Verity Spott, Went to Get the Sink Unblocker
With you to my ear I couldn't expect to be a blocked person. We find our way. If, by the material consolidation of kitchen bathroom beach sky office interiors, by echo of 'speck' on uninterruptible rant, by the cool, fungal dust and crust that seeks our sanitizing desires, you find yourself barbed and aggravated, a turn of music pulling your lip toward your ear in a loud whisper, yet in loving seized up, trailing the day bubbled up from the gut, from the aisle to the transaction point to the boudoir to the aubade to the escape hatch, then read on. Open its stars to your eyelids. We move into and out of these lines so finely burnished yet so porous: you must experience it firsthand in the throat: repulsion and possession in the same pinch on the breath inhaled and offgassed. It's an intensive, prefrontal lobe picaresque. It will not appease your ethical consumption. It will make dizzy the frame of the tottering states in and around you, shivers on the memory whose ebb finds the face on the beach, the body in the message, in the room, under the stars.
In its nervous rapture of noncompliance with what is outside love, in its anabatic whorls of tempestuous thought-linkage, deviating if and when it pleases, Went to Get the Sink Unblocker is a thrill.
Verity Spott is a poet from Brighton whose publications include The North Road Songbook (Pilot Press), Hopelessness (the 87 Press) and Poems of Sappho (Face Press).
24 pages
100 copies
ISBN: 979-8-9890601-1-5
5.5” x 8” risograph-printed on French Paper by Pet Riso Studio, Philadelphia
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Issue 2
Issue 2 is our second poetical compilation, now available! 👇
D.S. Marriott
Sara Larsen
Kit Robinson
Devin Johnston
Julian Talamantez Brolaski
Marie Buck
Rod Smith
Pattie McCarthy
48 pages, 8” x 10” risograph-printed, saddle-stitched on French paper with radiant exterior and interior covers illustrated by Jason Mitchell and printed by Pet Riso Studio, Philadelphia.
Limited edition of 125 copies.
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Issue 1
Will Alexander
John Wilkinson
Bridget Talone
Jasmine Gibson
Jennifer Moxley
Oki Sogumi
Connie Scozzaro
Keston Sutherland
50 pages, 8” x 10” risograph-printed, saddle-stitched on French paper with multi-color exterior and interior covers illustrated by Jason Mitchell and printed by Pet Riso Studio, Philadelphia.
Limited edition of 100 copies.
We are all sold out of Issue 1, but you can download a digital version here.
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John Coletti, Attachment Simply
Coterie love songs, carbonated jests, sharp and bleary snapshots, wit-laced asides placed right under the nose, ready for a strong and giddy waft; found voices, iridescently puckered, deftly plucked out of the channels, pastures, and secrets and transformed into a sensuous textual register. All too aware of the vibrant calamitous joy, seeking the chance community of pocket encounters, this fresh batch of poems–at times dedicated to Coletti's fellow travelers–has guts. They move through the true and trite, the contemplative and absurd, the sensible and gormless in ways that feel genuinely wonderful of their surroundings, reminding us it's okay to be delighted with the bright totals within particulars.
“Skype horse on DMT”. What else do you need?
John Coletti is the author of Attachment Simply (Eternal Sections, 2023), Peppermint Oil (PUSH, 2020), Deep Code (City Lights, 2014), Mum Halo (Rust Buckle Books, 2010), Same Enemy Rainbow (fewer & further, 2008), and Physical Kind (Yo-Yo-Labs, 2005). With Anselm Berrigan, he is the author of Skasers (Flowers & Cream, 2012).
Read a few:
48 pages
200 copies
Risograph-printed on French Paper by Pet Riso Studio
ISBN: 979-8-9890601-0-8
We are all sold out of John Coletti’s Attachment Simply.
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