The Perseverance by Raymond Antrobus Penned in the Margins 2018-11-09 | "Raymond Antrobus is as searching a poet as you're likely to find writing today."Kaveh AkbarThe Perseverance is the remarkable debut book by British-Jamaican poet Raymond Antrobus. Ranging across history and continents, these poems operate in the spaces in between, their haunting lyrics creating new, hybrid territories.The Perseverance is a book of loss, contested language and praise, where elegies for the poet’s father sit alongside meditations on the d/Deaf experience.pennedinthemargins.co.uk/index.php/2018/09/the-perseverance
Improvised Explosive Device by Arji Manuelpillai Penned in the Margins 2022-10-28 | Arji Manuelpillai reads the poem 'Mistaken Identity' from his collection Improvised Explosive Device (2022)
The Death of a Fridge by Holly Hopkins Penned in the Margins 2022-07-11 | Seaweed and sunburn. The death of a fridge. A 'pie-faced' St George upstaged by the horse.The English Summer confronts the illusions and paradoxes of history in poems that reimagine medieval anchorites and 18th-century follies, zombies and the Megabus. This is a landscape populated by overcrowded urban bedsits and burnt-out country piles, where ghosts of the past are sensed beneath dual carriageways and old gods emerge from rotting bindweed. Visceral and analytic at turns, Hopkins’ startling collection probes at the undergrowth of English culture; a white-hot debut by a poet of singular vision.pennedinthemargins.co.uk/index.php/2022/06/the-english-summerVideo by Jamie Macdonald
Tides by Olly Todd Penned in the Margins 2022-05-13 | Written by Olly ToddFilmed by Michael James FoxNarrated by RJ BayleyOut for Air is the exhilarating first collection of poetry by former professional skateboarder Olly Todd.Infused with movement, surprise and play, Out for Air presents a unique vision of the built environment, celebrating places where ‘the bridges are endless / beyond the cantilever / of reality’. Each poem is its own event: expansive in scope but intricate in form, a masterclass in precision engineering.Todd rewires T. S. Eliot’s Waste Land in his strange, compelling descriptions of the modern city: melting asphalt; a U-turning taxi; a diner swallowed by a sinkhole. In this disorientating landscape the skateboarder-poet is genius loci, the spirit of the place. From Manhattan’s ‘silky streets’ and the Pacific Coast Highway to inner-city London and his native Cumbria, together these poems record a life lived on the move, in motion, on the cusp of things.Find out more: http://www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk/index.php/2022/05/out-for-air
Notes on the Sonnets by Luke Kennard - joyously unclassifiable (The Guardian) Penned in the Margins 2021-04-13 | Luke Kennard recasts Shakespeare's 154 sonnets as a series of anarchic prose poems set in the same joyless house party.A physicist explains dark matter in the kitchen. A crying man is consoled by a Sigmund Freud action figure. An out-of-hours doctor sells phials of dark red liquid from a briefcase. Someone takes out a guitar.Wry, insolent and self-eviscerating, Notes on the Sonnets riddles the Bard with the anxieties of the modern age, bringing Kennard’s affectionate critique to subjects as various as love, marriage, God, metaphysics and a sad horse.Order your copy from http://www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk/index.php/2021/04/notes-on-the-sonnetsFilm by Jamie Macdonald airship23.comVoiceover by Michael Wagg twitter.com/michaelwagg
Fuck / Dust by Inua Ellams Penned in the Margins 2020-10-19 | The Actual is a symphony of personal and political fury — sometimes probing delicately, sometimes burning with raw energy.In 55 poems that swerve and crackle with a rare music, Inua Ellams unleashes a full-throated assault on empire and its legacies of racism, injustice and toxic masculinity. Written on the author’s phone, in transit, between meetings, before falling asleep and just after waking, this is poetry as polemic, as an act of resistance, but also as dream-vision. At its heart, this book confronts the absolutism and ‘foolish machismo’ of hero culture-from Perseus to Trump, from Batman to Boko Haram.Through the thick gauze of history, these breathtaking poems look the world square in the face and ask, “What the actual—?”Filmed by Shean Roberts
