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30/09/2024

Tomorrow night we are launching Sascha Aurora Akhtar’s The Grimoire of Grimalkin at Reference Point () in London.

Please join us to celebrate this incredible collection! Sascha will be joined by José Buera (), Tara Fatehi (),
Anthony Joseph (.joseph_poet) and Iris Colomb ().

It is free to attend. Note: fabulous dress is encouraged and will be rewarded.

Tuesday 1 October, 7pm
Reference Point, 2 Arundel St, London WC2R 2DA

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The Grimoire of Grimalkin by Sascha Aurora Akhtar is a poetry collection concerned with language as an energetic force. Akhtar invokes the form of the grimoire, spellbooks written by occultists in the 16th century, to explore the relationship of personal myth-making to the wider macrocosm in which we exist, through colonial and gendered trauma; a grimalkin was a derogatory term used for the elder women seen as a ‘witch’: spiteful and mean, but also a shape-shifter, a cat.

Akhtar’s writing deftly weaves obsolete or ‘dead’ words with dialect, slang – a lashing of esoteric vocabularies to create a language that too shifts shapes, and through its rage wields the power to leave the patriarchy for dead. The poet holds no prisoners.

Akhtar’s debut when it was originally published in 2007, The Grimoire of Grimalkin is a primordial work of contemporary Gothic from one of the most exciting and daring poets working in the UK today.

16/09/2024

Please join us on Tuesday 1 October for the launch of Sascha Aurora Akhtar’s The Grimoire of Grimalkin.

With readings and performances from Sascha, Jose Buera, Tara Fatehi (), Anthony Joseph (.joseph_poet), and a special performance ritual from Iris Colomb ().

From 7pm at Reference Point, 2 Arundel Street, London WC2R 2DA. Free to attend.

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The Grimoire of Grimalkin by Sascha Aurora Akhtar is a poetry collection concerned with language as an energetic force. Akhtar invokes the form of the grimoire, spellbooks written by occultists in the 16th century, to explore the relationship of personal myth-making to the wider macrocosm in which we exist, through colonial and gendered trauma; a grimalkin was a derogatory term used for the elder women seen as a ‘witch’: spiteful and mean, but also a shape-shifter, a cat.

Akhtar’s writing deftly weaves obsolete or ‘dead’ words with dialect, slang – a lashing of esoteric vocabularies to create a language that too shifts shapes, and through its rage wields the power to leave the patriarchy for dead. The poet holds no prisoners.

Akhtar’s debut when it was originally published in 2007, The Grimoire of Grimalkin is a primordial work of contemporary Gothic from one of the most exciting and daring poets working in the UK today.

‘Akhtar’s poems, which are like nobody else’s, are gobsmacking, magical. This work casts a wild, incantatory music that beguiles both ear and tongue.’ – Sylvia Legris

13/09/2024

Huge congratulations to Rebecca Jagoe and Remi Graves, who were announced as the winners of the 2024 Prototype Prize at an award ceremony last night.

The inaugural prize was judged by Bhanu Kapil, Tom McCarthy and Elizabeth Price, and is a partnership between Prototype, Monitor Books and frieze magazine, awarding categories for both book-length works and short-form works.

The judges commented that it had been ‘a privilege to judge the inaugural Prototype Prize, and to read work by such a varied range of talented writers and artists. We were struck by the extraordinary quality of the shortlist; it is no small achievement to independently develop works of this depth and sophistication. It was extremely difficult to choose winners from these important and innovative works, but we are confident that all of these exceptional projects will find a readership.’

Rebecca Jagoe won for their manuscript Significant Others, which explores ‘intimate or bodily relationships with other-than-humans’.

The judges said: ‘Jagoe’s Significant Others is a fully grown and highly original manuscript. It is a remarkable and beautiful piece of writing which forges a new language of material aesthetics to think and write beyond the human. There is a fluency and elasticity of invention here, resonating with the processes of artistic creation and encounter. Exciting, passionate and surprising.’

