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Oct 17: Trigger Warning #01 at L’Etoiles Studio, Old Market Bristol w/Stephen James Moore, Dwight Olivers, Martin Wakefield, Lydia Unsworth, Paul Hawkins more tbc

Nov 13: Trigger Warning #02 - Hesterglock Press & Steel Incisors joint event at L’Etoiles Studio, Old Market Bristol w/James Knight, Martin Wakefield & Bob Modem, Emma Filtness, Madeleine Culver more tbc

Trigger Warning: experimental poetry performance events in Bristol visit the website for more details

Dec 3: Hesterglock Press Book Launch at Impiety Hour, 70 Oldham Rd, Manchester M4 5EB w/ Stephen Sunderland, Martin Wakefield, Lenni Saunders, Tom Jenks, Lydia Unsworth, Paul Hawkins, Sarah Clare-Conlon, James Davies 19:00 - 21:00











HANDSFREE




A 21st century visual poetry response to a classic of French Surrealism. 

Bob Modem’s deconstructions of Martin Wakefield’s reimaginings of Paul Eluard’s illustrations of Man Ray’s drawings from Part 1 of Les Main Libres.




“Carefully controlled chaos erupts in a collaboration of image and text that suggests no hands have had a part to play in this powerfully emotive visual poetic. I imagine gentle poltergeists and considerate ghosts - imbued with the spirit of surreal energy - become as one to create a symbiotic collection of twenty-first century poems that, I hope like me, you will want to read again and again and again. A remarkable achievement!” - Richard Biddle, author of Consciousness.

Published by Steel Incisors
Perfect bound paperback 
210mm x 210mm 
full colour 
40 pages
£13 + p&p BUY

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