12, 16 or 24 pages.

Re-versioning this format, Hotel CORDEL will run as a series of collaborative pamphlets that’ll see Hotel partner with poets, authors, other small press projects, publishers, artists and curators to produce a series of pocket literatures in the Cordel tradition.}

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FORTHCOMING / AUTUMN 2024}