Fuck / Tupac by Inua Ellams Penned in the Margins 2020-10-16 | The Actual is a symphony of personal and political fury — sometimes probing delicately, sometimes burning with raw energy.In 55 poems that swerve and crackle with a rare music, Inua Ellams unleashes a full-throated assault on empire and its legacies of racism, injustice and toxic masculinity. Written on the author’s phone, in transit, between meetings, before falling asleep and just after waking, this is poetry as polemic, as an act of resistance, but also as dream-vision. At its heart, this book confronts the absolutism and ‘foolish machismo’ of hero culture-from Perseus to Trump, from Batman to Boko Haram.Through the thick gauze of history, these breathtaking poems look the world square in the face and ask, “What the actual—?”Find out more: http://www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk/?p=19579&preview=trueFilm by Jamie Macdonald
The Actual - Inua Ellams in conversation with Georgia Attlesey Penned in the Margins 2020-10-06 | Originally livestreamed on TwitterFilmed by Shean RobertsWarning: Strong language throughoutTo discover more visit www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk/index.php/2020/09/the-actual
Sanatorium Penned in the Margins 2020-03-30 | A young woman spends a month taking the waters at a thermal water-based rehabilitation facility in Budapest.On her return to London, she attempts to continue her recovery using an £80 inflatable blue bathtub. The tub becomes a metaphor for the intrusion of disability; a trip hazard in the middle of an unsuitable room, slowly deflating and in constant danger of falling apart.Sanatorium moves through contrasting spaces — bathtub to thermal pool, land to water, day to night — interlacing memoir, poetry and meditations on the body to create a mesmerising, mercurial debut.Film by Anna Ulrikke Andersen(c) Palmer and Andersen 2020
The East Edge - Nightwalks with the Dead Poets of Tower Hamlets Penned in the Margins 2019-10-11 | Follow Chris McCabe into the nocturnal world of Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park in search of the lost and forgotten poets of the East End.In The East Edge, McCabe leaves the safety of streetlights behind and walks in the footsteps of William Morris and W.G. Sebald through one of London’s most enigmatic Victorian cemeteries.Published 31.10.19http://www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk/index.php/2019/09/the-east-edge
Anthony Anaxagorou reads A Line of Simple Enquiry from After the Formalities Penned in the Margins 2019-10-11 | A knife is pulled. An Uber driver is racially abused. A father bathes his son in ice water. A schoolboy drives a drawing pin into a map of the world.The threat of violence is never far away in Anthony Anaxagorou’s breakthrough collection After the Formalities. Technically achieved, emotionally transformative and razor-sharp,these are poems that confront and contradict; poems in which the scholarly synthesises with the streetwise, and global histories are told through the lens of one family.Anaxagorou ‘speaks against the darkness’, tracking the male body under pressure from political and historical forces, and celebrates the precarious joy of parenthood. The title poem is a meditation on racism and race science that draws on the poet’s Cypriot heritage and is as uncomfortable as it is virtuosic. Elsewhere, in a sequence of prose poems that shimmer with lyric grace, he writes, ‘I’m your father & the only person keeping you alive.’Published October 2019, priced £9.99Order online: http://www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk/index.php/2019/08/after-the-formalities
