Poetry

A collection of poetic texts that experiments different forms of contemporary poetry: sound poetry, lists, logorrhoea, glossolalia, ready-made, micro-narrations... Most of these texts have been read in public in the framework of literature festivals or performances.

Over the past decade, 21 poets have come to La Kunsthalle Mulhouse to immerse themselves in the art and spend time within the space composing original texts reflecting on their experiences and vision of the work surrounding them. These writings are now collected in this volume.

A closer reading of the late poetry of Jean Hans Arp (1886-1966), major figure of the Dada movement in Zurich, a friend of the surrealists, painter, sculptor, also author of an important bilingual poetic work, which covers more than half a century of creation (with a choice of poems previously unpublished).

An analysis of the relationship between art and literature over the last six decades.

The testamentary work of Jacques Sivan: a graphic poem on the body and its reincarnation through the language.

The fifth issue of the magazine for visual and experimental poetry and works inspired by Dada and Fluxus, directed by Jean-François Bory.

A selection of poems by Jean-François Bory covering more than fifty years of creation (1965-2019), from the most emblematic to the most recent, rare or previously unpublished.

Haiku originated in New York City in 1964, when Beat Generation poet Diane di Prima gave West Coast assemblage artist George Herms a series of seasonal poems that would lead him to create a suite of woodcuts illustrating them.

A collective reassessment of Gertrude Stein's relationship to the arts, allowing to understand the complexity of the relationship between writing and visual arts in her work.

A visual and poetic proposal that looks back on the different journeys and collaborations realized by Marco Godinho during the preparation of his installation for the Luxembourg pavilion of the Venice Biennale 2019.

An original fable at war against the founding books of monotheisms (unpublished text of 1963).

Angéline Neveu, a figure of May '68 then of the French poetic underground, close to the Situationists, tells herself and offers a testimony on the years 1960-70.

The reissue, in a new translation, of one of the most important essays of Latin American poetry from the historical avant-gardes.

A journal of critical and political poetry.

A total alchemy between the texts declaimed by the New York poet Steve Dalachinsky and the loops subtly arranged by the experimental rock band The Snobs.

A courtly tale that takes the form of prose poems, dedicated to Surrealist artist Benjamin Péret. Written by Emmanuelle K., poet, storyteller, video artist, and companion of the Situationist International.

The chronicles of the digital poetry movement, by one of its pioneers and main actors in France.

135 poems, calligrams and other visual experiments, spread over 54 years of poetic activity, by one of the major actors of the poetic avant-garde in France.

Fourteen comical, absurd, ironic, moving short novels, by Jean-François Bory, unfaithful successor to Dada and active author of the avant-garde movements of the 1960s/1970s.

A selection of essays that Jean-François Bory devoted to his favorite and somewhat marginal authors, ranging from Nadar to Raoul Hausmann via d'Annunzio.

From “The Left Bank Publisher” to “Miss Fukushima”, 102 portraits of a person or a profession in 10 expressions in the form of an inventory.

From “The Left Bank Publisher” to “Miss Fukushima”, 102 portraits of a person or a profession in 10 expressions in the form of an inventory, with an original and unique artwork.

Reissue of the main publications by Angéline Neveu (1946-2011), a political figure of the poetic underground scene in France.

Collection of transcripts of performance poetry by Christian Prigent. This edition comes with a CD including the recordings of these performances, featuring the author and actress Vanda Benes.

A seminal text of Contemporary Mexican poetry, inspired by the Tarahumara and peyote rituals. Included in appendix is the first manifesto of infra-realism, written by Anaya in 1975.

A magazine for visual and experimental poetry and works inspired by Dada and Fluxus, directed by Jean-François Bory.

First English translation of Antonin Artaud's writings from his apocalyptic journey to Ireland in 1937.

A collective exploration of 45 years of protean poetic activities, between printed text, exposed text and proffered text, with some thirty contributions by academics and poets, with numerous illustrations.

A biography of the founder of Pataphysics, by Alastair Brotchie.

Special issue dedicated to Brazilian poet Augusto de Campos.

A film on poet and visual artist Jean-Luc Parant.

A collection of experimental poetry.

This LP draws on twenty years of archives recorded by Charles Pennequin on mini-cassettes. Spontaneous recordings of his readings, unpublished solitary monologues, vocal and sound experiments, ambient sounds were selected and edited in the studio by the poet, and thought of as a global composition that goes through different registers and eras of his poetry.

The penultimate issue of Frédéric Acquaviva's audio / video hybrid magazine is dedicated to the works of Frédéric Acquaviva, Isidore Isou, and Orlan. It includes a CD of Isou's last sound work from 2006 and a DVD featuring performances by Orlan, Acquaviva, Isou, Sharif-Sky Mathius, Jeremiah Runnels, Mats Lindström, Jean-Paul Curtay…

Second full-lenght release by German sound-poet and writer Michael Barthel on Tochnit Aleph. A 60-minute piece recited from memory. Recorded April 2018 straight to tape without overdubs. Raw, unsettling, poetically incorrect.

First ever release of the sound poetry pieces by French lettrist artist Gérard-Philippe Broutin. The remarkable lettrist text-sound pieces contained on this CD were written during the early 1970's and recorded and broadcast at Radio France in September 1976. With introductory texts by Jean-Pierre Gillard.

A 1971 detective audio play based on a real murder trial from the early 20th century. The court records are read out by two girls, accompanied by narrative background sounds and a piano piece. Liner-notes (in English and German) by Gerhard Rühm.

All poems written by Apollinaire during World War I, gathered for the first time.

Claude Favre delivers a poetry made of readings and borrowings, a present poetry, attentive to the movements of men and to those who constrain them.

Elizabeth Lebon writes poems, stories and performances, usually with the help of a typewriter. The choice of paper, as well as its format, is centrally important to the conceptualization and experimentation of this artist. This new book-object of concrete poetry plays with the transparency of its leaflets.

A collection of 11 poems printed on single sheets that can be used as page markers to interrupt whatever else you are reading. Each poem is based on descriptions of natural phenomena, to talk about everyday situations of human social behavior.

An essay by Frédéric Valabrègue on the American avant-garde artist, one of the main actors of the Fluxus movement.

Art critic Rahma Khazam brings together a heterogeneous collection of authors offering a variety of interpretations on the work of artist and poet Franck Leibovici.

A long and vertiginous poem, virtually infinite, by Michèle Métail, built on the principle of concatenation and inspired by the editing techniques of electroacoustic music.

A long and vertiginous poem, virtually infinite, by Michèle Métail, built on the principle of concatenation and inspired by the editing techniques of electroacoustic music, with an original and unique artwork.

A poetic narrative in which the author, sound artist Émilie Mouchous, investigates her own psyche through an exploration of plants. The artist's first publication features a hyperlink to download the soundtrack of the poem, an 18-minute piece with voice and synthesizers.