Leiria, Portugal’s Paper View Books, as run by the tireless Sal Nunchakov, has just announced the publication of CATALOGUE SAISONEE!
Published in a limited edition of 50 copies — each featuring hand-binding, full-colour, transparencies, overlaid pages, translations and more over 180 pages — CATALOGUE SAISONEE is a loving overview of 25 years of my poetic practice. Presented in a loving and lavish edition, CATALOGUE SAISONEE is available direct from Paper View Books for 34€ + postage. They’ll go fast, order your copy today by emailing Sal Nunchakov at info@paperviewbooks.pt …

Paper View Books celebrated the publication and launch of Catalogue Saisonee with performances, exhibits and livestreams readings! More about the book soon — and thank you Sal Nunchakov for this amazing event!

jornal de leiria talks about it here

região de leiria talks about it here

Portugal’s Sal Nunchakov has created a fabulous rug from one of my visual poems — this piece will be unveiled and used at the 6-month anniversary celebration of his Paper View Books, and for the launch of my forthcoming Catalogue Saisonee (more on that exciting project very soon).

Here’s some behind-the-scenes photos of the creative process…

I was honoured to write the foreword to Joe Devlin's Marginalia Drawings ...
Devlin's book gathers 18 notations found in library books, compressed on to single sheets of paper. 44 pages, digitally printed in black & white on right hand pages only, size A4 (210x297 mm). With a bespoke cover made from recycled cardboard and a label with the title and author name. Edition of 99 copies. Order direct from Timglaset books here.

APERTURE, published by Penteract Press, is now out of print. Thank to the press for publishing this day-glo experiment, and to all of the readers who purchased copies. Anyone interested in the book can download a free PDF.

There are ten “thunderwords” in James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake, the first nine are 100 letters long, the last 101. While they are aurally constructed to sound like thunder, they are not purely onomatopoetic words: they are assembled from multi-linguistic words and fragments. These 10 pieces (pencil and rubber-stamp on newsprint; image size 12″x12″, paper size 18″x24″) reproduce Joyce’s thunderwords as 10×10 grids, each a perverse word-search puzzle.

Thunder – new from Portugal’s Paper View Books — gathers this suite into a limited edition chapbook. Order your copy today for 9€ direct from the press…

The Banff Canmore Community Foundation and I discussed my role as Banff’s Poet Laureate, my ideas around poetry and community – check it out!

Over on Twitter, I am erasing all the text from John Cage’s SILENCE, leaving only the punctuated breath & atmospheric noise – creating a series of JPG files, one per page spread.

Arnold McBay has just posted a sound interpretation of this project, unleashing a mighty savage noise. As McBay explained, he “downloaded a jpg [from this series], dumped it as raw data into the free audio mixing software Audacity and voila….Noise sauvage!”
Have a listen (crank it up but watch your ears!)

My minimalist piece “The blank white page contains the finest song” has just been published by Scotland’s Essence Press; a press dedicated to thoughtful, minimalist work — order your copy today; they’ll go *very* quick!