Chipfork by Chris McCabe (from The Triumph of Cancer) Penned in the Margins 2018-11-13 | A Poetry Book Society Recommendation for Winter 2018The Triumph of Cancer blurs the borders of science and poetry, working with forensic attention to capture the ‘inscape’ of the living world.In this powerful new collection, presented as a museum of artefacts, Chris McCabe returns to the site of personal trauma to confront disease head-on. Elegies for his father, poets and celebrities mingle with still-life portraits of organic and synthetic subjects. These poems move with lyric grace and surgical precision against a backdrop of terror and cancerous global politics, showing McCabe at the height of his powers: dextrous, darkly comic and a true original.pennedinthemargins.co.uk/index.php/2018/10/the-triumph-of-cancer
Clatterbridge by Chris McCabe (from The Triumph of Cancer) Penned in the Margins 2018-11-13 | A Poetry Book Society Recommendation for Winter 2018The Triumph of Cancer blurs the borders of science and poetry, working with forensic attention to capture the ‘inscape’ of the living world.In this powerful new collection, presented as a museum of artefacts, Chris McCabe returns to the site of personal trauma to confront disease head-on. Elegies for his father, poets and celebrities mingle with still-life portraits of organic and synthetic subjects. These poems move with lyric grace and surgical precision against a backdrop of terror and cancerous global politics, showing McCabe at the height of his powers: dextrous, darkly comic and a true original.pennedinthemargins.co.uk/index.php/2018/10/the-triumph-of-cancer
The Triumph of Cancer by Chris McCabe Penned in the Margins 2018-11-09 | A Poetry Book Society Recommendation for Winter 2018The Triumph of Cancer blurs the borders of science and poetry, working with forensic attention to capture the ‘inscape’ of the living world.In this powerful new collection, presented as a museum of artefacts, Chris McCabe returns to the site of personal trauma to confront disease head-on. Elegies for his father, poets and celebrities mingle with still-life portraits of organic and synthetic subjects. These poems move with lyric grace and surgical precision against a backdrop of terror and cancerous global politics, showing McCabe at the height of his powers: dextrous, darkly comic and a true original.http://www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk/index.php/2018/10/the-triumph-of-cancer
Low Country: Brexit on the Essex Coast Penned in the Margins 2018-11-09 | In 2016 Tom Bolton set out on a mission to walk the long, winding coastline of Essex — from Purfleet on the Thames Estuary to the Suffolk border.Low Country records his probing, hallucinatory journeys along crumbling sea-walls and through retail parks, past abandoned military forts and plotlands. He uncovers an ancient battlefield upstream from a decommissioned nuclear power station, visits England’s most deprived community and treks the remote and beautiful Dengie peninsula in search of forgotten stories.In the treacherous mudflats and coastal resorts of England’s eastern edge, an alternative vision begins to emerge, shaken by Brexit and the rise of new, populist politics in Britain and America. In this low country of vast horizons, where land and sea are in constant flux, Bolton discovers a hidden history of invasion, resistance and radical thinking. A timely new book from the celebrated author of London’s Lost Rivers and Vanished City, Low Country repositions the edgelands of Essex at the political and imaginative heart of England.pennedinthemargins.co.uk/index.php/2018/10/low-country-brexit-on-the-essex-coastMusic: 'Sleeping Dragons' by Lobo Loco (freemusicarchive.org)
Fair Field (2017) - Highlights from Ledbury, Shoreditch & the Malvern Hills Penned in the Margins 2018-07-03 | In summer 2017 a masterpiece of medieval English literature came back to life.Audiences joined the dreamer, Will, as he searched for Truth across the spectacular landscape of the Malvern Hills and witnessed his arrival into London’s original suburb of sin. Against a backdrop of social and spiritual crisis, Fair Field introduced a cast of incredible characters – from Reason and Conscience to a binge-drinking Gluttony and Piers the Plowman – in an unmissable fusion of the modern and the medieval.Fair Field was conceived by award-winning arts company Penned in the Margins, and created with a collective of exciting writers and performers including Breach Theatre, Francesca Millican-Slater and The Society of Strange and Ancient Instruments.thisfairfield.com