Remi Graves won the short-form category for coal, an experimental pamphlet that explores the life and death of Paul Downing, a black transmasculine person from Georgia, USA.

The judges said: ‘Remi Graves’ coal is a genuine experiment – unconfined, unprecious, yet also precise. The elements, so varied in form, build a coherence of subject, tone, and attitude. Remi makes research itself the drama, inserting the complex subjectivity of the researcher (and the unreliability of the whole process) into the work. coal has the liveness of a whole practice.’

12/09/2024

Please join us next week to celebrate the publication of Ahren Warner’s photobook and novella i will pay to make it bigger, , where Ahren’s solo show is running throughout September.

There will be readings from Ella Fleck, Sarah Howe, Yu’an Huang with Hana K. Ohnewehr, and Mark Waldron.

Entry is free and everyone is welcome; no RSVP necessary.

Time: 6.30pm, with readings starting at 7.30pm

Location: Season 4, Episode 6 gallery, 96 Robert Street, NW1 3QP

05/09/2024

Ahren Warner’s novella and photobook i will pay to make it bigger publishes today, coinciding with the opening of his new solo show , where we’ll be launching the book on 19 September with Ella Fleck (), Sarah Howe (), Hana K. Ohnewehr / Yu’an Huang ( ) and .

i will pay to make it bigger is a novella in which ‘you’ are the main character. Through text and image – autofiction, docufiction, and just plain fiction – you work your way through a tangle of preoccupations: from what it means to buy enjoyment, to the fragile construction of your own self as a cultural product.

i will pay to make it bigger is also a photobook, a collection of images produced whilst living in Thai ‘party hostels’. Although these photographs might seem to exist as the documentation of intimate or ecstatic moments, they are in fact quite painstakingly, and artificially, constructed: composited and manipulated from multiple still frames of film footage to produce images that advertise the calculated artifice of their own hedonism, emotion and seemingly raw experience.

The book includes a Coda by Hana K. Ohnewehr, commissioned by .

You can order the book (and choose from a set of limited edition prints) on our website, via the link in our bio or get it from your local indie bookshop.

01/08/2024

Our summer sale starts today and runs throughout August, with discounts of up to 60% off all titles in our back catalogue.

Novels and poetry collections starting at £6, previous issues of our annual anthology for £6, Test Centre books and vinyl LPs for as little as £4.

Browse our online shop via link in bio.

17/07/2024

We now have proof copies of rock flight, the incredible debut poetry collection by Hasib Hourani (), which will published on 16 October. Reviewers, please get in touch for a copy!

rock flight is a book-length poem that, over five chapters, follows a personal and historical narrative to compose an understated yet powerful allegory of Palestine’s occupation.

We’re very happy to be publishing the UK edition of this extraordinary collection. It’s forthcoming in Australia via and in the US by .

15/07/2024

Sulaiman Addonia is taking part in this Thursday evening! He’ll be in conversation with poet and novelist Simone Atangana Bekono.

Thursday 18 July at the Bantry Library. Free to attend.

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Sulaiman Addonia is an award-winning, highly acclaimed Eritrean-Ethiopian-British author living in Brussels. His personal story as a child refugee underlies all of his writing, offering a vital and eye-opening perspective on the experiences of refugess and asylum-seekers. His new novel The Seers includes an exploration of the sexual life of refugees, bringing great depth and humanity to its narrator’s story, offering an entirely new, and deeply empowering, perspective.

Confrontations by Simone Atangana Bekono is a bold, unsettling, and heart-breaking novel about race, belonging and the legacies of violence. Raw and unsentimental, it is a powerful depiction of racism and resilience from one of the Netherlands’ most exciting new literary voices. Simone is best known as a poet and this is her debut novel.

Sulaiman’s attendance is supported by supported by Flanders Literature () as part of their Flip Through Flanders programme and Simone’s by the Dutch Foundation for Literature/Nederlands Letterenfonds () as part of their New Dutch Writing programme.

10/07/2024

PROTOTYPE 6, the latest instalment of our annual anthology, is published today.

