Free, booking required.
MA BIBLIOTHÈQUE is delighted to return to the South London Gallery in midsummer, to launch three new books from the press in The Constellations series. The evening starts with the measure of time through gardening and cooking while wars wage, moving to preservation and observation (what can be recorded, considered anew). The second part starts with rumours and fables, in the rude immediacy of living, and ends with an inventory of individual and collective anticipations, apprehensions, and aversions.
EVENT SCHDEULE
6.30 open 6.45 start
6.45 A warm welcome and a short reading by The Editor from Almanach. A Year in the French Revolutionary Calendar (Grand Iota 2015)
7.10 Bridget Penney, reading from Sonia’s Book
7.30 An interval of hobnobbing, drinking, book buying. There is a special offer of all three books launching this evening for £30.00
8.00 Nick Norton, reading from Shapes Found for Living
8.15 Sean Ashton, reading from Massive massive oil slick
ABOUT THE SPEAKERS
Sharon Kivland is an artist and writer, and editor and publisher.
Bridget Penney was born in Edinburgh and now lives in Brighton. Her previous books are Honeymoon with death and other stories (Polygon, 1991), Index (Book Works, 2008), and Licorice (Book Works, 2020). Her stories, non-fiction, and poetry have appeared in print and online magazines: among them gorse, Snow lit rev, 3:AM Magazine, and Pamenar Press Online Magazine.
Nick Norton is a writer, based in Leeds, the author of novels, short stories, and a researcher of fable-function, formulating the ‘Aesopic Body’ as a figurative manner of exploring fiction that is both critical and humorous. Building the Aesopic Body is published by SPTM! Other writings can be found in Minor Literature[s], 3:AM, The Happy Hypocrite, Soanyway, and elsewhere. He initiated and curated the project Library Interventions, from 2013 to 2020, enabling artists, writers, and performers to enact the creative potential of research.
Sean Ashton’s books include the short-story collection Sunsets (Alma, 2007); the novel Living in a Land (MA BIBLIOTHÈQUE, 2017); the poetry collection Sampler (Valley Press, 2020); and the novel The Way to Work (Salt, 2023). A former art critic for Map Magazine and Art Review, he lives in London, where he teaches on the Sculpture programme at the Royal College of Art and on the Fine Art programme at Leeds Beckett University.
ABOUT MA BIBLIOTHÈQUE
MA BIBLIOTHÈQUE is a not-for-profit project by the artist and writer Sharon Kivland. She invites authors she considers to be good readers, whom she would like to house in her library or to become her library, inhabited. She agrees with Nabokov that a good reader, a major reader, an active and creative reader, is a re-reader. She knows her writers and they know her, even when they have not yet met. They have read each other, or believe themselves to have done so. They are flirtatious, ruffling pages. She promises to do her best. The best is reading.
ACCESS
- Wheelchair Access and Disabled Toilets are available at this site.
- Seating is available.
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TICKET INFORMATION
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