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Beefy's Tune (Dean Blunt Edit)
Dean Blunt is the most important British artist of the current century because he fundamentally does not care about Britain. His importance makes it shocking that such little critical attention has been paid to his work. His indifference explains it. Dhanveer Singh Brar's Beefy's Tune (Dean Blunt Edit) looks to initiate a conversation that needs to be had about Dean Blunt, about Britain (through Blunt's indifference to it), and about Blackness in Britain (through the depth and complexity of Blunt's feeling for it). Using the 2016 album 'BBF Hosted By DJ Escrow' as a means of navigation, Brar hears Blunt in order to access the long contested dream of Britain's disappearance that was conducted...
Hopelessness
"The brilliant Verity Spott has a new book out, called Hopelessness and published by the 87 Press. The work defies categorisation: Verity is a poet, and this book is certainly poetry, but large parts are in prose form and towards the end it even takes on the structure of an absurdist play. There seems to be a loose narrative, and even recurring character voices, so I'm tempted to call it a short experimental novel, in the vein of Kenneth Patchen's The Journal Of Albion Moonlight (a personal favourite). Ultimately though I'd just call it a book; one full of words that are profound, moving, silly, sad, challenging and beautiful in equal measure. Even though it's still a boldly experimental pie...
Novelty Theory
Novelty Theory is the fiery debut collection of poetry by Caspar Heinemann. Described by Bhanu Kapil as follows: "Caspar Heinemann has written an anthem for alien beloveds everywhere, in the time before rising up and where the "pre-nothings" burn up as soon as you touch them. Reading this book burst adhesions in my outlook, which is what I want (always). A book without an afterwards or a before, Novelty Theory occupies an intense present that does not console its readers. Can poetry be a form of cultural revenge?"
Naturally it is Not
Callie Gardner's debut collection Naturally it is not: a poem in four letters is a remarkable work written between the Spring Equinox of 2016 and the Spring Equinox of 2017. It is a work that moves between form, part lyric, part manifesto, part essay. Gardner's poetry here is a truly unique blend of avant-garde rhetoric, utopian politics, and elemental alchemy. A timely work that engages anew with 'the natural' and 'the cultural' in an era marked by the increasing irrelevance of the four-season cycle of the year under climate change.
Dear Diaspora
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Moving Impressions
"This first volume in the87press's new imprint 'The South London Cultural Review' explores the moving power of artworks as selected by academics, film-makers, thinkers, and writers"--Back cover.
The Bow
"Writhing with sensitivity and tumult, this is a work of slippery power." -Momtaza Mehri "These poems destroy lies to buzz around us no more." -CAConrad Debut full-length collection from Palestinian/Jordanian poet Mira Mattar, a sequence of long poems that meander through quotidian desires amidst the backdrop of political crises. For Fans of: June Jordan, Mahmood Darwish, Hafez, Daisy Lafarge.
Fleshed Out for All the Corners of the Slip
"This major new work is thought, spirit and sense (in every sense) 'fleshed out' in 'all the corners' by being unmade - as poetry, as music, as (black and white) images, and as attention to the interconnected circuitries the One has with the social, historical and environmental 'to / link us outside'." - Emily Critchley For fans of: Nathaniel Mackey, Fred Moten, Will Alexander, D. S. Mariott This is a book of poems and an essay infused with the tempos of Grime music and black radical thought.
Broken Jaw
Minoli Salgado's Broken Jaw is a beautifully orchestrated collection of eighteen stories set mainly in Sri Lanka from a writer who has gained international recognition for her evocative representation of the trauma of war. This brave and passionate book not only speaks against silences - official and unofficial - but also tests the limits of what can be said, reminding us that though it may be 10 years since the civil war in the country ended, its legacy remains. The book is divided into two parts, 'Rumours' and 'Ventriloquy and Other Acts', that take the reader on a journey from the public world of political conflict to the private space of home, from the dislocations of violence and migration to a personal quest for peace and renewal, charting the emergence of a speaking voice in the context of its suppression and denial. These intricately crafted stories are at once enchanting and harrowing, full of resilience and courage, suffering and hope. Shortlisted for the Republic of Consciousness Prize 2020, Longlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction 2020.
Why So Few Women on the Street at Night
"Why so few women on the street at night is another brilliant offering from the87press." -Bhanu Kapil A searing and multi-form debut from Palestinian human rights activist and theorist Sarona Abuaker. Complete with images from performance pieces, essays, fragments of theory and notebooks, these are poems that engage the reader in thinking about liberation. For Fans of: Anna Mendelssohn, Ghassan Kanafani, Mira Mattar, Adania Shibli.
