Literature

A trans-theoretical essay: Arnaud Labelle-Rojoux explores the arcana of artists' cult status through a kaleidoscopic series of portraits of "banished" visual artists, filmmakers, writers, musicians and architects, from William S. Burroughs to Jean-Luc Godard via John Cage.

A poetic text on the influence of suffering and illness on the act of writing.

Reissue of a book of poetry from 1984—perhaps F.J. Ossang's most incandescent poetic period—that never saw the light of day.

A journal of critical and political poetry

The first book to unveil the main pictorial works (drawings, paintings and collages) of the British film director, the source of his entire cinematic oeuvre (new edition).

Poems presents four unpublished poems by American writer and actress Zoë Lund (1962–1999), written in the 1980s. An incandescent voice emerges, revealing the might, sincerity, and precision of her expression, as well as her vulnerability and defiance in the face of death. This is the first publication dedicated to her work.

A mysterious hybrid manuscript ("rediscovered", edited and presented by Alessandro De Francesco) whose prose, oscillating between poetry, philosophy and conceptual art, ingenuously explores the great unresolved questions of humanity and nature.

A visceral questioning of what a book can or cannot be, and of the positions of author and reader.

Eileen Myles, motherhood and an artistic career, Kelly Reichardt, Pierre Creton, Julien Gosselin's sermon on the fall of Vienna, squatting on algorithmic video surveillance in Rotterdam...

Anna Serra's new book of poems, born of a struggle on all levels: the body and its illness, the body and its environment, the body in the midst of other struggling bodies, and the body pushing back its own confinement.

A collection of poems by French writer, painter and illustrator Jean-philippe Delhomme, accompanied by previously unpublished ink drawings.

Saidiya Hartman traces the history of the Atlantic slave trade by recounting a journey she took along a slave route in Ghana. Following the trail of captives from the hinterland to the Atlantic coast, she reckons with the blank slate of her own genealogy and vividly dramatizes the effects of slavery on three centuries of African and African American history.

An artistic and literary project based on the emblematic and ambiguous plant figure of the bramble.

The transposition of an exhibition into a book format, spatialising concrete poetry on the page (artist's book).

A collection (montage) of biographies and themes written by Jairus Banaji.

The restored and remastered vinyl reissue of a sound performance by American writer Kathy Acker and French noise/experimental band Nox, published in 1987, with a poster and a previously unpublished set of documents, letters, texts and photos.

The English translation of the work that established the Icelandic author's literary career—an exploration of eroticism in extremism.

A collection of three new aesthetic essays, between the visual arts and literature, by Belgian philosopher and semiotician Herman Parret: a reflection on the "delicacy" in the various fields of sensoriality (the visible, the sound, the taste and the tactile)—a most suggestive reading for the construction or the development of a sensitive semiotics.

A poetic investigation on desire, love and masculinity in the form of a constellation of texts, drawings and photographs.

A poem built like a long love song to the wounded Aleppo, to all the Aleppo of the world.

A series of samples taken every April 24, for eighty-seven years, from the most diverse sources (press articles, television broadcasts, book and film releases, speeches...): a mass of information that makes, from the smallest to the most imperious, the history of a country.

The sequel, posthumous and almost completed, of the poem-fleuve initiated in 2020 by Jean-Luc Parant, which questions our being in the world with a freedom both new and timeless.

A story of love, lust and parenthood, born beneath a series of thunderstorms (the script by the acclaimed Welsh film director and screenwriter Peter Greenaway).

A split on 4 sides gathering 10 musicians, poets and poetesses around texts written and read by Gilles Furtwängler.

A writing workshop led by the writer François Bon and the artist photographer Bruno Serralongue at HEAD - Geneva from February 20 to 25, 2022.

Igor Terentiev's biography of Ilya Zdanevich published in 1919 in Tbilisi.

"For those who, despite everything, have decided to live, there will always be a home." A work on the experience of exile and migration, memory and selfhood, from legendary French-Rwandan storyteller Scholastique Mukasonga.

Two interviews in which Carmelo Bene exposes his working method and his ideas on television, and opens a reflection on the links between artistic avant-gardism and mass diffusion.

ASMR's low masses, the Russian punk scene's exile in Belgrade, Harry Gruyaert, insurrection and literature in Turin's prisons, Susanne Kennedy, Nicolás Pereda, a sociological analysis of police violence by Paul Rocher...

A sci-fi imagining of life in America's penultimate chapter: Montreal-born, NY-based writer Charlotte Graham's debut novel, a work of experimental fiction, follows a sweeping group of characters in America's near future as they live and die under the threat of a new kind of deadly bomb called the Peacemaker.

The reprint of a cult book of post-1968 psychedelic culture:, an encyclopedia of the cultural and artistic manifestations of the rainbow first published in 1975 in Berkeley, California, on the occasion of The Rainbow Show exhibition held at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.

A novel of anticipation anchored in queer ecologies, a frenetic odyssey interwoven with songs and short poems, mixing the genres of feminist science fiction, young adult literature, space-opera and marvelous fable.

Diaphanes #11 explores practices of human and non-human substitution, plays with the myths and visions of motherhood and procreation, gathers artistic and theoretical positions on reproduction and communication, gender and genus, addressing and conception.

The first novel by Swiss artist Johana Blanc.

At the intersection between theatre, fashion design and poetry, Concours de larmes is a powerful text, both prophetic and unsettling. Based on the play of the same name presented at the TU - Théâtre de l'Usine in Geneva in 2022, it is presented in the form of set of divinatory cards, each character referring to a specific part of the text.

The story of a meeting between a woman and a man linked by music for one night, in a nuptial dance of bodies and words doomed to failure: an ode to desire by the Franco-Moroccan poetess.

First Arabic translation of Virginie Despentes' cult book King Kong Theory.

Edited, translated and with an introduction by Stephen Barber, A Sinister Assassin illuminates Artaud's last, most intensive and terminal work for the first time.

A collection of poetic, political and ecological stories to be told aloud, in which the natural elements (the melting ice, the volcanic eruption, the hole in the clouds, or the flood) are the heroes, approaching ecology through its sensitive manifestations.

A comprehensive overview of performance and action art in Greece, from its origins to the most contemporary practices.

A long narrative poem punctuated by 12x2 drawings, a montage of statements and notations in which a poetess (fat and old) keeps a kind of diary in which the destruction of the private body is articulated to that of the social body.

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.

A hybrid collection of five illustrated short stories of speculative fiction from five countries and four continents

A symbolic and political science fiction short story written in four languages.

A theater work by Jacques Jouet with "performative" rules for the actors in each play.

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 proposes sixteen ways to embark in the company of Jean-François Bory's books.