Slowscan #38 now available from Sea Urchin: Peter Finch – Dances Interdites ‘Dances interdites’ was the title of a cassette by Welsh poet Peter Finch that was released in 1982 on Balsam Flex, London. The cassette was a follow-up to Finch’s ‘Big Band Dance Music’, released on the same label two years earlier. Having…
New in our Moloko Print catalogue: Oliver Harris / William S. Burroughs – The Poetics of Minutes to Go ‘The Poetics of Minutes to Go’, published in Germany by Moloko Plus, is a valuable and beautiful addition to the studies of the cut-up works of William S. Burroughs. Bringing together an expert essay by…
New in our Moloko+ catalogue: Eddie Woods – Smugglers Train ‘Smugglers Train’ is a bilingual compilation of Eddie Woods’s poetry and prose. His poems are published in English, his prose pieces have been translated into German by Pociao. The book contains a fine selection of Woods’s literary works and combines them with some of his…
German writer Jürgen Ploog (München, 1935) used to work as an airline pilot for 33 years. Transience and the crossing of borders have since been integral to his existence and writings. Ploog’s early literary output gravitated naturally to the cut-up method that William Burroughs and Brion Gysin popularised in the 1960s. His early experiments at cut-ups were published in the satirical magazine ‘Der Metzger’ and in the German Beat magazine ‘Gasolin 23’, which Ploog founded with Carl Weissner and Jörg Fauser…