grandIOTA
New Local Independent Press Launch
By Pete Donohue
grandIOTA is a new independent press based in Brighton and St Leonards, dedicated to imaginative, out of the ordinary prose writing. The press launches its first two books at The Bookkeeper Bookshop in King’s Road, St Leonards, on Sunday 28th April.
APROPOS JIMMY INKLING by Brian Marley
In a Westminster café-cum-courtroom, Jimmy Inkling is on trial, perhaps for his life. Unless, of course, he’s dead already. But will that be enough to prevent him from eliminating those who give evidence against him?
“A wild literary romp, skilfully and inventively sustained against all odds. Thomas Nashe and Laurence Sterne would probably have approved, along with GK Chesterton.”
Brian Marley was born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Having begun to write poetry in his early teens, he was soon publishing widely in small press magazines in the UK and elsewhere. By 1982 he’d switched from poetry to prose and there he remains. His photographic work has been exhibited in Brighton and Newcastle-upon-Tyne. He lives in Brighton.
WILD METRICS by Ken Edwards
1970s London: short-life communal living, the beginnings of the alt-poetry scene, not forgetting sex, drugs and rock’n’roll. Forty years on: where have the wild metrics of those days taken us? This prose extravaganza dives into the inscrutable forking paths of memory, questions what poetry is, and concludes that the author cannot know what he is doing. Among the cast of characters are a Rock Star who has become a national treasure, a bunch of poets and writers, some now legends, and assorted other misfits and malcontents. Some names have been changed.
Ken Edwards is a writer and musician, based in St Leonards on Sea. His many books are listed on his personal website/blog. He ran the small press Reality Street, which published more than 60 titles comprising mainly poetry but also other sorts of imaginative writing, between 1993-2016. These days Ken plays bass guitar with the St Leonards-based band Afrit Nebula.
• The launch takes place on Sunday 28th April at 6.00pm when these two writers will read from their books and sign copies. Admission is free and there will be wine or a non-alcoholic alternative available.
The Bookkeeper Bookshop, 1a Kings Road, St Leonards on Sea
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