Erotoplasty

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The Compleat Nidors

Stealth published from the Erotoplasty HQ in December 2024, The Compleat Nidors has finally been made available for general purchase by the redoubtable Crater Press. Full-colour optopoems book-ended with chewy discursive matter! [We'll even chuck in some barbs from the poet Khaled Hakim to sour the deal!]

Grab a copy over at Lulu.

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Sandmine

Sam Turton's Sandmine is now available to purchase over at Lulu. Nab a copy at cost price! "In Sam Turton's Sandmine, high-density prose blocks and poetic "text adventures" strikingly interlard each other, enfolding between them a vision at once humorous, tender, and terrifying. Movie stars with islands in their eyes (and public officials with orifices for their eyes!) are among the targets of Turton's Juvenalian flail. The plasma that oozes from the welts is a complex one, composed of comic indignation, yes, but also of love and solicitude—for Earth, for animals, for our children. Find the paradise at the end of the Rainbow Islands dopamine rush!"

[Cover art by Giselle E. Pé]

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Hasp #6

The sixth instalment of Hasp focuses on Sam Turton's excellent book Sandmine. If you're planning to navigate to the heart of this perilous island (to reach the paradise that survives the text's insulicidal tendencies), then you'll definitely want to read Turton's highly illuminating interview. As always, some choice cuts are appended thereafter. A Santo & Johnny goodie, too!

Download for free here.

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Old News

Joe Luna's Old News is a lacerating set of squibs, pasquinades, and glosses on some of contemporary poetry's most salient aesthetic and attitudinal lapses. Out now as a split Erotoplasty Editions/slub press release. Head over to slub and grab a copy while it seethes and effervesces!

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Marking a Salt Ridge

Emily Martin's brilliant book Marking a Salt Ridge is now available for purchase!

"Most books of poetry either greet us with the expected lineaments or else ask that we modestly reorient ourselves towards the slightly unfamiliar. Emily Martin's Marking a Salt Ridge is that rare book that seems actually to reconfigure sites of poetic writing and reading—to find new nodes and wormholes in the graphic text. More impressively still, it locates the points at which its medium appears to buckle into the refulgence of the plastic arts, turning recursive cadence and motif into a paint-like material through which all of the richly textured pentimenti are visible. A spectacularly conceived and executed book, as well as a beguilingly moving one."

Purchase the book at cost price here.

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Hasp #5

The fifth issue of Hasp focuses on Emily Martin's staggering book Marking a Salt Ridge (out tomorrow!). Download the PDF to read an interview with Emily and to check out some excerpts from the book.

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water year

Erotoplasty Editions is delighted to announce the publication of Owen Fortunato Brakspear's liquid wonder water year!

"Owen Fortunato Brakspear's water year is a fluid medium in which sacral and secular liturgies refract and distend to a capacious poetic ethics. The eustatic music washes across the book's ostensibly formal divisions, figuring each poetic shoreline as a wistful vantage from which "the human" might be reclaimed or reimagined. An appropriately rich and 'eudaimonic' first entry to Brakspear's ambitious "eu-" project." Purchase the book at cost price here.

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Hasp #4

Erotoplasty returns after a long break! The latest issue of Hasp features an interview with Owen Fortunato Brakspear on water year, the inaugural entry in his exciting and eustatically ambitious project eu-. Download here. Book to officially launch tomorrow.

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Blown Study

Erotoplasty Editions is delighted to announce the publication of Mark Francis Johnson’s Blown Study. Johnson is (say it sopra voce) an inimitable poet, and this book is an essential addition to his growing oeuvre. “Blown Study is a “problem genealogy”, full of stealth heritage and lineal misadventure. Trying to work out how the trees ramify is foolish but fun—on this bough is your athletic pedigree; on that your gummer’s luck. One grew fond of their large estates only after said estates had been forfeited. Be thankful, then, that the poignancy here is leavened with some of the choicest humour available to poetry. Many Johnsons have concocted PG-pharmaka over the centuries, but few have stumbled on a formula as weirdly potent as this Mark Francis variety. Ingest!” The book can be purchased at cost price over at lulu, here. 

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Hasp #3

Hasp #3 is available for download! The issue contains an illuminating interview with Mark Francis Johnson and some excerpts from his brilliant (anti-) genealogicon Blown Study. The book will officially be out on Friday, but haspers can steal a couple of days’ march on the press if they’re clever! Download here. 

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String Feeling

Maria Sledmere’s heady and nacreous poem String Feeling is now officially available for purchase! Pick it up here. Quoth the people:

String Feeling is a small epic of shiny surfaces and sharp edges. It delights in the sticky, resistant chewing-gum nature of language, letting bits get wrapped around the teeth and come unstuck with a pop. Read it (‘this poem, full house’) with something cold and fizzing, and let its accumulations (blackcurrants, ocean therapy, ‘the blister pack / of an unremarkable firmament,’ the giant omelette on Neopets) get busy with you. — Rosa Campbell

String Feeling approaches a poetry of applied post-scarcity. In this intoxicating tragicomic epic, a kind of utopia of pure imperfection is imagined sidelong. String Feeling soaks up abundance in the inimical, the crystalline, and the samey. This is a social world whose connective tissues are ofc ablated and cuffed, its skins glitter-slit and unstable, yet nonetheless so tender and safe that even sickness can be cherished for its specific textures.

