Thursday 27th February

LAUNCH: THE SUBMISSIVE BY ELEANOR TENNYSON (PUBLISHED BY DRUNK MUSE PRESS)

Eleanor Tennyson’s fixation on seduction and power reshapes contemporary lyric with a startling and subversive glamour. These poems question the ethically familiar, throwing up imagery that jars the reader off the well-trodden road into the undergrowth where the ruinous, the sacred, and the profane glint and starve in uneasy proximity. Desire rattles through the scrub, fragmenting and reassembling like a fresco of splendour and decay. Tennyson grows our appetite again for the magic of poetry.

Eleanor Tennyson is a poet I’ve been waiting for, and The Submissive arrives like a clamorousresponse to an unspoken hope. These are poems to live with for a long time, new as they are.—Shane McCrae

The Submissive turns pain inside out— Maria Sledmere

Deeply philosophical and thought-provoking, Eleanor Tennyson is a poet that makes youask all the big questions.—Jackie Kay

The event will feature a readings from Eleanor Tennyson, Isaac Harris, Maria Sledmere, Hugh McMillan & Ben Redhead.

Wednesday 5th March

LAUNCH: VIOLETTE CHARVET/CLARE FLYNN/AXL KASPER/THOMAS MAIN

Group Zine & Book launch from 4th Year Fine Art Photography Students at The Glasgow School of Art covering disparate subjects from English/French language disparities, Moroccan history, weather warning and irreverent men..

Violette Charvet – Playing on the meaning of the word chance in English versus in French, the book ‘chance or chance’ is composed of images made by random probabilities or by luck.

It invites the reader to take part in this frontier between chance and luck by creating accidents through a binding that allows an infinite number of layout possibilities.

However, beyond this infinity of possibilities and perceptions, there is also always the possibility of a convergence of emotion, memory and surprise.

Violette Charvet is a French artist photographer currently in her final year of fine art photography at Glasgow School of Art.

Clare Flynn - A Windy Day
Documentation of the dangerous wind gusts on Ayr’s beachfront during Storm Éowyn’s red weather warning.

Axl Kasper - Carnet de voyage - Maroc 
Currently, Kasper is working on a passion project which is about the Arab invasion which took place during the 7th and 8th centuries CE. In a few words, Kasper is following the same path the Arabs took and documenting what is left of older cultures that existed prior the invasion.

Thomas Main – MEN an interior monologue
An irreverent look at the attitudes and traits of men represented in street furniture or items generally found on the street. Based on his unspoken thoughts of interactions he has come across in daily life.