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Stephen Emmerson

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Tom Jenks @tomjenksuk.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
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. bsky.app/profile/robm...
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Tom Jenks @tomjenksuk.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
New postcard, short text on back, oblique title on front. tomjenks.uk/shop/p/flyin...
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Sarah Bodman @sarahbodman.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
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. outlandpublishingfair.com/outland-publ...
Poster call for Outland Publishing Fair at Copeland Gallery, London on 17-19 April 2026.
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Sarah Bodman @sarahbodman.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
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
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.
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Sarah Bodman @sarahbodman.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
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/
Text from the installation by Stephen Emmerson for his exhibition 'How to read a book'.
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Joe Devlin @joedevlin.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Two images from the BOOKMORPHS catalogue. Exhibtion currently on at the Hellenic Centre, consisting of work by 44 artists from Greece and the UK.
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Stephen Emmerson @tothemadpoets.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
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 (or a Palm) – Hastings Museum and Art Gallery
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Stephen Emmerson @tothemadpoets.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
'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...
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How to read a book — The Portico Library
How to read a book is an exhibition by Stephen Emmerson about language, writing, and memory. It also explores themes of neurodiversity by offering different ways of exploring and reading books.
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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
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 👇 www.owenjones.news/p/un-leaves-...
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UN leaves genocide deniers with nowhere to go
A new UN report cements the consensus that Israel is committing genocide. Genocide deniers must now be ostracised
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Sarah Bodman @sarahbodman.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
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/
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.
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Imogen Reid @imogenreid.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Via @cwag_uk Instagram 🇵🇸🕊️
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Stephen Emmerson @tothemadpoets.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
If you haven't already, please sign this petition to recognise Palestine as a state - and consider donating to a pro Palestinian agency. Peace. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...
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Tom Jenks @tomjenksuk.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
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...
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Ian Hunt @ianhunt.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
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.
Three dancers leaping photoshopped onto a grey Paris sky. Cover of Left Under a Cloud by Stephen Rodefer, published by Alfred David Editions
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Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Stephen Emmerson (@tothemadpoets.bsky.social)
At
a
certain
time
of
day
sunlight
will
fall
upon
these
words
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Gregory Betts @whatisapoem.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
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 4columns.org/mobilio-albe...
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After Words
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Stephen Emmerson @tothemadpoets.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
flight is out now! Thanks to @guillemotpress for producing another beautiful object. www.guillemotpress.co.uk/poetry/steph...
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Stephen Emmerson @tothemadpoets.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
1st June I will be delivering a workshop at Launceston Poetry Festival - come along if you can.
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Stephen Emmerson @tothemadpoets.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
I'm reading at Launceston Poetry Festival on 31st May. Come along if you can!
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Alec Finlay @alecfinlay.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
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.
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Timglaset Editions @timglaseteditions.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
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
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Sarah-Clare Conlon @sarahclareconlon.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
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!
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Vik Shirley @vikshirley.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
This Sunday in Manchester. 4pm. 🦌🌈🤸🤡🤠👻🦆🐰 @postpran.bsky.social @tothemadpoets.bsky.social @tomjenksuk.bsky.social
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Stephen Emmerson @tothemadpoets.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Tom Bowden has written a brilliant review of Gallery www.thebookbeat.com/backroom/202...
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The Book Beat
A new post was just added to the Book Beat website and newsletter.
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Tom Jenks @tomjenksuk.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
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...
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Gregory Betts @whatisapoem.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
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Marcus Silcock @postpran.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
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...
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Marcus Silcock - Dream Dust | Broken Sleep Books
Marcus Silcock’s Dream Dust is a surreal-absurd tapestry of fragmented memories, cultural observations, and existential explorations. Through vivid, kaleidoscopic prose poems, Silcock crafts a world w...
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Chris Stephenson @tuplatulpa.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
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.
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Egidija @egidija.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
I am excited to be speaking at RCA at Materiality of the Book symposium on April 7. www.eventbrite.com/e/materialit...
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Materiality of the Book Symposium
Join us for an event that will include discussions on the book as method and object, landscape and the book, and the materiality of language
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Tony White @tonywhite.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
New exhibition now open: ‘Thirty-one Years of Piece of Paper Press’, the #artistsbooks series I founded in 1994 and which continues to this day. At the legendary Matt’s Gallery, now in Nine Elms, London, open Weds–Sun 12-6pm to 23 March. We'd love you to visit! pieceofpaperpress.com/2025/01/31/n...
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NOW OPEN: Thirty-one Years of Piece of Paper Press, 1994–2025, at Matt’s Gallery
Upstairs on the mezzanine floor of Matt’s Gallery, Nine Elms, London SW11, you’ll find an archival display: ‘Thirty-one Years of Piece of Paper Press: artists’ books, artwork and ephemera, 1994–202…
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Stephen Emmerson @tothemadpoets.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Pett Level eightox.org/pett-level/
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Pett Level
Digital film. Duration: 10m 05s. Description: Acoustic mirrors were used by the military as an early-warning system before the invention of radar. The remains of these concrete structures scatter t…
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Tom Jenks @tomjenksuk.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Out now on zimzalla: Asemics by Grzegorz Wróblewski, a collection of postcards in a white box. If you’re not familiar with the term ‘asemic’, I’d describe it as writing that isn’t writing but feels like it is.
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Stephen Emmerson @tothemadpoets.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Memorial. 2025. Edition of 3. eightox.org/memorial/
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Archive boxes, giclee prints, letterpressed poem on card, and a glass bottle containing the remains of a tree in the form of ash. Edition of 3. Stephen Emmerson. 2025.
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Stephen Emmerson @tothemadpoets.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Big Song. 2024. #BrokenSleepBooks www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...
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Stephen Emmerson - Big Song | Broken Sleep Books
Released 30th June, 2024 // 140 pages // 978-1-916938-17-5 // RRP £12.99 Stephen Emmerson's Big Song is a book concerned with overcoming trauma, with memory, with language, with body. It is a book abo...
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Stephen Emmerson @tothemadpoets.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Translation of Rainer Maria Rilke’s Die Aufzeichnungen des Malte Laurids Brigge. 2015.
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Stephen Emmerson @tothemadpoets.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Romanticism and Revolution. 2024.
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