Flying into the Bear

The bear is launched!

There are some pictures below, a sample poem and a link to an early review by John Field here. If you want to get hold of a copy, the best way is to get it direct at the HappenStance website.

Flying into the Bear, Chrissy Williams (a/w by Gillian Rose), published April 2013 by HappenStance Press.

Murder, She Wrote

A new pamphlet, broadsheet, broadside, poster, thing: Murder She Wrote. It's part of the p.o.w. series published by Antonio Claudio Carvalho, inspired by Hansjorg Mayer's futura series from the 1960s. I'm not quite sure how to describe it other than a dark love letter to Angela Lansbury. I'll paste some terrifyingly nice words about it from Chris McCabe below, though you can read about the whole series on Chris's blog, where there's also some info on how to get hold of them.

"Chrissy Williams is one of the few poets who've emerged over the past few years who gives me that static-suspense of wondering what she'll come up with next. Williams has a gift of layering the serious and preposterous which leaves you unsure if you should be dancing with the Muppets or calling for the undertaker. Her gift is in making what might be just preposterous in other poets' work seem inevitable in hers - why hasn't anyone written a violent love poem to Angela Lansbury before? This is a resounding end to p.o.w. series 2, melding poetry that is precisely tuned and mysterious with the visual in a way that it would be hard to imagine the world without."

Overview of the broadside.

p.1 of the broadside

The Jam Trap

Here it is - a real thing in the world! Albeit one filled with jam, scotch eggs, The Terminator and more than a couple of dogs. You can buy it direct from the publisher's website.

The pamphlet of 24 prose poems is published by Soaring Penguin Press and has been illustrated by lots of different wonderful comics artists including John Aggs, Lizz Lunney, Meiron Jones, Sarah McIntyre, Ellen Lindner, Laurenn McCubbin, Julia Scheele and many more.

From reviews:
Mslexia: "unusual and refreshing"
Tears in the Fence: "familiar truths presented with wry humour"
Sabotage Reviews: "an accessibility which belies its confident ingenuity"

You can preview some pages from the book over on Peony Moon.