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The page of literature has retained its ontotheological reputation. Before the built environment of the grapheme can be figured, before writing can be marked, certain prepropositional circumstances are supposed necessary that any project going under the name of art commence. Such discursive biases, however, besides being redundantly geocentric (for, one can route them to, say, architecture’s prepropositional ground), are apparently ignorant of a certain ongoing immanence, just as primordial as it is momentary: as Leon Battista Alberti inscribed, “QVID TVM?”

In the 115th of the Poem Brut series, new poetry by Albe Harlow.

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I burned everything, even
The art, so called. Don’t panic.

You should have seen the oil
Stain the sky and then rain down
In greasy drops.

A new poem by Nicholas Rombes.

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The poems are taken from a series, Adverts for Actual Hats, in which William Repass and Dan Ivec observed a number of Ivec’s illustrations – all featuring a hat of some sort – and dreamed together prose poems which act as deranged commercials for the hats seen in the drawings. If the reader is understandably covetous of such headgear, they may direct queries via Instagram: @escalator_harrison

In the 19th of the Duos series, new poetry by Dan Ivec and William Repass.

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Paula
Rebirth
Destruction
Wisdom

In the 114th of the Poem Brut series, new poetry by Pascal O’Loughlin.

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‘These found texts are from a fire precautions sign at a disused textiles mill in Farley, near Leeds. It was demolished soon after. The long, elaborate wording seemed to me to offer up other meanings.’

In the 113th of the Poem Brut series, new poetry by Mark L Valentine.

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The book evokes the strong bond between art and literature, and of ekphrastic writing that evokes images by highlighting hidden relationships and implied mysteries. The result is a moving collection of poems and short stories revealing the profound state of existence and the fate of our torment, the inevitability of suffering, and of our helplessness from pain.

As Tinti says “This partnership moves from the rubble, passes through cemeteries, sniffs out the signs of what has gone. Roger Ballen’s photos, my words, are a kind of defense against the terrible power of death. They are an accumulation of enthusiasm, injuries, obsessions. They are effigies composed to disturb the reader, to ambush the thought, the things.”

In the 18th of the Duos series, new poetry by Gabriele Tinti and Roger Ballen.

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These poems are collaged horoscopes cut out from Harper’s Baazar’s “real” horoscopes.

In the 112th of the Poem Brut series, new poetry by Ariadne Radi Cor.

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These pieces come out of thinking about the gap between language and perception, between thought and utterance, thought and mark-making. They come out of the tradition of erasure poetry and steady stitching as a response, approach and way into world.

In the 111th of the Poem Brut series, new poetry by Karen Carcia.

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You wanted me to come with you to watch
Them shoot your drugs and wrist-tie you
To that cheap bed. Could you hear the blank
Clatter of dropping ice in the hallway machines as you faded?

By Nicholas Rombes.

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With the physical cancellation of the European Poetry Festival in London during 2020, a series of new longform video interviews are presented here at 3:AM Magazine, again with some of the most dynamic contemporary European poets, whose work is exploring the possibilities and potentials of the artform, as part of the decade long interviews series – Maintenant.

In the 106th of the Maintenant series, SJ Fowler interviews the Lithuanian poet Aušra Kaziliūnaitė.

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