Todd Tamanend Clark’s ‘The Deathguard Remnants‘ (2014) and ‘The Pink Chunk Unearthed…‘ (2015) are two releases on cassette on No Basement Is Deep Enough available from Sea Urchin. Both of them are wild, psychedelic releases beautifully packaged. The Pink Chunk cassette comes in a green hand made sock topped with a polyurethane blob, spray painted pink. Insanity’s tuxedo. A fold-out insert with an accompanying text and photos is included, but those are insane too. And Todd Tamanend Clark’s cassette comes packaged in a hand made trapezoid leatherette pouch with a strain of black hair extension attached to it. Inside the pouch a nice triangular fold-out insert with track list can also be found. Sea Urchin distributes the very last copies of this mind-blowing release. Take a look in our catalogue for more information.

Yannis Livadas (1969) is a Greek experimental poet, writer, jazz scholar and translator who lives in Paris, France. His translations from English into Greek include works by Jack Kerouac, Charles Bukowski, Harold Norse, Gregory Corso, Frank O’Hara and Ezra Pound. Livadas’s highly individual poetry incorporates an idea of experimentalism that is based on ‘organic antimetathesis’: the scaling indeterminacy of meaning, of syntactic comparisons and structural contradistinction. Livadas’s poetry thus stretches beyond the limits of individual expression and aesthetics. While remaining firmly rooted in individual experience and thought, it opens up new perspectives and creates unforeseen vistas in the solid and carefully chosen images of the poet’s personal surroundings.

The Sea Urchin chapbook ‘Strictly Two‘ brings together and at the same time opposes two of Livadas’s finest poems: ‘My bones in the soup of my grave’ and ‘A poem I once wrote’, both translated from Greek into English by Livadas himself. ‘Strictly Two’: two poems that run deep and carve their way through the basalts of truth.

Sea Urchin has just published two slim chapbooks that have been put together from a fine pick of papers and have been cut, folded, watercoloured and stitched by hand in limited editions of 15 copies. One is the expressionist poem The Bog (‘Das Moor’, 1913-1914) by German author Gustav Sack and the other the A Wilderness of Dreams, an opiate passage from ‘Hans Phaall – A Tale’ (1835) by Edgar Allan Poe. Illustrations for both editions: Ben Schot. Only 15 copies of each available! See our catalogue for more information.