Tuesday, 19 June 2018

NEW Poetry Film | Salena Godden and Scarlett Sabet at Shakespeare and Co. Paris




New today
beautiful Paris, 
poetry video


 Salena Godden & Scarlett Sabet

Shakespeare and Co. Paris 

#Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YiORWcNo5sY


Read Scarlett's Paris blog here: scarlettsabet.com


 Shared with thanks and BIGlove to Shakespeare and Co, 
Sylvia and David and Scarlett! Xx



“Pessimism is for Lightweights is the collection our fraught epoch was clambering for and only Salena Godden could write.”  -  shakespeareandcompany.com








Portrait Salena Godden by Olivia Rutherford,
Shakespeare and Co. Paris, June 2018





Here comes one helluva summer 2018 

Festivals, gatherings, parties & gigs 










JULY 20 -22 | CHURCHTOWN | CORNWALL












AUGUST 17-19 | EDINBURGH BOOK FESTIVAL

AUGUST 24-27 | LIVEWIRE | BYLINE FESTIVAL


SEPTEMBER 15-16 | THE GOOD LIFE EXPERIENCE


SEPTEMBER 22 | KENILWORTH BOOK FESTIVAL













ROUGH TRADE EDITIONS ARE HERE


ROLL UP! ROLL UP!


READ ALL ABOUT IT IN 'THE QUIETUS'


READ ALL ABOUT IT IN 'IT'S NICE THAT' 


READ ALL ABOUT IT IN 'DESIGN WEEK'


READ ALL ABOUT IT IN 'CAUGHT BY THE RIVER'



"Bringing the same original spirit and radical direction to the world of book publishing. Rough Trade Books will launch with a series of twelve pamphlets bringing together the very highest calibre of artists, writers, poets, musicians, photographers, illustrators and thinkers producing work relating to their relationship with the counter-culture. These will be known as Rough Trade Editions. Brand new and original (and beautifully produced) works of fiction, non-fiction, poetry, comics, illustrations, photography and interviews—Rough Trade Editions will tell the stories of why counter-culture matters, has mattered and will matter." 

The books are now on sale and in stock in Paris: Shakespeare and Co, Paris, Sunlee Howard, Bon Marche, Paris and Classic, Paris and they will be coming to good UK bookshops and available online soon!


@roughtradebooks  | www.roughtradebooks.com


LAUNCH PARTY JULY 23



Rough Trade Books presents… The Editions

Rough Trade Editions comes hurtling out of the blocks with their first twelve pamphlets  — twelve small good things to encourage, console, renew and rewire the world for their readers. Come celebrate at the launch party on Monday 23rd July at The Social, Little Portland Street where Salena Godden brings forth the fire of her recent work on resistance and rebellion, Olly Todd reconfigures a world of fractured time, the slipperiness of memory and dislocation and Joe Dunthorne lovingly skewers the eccentric heroism of the small poetry presses in a new short fiction. David Keenan and Sophy Hollington re-build our symbolic present with a radical tarot for the counter-culture presented as a work of experimental fiction (check out Sophy's exhibition in the upstairs bar whilst you’re there too).  Kirk Lake tells the last act of the story of Randolph Turpin, the Leamington Licker, and through it a story of the corruption of capital, pride and identity, while Babak Ganjei acts as DJ for the evening playing music that might soundtrack his pamphlet Film Ideas which presents a simultaneously melancholy and hilarious satire of the film world.

Essential info…
Monday 23rd July || 7pm || The Social, Little Portland Street, London















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Friday, 8 June 2018

Blog: A Paris Dream! Thank you Shakespeare and Co and Scarlett Sabet









I woke up in a Paris dream ...

A dream come true!

Our books in the window of Shakespeare and Company in Paris

Shakespeare and Co. are the first ever official stockists of Rough Trade Editions

This was one gig I will never forget. The beautiful bookshop was rammed with heat and energy, whilst poetry of courage and resistance and rebellion spilled out into the humid Paris air, where there were even more people, poetry lovers and students gathered outside and listening on the pavement. Notre Dame was just across from us and all that history and fiction was pulsating out there and inside there too with all those gorgeous old books in that historic space. 