This year’s anthology was put together in a slightly different way to normal, and rather than opening submissions, we invited contributions from some of the outstanding applications we received for our development programme, which is running this year for the first time. This seemed the perfect way to offer an opportunity to those we couldn’t accommodate on the programme, and we were extremely impressed by so much of the work we read when going through applications, of which there were nearly 600.

As with every issue, you’ll find excerpts from some forthcoming books, including Hasib Hourani’s outstanding debut poetry collection rock flight, Zsuzsanna Gahse’s Mountainish, a multi-layered typology and essayistic travelogue translated by the brilliant Katy Derbyshire, and Imogen Cassel’s debut collection.

PROTOTYPE 6 contributors:

Galia Admoni, Louis Bailey, Eloise Bennett, Jen Carter, Imogen Cassels, Kat Chimonides, Helena Fornells Nadal, Miruna Fulgeanu, Zsuzsanna Gahse (trans. Katy Derbyshire), Eiffel Gao, Mica Georgis, Matthew Halliday, Jordan Hayward, Hasib Hourani, Aria Hughes-Liebling, Dominic J. Jaeckle, Rozie Kelly, Alex Mepham, Lucy Mercer, Duncan Montgomery, Angélica Pina Lèbre, c.f. prior, Oisín Roberts, Rochelle Roberts, James Rodker, Jacqueline Rose, Leonie Rushforth, Irina Sadóvina, Agnieszka Szczotka, Maya Uppal, Stephen Watts, Jack Young, Kate Zambreno.

Design is by Theo Inglis and cover artwork is by Duncan Montgomery, one of our development programme applicants, whose etchings we loved, and who produced this image especially for us.

You can subscribe to our anthologies in the UK for just £12 a year, or order a single issue for £14 + postage. The link is in our bio.

01/07/2024

You can now listen back to Sulaiman Addonia () in conversation with Jumoké Fashola () on BBC Radio London.

Sulaiman discusses the process of writing the novel after moving to Brussels, writing from the subconscious, and giving power to your imagination. There is also an extract from the audiobook of the novel, read by Mylène Gomera (), which is now available from .

Link in bio for the full episode; Sulaiman’s interview starts at 1h13m.

19/06/2024

We are delighted to announce the two shortlists for the 2024 Prototype Prize, a new, biennial prize for published or unpublished writers and artists working at the intersections of different literary and artistic forms.

This year’s judges are Bhanu Kapil, Tom McCarthy and Elizabeth Price. We received so many incredible submissions to this inaugural prize, and it was a privilege to read so much exciting work.

The prize awards £3,000 plus publication by Prototype to the best book-length project, and a second prize of £2,000 plus publication by to the best short-form work. Both prize-winners will also have an excerpt of their work published by .

The winners will be announced at an event at the South London Gallery () on Thursday 12 September. Details to follow!

Book-length category shortlist:

Matthias Connor
Ellen Dillon ()
Rebecca Jagoe ()
Kate Pickering ()
Oliver Zarandi ()

Short-form category shortlist:

Aisha Farr ()
Remi Graves
Krystle Patel
Milo Thesiger-Meacham ()

Congratulations to all those shortlisted!

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The prize has been made possible by the support of Shane Akeroyd, Sadie Coles and Emmanuel Roman, and by public funding from Arts Council England (), plus creative partnerships with frieze magazine and the South London Gallery.

17/06/2024

‘Maybe I’ve taken the concept of freedom into the wilderness, but, for me, it’s about paying homage to your imagination… I know what oppression is – the last thing I’d want to do is to turn my imagination into an oppressive thing.’

Incredible to see ’s interview with Anthony Cummins in the Observer yesterday. There’s a link to the piece in our bio.

Sulaiman’s tour for The Seers begins tomorrow in Bristol, before heading to Birmingham, Sheffield, Leeds, Brighton, and London. All of these venues will have copies of the special edition of The Seers for Independent Bookshop Week!

