A story about everyday life in the Arctic, and more specifically the small town of Churchill, Manitoba. At the far end of the railroad, the world begins. Once there, you can’t be sure which is the direction towards civilisation. Maybe it is geese or lemmings that are regular people, and you are a mad person [...]
Casi Cline has recently released a new book "The Star Opens Slowly: Dreams, Poems, and Other Things", a collection of texts spanning the years 2015-2019. A Mormyrid Double! Purchase here: https://tinyurl.com/w8shhua
Ottawa Surrealist Group is pleased to announce that they have just hatched a new little book of surrealist games, inquiries and other oddities with Peculiar Mormyrid Press: You can order it online from here: https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/ottawa-surrealist-group/the-object-beautician-and-other-terrors/paperback/product-1gqddgjg.html And here is a free PDF version: https://peculiarmormyrid.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Ottawa_1.pdf
For many of us 2019 has been a shitty, disappointing and often depressing year. Too many lows to list here from around the world. In my country the east coast is on fire, a climate-change fueled unnatural disaster that the reprehensible state and federal politicians are blatantly pretending isn’t happening. Yes, I’m aware too of [...]
Out into the world to see Who’s Who and What’s Not -Count Screwloose In baseball parlance, a “screwball” is the opposite of a “straight pitch”, that is, a trick play, an unforeseen or erratic tactic. The screwy, at its most basic, is a form of energy, something simultaneously marvellous, explosive, and, as a consequence of [...]
A new book by Joël Gayraud is available here L’Homme sans horizon At the beginning of the millennium, after the collapse of the Eastern bloc, the horizon of humanity has been abruptly shuttered. On an overexploited and mutilated planet, where no one believes in progress, capitalism appears as an unsurpassable frontier. Dangled as a lure, [...]
POLYMORPH BODYSHOP PARTICIPANTS Jason Abdelhadi, Michele Bachelet, Maria Brothers, Steven Cline, Casi Cline, Peggy Cline, Paul Cowdell, William Davison, Rikki Ducornet, Merl Fluin, Mattias Forshage, Kathleen Fox, Sebastián Jiménez Galindo, Javier Galvez, Joël Gayraud, Guy Girard, Ottawa Surrealist Group, Sa’ad Hassan, Janice Hathaway, Sherri Higgins, Bruno Jacobs, Aaron Dylan Kearns, Renay Kerkman, Arianna Khmelniuk, [...]
His Body is a Crow is a collection of surrealist poems by Steven Cline. They are a signalsign from a unknown place. A place of strange entities and folkloric thingamajigs, of cruelty and sweetness in dialectical communion. In these poems Word fornicates with Word, and Meaning has very little gravity. Meaning may be seen to [...]
House of Mysticum, a surrealist group in Atlanta, Georgia, has recently launched a website to chronicle their collective activities. https://houseofmysticum.wordpress.com/
