Year One Book Bundle

£35.00

In this bundle you will recieve Eilish Martin's ! All'arme / ? And what... if not and Sam Furlong’s Crowd Work.

! All'arme / ? And what... if not by Eilish Martin

! All'arme / ? And what... if not, published by Macha Press in 2024, is a tȇte-bȇche (head-to-toe or double) publication comprised of two experimental poetic works and a sequence of typographical sculptures by Belfast poet and artist Eilish Martin.

A ‘career apex’ poet whose natural home is at once on the margins and at the heart of the hybrid, Eilish Martin’s practice in ! All'arme / ? And what… if not is at once experimental, interdisciplinary and intercultural.

In content and visionary concept, the poetries published in this tête-bêche (head-to-toe) double book brings together lyrical fragmentation and narrative drive, language play, intertextual dialogue and textual innovation with unsettling anxieties and deep care for public and private worlds.

The collection catalogues some small part of what she herself has referred to as the ‘compulsive journey’ of her poetry-making and verbal-visual improvisations across the past ten years.

Crowd Work by Sam Furlong

Crowd Work is the venturous debut by writer Sam Furlong. With candour, its poems detail experiences of a body’s living, materialities it inhabits and shares with bodies and other species. Also, the qualities of pain, and the complexities and contradictions of intimacy.

From densely sculpted sonnets to capacious prose forms and ekphrasis, Furlong’s uses of image and tonal variation interweave voyeurism with masochisms and transfiguration. Devotional gestures are amplified from the private to many-voiced conversations, expressly in the sequence ‘Crowd Work’, an unflinching interrogation of the performative side of identity in stand-up’s public setting.

Radically amatory, this debut performs a body’s wanton poetries. Re-making forms, it renders explicit the means by which ‘Through breaking, we are made.’

In this bundle you will recieve Eilish Martin's ! All'arme / ? And what... if not and Sam Furlong’s Crowd Work.

! All'arme / ? And what... if not by Eilish Martin

! All'arme / ? And what... if not, published by Macha Press in 2024, is a tȇte-bȇche (head-to-toe or double) publication comprised of two experimental poetic works and a sequence of typographical sculptures by Belfast poet and artist Eilish Martin.

A ‘career apex’ poet whose natural home is at once on the margins and at the heart of the hybrid, Eilish Martin’s practice in ! All'arme / ? And what… if not is at once experimental, interdisciplinary and intercultural.

In content and visionary concept, the poetries published in this tête-bêche (head-to-toe) double book brings together lyrical fragmentation and narrative drive, language play, intertextual dialogue and textual innovation with unsettling anxieties and deep care for public and private worlds.

The collection catalogues some small part of what she herself has referred to as the ‘compulsive journey’ of her poetry-making and verbal-visual improvisations across the past ten years.

Crowd Work by Sam Furlong

Crowd Work is the venturous debut by writer Sam Furlong. With candour, its poems detail experiences of a body’s living, materialities it inhabits and shares with bodies and other species. Also, the qualities of pain, and the complexities and contradictions of intimacy.

From densely sculpted sonnets to capacious prose forms and ekphrasis, Furlong’s uses of image and tonal variation interweave voyeurism with masochisms and transfiguration. Devotional gestures are amplified from the private to many-voiced conversations, expressly in the sequence ‘Crowd Work’, an unflinching interrogation of the performative side of identity in stand-up’s public setting.

Radically amatory, this debut performs a body’s wanton poetries. Re-making forms, it renders explicit the means by which ‘Through breaking, we are made.’

About Sam Furlong:

Sam Furlong is a writer from Dublin working across forms. They completed an MA in Poetry at the Seamus Heaney Centre, where they were awarded the Ireland Chair of Poetry Student Award in 2023.

Their writing has appeared variously in publications including Banshee, Abridged, Propel, Catflap, Poetry Ireland Review, and The Pig’s Back. They have been selected for the National Mentorship Programme and Poetry Ireland’s Introductions Series, and read alongside Stephen Rae and Paula Meehan at the Abbey Theatre’s Now We Must Sing: Celebrating WB Yeats.

At present, they are developing a short story collection supported by both an Agility Award and The Stinging Fly workshop scholarship and are Poetry Editor of Frustrated Writers Group. This is their first book of poetry.

About Eilish Martin:

Eilish Martin has published two previous collections of poetry, slitting the tongues of jackdaws (Summer Palace Press, 1999) and Ups Bounce Dash (Summer Palace Press, 2008). Her work has appeared in national and international journals and anthologies including Word of Mouth: Slovo iz Ust (St. Petersburg, 2004) The White Page/ An Bhileog Bhán; Twentieth Century Irish Women Poets (Salmon, 1999) Stinging Fly, HU, Artwords, Artslink, Cyphers and The Sunday Tribune. She has contributed translations to Seán Ó Ríordáin’s Selected Poems, edited by Frank Sewell (Yale University Press, 2014), and When the Neva Rushes Backwards, a bilingual anthology of work by five Russian poets compiled and translated by Word of Mouth Collective (Lagan Press, 2014).

In 2023, her poem ‘Paradise Fatigue’, featured in Passerine Nights, a musical composition by Ian Wilson for soprano and ensemble.