Meryl Pugh, ‘Palace’ (Natural Phenomena) Penned in the Margins 2018-02-27 | Poet Meryl Pugh reads 'Palace' from her debut collection Natural PhenomenaPublished by Penned in the Margins, 2018pennedinthemargins.co.uk/index.php/2018/01/natural-phenomena
Meryl Pugh, ‘Green Alkanet’ (Natural Phenomena) Penned in the Margins 2018-02-27 | Poet Meryl Pugh reads 'Green Alkanet' from her debut collection Natural PhenomenaPublished by Penned in the Margins, 2018pennedinthemargins.co.uk/index.php/2018/01/natural-phenomena
Meryl Pugh, ‘Collapse Lament Fantasy’ (Natural Phenomena) Penned in the Margins 2018-02-27 | Poet Meryl Pugh reads 'Collapse Lament Fantasy' from her debut collection Natural PhenomenaPublished by Penned in the Margins, 2018pennedinthemargins.co.uk/index.php/2018/01/natural-phenomena
Meryl Pugh, ‘Berg’ (Natural Phenomena) Penned in the Margins 2018-02-27 | Poet Meryl Pugh reads 'Berg' from her debut collection Natural PhenomenaPublished by Penned in the Margins, 2018pennedinthemargins.co.uk/index.php/2018/01/natural-phenomena
Meryl Pugh reads Palace Penned in the Margins 2018-02-22 | Poet Meryl Pugh reads 'Palace' from her debut collection Natural Phenomena (Penned in the Margins, 2018).***A book of witnessing and overhearing, Natural Phenomena is the long-awaited debut collection by Meryl Pugh.A city lies in ruins. Spires topple, planes fall. Rubble is broken by wildflower. The radio chatter of birdsong.Follow the poet as futurist and flaneuse as she searches for unexpected beauty in a landscape of plastic, wire and glass. With a probing, precise lyric, these poems monitor the urban landscape on the edge of change, revealing the flora and fauna of its hidden spaces, and transforming its wild edgelands into a many-voiced song.
The Old Weird Albion Penned in the Margins 2017-11-17 | The Old Weird Albion is conceived as a series of movements across the South Downs of Hampshire and Sussex; a poetic essay interrogating the high, haunted landscape of the English South.Justin Hopper traces memories, myths and forgotten histories from Winchester to Beachy Head, joining New Age eccentrics and accidental visionaries on the hunt for crop circles, ancient chalk figures and eerie suburbs: the ruins of prehistoric pasts and utopian futures. Hopper casts himself as the outsider – an American initiate searching for an English heritage – and mixes doubt with desire in pursuit of mystical encounters in the Downs.pennedinthemargins.co.uk/index.php/2017/09/the-old-weird-albionMusic: 'In the Vale of the White Horse' by Sharron Kraushttp://www.sharronkraus.com
No Dogs, No Indians - Interview with playwright Siddhartha Bose Penned in the Margins 2017-08-25 | Poet & plawright Siddhartha Bose talks about colonialism, identity and cultural appropriation ahead of his new play No Dogs, No Indians.No Dogs, No Indians was written to mark the 70th Anniversary of Indian Independence. It was played during summer 2017 at Brighton Festival, Southbank Centre, Norwich Arts Centre and Live Theatre.How far would you go to resist oppression? What would you choose to remember, and what to forget?It is 1932 in occupied Bengal. A young revolutionary prepares to storm a whites-only club in Chittagong, an act of defiance that will end in her taking her own life. The sign above the club reads No Dogs, No Indians.Decades later, an aspiring intellectual born in post-independence Kolkata is in love with all things British: Shakespeare, cricket, The Beatles. But as he contemplates the past and imagines his children’s future, he begins to question his own identity.Now in 2017, a man returns from London on the news of his father’s death. In the New India, he encounters steel magnates, supermodels and tech millionaires, but is haunted by ghosts from the past.Three intertwining stories explore the effects and legacy of the British in India in a powerful new play by poet and playwright Siddhartha Bose to mark the 70th anniversary of Indian independence.pennedinthemargins.co.uk/index.php/2017/02/no-dogs-no-indians
