Sophie Fenella was the winner of our inaugural Dynamite commission and will be performing her poetry installation ‘The Archive’ at the Saboteur Awards, along with Antosh Wojcik. We asked her a few questions about what to expect on the night. How did your idea for the ‘The Archive’ come about? Were there any particular influences?…
– Reviewed by Penny Boxall – What a little darling of a book. A Pocket Book of Prompts is, unlike many ‘pocket’ editions, exactly that: slim, narrow, the corners thoughtfully shorn to prevent unexpected jabs as the user grabs for it from pocketty home. Even the author’s name is small and cute. Leaf has been teaching, her biography says,…
-by Harry Giles– November is, of course, National Novel Writing Month. It’s hard to be in any way involved in literature and miss out on all the people updating the world on their wordcounts, their character arcs, their late night coffee binges as they attempt to hammer out 50,000 words of prose in 30 days.…
-Reviewed by Harry Giles– Poetry Bingo is, most obviously, a game. Each of Maria Taylor’s four cards features a traditional 7×4 grid with 16 carefully-selected poetic moves – from thousand-dollar words (“shards”, “breast”) to formatting conceits (“strike-through”, “…”), from structural ploys (“very long clever title”, “stirring epigraph”) to hard-to-find absurdities (“wolf-love”, “custard”). Taylor imagines…
-Reviewed by Ian Chung– What is particularly interesting about The Flood is how it translates the live storytelling experience into a digitally portable medium. For instance, the first story ‘Dr Who and the Water’ was performed by Superbard (aka George Lewkowicz) at the Birkbeck Writer’s Hub October Hubbub last year, and he plans to continue…
– reviewed by Karl Niklas – Glasshouse, written by Kate Tempest, is a piece of forum theatre produced by Cardboard Citizens. It is currently touring hostels and various other venues and their next public showcase is at Rich Mix this coming Saturday 16th of March. The worlds of performance poetry and forum theatre seldom meet,…
Your Pick of this Year’s Best Indie Lit! Nominations are now closed, you can view the shortlist and vote for the winners here. Buy your tickets here. Once a year, to mark our birthday, we at Sabotage like to give out some awards to the publications we’ve most enjoyed during the year. In the past this…
-Reviewed by Strat Mastoris– I was given the link to Electronic Literature Collection volume 2 a few weeks before Christmas, and suddenly it was like having an oversized Advent Calendar on my computer screen. The homepage is bright red, with a grid of over sixty boxes, each one a small window opening onto a different…