The Book Works winter sale is now on! Last order date before Christmas is Friday 17 December
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Save 50% on all our backlist titles. The sale includes Hamja Ahsan’s bestseller Shy Radicals; Bridget Penney’s Licorice and Hamishi Farah’s Airport Love Theme, and all titles in Stewart Home’s Semina series – including Katrina Palmer’s The Dark Object, Mara Coson’s Aliasing, and Iphgenia Baal’s Merced Es Benz – all available for around a fiver! Delve deep into our online shop to find rare editions and almost-out-of-print bargains. The Book Works winter sale is the place to find the perfect Christmas gift for the artist book-liker in your life.
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small white monkeys: On self-expression, Self-help and Shame (2017, Second Edition, 2022)
Sophie Collins  |
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Available for preorder at the reduced price of £10.00
‘The Engine’ was a poem about another world. Inhabiting this world was a brood of small white monkeys that moved around like injured birds, like furtive healthy birds, like monkeys. …
It took me too long to recognise ‘The Engine’ for what it was – the story of my life until now, or quite recently. It took me longer still to recognise the monkeys for what they were, collectively: my white symbol of shame. – from small white monkeys
small white monkeys is a fragmented essay, including poems and images, on self-expression, self-help and shame. Beginning with the image of the small white monkeys, the text examines the author’s relationship with shame through a series of short studies on, amongst other things, cats, hair as a metonym for the self in poetry and fiction, and perceptions of sexual violence.
Made through research into Glasgow Women’s Library’s Archive Collections and Lending Library, small white monkeys incorporates material from the library’s archives and the work of female creators past and present, including Anna Mendelssohn, Jean Rhys, Selima Hill, Adrian Piper, June Jordan, Denise Riley, Carolee Schneemann, Vahni Capildeo and Veronica Forrest-Thomson.
This second edition of small white monkeys by Sophie Collins includes new poems and a new introduction by Helen Charman.
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Join Our Readers Club or Supporters Scheme
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We’ve had a fantastic response to the launch last week of our new Readers Club and Supporters Scheme.
Readers Club
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Joining our Readers Club is a perfect way to keep up to date with all our publications at a very special price and also receive a 10% discount on all other book purchases.
Or, why not gift this to a friend for Christmas so they can receive and enjoy new publications by the following artists and writers: Phyllis Christopher, Diana Georgiou, Huw Lemmey, Samia Malik, Harun Morrison, Sofia Niazi, Francesco Pedraglio, Prem Sahib, Derica Shields, Lucy Skaer, Rosa-Johan Uddoh, Isabel Waidner and more. Find out more here.
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Many of the artists that we have worked with talk about the investment, time, care and nurture they have experienced working with Book Works – particularly artists commissioned through open submission. We want you to become part of that supportive process. With you, we want to build a community of support that can help develop the ambitions of our open submission commissioning platform, to give further opportunities to artists and writers, often at the start of their career. Find out more about becoming a supporter here.
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