Amaan Hyder reads from At Hajj Penned in the Margins 2017-08-25 | Poet Amaan Hyder reads from the central sequence of his debut book, At Hajj (Penned in the Margins, 2017).Order now: http://bit.ly/athajj
Cenotaph South: Mapping the Lost Poets of Nunhead Cemetery Penned in the Margins 2016-11-07 | Chris McCabe introduces his new non-fiction book Cenotaph South in Nunhead Cemetery - one of London's most spectacular, and wildest, Victorian cemeteries.It ends with a short reading from a prose text by Walter Thornbury, one of the poets Chris discovered in Nunhead Cemetery.More information about the book: http://www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk/index.php/2016/10/cenotaph-south-mapping-the-lost-poets-of-nunhead-cemetery-2
Luke Kennard reads Cain Reverses Time Penned in the Margins 2016-07-28 | Poet Luke Kennard reads 'Cain Reverses Time' from his new book Cain (Penned in the Margins, 2016)Order now: http://www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk/index.php/2016/04/cain
Luke Kennard on poetry, faith, vaping and why hes a tragic hipster Penned in the Margins 2016-07-28 | Poet Luke Kennard interviewed on the occasion of his new book Cain (Penned in the Margins, 2016)Order now: http://www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk/index.php/2016/04/cain
Luke Kennard reads This DDoS Attack on My Heart Penned in the Margins 2016-07-28 | Poet Luke Kennard reads 'This DDoS Attack on My Heart' from his new book Cain (Penned in the Margins, 2016)Order now: http://www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk/index.php/2016/04/cain
‘Rooms’ by John McCullough - i.m. Lee Harwood 1939-2015 Penned in the Margins 2016-04-30 | Brighton poet John McCullough reads 'Rooms' (from Spacecraft, 2016), in memory of his friend, the poet Lee Harwood (1939-2015).Spacecraft is available now from Penned in the Margins priced £9.99pennedinthemargins.co.uk/index.php/2016/04/spacecraft
‘The Middle Class in the Launderette as Pandas at the Zoo’ by Tim Wells Penned in the Margins 2016-04-23 | Tim Wells reads 'The Middle Class in the Launderette as Pandas at the Zoo' from his new collection Everything Crashpennedinthemargins.co.uk/index.php/2015/09/everything-crash
Astéronymes by Claire Trévien Penned in the Margins 2016-04-19 | Anglo-Breton poet Claire Trévien on how lost islands and Wikipedia deletion threads feature in her new collection ASTÉRONYMES.Published March 2016 by Penned in the Margins (London).pennedinthemargins.co.uk/index.php/2016/02/asteronymes
Spacecraft by John McCullough Penned in the Margins 2016-04-19 | John McCullough talks about the influence of Brighton on his poetry and reads 'In the Angelfish Cafe' - his homage to a city of pebble beaches and alternative subcultures.Spacecraft is published by Penned in the Margins, May 2016, £9.99pennedinthemargins.co.uk/index.php/2016/04/spacecraft
The Shipwrecked House by Claire Trevien Penned in the Margins 2016-02-08 | The Shipwrecked HouseWritten & performed by Claire TrevienDirected by Tom ChiversMusic & sound design by Oliver BarrettProduction design by Gary CampbellLighting design by Claire ChildsConsultant direction by Russell BenderProduction assistance by Nick MurrayProduced by Penned in the MarginsCommissioned by Ledbury Poetry FestivalSupporting using public funding by Arts Council EnglandMore information: pennedinthemargins.co.uk/index.php/2014/02/the-shipwrecked-house-2
Ten Years of Penned in the Margins Penned in the Margins 2016-02-08 | This short film was made for the ten year anniversary of innovative, independent publisher and arts producing company Penned in the Margins.The film features Director Tom Chivers, Associate Artists Hannah Silva, Ross Sutherland and Siddhartha Bose, Creative Associate Russell Bender, and more.The film was made by Maria Tzika and first shown at Rich Mix, London on Saturday 6th September 2014.
