The Sea Urchin pamphlet The Fifth Day is a passage lifted from Edgar Allan Poe's tale Manuscript Found in a Bottle. The tale was first published in 1833 after it had won an award of $50 in a contest organised by the Baltimore Saturday Visiter. The version published by Sea Urchin is how it...

Arrigo Lora-Totino (1928-2016) was an artist and poet from Turin, Italy. He is considered one of the key figures in Italian sound poetry. Lora-Totino's first experiments with poetry stem from the late 1950s-early 1960s, a period in which he also founded his first magazine dedicated to...

New arrival from Inkblot/LargerNovae: Roger Knoebber - Hysteresis: A Profile of Brion Gysin In the late 1950s in Paris, at the famed Beat Hotel - 9 rue Gît-le-Coeur - writer Roger Knoebber was living amongst a community of creative people, including the core of what became known as...

American photographer, poet and publisher Ira Cohen was born to deaf parents in the Bronx in 1935. After having dropped out of Cornell University, having married and having had two children with his wife Arlene Bond, Cohen sailed to Tangier in 1961, where he stayed for four years. In...