Experimental / concrete / visual / sound poetry

 
 
Jacques Donguy - De Jeff Golyscheff à Stelarc - De l\'avant-garde à la post-humanité
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap)
forthcoming
A collection of texts and interviews, some previously unpublished, covering a period of 40 years, with rare illustrations.
Bernard Heidsieck - Poésie debout
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap)
forthcoming
A collective work examining fifty years of poetic activity by Bernard Heidsieck (1928-2014), a central figure in sound poetry and performance poetry, a major poet of the second half of the 20th century, along multiple axes.
Julien Blaine - 2025
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
forthcoming
Julien Blaine's new collection of poetic, visual and typographic experiments.
Jacques Donguy - Catalogue raisonné de l\'œuvre de Jean-François Bory
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Misceallenous
forthcoming
Jean-François Bory - Roman en ruine
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Misceallenous
various
forthcoming
Jacques Demierre - BarDem - Bar & Dem & (5 CD box set)
2025
various
forthcoming
A 5-CD boxed set featuring the collaborative work that the BarDem duo (Vincent Barras & Jacques Demierre) has been carrying out for several years with Swiss and international artists, on the margins of the traditional categories of literature, poetry, performing arts and music.
Richard Martel - Art et poésie d\'action, intervention, performance - Théorie et pratique
2025
French edition
various
forthcoming
Art and poetry in action as performative power.
Violaine Lochu - Inventaire Langages
2025
French edition
Paraguay Press
forthcoming
A retrospective of the work of transdisciplinary artist Violaine Lochu, bringing together performances, drawings, sound pieces, installations, and videos.
Jérôme Game - Light turbulences (vinyl LP)
2025
DUUU
Jérôme Game, a poet working at the intersection of words, sounds and images, has invited two of his stage partners, Chloé and Jean-Michel Espitallier, to create a duo piece with him for this sound poetry album, between beat inspiration, krautrock motorick and literary glitch.
Marilou Thiébault - Une nouvelle vie
2025
French edition
Paraguay Press - Essays
A fictionalized biography of Guy de Cointet (1934-1983).
Elvin Brandhi - OwsT (vinyl LP)
2025
Xing
currently out of stock
A vociferous attempt to Shout The Self Out by Elvin Brandhi.
Anton Bruhin - True to New – New Year\'s Zines 2007–2025 / Dem Neuen treu – Neujahrshefte 2007–2025
2025
bilingual edition (English / German)
Edition Patrick Frey
The very personal New Year's greetings published by the Swiss artist in the form of zines over the last twenty years.
 Altagor - Altagor_Mutant
2025
French edition
Enseigne des Oudin
An unprecedented journey into the astonishing multidisciplinary work of Altagor (1915-1992)
Roberto Altmann - L\'œuvre gravé (1959-2012)
2025
trilingual edition (English / German / French)
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – Misceallenous
AcquAvivA
The first major catalogue on one of the most important Lettrist artists.
Julien Blaine - Joëlle Léandre versus Julien Blaine
2024
French edition
Frac Franche-Comté - Sound Houses Series
A dialogue between two avant-garde figures, one poetic, the other musical.
Pascal Doury - Choquer le monde à mort - Elles sont de sortie – Pascal Doury – Bruno Richard
2024
French edition
L'Amazone
The outcome of in-depth research into the work of Bruno Richard and Pascal Doury, this anthology of the legendary magazine Elles sont de sortie (ESDS) retraces five decades of a corpus of nearly three hundred publications.
Jean-François Bory - FREEING (Our Bodies) - Jean-François Bory, Kathy Acker ou l\'invention de « textemondes »
2024
French edition
FREEING (Our Bodies)
An essay by Yoann Sarrat on two works by Jean-François Bory and Kathy Acker.
Re-Materialization of Language - 1978-2022
2024
trilingual edition (English / German / Italian)
Nero
The first attempt at a philological reconstruction of the seminal exhibition Materializzazione del linguaggio, curated in 1978 by Mirella Bentivoglio within an edition of the Biennale di Venezia, and dedicated to the verbo-visual explorations of eighty international women artists.
Thomas Stern - Doppelmoppel - Poems by Kurt Schwitters (vinyl LP)
2024
Corvo Records
A rereading of Kurt Schwitters' Dada sound poetry by vocalist, singer and composer Anna Clementi and sound researcher, producer and multi-instrumentalist Thomas Stern (Mona Mur / Einstürzende Neubauten).
Tomaso Binga - Euforia
2024
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Lenz Press
This monograph explores the work and the artistic activities of Italian radical performer, poet, visual artist and feminist Tomaso Binga through a specific lexicon, and also features a selection of her poems.
Jean-Michel Wicker - Logorrhea
2024
bilingual edition (English / French)
various
Logorrhea is an artist book focusing on the written word in Jean-Michel Wicker's work. It is a large and lighter-than-air paperback, the author's third void.