We are so excited for people to read this extraordinary novel, and we hope you get a chance to see Sulaiman on this celebratory tour. Full details below and links to all tickets in our bio.

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Bristol | Tuesday 18 June
in conversation with Polly Barton

, Birmingham | Wednesday 19 June in conversation with Thomas Glave

Sheffield | Thursday 20 June
in conversation with Issam Gharib

Leeds | Friday 21 June
in conversation with Jake Hall

Brighton | Saturday 22 June
‘Putting People First’ panel with Sulaiman, Majid Adin and Sheikha Helawy

London | Wednesday 26 June
in conversation with Vijay Khurana

The tour is generously supported by Flip Through Flanders, presented by

14/06/2024

Independent bookshop week starts tomorrow and to celebrate and thank the indie bookshops which are absolutely crucial to our survival, and so dedicated and energetic in their support of the work of so many independent publishers, we’ve produced an exclusive limited edition of ’s The Seers, which publishes on 27 June. It’s the same price as the standard edition (just £12) and only available from indies.

Visit your local bookshop and find or order your copy there. Only 500 available (including. 50 directly from us) and they’re going fast.

Sulaiman begins his UK tour next week, starting at on Tuesday, then in Birmingham on Wednesday, on Thursday, on Friday and on Saturday, before returning to London for the launch on Wednesday 26.

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The Seers follows the first years of a homeless Eritrean refugee in London. Set around a foster home in Kilburn and in the squares of Bloomsbury, where its protagonist Hannah sleeps, the novel grapples with how agency is given to the sexual lives of refugees, insisting that the erotic and intimate side of life is as much a part of someone’s story as ‘land and nations’ are.

Hannah arrives in London with her mother’s diary, containing a disturbing sexual story taking place in Keren, Eritrea, where the Allies defeated the Italians in the Second World War. In a gripping, continuous paragraph, The Seers moves between the present day and the past to explore intergenerational histories and colonial trauma alongside the psychological and erotic lives of its characters as their identities are shaped, but refused to be suppressed, by the bureaucratic processes of the UK asylum system.

‘The Seers is an incandescent howl of anti-colonial rage and insatiable desire; a powerful and taboo-breaking love letter to a London made of stories, and a scathing indictment of the UK asylum system’s ability to break hearts and bodies to pieces again and again.’ – Preti Taneja

11/06/2024

Chloe Aridjis’s collection, Dialogue with a Somnambulist: Stories, Essays & a Portrait Gallery, published by our House Sparrow Press imprint, is now back in stock, in a revised and expanded 2nd edition, with five substantial new texts and a new cover colour, beautifully designed by Theo Inglis.

Renowned internationally for her lyrically unsettling novels Book of Clouds, Asunder and Sea Monsters, Aridjis crosses borders in her work as much as she traverses them in life. This collection brings together her stories, essays and pen portraits, revealing an author as imaginatively at home in the short form as in her longer fiction.

At once fabular and formally innovative, acquainted with reverie and rigorous report, sensitive to the needs of a wider ecology yet familiar with the landscapes of the unconscious, her texts are both dream dispatches and wayward word plays infused with the pleasure and possibilities of language. Conversations with the presences who dwell on the threshold of waking and reverie, flâneuses of the dusk and dawn, these pieces will stay with you long after the lamps have flickered out.

The collection includes an introduction by Tom McCarthy, and an afterword by House Sparrow Press co-editor Gareth Evans.

Order via link in bio.

‘Beautiful. It sits like a jewel in your mind… Chloe’s writing matters not because its topics are ripped from today’s headlines but because she is trying to illuminate this world using only words… And the single-minded search for words that “will surely fit” – better than any template or tailored suit – is what animates every page of this wonderful book.’
– Zadie Smith, The Paris Review

‘Reading Dialogue with a Somnambulist, one page after another, entranced, I was filled with admiration and love for this daring, excellent writer.’
– Lynne Tillman

‘Exquisite dreamworks that exert alternative logics and make a compelling case for the idea that we are born into fantasy and only gradually acquire a sense of a much narrower and more rational reality.’
– Claire-Louise Bennett

10/06/2024

We’re so excited to launch Sulaiman Addonia’s The Seers with a UK tour, which starts next week!

