New from RunAmok Press, Gérard de Nerval: Sonnets, translated by Peter Manson. 52pp A5, £5 inc. post in UK, £8 overseas. Many thanks to Andy Spragg and Jimmy Cummins for publishing, and to Matt Buchanan for designing the book. [Edit 5 June 2023: the first edition sold out, but a reprint is now available from RunAmok.]
I have two poems (“the merry wido” and “an englishman’s tongue is his kazoo”) in the online zine SPAM004. My thanks to Maria Sledmere, Mau Baiocco, Kirsty Dunlop, Loll Jung and Max Parnell. Recordings of me reading the poems are in the accompanying Podcast, URL Sonata #18.
I have four poems (from the sequence self-avoiding space-filling curve) in the first issue of the online journal Trilobite, edited by Paul Vogel and designed by Samuel Helgeson. Thanks to both. The other contributors are Drew Boston, cris cheek, Tom Hibbard, Alice Ladrick, Jonny Lohr, Karen Pava Randall and Giorgia Pavlidou.
I have work (“Disappointing footnotes to Adjunct”, “Three sonnets from the Italian of John Milton”, and “two poems from self-avoiding space-filling curve”) in the first issue of the journal Mop Mop, edited by Cato van Schaik and Phil Baber in Amsterdam, and designed by Elisabeth Rafstedt and Johanna Ehde of Rietlanden Women’s Office. It also includes work by Amy De’Ath, Michael Tedja, Ryan Dobran, Anne Vegter (translated by Astrid Alben), Verity Spott and Maria Barnas. You need to email them to buy a copy: it’s €12,50 + post, and the address can be found here: https://perdu.nl/nl/boekhandel/
I have a translation of Mallarmé’s prose text “Or” (“Gold”) in COIN, one of four pamphlets in the FOUR LETTER WORD PROJECT (HEAT – RENT – GRUB – COIN) put together by nicky melville and Interview Room 11 in Edinburgh. It includes work by Rob Kiely, Vicky Sparrow, Calum Rodger, Gloria Dawson, Julie Johnstone, Harry Josephine Giles, Kirsty Dunlop and many others, with all proceeds from sales going to XR Glasgow, Living Rent, Empty Kitchens Full Hearts and The Autonomous Centre Edinburgh. https://interviewroom-11.square.site/
I have four poems from the sequence “self-avoiding space-filling curve” in the new issue of Gutter Magazine. Many thanks to Katy Hasty, Colin Begg, Henry Bell, Kate MacLeary and everybody involved. [Edit 1 September 2021: the poems are now on the Gutter blog].
New from RunAmok Press:
New year gifts of handkerchiefs to Élisa Sosset, translated from Mallarmé by Peter Manson. Edition of 50 copies, July 2021, printed on a standard paper napkin (3-ply). £4 (includes p+p in UK). All proceeds donated to the Poet’s Hardship Fund.
I have a short video, “Indonesian Fishing Chant” in episode one of the Pommel series of video screenings, hosted on Youtube by Nottingham Contemporary. Other contributors include Dylan Nyoukis & Karen Constance, Yeah You, Sophie Yung, LDSN, Charmaine Lee, Stephen Crowe and Russell Walker. Thanks to Matthew Hamblin, Stephen Crowe, Lila Matsumoto and the University of Nottingham
A wonky gif made from eight copies of the bookplate for the 1876 first edition of Stéphane Mallarmé’s “L’après-midi d’un faune”, taken from photos in various online auction catalogues. Manet hand-tinted his own zincograph illustration, and the animation brings out the variation in his brushwork.
![[Animated gif file of eight copies of Édouard Manet's bookplate for the 1876 first edition of Stéphane Mallarmé's "L'Après-midi d'un faune". A zincograph image of lily leaves with pink watercolour wash added by hand by Manet himself. Copies dedicated to Geneviève Mallarmé, William Rossetti, Stéphane Mallarmé, José Maria de Heredia, Paul Gaugin.]](https://petermanson.files.wordpress.com/2021/03/1876-faunes-x-8.gif)
The Little Sparta Trust has published an eBook based on the blog posts I made during my Sharing Little Sparta residency in 2016. The eBook can be read online at ISSUU, and also downloaded as a (large) pdf file. Many thanks to Lynne Maclagan, George Gilliland, and to the Estate of Ian Hamilton Finlay.
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