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well this looks like the dog's bollocks

the explanation of the fourteenth table

CounterText 10.3 is now available. Check out the full table of contents for this issue here: www.euppublishing.com/toc/count/10/3

this call is still open - deadline 28 Feb

Much can still be done with the book and there are many ways for it to die... Something can die and yet persist interminably. heavyfeatherreview.org/2025/02/18/a...

Jonathan was the brother of John Martin, whose Creation of Light is shown below. Brief intro to Jonathan at: museumofthemind.org.uk/blog/artist-...

now published in CounterText

prepare for the SECOND COMING (of Jonathan Martin, the ARSONIST, in textual form [York Minster will quake]) equuspress.wordpress.com/2025/02/19/j...

Books are worth returning to because of their coming obsolescence. They isolate and bewilder readers, they fail to sufficiently entertain, they do not sufficiently entrance. They frustrate. [& some other stuff I went on about in yesterday's interview up at Heavy Feather Review]

heavyfeatherreview.org/2025/02/18/a... with gratitude to @sd-stewart.bsky.social

this elongated and gaseous tripe-meat reserve

SKINSHIP is “A masterpiece of invention (or quite possibly, recollection, the memory of a future, projected).” - Find out why in this review by @ansgarallen.bsky.social at @erratumpress.bsky.social @horrorstudies.bsky.social @booksky.club

courtesy of Michael Mc Aloran @michael-mc-aloran.bsky.social

Ansgar Allen reviews SKINSHIP by James Reich @ansgarallen.bsky.social @jamesreich.bsky.social www.erratumpress.com/recollection...

ICYMI // S.D. Stewart reviews THE FACES OF PLUTO // more on this book & others on its way next week from Heavy Feather ... heavyfeatherreview.org/2025/01/28/t... @sd-stewart.bsky.social

cultivars

'he's gaining a reputation already... I don't know, maybe he's in his 80s he doesn't look it... looks good for an 80-year-old man Ansgar Allen looks good... could be in his thirties is what I would guess normally...' @rickharsch.bsky.social on his Equus Press haul youtu.be/7TShuvqQYM8?...

the Scarborough selfeater

Erratum author Michael Templeton drops another unflinching assessment of the times we live in.

'knowledge and belief have been taken over by something that escapes the order of things... Natural ignorance has given way to the organized spectacle of error' - Michael Templeton

The great @louisarmand.bsky.social reviews @ansgarallen.bsky.social THE FACES OF PLUTO published by Stalking Horse Press right here: www.erratumpress.com/the-fripperi...

James Reich's SKINSHIP @jamesreich.bsky.social

typesetting THE POEMS ... out soon at Erratum > @questionstruck.bsky.social

Cooking with PLAGUE THEATRE ansgarallen.com/plague-theat... & launch of corona\samizdat's first microline books via @rickharsch.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_6Z...

THE POEMS by William Walsh very much in the works... due to follow THE POETS published last year www.erratumpress.com/the-poets @questionstruck.bsky.social

'this is somewhat like a Beckett novel, but it's not really at all' www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXn5... @rickharsch.bsky.social

"The truth is the inverse of this cokewhisper." [47:37-53:50] SNOW from Steve Hanson's LAST DAYS OF POMPEII: A COMEDY up on the extra-ordinary L'étranger Show #498 Radio Panik www.radiopanik.org/emissions/l-... @stevehanson.bsky.social

reader feedback

Form is the alienation of structure / Art becomes an idea that makes machines / Re-enacting the Anthropocene

Black Vellum reviewed by Rick Harsch @rickharsch.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXn5...

An assertion which may be controversial among very excited people...

this is why psychogeography remained what very excited people said about it and never got much further than what very excited people said about it Steve Hanson's latest broadcast from Last Days of Pompeii: A Comedy @stevehanson.bsky.social @erratumpress.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMzs...

Today's book deliveries: "The Reaches" and "The Wake and the Manuscript" by @ansgarallen.bsky.social

Today's book delivery: "The Sick List" by @ansgarallen.bsky.social

"this may be one of “the most pointless books” in the library y've been stuck waiting around in all yr life. And therefore one of its most exquisite sources of pleasure" @louisarmand.bsky.social reviews The Faces of Pluto www.erratumpress.com/the-fripperi...

Louis Armand @louisarmand.bsky.social reviews The Faces of Pluto by @ansgarallen.bsky.social www.erratumpress.com/the-fripperi...

another happy customer... www.goodreads.com/review/show/... @mitpress.bsky.social

S.D. Stewart reviews THE FACES OF PLUTO heavyfeatherreview.org/2025/01/28/t... @sd-stewart.bsky.social

From S.D. Stewart's review of THE FACES OF PLUTO up at Heavy Feather heavyfeatherreview.org/2025/01/28/t... @sd-stewart.bsky.social

this will be out soon at CounterText ... it is perhaps indicative that I had to publish outside the field [education/al studies] that it addresses ...

Exciting to see this review of @ansgarallen.bsky.social ‘s THE FACES OF PLUTO in @hfr.bsky.social courtesy of @sd-stewart.bsky.social heavyfeatherreview.org/2025/01/28/t...

This is now officially released. You can post reviews at all the usual joints. www.collectiveinkbooks.com/iff-books/ou...