These events coincide with , and the special edition of The Seers will be available at all of these venues.

, Bristol | Tuesday 18 June
in conversation with Polly Barton

, Birmingham | Wednesday 19 June in conversation with Thomas Glave

, Sheffield | Thursday 20 June
in conversation with Issam Gharib

, Leeds | Friday 21 June
in conversation with Jake Hall

, Brighton | Saturday 22 June
‘Putting People First’ panel with Sulaiman, Majid Adin and Sheikha Helawy

, London | Wednesday 26 June in conversation with Vijay Khurana

There are links to tickets for all events in our bio. The tour is generously supported by Flip Through Flanders, presented by

01/05/2024

We’re very happy to reveal the cover and colour of Sulaiman Addonia’s forthcoming novel, The Seers. You can now pre-order this wonderful book, which we can’t wait to publish on 27 June.

We’ll be announcing details of Sulaiman’s upcoming tour very soon, with events at bookshops across the UK.

The pre-order link is in our bio.

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The Seers follows the first weeks of a homeless Eritrean refugee in London. Set around a foster home in Kilburn and in the squares of Bloomsbury, where its protagonist Hannah sleeps, the novel grapples with how agency is given to the sexual lives of refugees, presenting free-spirited, gender-fluid, trans and androgynous African immigrants, and insisting that the erotic and intimate side of life is as much a part of someone’s story as ‘land and nations’ are.

Hannah arrives in London with her mother’s diary, containing a disturbing sexual story taking place in Keren, Eritrea, where the Allies defeated the Italians in the Second World War. In a gripping, continuous paragraph, The Seers moves between the present day and the past to explore intergenerational histories and colonial trauma alongside the psychological and erotic lives of its characters as their identities are shaped, but refused to be suppressed, by the bureaucratic processes of the UK asylum system.

‘The Seers is an incandescent howl of anti-colonial rage and insatiable desire; a powerful and taboo-breaking love letter to a London made of stories, and a scathing indictment of the UK asylum system’s ability to break hearts and bodies to pieces again and again.’ – Preti Taneja

26/04/2024

We could not be happier to share the news that we get to work with the incomparable Jen Calleja again, and will be publishing her literary translator memoir Fair next year. This will be our 4th book together, since Test Centre published her debut poetry collection Serious Justice in 2016.

Fair is a satirical, refreshing and brilliantly playful book about learning the art of translation, being a bookworker in the publishing industry, growing up, family, and class. Loosely set in an imagined book fair/art fair/fun fair, Calleja moves between personal memories and larger questions about the role of the literary translator in publishing, about fairness and hard work, about the ways we define success, and what it means – and whether it is possible – to make a living as an artist.

To quote from our press release:

Jen says: ‘I’m so grateful to be working with Jess and Prototype for the fourth time. With this book I hope to challenge myths around who could and should be a translator/writer/artist, share the (perhaps surprising) incremental steps that led to me becoming a literary translator, and bring translators into closer kinship with other creative practitioners – not only in our experience of our practices but also our precarity. Writing this book over the last five years has been a bit of a rollercoaster, but there’s no one I trust more to support me with genuine care in publishing this very personal book than Jess Chandler.’

Prototype publisher Jess says: ‘Jen and I have worked closely together for many years, and I have known this book was coming for some time. The experience of finally reading it was so deeply moving and exciting, and it is an immense privilege to have the opportunity to publish it. I truly believe Jen to be one of the most important and inspirational writers, and a vital force in the world of translation and independent publishing, and I can’t wait for people to read this book. As an author-publisher team, we’ve done poetry, short stories, a novel, and now this stunning work of literary memoir written in Jen’s singular voice, with an awe-inspiring imaginative capacity that makes us see the world in new ways.’

