#Sally-Shakti Willow

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Four Books from Hesterglock

Art book of visual poetry logbook by hiromi suzuki published by Hesterglock Press

"These collages rarely reach for mimetic depiction, and instead offer gestures of space and movement by which we might construct our own narrative or poetic resonances with the work on the page" ― Review by Sally-Shakti Willow

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Four Books from Hesterglock (2018) :  logbook by hiromi suzuki  

via  the contemporary small pres  (September 7, 2018)

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you are invited to the launch of Toward Passion According, a new pamphlet of poems by Jazmine Linklater – with readings from Laura Elliott, Sally-Shakti Willow, and Jazmine Linklater! 

7pm, Sunday 18th February, at the Peckham Pelican, 92 Peckham Road, London

you can also find information about the event on facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/201428337106581/

entry is free, and there will be a book & zine table. we hope to see you there!

ABOUT THE POETS

Sally-Shakti Willow researches and writes utopian poetics at the University of Westminster, where she is also a visiting lecturer in English Literature and Creative Writing.  Her poems have been published by Adjacent Pineapple, Eyewear, The Projectionist’s Playground and Zarf.  The Unfinished Dream, a collaborative chapbook with visual artist Joe Evans, was published by Sad Press in 2016. Sally is the research assistant for The Contemporary Small Press project run by the Institute of Modern and Contemporary Culture at the University of Westminster, and is on the judging panel for the Republic of Consciousness Prize for literary fiction from the small presses.  Follow her on Twitter: @Spaewitch.

Laura Elliott is a poet and library worker in London. She co-edits the poetry publishing experiment para·text with Angus Sinclair (@paratextual | paratext.co.uk). Her debut collection, lemon, egg, bread, was published by Test Centre in 2017.

Jazmine Linklater’s lives and writes in Manchester. Her first pamphlet, Toward Passion According is published by Zarf Editions, 2017 (you can buy it here), and a second, Découper, Coller, follows from Dock Road Press in 2018. She runs social media for T-junction International Poetry Festival and works part-time at Carcanet.

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Atha by Sally-Shakti Willow (Knives Forks Spoons Press)

Atha by Sally-Shakti Willow (Knives Forks Spoons Press)

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Hi Zero #73 - Tuesday 29th October

Hi Zero Seventy-Three features readings and performances from Dolly Turing & Sally-Shakti Willow, Samuel James, and Rosy Carrick, upstairs at the Hope & Ruin on Tuesday 29th October. Here they are: Dolly Turing & Sally-Shakti Willow Sally-Shakti Willow researches, writes and performs utopian poetics as ritual to open up [r]evolutionary space for positive transformation. Sally-Shakti’s poetic rituals include ‘radical doula’ a poem for the Rise Up & Repeal anthology (Sad Press 2019), which was written with the intention of performing a ritual/role/service as a ‘long-distance doula’ for the birthing of conscious and supported abortion practices in Ireland following the vote to Repeal the 8th Amendment in 2018. She sometimes teaches/has taught literature, poetry, creative writing and Wellbeing When Writing at the University of Westminster. Poetry publications to date: The Unfinished Dream (Sad Press, 2016) and Atha (Knives Forks and Spoons Press, 2019). Forthcoming: [un].holy: 33 sonnets for Brigid and Writing Utopia, an anthology of utopian poetics co-edited with Sarer Scotthorne (both with Hesterglock Press, 2020).   Dolly Turing works in poetry, sound, play, ritual, magic. They love collaborations, resonance, dissonance; finding new, open, transformative ways to tell stories, and remembering to tell the cosmic joke. One growing, evolving thing they are working on is Quest)ion), a poetry meets soundscape ritual about what it is to love places: real and imaginary, spirits, stories and nothingness. What responsibilities do our ancestors leave us with? What is belonging? What is ‘home’? The other, Play Stance, explores play as transmutation, metamorphosis and meaning cookery. The two overlap, both with a side of queerness, and invoking of high/hard spirits. Their first pamphlet OH (PARA)COSMIC BEING came out with The Vinter Olympiks in October 2016. They have had work published by Datableed and Litmus and music out on Contour Records. Their poem The Past’s Future in Ignota’s Spells anthology was described as a “bold anthem”  in The New Statesman (wtf). Together, Sally-Shakti and Dolly have written and performed a series of collaborative anti-racist dub-ritual-poems for the Original Plus Dub anthology (Hesterglock Press, 2019) and Freedom of Movement – a ritual-poetry-protest-anti-Brexit-performance at the mid-point between Article 50 and the initial Brexit date, with Yael Karavan & Xelís de Torro. Their work at October’s Hi Zero is both a new beginning and continuation of this process. + Rosy Carrick Rosy's first full poetry collection, Chokey, was published in 2018 by Burning Eye Books. For the last decade she has hosted the poetry stages at Latitude and Glastonbury festivals, and is also co-curator of the Port Eliot festival poetry stage. Rosy has a PhD on the poetry of Vladimir Mayakovsky and has released two books of his work in translation: Volodya (Enitharmon, 2015) and Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (Smokestack, 2017). Last year, Rosy's debut play Passionate Machine won the Best New Play award at Brighton Fringe and The Infallibles Award for Theatrical Excellence at Edinburgh Fringe. This year she has been alternately touring that show and working on Musclebound, a new project about the politics of the eroticised torture of male bodybuilders in 1980s Hollywood films. It's going to be VERY SEXY. + Samuel James Samuel James lives and teaches in the south of England. He writes stories that are sometimes like poems, lifted from a variety of sources ALL Upstairs at the Hope & Ruin, Brighton. Doors at 7:30pm for an 8:00pm start. PLUS Music from a thing, books, bar, and discussion. £3 entry. ACCESSIBILITY INFO The Hope & Ruin has a stepped street entrace of approx. 10-15cm, and two flights of stairs from the pub level to the venue on the first floor. There is a wheelchair accessible gender-neutral toilet on the ground floor of the pub in the stairwell; the m/f toilets on the first floor (the venue) are not wheelchair accessible. There is a bar in the venue, and plenty of seating. This information is not exhaustive, so If you have any other accessibility inquiries, please contact me (Joe Luna) or the venue.

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ZARF #14 is here! with poems by sidrah zubair, hilary white, arun sood, sadia pineda hameed, radha patel, s. niroshini, isabela montello, stéphane mallarmé (translated by peter manson), nour el-issa, lotte l.s., anna jepson, sarah cave, linda kemp, sally-shakti willow, sy brand, tom betteridge, jakky bankong-obi, sandra alland

plus! e. v. moore reviews Very Authentic Person by kat sinclair, flo taylor reviews Kalimba by petero kalulé, and arianne maki on Dream Babes 2.0, edited by victoria sin

buy now for £2, or £4 with our most recent pamphlet <3

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new issue!! featuring poems from 

sally-shakti willow rhys trimble timothy thornton joseph persad dominic leonard paul hawkins alison graham kate duckney denise bonetti aysar ghassan

and @trespassingassemblies​ reviews bryony bates

and @cherry-lemonade reviews colin herd

get it while it’s blue ❄️📘💙 £2 wherever fine books are cold