AQUIFER BOOKS

 

Zoom launch of three new and forthcoming collections

by

Robert Sheppard, Mélisande Fitzsimons, Sarah Crewe and Allen Fisher

 

Wednesday, November 6th, 19.30 pm GMT

 

 

 

Zoom link for the event:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85320608745?pwd=q4R1FNibSf6RRUkKWGO8eNWmEjOJ1T.1

 

 

Robert Sheppard‘s Aquifer book Doubly Stolen Fire nearly carried the subtitle ‘reflections on authorship’, because that’s what it is. Authorship real (particularly with reference to Malcolm Lowry) and fictional authorship: the Ern Malley Hoax of the 1940s as well as Sheppard’s own fictional poets of the European Union of Imaginary Authors. This book takes one of those fictional poets forwards, but it also features a talking mongoose and a Beat writer who has turned herself into fiction. Also out, all three volumes of the ‘English Strain’ sonnet project, The English Strain, Bad Idea and – recently – British Standards. A collection of poetics pieces is entitled The Necessity of Poetics. Robert lives in Liverpool, just round the corner from where the family who later claimed to have a talking mongoose once lived.

Sarah Crewe is a working class feminist poet from the Port of Liverpool. She is the author of three poetry collections from Aquifer Books, a letter to uncle alexei (2024) garn (2021) and floss (2018). She has a MA in Poetry as Practice from the University of Kent,with a thesis on working class women’s psychogeography in experimental poetry: the work of Geraldine Monk and Maggie O’Sullivan.

Allen Fisher is a poet and painter and art historian. He started a ten-year book project called PLACE in 1971. It was followed in 1983 by a 24 year project called Gravity as a consequence of shape, a complete edition was published in 2016. For this zoom he is going to read from four sets from Migraine Conference, the first substantial collection of his work since 2016, published earlier this year by Aquifer.

Mélisande Fitzsimons is a French poet and translator, living in Plymouth, who writes in both her native tongue and (mainly) in English. She has published four collections of poetry: A Language of Spies (Crafty Press), Sirène (Mand M edition)  Life Here is Full of Tomorrows (Leafe Press, 2021) and The Only Country in the World, (Aquifer, 2023). Her work has also been published in many magazines and she is currently working on a longer collection for Aquifer Press. She is a regular contributor to the local scene and has also been a featured poet at the TITF festival on several occasions, most recently in September 2024.

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