08/04/2024

We’re thrilled to announce two prose publications for 2025: the first UK editions of Kate Zambreno’s Book of Mutter and Appendix Project. Prototype will publish these two wonderful, interconnected works simultaneously next spring.

Originally published in the US by Semiotext(e) in 2017 and 2019 respectively, these books circle around the death of Zambreno’s mother, combining varied textual forms – note/scrapbooks, essays, talks, poems – into distinctive philosophical meditations.

Book of Mutter is a tender and disquieting meditation on the ability of writing, photography, and memory to embrace shadows while in the throes – and dead calm – of grief. The text spirals out into a fractured anatomy of melancholy that includes critical reflections on the likes of Roland Barthes, Louise Bourgeois, Henry Darger, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, and others. Neither memoir, essay, nor poetry, it is an uncategorizable text that draws upon a repertoire of genres to write into and against silence.

Appendix Project collects eleven talks and essays written in the course of the year following the publication of Book of Mutter, and is inspired by the lectures of Roland Barthes, Anne Carson, and Jorge Luis Borges. These surprising and moving performances, underscored by the sleeplessness of the first year of their child’s life, contain some of Zambreno’s most original and dazzling thinking and writing, through the work of On Kawara, Roland Barthes, W.G. Sebald, Bhanu Kapil, Walter Benjamin, and more.

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Kate Zambreno is the author of ten books, most recently the novel Drifts (Riverhead), a study of Hervé Guibert, To Write As If Already Dead (Columbia University Press), and The Light Room, a meditation on art and care (Riverhead). Tone, a collaborative study with the writer and scholar Sofia Samatar, under The Committee to Investigate Atmosphere, was recently published by Columbia University Press. Their fiction and reports have been published in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Granta, VQR, Astra, BOMB, and more.

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We are very excited to announce the next title in our interdisciplinary strand, publishing in September: i will pay to make it bigger, a novella and photobook by poet and artist Ahren Warner, with a Coda by Hana K. Ohnewehr, commissioned by Yu’an Huang ( @yuan9lifes ). The book can now be preordered, with free postage in the UK (link in bio). Launch event details for September will follow soon, which will take place at @season4_episode6 gallery, during Ahren’s solo show. **** You wake up in the footwell of a mid-sized hatchback somewhere on a highway in outer Bangkok. You compile neurotic spreadsheets of the best ‘party destinations’ in Europe, whilst your work emails pile up without ever being read. You quit your job. You launch a banal start-up. You grieve for a past relationship. You stare endlessly at the waves coming in from a beach in Koh Pha Ngan. You vape intensely. You spend money on feelings, on the performance of your own persona, whilst you observe yourself with a detached sense of horror. i will pay to make it bigger is a novella in which ‘you’ are the main character. Through text and image – autofiction, docufiction, and just plain fiction – you work your way through a tangle of preoccupations: from what it means to buy enjoyment, to the fragile construction of your own self as a cultural product. i will pay to make it bigger is also a photobook, a collection of images produced whilst living in Thai ‘party hostels’. Although these photographs might seem to exist as the documentation of intimate or ecstatic moments, they are in fact quite painstakingly, and artificially, constructed: composited and manipulated from multiple still frames of film footage to produce images that advertise the calculated artifice of their own hedonism, emotion and seemingly raw experience. Note: this books contains nudity

PROTOTYPE 4, the latest issue of our annual anthology, is published today! The anthology features new work and previews of forthcoming books by a number of Prototype authors, and introduces an exciting list of contributors published here for the first time. There's a slight delay with the shipping of this year's subscriber copies due to an error by the printer, but all orders will be posted next week. PROTOTYPE 4 features poetry, prose and artwork by: ajw, Sascha Akhtar, Chiara Ambrosio, Charlie Baylis, Jack Barker-Clark, Natalie Linh Bolderston, Jo Burns, Nancy Campbell, J. R. Carpenter, Joe Carrick-Varty, Robert Casselton Clark, Rory Cook, Emily Cooper, Kate Crowcroft, Eve Esfandiari-Denney, Alisha Dietzman, Edward Doegar, Nathan Dragon, Laura Elliott, Alan Fielden, Clare Fisher, Livia Franchini, Jay Gao, Honor Gareth Gavin, Emily Hasler, Grace Henes, Martha Kapos, Annie Katchinska, Victoria Manifold, Samra Mayanja, Jessa Mockridge, Helen Palmer, Yannis Ritsos (trans. Paul Merchant), Rochelle Roberts, Kimberly Reyes, fred spoliar, Scott Thurston, Hao Guang Tse, Ralf Webb, Sam Weselowski, Chrissy Williams and Xuela Zhang. Designed by Theo Inglis, with cover artwork by Ahren Warner. Order and subscribe via the link in our bio

