Text Art, Poetry & Writing (£5 or Less)

In The Balthus Poems, fragment and detail achieve a form of still-life, in this case surrounding the life and work of its protagonist. These poems move with their own innate syntax, detailing the enigma of the single phrase in its own space, and cohere through a particularly laconic sensibility.

Gertrude Stein’s sentences Descriptions of Literature were originally written by hand, then later typeset for printing and publication. Here they are handwritten again by Erica Van Horn.  Writing someone else’s list has been a joy. Handwriting these sentences by Stein has provided me with...

Pop Song is a celebration of the strange and delicious state of falling in love, whether with a painting or a person, interwoven with incisive commentary on modern life. Larissa Pham creates a perfectly fractured portrait of modern intimacy, triumphant in its vulnerability and...

Does the success of warts-and-all celebrity biographies betray our prurient, voyeuristic times? Or is a fascination with the lives and struggles of others a facet of human nature, reflected in literary tastes through the ages? Modern biographies, Andrew Brown argues, inspire by framing life...

In 1982, East Germany's fearsome secret police - convinced that writers were embedding subversive messages in their work - decided to train their own writers, weaponising poetry in the struggle against the class enemy. The Stasi Poetry Circle reveals how a group of soldiers and border guards gathered for...

What has happened to fiction in the age of platform capitalism? Since it was first launched in 1994, Amazon has changed the world of literature. The "Everything Store" has not just transformed how we buy books; it has affected what we buy, and even...

New York Times-bestselling author Emily Rapp Black here offers a personal examination of how the experiences, art, and disabilities of Frida Kahlo shaped her life as an amputee. At first sight of Kahlo’s painting The Two Fridas, Emily Rapp Black felt an instant connection with...

In the early 1980s, the artist Tim Rollins initiated a curriculum for high schoolers in the South Bronx to engage their creativity with art and literature activities, embarking on what proved to be an enduring collaborative venture. The initial group of students - who...

Light is the material of Architecture. Ian Ritchie is one of the UK’s most visionary architects, and remarkable for synthesising multiple creative disciplines to bring the essence of his architectural projects into focus. A poet and artist as well as an architect, Ritchie distills...

Since the early 1990s, Sean Landers' oeuvre has proven to be one of the most fascinating and repeatedly irritating in contemporary art. Over the years, he has become known as the artist who - with confessional and stream-of-consciousness texts and videos - presents himself...

Edition of 250 Made at the time of the epidemic lockdown in all of Europe, but where life in our valley was much as it usually is, but with no visitors. We have endured almost a year eating our own food, with no abatement....

Em was a sheepdog who never lived far from where she was born in Cahir, County Tipperary. She had a sense of place and a gentleness of temperament, and a way of making all events rituals with an eagerness for them to happen again....

The vinyl project uses installations made of vinyl film as signs and graphics output from the computer plotter and cutter. This was the single unifying means of making these works into a common medium, almost a theme of sorts. It was essentially a project for an...

Edition of 1000 Brian Lane's unique contribution to small-press publishing was begun in the mid nineteen-sixties at Gallery Number Ten in Blackheath, south-east London. This was one of the first artists' spaces in Britain, and alongside its programme of exhibitions and events, there emerged a growing list of publications with poets and...

This exceptional work is at once an astonishing journey across countries and continents, an immersive examination of a great artist’s work, and a moving and intimate memoir. At the age of 42, his father not long dead and his young sons growing fast, Toby...

The book of the screenplay of Asteroid City - Wes Anderson's 2023 theatrical ensemble character piece; a poetic meditation on the meaning of life. Also included are colour images, and a conversation about the film with Wes Anderson, Roman Coppola, Jason Schwartzman, and Jake...

This book gathers the essential writings and declarations that defined this movement, offering readers an insightful look into the minds of those who sought to break free from tradition and reshape the future of art. After an introduction setting aspects of Futurism in the...

Edition of 500 A collection of short poems; brief sketches that turn everyday objects such as contact lenses or activities such as ironing into profound and remarkable subject matter. Dedicated to Margot Hapgood. PLEASE NOTE: This book is a NON-MINT item. NON-MINT books are...

Edition of 1000 A small anthology of the writings of Tim Robinson, together with a previously unpublished essay Geometer. The View from the Horizon is the first attempt to link the work of the artist Timothy Drever with the writings of his alter ego...

Operating from a small, single-room structure installed at Documenta 13, art historian and "60 wrd/min art critic" Lori Waxman offered free reviews to any artist who wanted one. A sign in the window announced: "Reviews are free of charge, and are written here on...