SERVANT DRONE
Servant Drone (2nd Edition)
Paul Hawkins & Bruno Neiva
1st edition 2015 - out of print
2nd edition 2018
cover art: Privados Um by Bárbara Mesquita
Knives Forks & Spoons Press
£9 buy
Publication history:
#10 (Hawkins), #10 (Neiva), #11 (Hawkins) and #11 (Neiva), Queen Mob's Teahouse
Articles, interviews and reviews:
Servant Drone by Bruno Neiva and Paul Hawkins, Matthew Hall, Galatea Resurrects #26 (A Poetry Engagement)
Servant Drone by Bruno Neiva and Paul Hawkins, Matthew Hall, Yellow Field, Issue 11
The Daily Glance: Servant Drone, Bill Allegrezza, p-ramblings
In the Booklight - Bruno Neiva, Paul Hawkins & Servant Drone, Sarah James
Servant Drone, Bruno Neiva & Paul Hawkins, Steve Spence, Stride, Exeter, Devon, UK, Jan. 2016
3AM Top Reads of 2015, SJ Fowler, 3:AM Magazine, Paris, France and London, UK, Dec. 2015
Launches:
Book launch of Servant Drone, w/ reading by Paul Hawkins and Sarer Scotthorne at Bloom & Curll Books, Bristol, UK, 25/03/2016. Footage by Jason Beech.
‘Reading Servant Drone is like rifling through Tristan Tzara’s confidential waste, receiving a spam email from Kurt Schwitters or eavesdropping on an inaudible conversation at the fringes of a deconstructivist house party. Fragmentary and beautifully bewildering, this is a work of dense collage, where found and made text stack up to build an edifice that threatens to topple time and again but is saved by a change in wind direction. Servant Drone is in perpetual motion, a shaken snow globe of references and registers, refusing the easy eternal verities, finding instead a more complex truth in the temporary furniture of the sublunar sphere. Deeply nuanced and obliquely radical, this is a book to keep in your pocket as a charm against the liquid spectres of a late capitalist Monday morning.’
- Tom Jenks
Servant Drone book launch at Gato Vadio Bookshop, Porto, 19-03-2016, by Paul Hawkins and Bruno Neiva. Introduction by Rui Torres. Footage by Tiago Silva.
“What is the worst poetry myth? That it is a singular form, not naturally lending itself to collaboration? Or that what is actually contemporary, relevant, dynamic, is innately experimental or strange? Servant Drone is one of the finest examples of a poetic work which destroys both superstitions in one fell sweep. It is energetic, decisive, colloquial and necessary. It is a work of synthesis between two exceptional vanguard poets that balances satire, critique and humour with an intense methodological engagement."
- SJ Fowler
Book launch of Servant Drone, w/ reading by Paul Hawkins and Sarer Scotthorne at Bloom & Curll Books, Bristol, UK, 25/03/2016. Footage by Jason Beech.
‘Reading Servant Drone is like rifling through Tristan Tzara’s confidential waste, receiving a spam email from Kurt Schwitters or eavesdropping on an inaudible conversation at the fringes of a deconstructivist house party. Fragmentary and beautifully bewildering, this is a work of dense collage, where found and made text stack up to build an edifice that threatens to topple time and again but is saved by a change in wind direction. Servant Drone is in perpetual motion, a shaken snow globe of references and registers, refusing the easy eternal verities, finding instead a more complex truth in the temporary furniture of the sublunar sphere. Deeply nuanced and obliquely radical, this is a book to keep in your pocket as a charm against the liquid spectres of a late capitalist Monday morning.’
- Tom Jenks
Servant Drone book launch at Gato Vadio Bookshop, Porto, 19-03-2016, by Paul Hawkins and Bruno Neiva. Introduction by Rui Torres. Footage by Tiago Silva.
“What is the worst poetry myth? That it is a singular form, not naturally lending itself to collaboration? Or that what is actually contemporary, relevant, dynamic, is innately experimental or strange? Servant Drone is one of the finest examples of a poetic work which destroys both superstitions in one fell sweep. It is energetic, decisive, colloquial and necessary. It is a work of synthesis between two exceptional vanguard poets that balances satire, critique and humour with an intense methodological engagement."
- SJ Fowler