Sale! This month we are celebrating the interdisciplinary publications that fall under 'type 3' of Prototype— hybrid works that resist categorisation, that push the boundaries of what a book can be. Explore these below, with 40% off until the end of May: https://prototypepublishing.co.uk/shop/type-3-interdisciplinary-projects/

Lila Matsumoto reading 'Trombone', the penultimate poem of Two Twin Pipes Sprout Water, a Poetry Book Society recommendation. Full details on the collection can be found here: https://prototypepublishing.co.uk/product/two-twin-pipes-sprout-water/

'Night is the sun gone cold.' In this video, Astrid Alben reads a segment from Little Dead Rabbit, a book-length poem illustrated throughout with die-cut stencils from Zigmunds Lapsa, published earlier this week. Available here: https://prototypepublishing.co.uk/product/little-dead-rabbit/

Our Flash Fiction sale continues for another 4 days! Buy any of our novels/short story collections for just £8 via the link in our bio.

Just a handful of signed copies remain of Deltas, the mesmerising first full collection of poems by Leonie Rushforth, which we are extremely excited to be publishing on 8 February. Available below, with free delivery on all UK pre-orders: https://prototypepublishing.co.uk/product/deltas/

As we approach the end of this crazy year, we'd like to say a huge thank you to everyone who has supported us over the past 12 months: buying our books, coming to our events, sharing our work with others, and so much more. We have 10 books lined up for the year ahead, and can't wait to share them with you soon. This is just a final reminder that our winter sale ends at midnight on new years' day. As long as we have books... https://prototypepublishing.co.uk/shop/

COVER REVEAL! Our 1st title of 2022 is the long-awaited debut collection by Leonie Rushforth, Deltas. Described by Frances Leviston as 'a book to live with, a sober & passionate response to the presences and absences around which our private and public lives are formed.’ Beautifully designed by Studio Foss. ‘Deltas is a delicate and subtle collection, but one that also contains a potent, muscular undertow of intense and sometimes violent emotion. Rushforth’s voice is fresh and startling – making you see the detail of the world anew, illuminated by her brilliantly precise and dazzling language. A rich, deeply rewarding poetic experience.’ – Rebecca Tamás ‘Rather as the muntjac is “picking its material way across the paddock, / believing itself to be both spotlit / as indeed it was, and invisible” (‘Muntjac’), this poetry is also concerned with the visible and the invisible. Leonie Rushforth perfectly balances an interiority of vision with a sense of the physicality of the world. The language is surprisingly elastic and steadily revealing of the barely expressible. A distinctive and most welcome début.’ – Moniza Alvi ‘Great poetry notices the unnoticed. In her welcome debut collection Rushforth displays a talent for paying meticulous attention both to language and the world it describes. She has an uncanny ability to find the tiny importances in things through poems suffused with a mixture of tenderness and clarity of vision. Past, present and future coalesce and converse but there is nothing retrospective here – these are memorable and important poems which furnish us with “a way to look back/that will deliver us from the future.” A remarkable, unforgettable collection for these remarkable and unforgettable times.’ – John Glenday https://prototypepublishing.co.uk/product/deltas/

Our winter sale includes huge discounts on everything in the Test Centre archive, with magazines starting from as little as £4. Stocks are low on most items so get them before they're gone! https://prototypepublishing.co.uk/shop/

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