Abundance is partly political economy, but partly mystic practices, a “seeing also,” often droll and self-deprecatory, that reveals the wriggling roots of the real. Like its contrapunto comrade String Theory, String Feeling infers a higher-dimensioned space, where what appear as dots are actually one-dimensional objects (open or looped “strings”). This means that the pixels that make up a memory on one vibration may comprise a dream, or a desire, or an entanglement with the more-than-human, as the string’s vibrational intensity varies.

Through such a space falls a hundred page filament. What is it? Reader, you return to your lateral flow test to find not a neat second line but a tiny, like, tail or proboscis, 5 mm high, tasting the environs. That’s how the braid begins, and soon this strong slender poem is part tapeworm Tulpa, tender and patient, and part deep time tampon, dipping temporally across many-dimensioned menstrual manifold. Filament descent is by low-energy drift, yet every drifted inch must also be the magnificent wayfaring of a folk hero. At times their travel-magic requires tranquillities recalled in emotion. At times, cunning satire, neat as any set-piece yet caj af for off-the-cuff comic timing. Still other ruses rule-break in dreamy spurts then sift the results, forming nonconformities quasi-retrospectively, shrugging free of the obey embedded in disobey.

What kind of fool gets this good at poetry when we don’t even know what poetry is yet? Get in the top of this poem and slide down to the bottom. The poem also claims it is OK not even to read it at all and to go practice carpentry or simply to smash your thumbs into your eyeballs and encounter Cassopoeia. String Feeling is a work supremely horny and wise.

Though in part String Feeling sips this abundance from cyberspace, it is addicted to being offline. Foraging a collapsing planet’s moonless forests lit by an iPhone open not on the lamp app but on a moodscroll of pals’s Insta stories, plus multiple tabs of rabbitholes and maybe a monsterhole. Whose woods these are I think I glow: the “this is fine” in flames meme with a cherry picker on top with a cherry melancholic in the cab. — Jo Lindsay Walton

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Hasp #2

Hasp #2 is now available for download! Find herein a coruscating and pearlescent interview with Maria Sledmere on her upcoming book String Feeling. Also included is an excerpt from the book and a secret link for early purchase. Geddit here!

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Mnemosyne

David Brazil’s Mnemosyne is now officially available for purchase! Pick it up here.

“With Mnemosyne, David Brazil has achieved an extraordinary feat of anamnesis, one in which personal remembrance is interfused with historical, philosophical, and poetic memory writ large. The capaciously syncretic music of the poem accretes from a disparate host of hieratic and demotic root notes—though the ultimate resonance is unmistakably Christological. Part lament, part prayer, part vision, Mnemosyne is a brilliant and lachrymatory epic for the time that remains.”

To read an interview with David on the poem, download a PDF of the first issue of Hasp.

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Hasp #1

Erotoplasty Editions is imminent! The inaugural text is a dazzling long poem by David Brazil titled Mnemosyne. The book will officially be published on Friday, but canny sorts can circumvent the embargo RIGHT NOW by downloading a PDF of Hasp and reading it to its terminus. Within can be found an interview with David, an excerpt from Mnemosyne, and perhaps even another goodie. Let’s go!

Download here. 

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Update

Erotoplasty (the zine) is now finished and thus no longer open to submissions. Parts 1 and 2 of the final issue can be downloaded here and here, respectively. Erotoplasticity being what it is, new morphologies are inevitable at some point. Until then, then! 

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Erotoplasty 7 (pt. 2)!

And now to the final repast—Erotoplasty 7 pt. 2. This one is a veritable smorgasbord of haute feed, comestibles bursting with the pungent-luscious flavours of Joe Luna, L y d i a  D v n c h, Calum Hazell & Colin Leemarshall, Ghazal Mosadeq, Ulli Freer, Vik Shirley & Luke Palmer, Ali Graham, Cassandra Troyan, Andre Bagoo, Alice Tarbuck, Tim Atkins, Chris Gutkind, Giles Goodland, Chris Stephenson, Khaled Hakim, David Brazil, Fred Spoliar & Maria Sledmere, Iris Colomb, Laura Lynes, Aditya Bahl, Ellen Dillon, Peter Larkin, Anthony Mellors & David Rees, ajCarruthers, Kate Fanthorpe, Alex Grafen, Dom Hale, Owen Brakspear, Paula Damm & Dona Mayoora, Jim Leftwich & John Crouse & John M. Bennett, RTA Parker, David Ashford, and Will Alexander. Tuck in and out!

Download the PDF here.