ONLY THE LOWLY - B. Catling
Ten over-lit comic tales of perverted domestic bliss from the shores of a post-apocalyptic seaside resort somewhere between Blackpool and Atlantic City.
Life, memory and social habits have all changed, inverted and become confused since the sea washed away most of what existed before in The Great Arising.
The tales of Bertie and Cara’s married life rise and fall between cruelty, sentimentality and a nobility of squalor.
The Lowly of the title is the collective name given to a variety of creatures that have been bred from human and animal genes, as slaves to the surviving populace attempting to make the world ‘normal’ again and deny all the inconvenient histories of the past.
Dispatched from 15th April 2019
ISBN: 978-1-916041-12-7 Perfect bound paperback 64 pages 234 x 156mm
Chimp Jus is the first collection of poetry published by Aaron Williamson since being included in the Iain Sinclair edited anthology ‘Conductors of Chaos’ and performing on a bill with Allen Ginsberg at the Royal Albert Hall, in 1995. Since that time, as an artist, Williamson has made more than 300 unique performances, exhibitions, public interventions, videos, installations and publications for galleries, museums and festivals worldwide.
Returning to the arena of poetry publishing after a 25-year break, Williamson’s new work evokes the ceaseless, simmering fluctuation between surface and depth that increasingly registers the texture of our times.