A short piece about Manchester and poetry for @robmclennan.bsky.social and periodicities.
The pictures, courtesy of David Gaffney, are from the above/ground press readings last week with me, @ggaffa.bsky.social and @lydiaunsworth.bsky.social at Saul Hay Gallery.
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New postcard, short text on back, oblique title on front. tomjenks.uk/shop/p/flyin...
Poster call for Outland Publishing Fair at Copeland Gallery, London on 17-19 April 2026.
Open call for Chinese/Sinophone creators for Outland Publishing Fair, Copeland Gallery, London, 17-19 April 2026. OPF spotlights creative publishing practices from Chinese and Sino-diasporic communities in London and worldwide. Apply by 1st Feb 2026.
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Two collages, on the left a glass vase of flowers behind a frame in front of a blue sky. On the right three collaged hands holding rocks and grains of sand with a flower and the moon in the background.
I will be showing a new book made in collaboration with Roelof Bakker + @rachelartsmith.bsky.social + Declan Wiffen on Roelof's Negative Press stand at Brighton Art Book Fair this Sat 6th & Sun 7th Dec at Phoenix Art Space, Brighton BN2 9NB, UK.
www.brightonartbookfair.org/events | www.neg-press.com
Text from the installation by Stephen Emmerson for his exhibition 'How to read a book'.
Join us on Tues 4th November 12.45 – 1.15 GMT for a free talk with artist @tothemadpoets.bsky.social as part of his exhibition How to read a book. Special Collections area of Bower Ashton Library, UWE Bristol. No booking needed just turn up, free event, all welcome. www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/howtoread/
Two images from the BOOKMORPHS catalogue. Exhibtion currently on at the Hellenic Centre, consisting of work by 44 artists from Greece and the UK.
An event coming up at Hastings Museum on the 14th October. With readings from Sharon Kivland, Ken Edwards and Richard Makin. 7pm. Details here: www.hmag.org.uk/event/how-to...
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'How to read a book' opens at the Portico Library in Manchester on Thursday, October 2, 2025
6:00 PM 7:30 PM
Be great to see you there if you can make it.
www.theportico.org.uk/event-calend...
Genocide deniers have been left with nowhere to go.
A new UN report cements the overwhelming consensus that Israel is committing genocide.
Genocide deniers should be treated as beyond the pale.
New post 👇
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A picture of a bookwork by Stephen Emmerson, a circular hole in the front reveals the altered contests of the pre-existing book.
A picture of a book of poems, flight by Stephen Emmerson. flight is a book of poems concerned with time, loss, grief and hope. It was written in the belief that a poem should be a window through language. Published by Guillemot Press.
A picture of a bookwork by Stephen Emmerson, pencil shaped pieces of wood piercing an existing book.
A picture of a bookwork by Stephen Emmerson, a glass jar of ash with a text that reads: It is the only tree that retains its name. Once it has been consumed.
Our new exhibition is ‘How to read a book’ by @tothemadpoets.bsky.social, on show until Tues 4 Nov.
Concerned with language, writing, memory and offering alternative ways of approaching books and text. Alongside it are other works exploring what it is to be a book.
www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/howtoread/
Via @cwag_uk Instagram 🇵🇸🕊️
If you haven't already, please sign this petition to recognise Palestine as a state - and consider donating to a pro Palestinian agency. Peace.
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First of what I'm planning to be a series of postcards. Reverse contains a short prose piece. Front relatates to something from the piece, in this case the mystical incantation HOT CURRY SAUCE. I'm selling these for the price of printing and postage on my website. tomjenks.uk/shop/p/hot-c...
Three dancers leaping photoshopped onto a grey Paris sky. Cover of Left Under a Cloud by Stephen Rodefer, published by Alfred David Editions
crikey. I haven't seen the NYRB reissue of Rodefer. I still have literally boxes of the book I published, Left Under a Cloud (2000) which I struggle to give away. If anyone wants one, just ask.
At a certain time of day sunlight will fall upon these words
Stephen Emmerson (@tothemadpoets.bsky.social)
On now: "The visual and the textual, the lucid and the illegible: a vibrant exhibition of the last sixty-five years of experimental poetry." Curated by Steve Clay and M. C. Kinniburgh, in collaboration with Conley Lowrance, Grolier Club, NYC, through July 26, 2025
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flight is out now! Thanks to @guillemotpress for producing another beautiful object.
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1st June I will be delivering a workshop at Launceston Poetry Festival - come along if you can.
I'm reading at Launceston Poetry Festival on 31st May. Come along if you can!
Two new books: Not Sealions But Lions by The Sea, a selected poems 2012-2025, (Broken Sleep); The Walkative Reolvolution, on walking and not walking, (Guillemot). If you want both for £25 PM me, otherwise order from the presses.
Timglaset Editions to cease publishing.
After long deliberation I have decided to put Timglaset to rest. The press has been under a lot of pressure since the recession in 2022-23. 1/5
Reading these two pleasantly colour-coordinated @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social tomes ahead of Sleeve Notes today with @vikshirley.bsky.social and An afternoon of absurd surreal poetry tomorrow with Vik and @tothemadpoets.bsky.social here in Manchester. Lay out your unrest!
This Sunday in Manchester. 4pm.
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@postpran.bsky.social @tothemadpoets.bsky.social @tomjenksuk.bsky.social
Gallery is available from Timglaset www.timglaset.com/produktsida/...
Tom Bowden has written a brilliant review of Gallery www.thebookbeat.com/backroom/202...
This is coming up in April, with @tothemadpoets.bsky.social @vikshirley.bsky.social and Marcus Silcock. Free, but you can book a place and get reminders here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/an-afterno...
Here we have a cosmic trip disguised as an international voyage. Tender yet absurd. Hallucinatory and strange, like taking psychedelics in the American desert and waking up in a Polish forest. Instead of a spaghetti western, this is a pierogi fever dream. www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...
Napoli Metro Bad Dream Sequence, Blart Books 2013.
Dreams, nightmares, poems, collages, travel diary fragments & mutated museum guides collected during and after a holiday in a hot, humid Napoli the weekend that Michael Jackson died.