Celebrity Cafe
2024
French edition
Celebrity Cafe
Experimental poetry, historical avant-garde, contemporary music, dance, visual arts, intermedia: the sixth issue of Jacques Donguy, Sarah Cassenti and Jean-François Bory's avant-garde artistic and literary journal, with Frédéric Acquaviva, Antonin Artaud, Philippe Boisnard, Bernard Bousquet, Augusto De Campos, Hélène Defilippi, Cassandra Felgueiras, Pascal Le Gallois, Raoul Hausmann, Eduardo Kac, Chris Korda, Thomas Laroppe, Alvin Lucier, Made In Eric, Richard Meier, Simone Osthoff, Nam June Paik, Céline Paul, Diamantino Quintas, Biño Sauitzvy, Raoul Vaneigem.
Magali Reus - KOOL - A Type Specimen
2024
English edition
Lenz Press
An artist's book built around KOOL ("cabbage" in Dutch), a new font designed by Magali Reus, winner of the seventh edition of the Arnaldo Pomodoro Prize for Sculpture.
Julien Blaine - Confidences
2024
French edition
various
Julien Blaine's rebellious confidences, between the political and the poetic.
Jan Jelinek - Social Engineering (vinyl LP)
2024
Faitiche
Social Engineering brings together thirteen text fragments from so-called phishing emails. Using speech synthesis, they are spoken, sung, and/or transformed into abstract textures. The result is a 36-minute language and sound collage devoted to the dark forces of phishing.
Julien Blaine - 2023
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
Julien Blaine's new collection of poetic, visual and typographic experiments.
Charles Pennequin - Dedans
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
Reissue of Charles Pennequin's first book, a lengthy text in which the author's writing is characterized by obsessive repetition, a breathless rhythm, a combination of introspective movement and prosaic elements, and a staging of proferation.
Mathias Richard - FREEING (Our Bodies) - Spécial Mathias Richard
2024
French edition
FREEING (Our Bodies)
Issue dedicated to the work of writer, poet, performer and musician Mathias Richard.
 0 Propos - Zéro propos. Zéro titre (2 vinyl LP)
2024
DUUU
A double vinyl of sound poetry composed by the duo Gaël Bandelier & Gilles Furtwängler.
Guy de Cointet - Transatlantique
2024
bilingual edition (English / French)
ER Publishing
Rachel Valinsky invites seven artists from both sides of the Atlantic (Davide Balula, Eva Barto, Julie Béna, Jesse Chun, Jean-Pascal Flavien, Gordon Hall, and Alan Reid) to share their views of Guy de Cointet (1934-1983), a major figure in the conceptual and performance art movements.
Kitasono Katué - 1902-1978
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap)
Reference monograph of the most renowned Japanese artist-poet of the 20th century in Europe and the United States, active since the 1920s, a figure of visual poetry, linked to all the European and American literary and artistic avant-gardes, with numerous illustrations.
Denise Le Dantec - Scum, un rêve
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
Virginia Woolf and Valerie Solanas inspired a reverie. From there, a text unfolded in slippery formulas and furtive references that sometimes imploded into graphic and visual signs.
Philippe Jaffeux - Éveils
2023
French edition
Jannink - Wide Open
An artist's book by experimental poet Philippe Jaffeux that plays with images, letters and layout in the spirit of Lettrism.
Attaques
2023
French edition
Attaques
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
A journal of critical and political poetry
Yoann Sarrat - Mon livre
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Misceallenous
various
A visceral questioning of what a book can or cannot be, and of the positions of author and reader.
Frédéric Acquaviva - No Soy Un Robot (CD)
2023
AcquAvivA
For countertenor, parrots, different voices & dead electronics.
Pierre Escot - Carmin Profond
2023
French edition
Vroum - Editions
The transposition of an exhibition into a book format, spatialising concrete poetry on the page (artist's book).
Claude Favre - Alep – Quinze heures du matin
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
A poem built like a long love song to the wounded Aleppo, to all the Aleppo of the world.
Démosthène Agrafiotis - Prolégomènes à une histoire de la performance en Grèce
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
A comprehensive overview of performance and action art in Greece, from its origins to the most contemporary practices.
Adriano Spatola - Vers une poésie totale
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
Undoubtedly one of the most important texts on the out of book poetry, both a documentary sum and a manifesto to underline the major role that the poetry and the poets have occupied and occupy in the whole of the transformations that have upset the the contemporary art field, considered by the amateurs and the researchers like a true bible.
Jacques Donguy - Essai sur la Poésie numérique - Ou vers un élargissement du langage
2023
French edition / excerpts translated into English
Les presses du réel – Literature – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap)
An international essay (France, USA, Brazil, etc.) on digital poetry, from the first attempts to generate text on the computer to the most contemporary developments and the problems posed by artificial intelligence.
Jérôme Duwa - 591
2023
French edition
591
Les presses du réel – Literature – Misceallenous
Jérôme Duwa proposes sixteen ways to embark in the company of Jean-François Bory's books.
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