Scarlett Sabet was sensational, with so much soul and beauty. An assured confidence and authority in her elegant voice and in her work. Scarlett was reading from her latest collection Zoreh - 

Please check it out and buy one here: scarlettsabet.com






I read from 'Pessimism is for Lightweights' which will be published this month with Rough Trade Books. This was my first time reading here at Shakespeare and Co. And I loved every vulnerable and magic moment. My heart opened like a perfect peony. You could feel something big in the air and I have goosebumps now just remembering it.

The support from the audience and from the bookshop was immense and so generous. The conversations afterwards reminded me why I wrote these poems. We need reminding, we need to recall the love and fury that urged the work out of us in the first place. 

 We sold out of books. I offered to sign someones arm as we had no books left. Someone told me they felt the walls vibrating during the performances. I know I saw people were crying, I cried, we all laughed, and then cried a bit more and hugged lots and then laughed again, as we rocked that glorious bookshop, our heart beating big and loud, boom-boom-boom ... all together. HUGE Thank you to the teacher that brought her entire class of students, class of 2018 pictured below, it was amazing to meet you all!



Needless to say this is one trip I will never forget! I am fully aware I am gushing here ... I do hundreds of gigs, and this night is why I do this, these rare nights, these bright and beautiful moments. I celebrate this and share it here so I can read it myself in the winter when I feel low or when I get rejected or get exhausted riding the ups and down roller coaster of this writing life. There have been times in my life where I have been traipsing the city streets, lost and gazing into bookshop windows, writing poems, day dreaming, wishing for nights like this. When Scarlett approached me to do this gig I had no idea what a beautiful adventure it would be, thank you so much Scarlett. I am writing this on the Eurostar home to London. I think I am still dreaming. If I am dreaming this is a really beautiful vivid dream of possibility and hope. Thank you! There is no better feeling than connecting with new old souls. I am honoured. Inspired. Humbled. Grateful. All the emotions and all the joy and all at once ...





Paris was a delicious dream of books and love, poetry of resistance and courage, some tears and laughter, joy and hope, such a beautiful time, beautiful people, thank you, lots of love to Shakespeare and Co and Scarlett Sabet!! Viva books!! Viva poetry!!



 Shakespeare and Co.
"Brace yourselves . . . this event was INCREDIBLE!" 

The podcast of our event with 
and  
is available now 

 Apple Podcasts: @ApplePodcasts 

 And Soundcloud: @SoundCloud




Poetry with Salena Godden and Scarlett Sabet: via  








 scarlettsabet.com


Rough Trade Books




Carrie and Octavia: Literary Friction 




My first thumbs up for 'Pessimism is for Lightweights' comes from Literary Friction, 
With thanks to Octavia and Carrie!


"Thank you @salena.godden for the reminder that courage is a muscle - everyone should get their paws on a copy of this as soon as they’re able, powerful messages of love and solidarity in buttercup yellow and rousing verse. Available any minute now in bookshops and online. Also, check our archive for our show about Resistance, where we interviewed Salena about her brilliant work and talked about the importance of speaking up and out, always" 









LIVEwire

CD | LP vinyl | 36-page full-colour zine | digital download

order LIVEwire from Nymphs & Thugs 


visit Salena’s Bookshoppe

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Monday, 4 June 2018

Coming soon 'Pessimism is for Lightweights' on Rough Trade Books







Rough Trade Edition No.2  
Salena Godden 

Pessimism is for Lightweights: 
13 Pieces of Courage and Resistance

Poems written for the women's march, for women's empowerment and amplification, poems that salute people fighting for justice, poems on sexism and racism, class discrimination, period poverty and homelessness, immigration and identity. This work reminds us that Courage is a Muscle, it also contains a letter from the spirit of Hope herself, because as the title suggests, Pessimism is for Lightweights. This is No.2 of a set of a dozen remarkable pamphlets by 12 writers, artists and poets, highly recommend collecting all 12, coming soon to good bookshops!! Rough Trade Books is an exciting new publishing venture in the mould of the pioneering record label.












JUNE





21 | LIVEWIRE POETS | MIDSUMMERS PARTY | CORNWALL







Film: Pessimism is for Lightweights: 








'Pessimism is for Lightweights' by Salena Godden
is currently on display at the Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol 



- ROUGH TRADE BOOKS REVIEWS JUST IN - 

READ: THE QUIETUS

READ: IT'S NICE THAT 

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