The Shipwrecked House by Claire Trevien (Elegy) Penned in the Margins 2016-02-08 | The Shipwrecked HouseWritten & performed by Claire TrevienDirected by Tom ChiversMusic & sound design by Oliver BarrettProduction design by Gary CampbellLighting design by Claire ChildsConsultant direction by Russell BenderProduction assistance by Nick MurrayProduced by Penned in the MarginsCommissioned by Ledbury Poetry FestivalSupporting using public funding by Arts Council EnglandMore information: pennedinthemargins.co.uk/index.php/2014/02/the-shipwrecked-house-2
Schlock! by Hannah Silva trailer Penned in the Margins 2016-01-30 | Schlock! is a powerful feminist satire for the cut and paste generation. In the grand tradition of literary terrorism, Hannah has ripped up her copy of Fifty Shades of Grey and now, surrounded by the crumpled pages and with the help of radical punk-pirate Kathy Acker, she attempts to put the female body back together. Join them on a journey through texts and voices pregnant with pain and pleasure, mothers and babies, domination and submission. In a performance as strange as it is beautiful, we discover there are no safe words.Commissioned by The Poetry Trust. Development supported by Birmingham Repertory Theatre Foundry and mac birmingham. Produced by Penned in the Margins. Supported using public funding by Arts Council England.Music featured:'Masâr' by Le Trio JoubranCollaborators: Rachel Mars, David Lane, Daryl JacksonDiscover more about Schlock!: pennedinthemargins.co.uk/index.php/2014/08/schlock-3DIscover more about Hannah Silva: hannahsilva.co.uk
Ascents in the Vertical City: Stave Hill Penned in the Margins 2016-01-30 | Excerpted from 'Stave Hill' by Tom ChiversPublished in Mount London: Ascents in the Vertical City, ed. Tom Chivers & Martin Kratz (Penned in the Margins, 2014)BUY ONLINE: http://www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk/index.php/2014/03/mount-londonFilmed & edited by Tom Chivers, January 2015Music: 'The High Priestess' by Goat, from Free Music Archive
Dagestan: behind the scenes Penned in the Margins 2016-01-23 | Scratch showingFriday 16 October, 7.30pmSaturday 17 October, 2.30pm & 7.30pmBOOK NOW richmix.org.uk/whats-on/event/dagestan- Cast -Robin BerrySteve NorthGareth TempestMaya WasowiczWritten by SJ FowlerDramaturgy by Russell BenderProduced by Penned in the MarginsThanks to Rich Mix for supporting the development of Dagestan through rehearsal space
Sunspots Trailer Penned in the Margins 2016-01-23 | Sunspots is a poetic, musical, and visual journey from the birth of the Sun, through its long and eventful life, towards its ultimate death.2 OCT LONDON Southbank Centre8 OCT READING South Street9 OCT MANCHESTER MHC13 OCT BOURNEMOUTH Arts Festival6 NOV HULL Humber Mouth Festival25 NOV YORK St John University7 DEC LONDON Kings Place11 JAN 2016 OXFORD Playhouse (BT Studio)26 JAN 2016 NOTTINGHAM Lakeside28 JAN 2016 HALIFAX Square ChapelWriter/performer: Simon BarracloughMusic: Simon Barraclough & Oliver BarrettFilm: Jack Wake-WalkerProduced by Penned in the Marginspennedinthemargins.co.uk/index.php/2015/01/sunspots-2
Downfall parody: Board meeting at a poetry publisher (Christmas 2015) Penned in the Margins 2015-11-18 | ...
Holophin Penned in the Margins 2012-08-23 | HOLOPHINLUKE KENNARDPENNED IN THE MARGINS, 2012http://www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk/index.php/2012/08/holophinVoiceover by Kirsten Irving
Kalagora trailer Penned in the Margins 2010-10-08 | Kalagora by Siddhartha Bose Produced by Penned in the Margins Funded by Arts Council England http://www.kalagora.com Tour dates 2010/2011 Oct 21 LONDON Richmix Oct 23 DURHAM Book Festival Nov 6 BERLIN Poetry Hearings Nov 25 SALISBURY Arts Centre Jan 26 WARWICK Arts Centre Jan 29 LIVERPOOL Bluecoat Mar 10 MAIDENHEAD Norden Farm
Joe Dunthorne - Poetic Form, Metaphor and Alchemy Penned in the Margins 2010-06-19 | Joe Dunthorne talks to Hand + Star editor Tom Chivers about poetic form, metaphor, David Berman and reads his poem 'Alchemy'
