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Cursing The Absent Sea No Label chapbook £4.99 New collection of poetic personal epiphany from this young Glaswegian poet and collaborator with Bill Shute. Edition of 30 copies, every one with a unique sleeve. Hand-made books. 23 leaves. |
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Stream (Salmon & Blood) Kendra Steiner Editions No Cat chapbook £4.99 Second trans-Atlantic collaboration between Glasgow-based poet Stuart Crutchfield and Texan Bill Shute conflates accounts of the dehumanizing effects of working on a salmon farm in northwest Scotland with parallel visions of Americans selling their blood on plasma lines. Two streams, two tributaries of down-on-their-luck humanity rendered with all of the fists and furious sadness of Charles Bukowski or William Wantling. Their best yet, recommended. Hand-numbered edition of 44 copies. |
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March (Sound Library Series Volume 18) Kendra Steiner Editions No Cat chapbook £4.99 New entry in Bill Shute's on-going sonically-themed Sound Library Series features a long text meditation on the gore/guts to steel/feedback ratio on Dream Aktion Unit's VT debut, Blood Shadow Rampage. Visceral, fleet wordage with enough comic book-consciousness to dig it as it should be dug. Cool Hammer-inspired cut-up art from Shute too. Hand-numbered edition of 36 copies. |
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Shack Simple Kendra Steiner Editions #34 chapbook £4.99 New work from Glasgow poet Stuart Crutchfield, rural meditations inspired by the work of the late Lew Welch. Hand-numbered edition of 38 copies. |
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Pythagoron Two (Creel Pone Sound Study #1) Kendra Steiner Editions #40 chapbook £4.99 New collaborative work from Shute and Crutchfield launching a new Kendra Steiner series dedicated to tracing the odd 20th century arcs documented by the Creel Pone reissue label in projective poetic form. This first volume flashes on the endless reflective sound-voids of Pythagoron Inc. 1977's amazing LP. Hand-numbered edition of 43 copies. |
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Pith Kendra Steiner Editions #61 chapbook £4.99 New collection from Glasgow-based poet Stuart Crutchfield, with a series of meditations on Henry Miller, Glaswegian space, tedious philosophers and raga forms. Edition of 29 hand-numbered copies. |
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Telesma Charging (Sound Library Series Volume 24) Kendra Steiner Editions #63 chapbook £4.99 New work from Crutchfield and Shute with a single extended wave form of words/images/times/places all inspired by the benign rays of Axolotl's amazing Telesma recording, a past VT Tip Of The Tongue. Hand-numbered edition of 37 copies and already sold-out at source. |
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Window On The Sea Kendra Steiner Editions chapbook £4.99 Excellent trans-Atlantic collaboration between these two poets, with Shute writing from Texas, Crutchfield from Glasgow. Parallel texts that work multi-directional narratives connected by a thin, silvery logic. Hand-numbered edition of 35 copies. |
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The Whaler’s Rest Nyali Recordings 6 CD-R £7.99 Brand new limited CD-R from the best new group in Scotland, Glasgow’s Smoke Jaguar. Smoke Jaguar tore it up when they opened Subcurrent 2010 and this new album, limited to 77 hand-numbered copies, is their most fully realized set to date. The duo have a remarkable dynamic, with Kevin McCarvel playing slow-motion puffs of sad single notes with all of the blasted weight of Suishou No Fune or Miminikoto while Stuart Crutchfield drops zagging bombs of barbed wire electricity all over the top. If you like twin guitars that sound like beams of white light wrestled into submission by two guys with an intuitive understanding of instant form, then you might wanna weld this one to your head. Massively heavy jams for fans of Skullflower, Universal Indians, Fushitsusha et al. Recommended. |
