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The Blasted Tree 5-YR Anniversary Party

Five years young and ready for fun! Join me on Nov. 21st for The Blasted Tree's 5-YR anniversary party, celebrating five years of independent small press publishing. There will be authors. There will be chapbooks. There will be prizes and music and libations and maybe even an awkward toast or two. Mostly I want to express gratitude to the community that's helped keep this dream alive, so come party with me pretty please! Thursday, November 21, 7 - 9 pm at LOFT 112, 535 8 Avenue SE.

Poetry Leaflets - A Triptych of Andrews by Andrew Brenza

 

Three visual poems by Andrew Brenza layering the author’s own name over and over itself to form kaleidoscopic waves of constructive and destructive interference, something like the textual equivalent of saying an ordinary word until it starts to sound bizarre. The Blasted Tree has produced a limited edition of fifty 3.75” x 3.5” leaflet sets containing all three poems on separate sheets. Each set comes tucked in a black paper sleeve with a descriptive card, available now from our online Store, and “A Triptych of Andrews” can be browsed using the link below.

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Poetry Chapbook - Keyboards: 14 poems for Tom Jenks by Catherine Vidler

 

A series of visual/textual poetry by prolific Australian poet Catherine Vidler. Keyboards: 14 poems for Tom Jenks is composed of glitching textual artifacts, an array of digital ephemera unraveling across the page like code through a corrupted processor. As the series go on, each poem invading and overwriting the last, it devolves into rich fields of pixelated letter forms. Keyboards has been produced in a limited edition of 50 chapbooks, hand-bound in blank prototyping circuit boards and aluminum tape, then sealed in translucent anti-static bags (normally used to ship computer hardware). 50 copies of the chapbook are now available from The Blasted Tree’s online Store, and the full sequence of poems can be viewed in the image gallery by following the link below.

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Additionally, Vidler has prepared an audio accompaniment to the series entitled Song-Sonnet for Two Keyboards, which can be downloaded from The Blasted Tree’s Bandcamp.

Poetry Chapbook - Time-Sensitive Material by David Dowker

Time-Sensitive Material is a collection of poems by the inimitable David Dowker. Intricate and deeply meditative, these poems turn the soil of language, bringing fertility to the stuffiest, most jargonistic corners of discourse. Philosophy, natural science, and linguistics decompose and are deployed in recombinant sequences: “ambigrammatical, becoming animalism.” A limited edition of 50 chapbooks have been produced on ivory linen paper, each hand-bound in a distressed parchment cover with a tissue paper flyleaf, available now from The Blasted Tree Store. Time-Sensitive Material can be read online using the link below.

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Poetry Chapbook - a peal of thunder, a moment of by katie o'brien

a peal of thunder, a moment of is concrete poetry based on Beethoven’s “Moonlight Sonata.” katie o’brien’s project has involved chopping up Beethoven’s musical score and layering the staves so it’s difficult to make out the original phrase - blurring the material to reflect the disoriented memories they have around losing their grandmother ten years ago. The Blasted Tree has produced a limited edition of 50 hand-bound chapbooks of a peal of thunder, a moment of, available now from our online Store, and the full sequence of poems can be viewed online by following the link below.

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Multimedia Chapbook - The Sims in Real Life by Ben Robinson

Ben Robinson’s The Sims in Real Life makes use of YouTube’s auto-captioning function to put words to clips of otherwise nonsensical gibberish. The poem is made from captions generated for a video wherein a prankster acts like a character from The Sims video game series, jabbering unintelligibly at strangers. The Blasted Tree has produced an edition of multimedia chapbooks featuring a booklet of this poem plus a bonus CD loaded up with digital content, including an introduction by the author, production images, and more. Copies from the limited edition of 40 chapbooks, each tucked with its disk in a slim jewel case, are available to purchased from our online Store.

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Visual Poetry Broadside - A Labyrinth Is a Rabbit Hole by Luke Bradford

“A Labyrinth Is a Rabbit Hole” is a visual poem in Luke Bradford’s signature style, fitting the letterforms of a short sentence into the shape of a rectangular maze. The maze created by the sentence is, of course, solvable, while the sentence remains legible from a distance. The Blasted Tree has produced a limited edition of fifty 10” x 17” broadsides featuring Bradford’s visual poem, available now from our online Store. “A Labyrinth Is a Rabbit Hole” can be previewed online using the link below.

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Poetry Leaflet - Gag Tag : Tact Act by Franco Cortese

Our second publication by experimental poet Franco Cortese, “Gag Tag : Tact Act” is a loosely-constrained lipogrammatic poem using only the letters found in the names of the four nucleobases (adenine, cytosine, guanine and thymine). A limited edition of sixty 5” x 7.5” leaflets featuring the poem have been produced on toothy Dreadnought Grey paper, available now from The Blasted Tree’s Store. Read “Gag Tag : Tact Act” online by following the link below.

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Poetry Longsheet - Joanne Kyger: Post-Life by Stephen Bett

“Joanne Kyger: Post-Life” is excerpted from an alphabet book of post avant glosa by Canadian poet Stephen Bett. Broken Glosa takes the “glosa,” a Renaissance Spanish Court form, and breaks it down to its contemporary essentials―fractured forms for fractured times and alternate realities―riffing on postmodernist and post-postmodernist poets. The Blasted Tree has produced a limited edition of 50 longsheets on pewter Skytone paper, available now from our online Store, and you can read Bett’s gloss on Kyger’s “Post Extinction” by following the link below.

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