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Heavy Load release new album: 'Wham'
The Load's new album 'Wham' includes their classic cover of the Ting Ting's 'That's not my name', and the original theme tune from Channel 4s 'Cast Offs'.
Yn Gymraeg reviewing the album for CLIConline says: "Wham is their fabulously anarchic third album, and marks a gear shift in collaborations, songwriting and support from the likes of Mat Fraser and Pete Bennett." Yn goes on to name Heavy Load as "one of the most life-affirming bands in the world."
You can buy the album £7.00 from the Heavy Load website at www.heavyload.org/about.html
Excisions
By Clare Best
Published by Waterloo Press
ISBN 978-1-906742-36-2
£10.00
Excisions is an unusually clear and direct collection. The poems speak of one life, but the book resounds with universal themes of love and passion, inheritance and physicality, loss and adaptation.
The first section, Matryoshka, concerns the interplay between grief and memory, while the third, Airborne, maps the changing landscapes of desire.
The central sequence, Self-portrait without Breasts, is inspired by the poet’s own journey through preventive double mastectomy. This is pioneer territory: Clare Best explores how it feels to experience radical surgery and its aftermath in a society permeated by orthodox ideas of perfection and beauty.
http://www.waterloopress.co.uk/#/clare-best/4555468964
Captive Dragons /The Shadow Thorns: Poems from the Mill View Residency 2008-11
By Alan Morrison
Published by Waterloo Press in association with Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
ISBN 978-1-906742-04-1
£12.00 (incl p&p)
This book incorporates an epic poem on the subject of mental illness and its perception throughout the ages, tackling thorny issues such as psychosis and suicide through a series of 35 Cantos exploring different periods, persons and approaches to the psychiatric and social treatment of mental illness.
A Laingian sensibility drives towards some uncomfortable speculations as to 'mental illness' as, in part, a socio-political construct. The Shadow Thorns is a sequence of smaller poems, each a study of composites of various inpatients encountered by the author during his three year voluntary poetry workshop residency at Mill View psychiatric hospital in Hove. Morrison's perspective is peculiarly placed between the objective empathy of a poet volunteer and his own subjective experience of suffering from an 'invisible illness', obsessive disorder (or, 'Pure-O').
‘Here be dragons of the head’s uncharted territories’ writes Alan Morrison in Captive Dragons, an extraordinary study of the ‘penned dragons, captive dragons ...neither frightening nor fire-breathing’ who inhabit the wild edges of our societies. Morrison writes in a rich, rhetorical Miltonic voice, heavy with anger and prophecy. Exploring the world of mental health, he ends up writing about the mental health of our world, and the real dragons of our time — bankers, politicians, speculators — who lay waste to everything they touch. Magnificent stuff.
Andy Croft
Revenue from sales will go to the Mill View Creative Writing Workshop fund
waterloopress@hotmail.co.uk
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www.alanmorrison.co.uk
Abnormal: How Britain became body dysphoric and the key to a cure
By Ju Gosling aka ju90
Price £20 or £3.45 for the Kindle version from Amazon
ISBN 9781908304155
The book accompanies the Abnormal: Towards a Scientific Model of Disability exhibition at the Royal College of Surgeons’ Hunterian Museum, which runs until 14 January 2012. The limited edition hardback also contains a section with images from the exhibition.
Gosling explores the roots of our body dysphoria, from ancient cultures and religions via the Renaissance, Enlightenment, Industrial Revolution and Darwin’s theory of evolution through the twentieth century to the noughties.
She examines the role of fashion and the ready-made clothing market, along with the parts played by the worlds of art, design, medicine and commerce. Gosling exposes the treatment of people with ‘abnormal’ bodies in modern times, and how this will impact negatively on all of us at some point in our lives. She explodes myths about the ability of science to fulfil our dysphoric desires, and looks at all that we have to gain from a change in attitude.
www.amazon.co.uk/Abnormal-Britain-Became-Body-Dysphoric/
Aaron Williamson
Quick Clips and Short Cuts (DVD)
Published by Aaron Williamson and Live Art Development Agency, 2011, DVD-PAL, 73 minutes.
Price: £10
‘Whether working directly to camera in a studio (Lives of the Saints) or devising candidly filmed public performances (Barrierman), Williamson's art is always 'live', whether in the creative moment or in response to the situations he encounters.
This DVD collects together films and documents selected from literally hundreds of performances and video works presented internationally over the last ten years.’
http://thisisunbound.co.uk
Forgotten Letters: An Anthology of dyslexic writing
Forgotten Letters, edited by Naomi Folb, a dyslexic PhD student. Naomi found while researching dyslexia that, not only did dyslexics write, but also that they perceived dyslexia to do good things to their prose.
The idea behind the anthology is to bring the work of dyslexic writers into the public realm and explore the question of difference, authority and authorship, to re-conceptualize dyslexia as a genre.
The book is a compilation of work by contemporary dyslexic writers, both renowned and emerging, including work by Jeanne Betancourt, Sally Gardener, Benjamin Zephaniah, Philip Schultz and Thomas West, author of In the Mind's Eye..
This anthology is a testimony to the value of writing to dyslexics. It brings to the fore notions of authorship, and authority. It asks: who decides what dyslexia is? And who authorises if whether dyslexics can write, or not? The book is considered to be of interest, not just to dyslexics, but also those interested in the relationship between identity and authorship, as authority.
Information about the anthology, and the contributing authors can be found on the RASP (Rebelling Against Spelling Press) website:
publishing@r-a-s-p.co.uk
www.r-a-s-p.co.uk
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