Events at Good Press
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From our home at 32 St Andrews Street, we host events like book launches, performances, screenings and reading groups with publishing at their heart. We provide the space for your event or group free of charge, all you need to do is promote it (or not if the occasion needs to be closed to a wider public.) We have lots of stools and a handful of backed chairs, we also have a toilet on site. If you are interested in holding an event here, please get in touch!
Events run from 6:30-8pm (unless otherwise noted)
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Monday 7th April, 6:30 – 8pm
LAUNCH: CHARLES LANG’S THE OASIS (SKEIN PRESS), COLIN BRAMWELL’S FOWER PESSOAS (CARCANET) & GLASS KNOT SUN (IGNITION PRESS)
Join us for readings from three new poetry books by Colin Bramwell, Patrick Romero McCafferty and Charles Lang.
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Fower Pessoas is the most original work of translation that you will read this year: a bold reimagining of Fernando Pessoa’s poetry. Following his subject’s unique approach to composition, Colin Bramwell puts all four of Pessoa’s heteronyms into a present-day Scots-language vernacular, and so creates a parochial Pessoa for our own times. Readers will be delighted by this witty, emotive and artful reinterpretation of an indispensable European poet.
The poems in Patrick Romero McCafferty’s debut pamphlet Glass Knot Sun pose perennial questions of land, love, and labour. They do this through the central metaphors of building (from adobe bricks to boat-making) and gathering (from windfall almonds to trawling nets), the poem becoming part record of subsistence, part song.
With a clarion and uncompromising voice, Charles Lang’s first collectionThe Oasis maps a labyrinth of memories, blending sharp wit with darker undercurrents as he explores identity, masculinity, class and ecology. Lang offers an authentic snapshot of working-class lives, where beauty is found in both the mundane and the extraordinary; in the human and the more-than-human. A sonorous celebration of language and place,The Oasis is a vivid ode to the city’s streets and stories, a testament to resilience and belonging.
Friday 25th April, 6:30 – 8pm
LAUNCH: A MONTH OF SUNDAYS OR THERE AND ABOUTS BY TOBY ÜPSON
Come and celebrate with us the launch of A month of Sundays or there and abouts, a zine by Toby Üpson, published by La chaise jaune!
Toby will be joined by Aly Gear, Beth Emsden, Aglaé D. Mouriaux & Eilidh Akilade.
A month of Sundays or there and abouts is a body of short poems, originally posted on the author’s instagram. It captures a series of moments, written as the author stumbles upon opportunities to share the everyday.
Toby Üpson is a writer currently based in Glasgow. Stemming from an interest in how we/he experiences everyday life, Üpson’s practices uses forms of artwriting and creative nonfiction to explore the interdependencies of being.
La chaise jaune is a Tentacular collective making, editing, designing and publishing zines. We exist in between London and Lausanne (CH) since 2020. We collaborate as much as possible and with people from different backgrounds, without any limitation. With the zine we want to tell, to create and to propose new ways to be.
The zine has been printed at Le Cric, Fribourg (CH)
http://www.la-chaise-jaune.com