Piece of Paper Press reviewed by Stephen Bury in Art Monthly, October 1997, No. 210 pp.47-48. (Click image to enlarge.)
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From the archive
#SolidarityKruger
Solidarity won last time.
At the Bookartbookshop’s Bloomsday celebration
Happy Bloomsday night, all. What a great day it was, celebrating Bloomsday 2019 at London’s wonderful Bookartbookshop! Thanks all ;)
© Patrick Walsh, 2019
It was a pleasure and a privilege to read the ‘Willingdone Museyroom’ from Finnegans Wake at London’s wonderful Bookartbookshop’s Bloomsday celebration yesterday. And to see the great Marcia Farquhar’s generous, intimate and mesmerising reading of Molly Bloom’s soliloquy from Ulysses; you could have heard a pin drop.
I was proud to wear my old Royal Mail tie for the occasion, partly because I introduced my own reading by talking about reading Finnegans Wake – my now very battered copy of Faber’s 50th anniversary paperback edition of 1989 – when I was working as a postman in Camden Town in the early 1990s, and partly in honour of the postman who appears on p.488 of the novel:
— Oyessoyess! I never dramped of prebeing a postman
Thank you to Alastair (at my left elbow there) and Tanya for their warm hospitality, and to the…
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Fountain in Norfolk
You don’t have to be sitting in a rosemary-scented Norfolk garden to enjoy The Fountain in the Forest. But it certainly worked for Alison, who sent through this photo!
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Another Jubilee
Something for the #PlatinumJubilee weekend? My Silver Jubilee short story ‘High-Lands’, performed live at the Galway Mechanics Institute for TULCA Festival of Visual Arts 2016 with specially commissioned music from the mighty New Pope.
Featuring (in no particular order) The Stranglers live at the Roundhouse, the Silver Jubilee Spithead Review, a school trip to Scotland, shortwave radio, numbers stations, an alien armada invading the Highlands and Islands, art school, end of term concerts, and class war! — play loud!
‘High-Lands’ was originally commissioned by London Fieldworks and Resonance 104.4fm as part of Remote Performances and broadcast live from Outlandia, a unique artists’ field-station in Glen Nevis, Lochaber, Scotland. Remote Performances was supported by Arts Council England, Nevis Landscape Partnership (Heritage Lottery Programme), Oxford Brookes University, Live Art Development Agency (LADA), and Edinburgh Arts Festival. ‘High-Lands’ is collected in the critical anthology Remote Performances in Nature and Architecture, edited by Bruce Gilchrist, Jo Joelson and Tracey Warr (Ashgate/Routledge, 2015).
But, er, I’d just like to say something. On Tuesday night there’s a gig for the preservation of rights of prisoners. Now, Jubilee year. The origin of Jubilee means ‘set people free’ and they’re not doing it this year. So there’s er, a gig for the Prisoners’ Rights Association at Middlesex Poly on Tuesday night, and it’s featuring 999 and [unclear]. So if you wanna help the prisoners, go along there and have a good time.
The Stranglers, Live (X-cert), United Artists, 1979
‘High-Lands’ draws on research undertaken as part of a loose collaboration with Stuart Brisley, Maya Balcioglu and Dr Sanja Perovic of King’s College London, that was made possible by Tony White’s appointment in 2013-14 as creative entrepreneur in residence (funded by Creativeworks London) and visiting research fellow in the French Department at King’s.
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#PickUpAPageTurner
Does your pool need a Fountain this long Platinum Jubilee holiday weekend? Why not #PickUpAPageTurner . . .
June 1st is the launch of National Crime Reading Month. Here’s the blurb:
Run by the Crime Writers’ Association in partnership with national charity The Reading Agency, NCRM is a festival that takes place throughout June across the UK and Ireland, culminating in the prestigious CWA Daggers ceremony at the end of the month. It aims to promote and celebrate crime reading across the genre through exciting events and activities in bookshops, libraries, museums, theatres and online.
Visit the National Crime Reading Month website, or search for the NCRM #PickUpAPageTurner hashtag on all your socials to find out about events near you.
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From a Scottish beach
I’ve missed doing live readings — I’m really looking forward to getting back to that soon.
I especially miss doing live readings on beautiful Roshven beaches on the west coast of Scotland, looking out over a hazy Loch Ailort towards Eigg, visited by pine martens, and dressed only in army surplus boiler suits and insect repellent, with swarms of tiny midges still piling into eyes, nose, mouth, ears… Actually that only happened just the once, and we had to abandon the reading and the video shoot after about a minute!
The photo (deemed a bad’un at the time, but cropped and straightened-up here) is by Bruce Gilchrist. We were all up in Lochaber for London Fieldworks and Resonance 104.4FM’s wonderful Remote Performances project back in 2014.
What fun that was — thanks all ;)
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A four-notebook novel…
Where Sherlock Holmes (I know, I know) measured problems in pipes, I find myself (with Dymo labeller in hand) measuring novels by notebook…
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POPP.040
Something is afoot…
The morning’s work is done, and then some. So I’ve just spent an enjoyable hour mocking up a rough layout of the next and fortieth — *top secret* — title from Piece of Paper Press.
I’ve been publishing limited editions of new works by artists and writers on POPP since 1994, and still haven’t tired of it.
It’s always still an exciting moment.
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Valerian
Red valerian growing from the concrete balustrade, Thames riverside in Barnes, SW London yesterday evening. It was valerian day in the French Republican Calendar four days ago!
Readers of The Fountain in the Forest may be interested to know that within the 90 chapter scheme of the whole trilogy, valerian corresponds with Chapter 12 of Volume III.
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