An evening of readings, performance and audiovisual work to launch 'Arrhythmia', a Book Works open submission series edited by Katrina Palmer.
Katrina will be joined by Roy Claire Potter and Alice Walter, reading from their new novels, The Wastes and The Medium.
About Arrhythmia:
Guest-edited by artist Katrina Palmer, Arrhythmia is a new series publishing artists and writers whose work explores ideas of being out of joint with the predominant social order, whether through disrupted trajectories, physical displacement, or political dissonance. We asked for experimental work that articulates a discontinuous sense of identity, and writing, or where the combination of writing and images in which the rhythm of the text is self-consciously questioned. Four authors have been commissioned – novels by Roy Claire Potter and Alice Walter are out now and will be followed by two new titles by Andrew E. Colarusso and Kamwangi Njue in 2025.
About The Medium:
To read The Medium is to be submerged in a stream of consciousness populated by uninvited voices from the underworld. Animated, urgent, and brutally propulsive, this cacophony of competing narratives begins to upset the boundary between the living and the dead. The Medium is an alchemical novel, shimmering with insight from the depths of a black lake.
About The Wastes:
After the death of her mother a woman decides to visit a familiar strip of rural upland, darkly identified on the South Pennines Ordnance Survey map as: The Waste. As she moves between trains, shunted by public encounters and haunted by past bar jobs, damp bedsits and a press shot of Vanessa Redgrave smoking in the bath, found slipped between the pages of her mother’s diary, the threshold between her past, present and future self dissolves. Fringe images she has neither designed nor authored begin to steer her toward grid reference 3499, where underfoot the semi-solid mud turns with worms and ants.