SEWER LOCK
SEWER LOCK
Sewer Lock is a narrative collection of poems by Peter Thickett.
The first edition in a new literary collection: Hydra Book Club Editions.
Sewer Lock, much like the Language poets, does the high-wire act of being extravagantly composed while still revering lyric traditions in its frequent moments of quietude. As with the best poems, the interest here is not only sustained by image or idiosyncrasy (both of which are pleasurably manifest), but by intellect: “We make / quite the pair. He’s got the looks. / I’ve got the intellect.” The flip-side of the intellect is the witchy superstition of the collection, manifest here in the gunk of landscape and living, which, to no surprise, is the gunk of language: haemorrhages, haemoglobin, gobs, and gutterslugs. With Sewer Lock, Thickett has birthed a collection ecologically and erotically singular.
Oluwaseun Olayiwola
SUBLIME
SUBLIME
For the third edition of our Journal we have invited our diverse contributors to encounter the Sublime.For the third issue of the Journal, we are inviting contributors to encounter the Sublime - the astonishing, vast, terrible, exalted, boundless, transcendent, infinite, tremendous, overwhelming, divine, and awesome.
The Sublime is immensity – an experience or vision so intense it confronts us with the fear that resides in the limitations of our comprehension.
Edmund Burke writes in his Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful (1757); it is often to be found in nature, “The passion caused by the great and Sublime in nature, when those causes operate most powerfully is astonishment, and astonishment is that state of the soul in which all its motions are suspended, with some degree of horror.” It is “mountaintops, storms at sea, infinity, and Milton’s description of Hell in the first book of Paradise Lost.”
The result is fiction, poetry, essay, and image from:
Sulaiman Adonnia , Joseph Akel, Katya Andrusz, Andrea Applebee , Iris Bernblum, Alice Bucknell, Nikos Erinakis, Patricia Felisa Barbeito, Taras Gembik, George Hyde, Hydra School Projects, Liya Kebede, Antonia Lloyd-Jones, Katerina Lysovenko, Amanda Michalopoulou, Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Eva Papamargariti, Grzegorz Polański, Martin Pollack, Christoph Ransmayr, Margo Rejmer, Szymon Rogiński, Giles Round, Egill Sæbjörnsson, Małgorzata Sady, Desi Santiago, Eleni Sikelianos, George Skordaras, Michel Tsamados, Josh Williamson, Nancy Whang, Megan Wray Schertler
GLOTTA
GLOTTA
GLOTTA Is the newest edition to the Hydra Book Club literary periodicals.
English words like "glossary" and "polyglot" reach back to the lonic Greek glossa and its Attic cousin glotta - the physical tongue, but also language.
Glotta is a new annual magazine. Each issue will weave together three themes and disparate voices from the present and past. It's a hybrid publication for a many-headed audience. We take the ancient paradoxographers as inspiration, their attention to miracles and marvels, the abnormal and inexplicable. We have no manifesto. Only a sense that the subterranean rivers of history flow closer to the surface than might initially appear. And that if you listen attentively, you can still hear the babble of their currents' many tongues.
Edited by Hunter Dukes, Nandi Kudan / Published by Dimi Vourakis
IS THE HYDRA BOOK CLUB REALLY REAL?
IS THE HYDRA BOOK CLUB REALLY REAL?
Limited edition broadsheet published for the 15th anniversary of the Istanbul Festival of Arts and Culture. 10 stories relating to the festival's theme - what is really real? Text and Image from:
Peter Thickett, Amanda Michalopoulou, Irini Karayannopoulou, Sabrina Tarasoff, Iris Bernblum, Joshua Willaimson, Szymon Roginski, Hunter Dukes, Clea Irving, Malgosia Bela
This special edition was available for a limited time in Istanbul only
VACATION
VACATION
In the second edition of the Journal of the Hydra Book Club, we have invited another group of contributors to accompany us to the frayed edges of that very specific and often troubling parentheses of time we have named “vacation”.
The practice of vacation today most often involves travel - a specific, voluntary, planned movement which becomes deeply troubling when set into a contemporary context of the involuntary, unplanned movements of populations across the Mediterranean (and the world) and the deeply distressed environment which strains to support increasing numbers of humans. I think of Hydra, with its own seasonal influx of visitors, foreign and Greek, floating serenely in the turbulence of the Mediterranean, the choreographed movement of boats coming in and out of the port.
Contributors:
Andreas Angelidakis, Dimitrios Antonitsis, Galen Ayers, Stephan Colloredo-Mansfeld, Saska de Brauw, Mikołaj Długosz, Shawn Dogimont, Fotini El. Antoniou, Panos GiannIkopoulos, Antonio Girbés, Frankie Haines, Byung-Chul Han, Clea Irving, Effie Katsourou, Samur Khouja, Svitlana Libet, Ariana Papademetropoulos, Konstantinos Pittas, Grzegorz Polański, Agnieszka Polska, Gabriel Rivera, Sana Shahmuradova Tanska, Špela Šivic, Alexandre Stipanovich, Eftihia Stefanidi, Karolina Sulej, Sabrina Tarasoff, Nicholas Vamvouklis
STANISŁAW BONIECKI
STANISŁAW BONIECKI
A collaboration between the photographer Stanisław Boniecki and the Hydra Book Club. This photo essay captures a very special moment of friends together on the island of Hydra in October 2022.
Printed in an edition of 100.
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UTOPIA
UTOPIA
The first edition of the new Journal of the Hydra Book Club, an annual printed edition of literature, criticism, and image.
The Journal follows the annual theme of the book club and engages with a range of writers, artists, curators, critics, and photographers both on and off the island of Hydra.
Hydra is a confluence of free thinkers and our goal with the journal is to mirror this confluence in its pages. The island is the model as we engage with writers and artists from around the world.
For the first edition of the Journal, we have challenged a diverse group of artists to reflect upon ideas of utopia. The result is fiction, poetry, essays, and image from:
Etel Adnan, Dimitrios Antonitsis, Malgosia Bela, Stanislaw Boniecki, Simon Buret, DESTE Foundation, Alphan Eseli, Alekos Fassianos, Jonah Freeman, Iliana Fokianaki, Symeon Kamsizoglou, Margarita Karapanou, Irini Karayannopoulou, Andreas Kokkino, Chris Kontos, Georgia Liapi, Lottermann and Fuentes, Amanda Michalopoulou, Michael McGregor, Czesław Miłosz, Ignasi Monreal, Anthony Stephinson and Coralie Ruiz, Peter Thickett, Antigoni Tsagkaropoulou Bunny, Nadia Wheatley, Magda Wunsche and Aga Samsel
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