Swatch
chapbook series

chapbook
8 pages, 4.25 x 5.5
$3 CDN

Swatch Chapbooks
Delightful samplings that you can slip into your pocket! The mini-books in the Swatch chapbook series contain eight bite-sized pages of poetry, art, and other surprises.

James Irwin You Are Too Late at the Bottom of the World You Are Too Late at the Bottom of the World is from a series of fantastical tales about semi-ridiculous explorers. This is the journal of Robert Falcon Scott of England who, with his entire crew, died on the way home from the South Pole. James Irwin writes songs, poems, and stories. He is a member of the bands my people sleeping and The Coal Choir, and is working on a solo album under the name mamatschi, as well as a book of poems titled I Want This Job Naming Colours. EXCERPT We started off youngly at it -- we watched and recorded everything, letting the sea talk to the sky, blending in with the swells. We observed new fish, new monsters, many of the sexless, rock-like beasts. On the third morning we spotted a pair of dead, young girls with braids down to their knees on a spent raft in the fogs off the French coast. There were other singular occurances.

Moheb Soliman This Beach Has More Than Two Sides This Beach Has More Than Two Sides is from a performance project about circumnavigating the Great lakes by land and writing. It explores places where nature and culture socialize; the place of natural geography in social identity. Moheb Soliman is from Egypt and the midwest, and has performed and lived in NYC, Toronto, and now Montreal. Other works include the show Habib Albi is... Not a Man. EXCERPT [day one] mummed the concrete rubble to the lake Ontario, wear me down to my girders the lake the half-naked lake slipping off its jersey, started in with its cat's tongue