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Ace Farren Ford – Escape From Beneath the Valley of Thursdays

Second selection of poems by Ace Farren Ford published in 1996. The free-form improvisational poems were xeroxed and staple-bound and combined with artwork by Ford himself and a xeroxed photo by Tom Jamison. The book is as roughly cut and put together as the poems are. This compilation is raw and uncompromising. Each copy guaranteed battered. Get real with this one.

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Gustav Metzger: ‘damaged nature, auto-destructive art’

German artist and activist Gustav Metzger was born to Jewish parents in Nuremberg in 1926. Having found refuge from the Nazis in the UK in 1939 and having been awarded a grant by the Jewish community there after the war, he was able to study at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp in the late 1940s. His experience of mankind’s destructive capabilities during World War II led him to formulate his concept of…

Abracadabra #3

Abracadabra was an international magazine of poetry and arts that ran for 5 issues from 1977 to 1981. Editor-in-chief of the short-lived magazine was Marcello Angioni (1939), a Sardinian who had moved to Luxembourg and from there published Abracadabra with co-editors poet, artist and Swiss-Italian architect Franco Beltrametti (1937-1995) and Dutch photographer Harry Hoogstraten (1941). The magazine brought together a choice of American and European poets and artists, combining English and Italian poems and texts…

Ira Cohen – From the Divan of Petra Vogt (white cover version)

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 those years Cohen published his seminal Gnaoua journal with contributions by Jack Smith…

Cameron Jamie – Inner Planets (signed)

Inner Planets is a bilingual artists’ book by American artist Cameron Jamie (1969). It was published during Jamie’s installation of the same name at the Palmenhaus of the Old Botanical Garden of Zürich in June 2013. The installation, in which 43 ceramic masks were hung from the roof of the glass building like a colourful galaxy or a pantheon for visitors to look up to, was curated by Lynn Kost…

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