Bianka Rolando's first book published in English, Inselbergs is a volume of poetry accompanied by the author's own lithographs, combining word and image to reflect her interdisciplinary practice.
Featuring numerous previously unpublished photographs and archival documents, this richly illustrated book sheds new light on Marcel Broodthaers’ entire body of work through his little-known photographic practice.
Fierce Unworking highlights Ko Murobushi's role as an unparalleled pioneer of contemporary paradigms such as body language, the third space or embodied knowledge. Ten years after his death, this volume brings together writings, poems and diary fragments in collaboration with the Ko Murobushi archive in Tokyo, making many of which are available in English for the first time.
A collection of works selected by Ai Weiwei that traces the artist's career, in tribute to his father, the poet Ai Qing, and the Belgian poet Emile Verhaeren.
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.
The first monograph devoted to the entire multidisciplinary and unclassifiable body of work of French poet, writer, musician, and director F.J. Ossang, spanning more than half a century.
Poetry and Revolution brings together three previously untranslated essays by the Czechoslovak avant-garde theorist Karel Teige (1900-1951), accompanied by a polemical introduction by Peter Zusi placing Teige's thinking in the context of debates on "Western" and "Eastern" Marxism.
A raw yet tender book of visual poetry that speaks of desire, reinvention, Brussels nights, creatures, wounds, laughter that comes from far away, celebration, the communion of bodies and spirits, friends.
Writer and artist Jérôme Game is an author associated with the 2024 exhibition season of La Kunsthalle Mulhouse. He immersed himself in the universe of the exhibitions, and composed freely around the works and ideas he perceived there.
This book brings together poetic and theoretical texts about Callisto (a woman with a bear's head, a writer and a mythical figure), using metaphors as a form of anti-capitalist resistance.
A poetic, gestural, visual, and semantic exploration that extends the Canadian multidisciplinary artist's work on language and the body into the pages of the book.
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
What translation does to performance and what performance does to translation: a collective publication exploring the relationship between translation and performance, including the fields of theater, dance, sound and visual poetry, and film.
Edited from archival lectures, AH!MERICA captures Allen Ginsberg's profound exploration of William Blake as a guide for modern perception and social consciousness. It offers a "poetics of attention," teaching readers to find beauty in overlooked details and use poetry as a tool for resilience against political and personal despair.
An exploration of the intermedial potential of literature, extending beyond the book format (into the fields of visual arts, theater, performance, cinema, and music), developed in and around the catalog of the publishing house P.O.L.
Lina Pallotta's much anticipated Tongue on Flames captures the underground poetic energy that pulsed through New York from the early 1990s to the early 2000s in poetry and performance clubs that have become legendary, featuring Pallotta's immersive photographs and texts by key figures from that scene.
Yoann Sarrat presents a collection that showcases his practice of performative writing combined with tattooing (with and without ink—which he calls “dermographic poetry”) and dance.
Olavi Laiho's aliterative anti-fascist text written in 1944 in Oulu prison just before his execution. First time published in its original Finnish and in English translation.
Amid the relentless and unprecedented violence of the ongoing assault on Gaza, On the Zero Line emerges as a polyphonic collection of diaristic writings from Gazan people, offering a raw and vital attestation to their daily struggle for survival, memory, and even moments of ordinary life under siege.
The first volume of essays devoted to the work of Liliane Giraudon explores the diversity of her oeuvre, its interdisciplinarity but also its coherence, and enables us to understand what makes its strength and importance in the contemporary literary landscape.
In a collection of interviews given over a period of almost twenty years, a poet seeks to find out a little more about what he makes by confronting his practice with other arts (plastic, sound, scenic).
Le Raï de l'homme approximatif, an invitation to an inner journey, an exploration of the meanders of the human soul, takes us on an existential odyssey where joys and sorrows mingle.
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.
Moroccan author Khalid El Morabethi deconstructs language and representations of reality with radical, uncompromising writing that clashes words together, inviting us to immerse ourselves in a poetic universe and a sensory, almost visceral experience.
In The Infinite Now, Taras Gembik crafts an intimate meditation on solitude, faith, and the search for meaning, ten years in the making. Moving between Ukraine and Poland, these twenty-five poems trace a decade-long journey of self-discovery.
