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PARIAH PRESS 🍷

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A British contemporary art press. Publisher of critical dialogues, innovative lit & photography. Slow, often archival 🌎 Distro ‘artbooks’ — Antenne literature — Central Prestwich/Stepney | Est.2014 #AnthonyBurgess #MelissaLeeHoughton #LindenArchives

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PARIAH PRESS 🍷 @pariahpress.bsky.social · 5h

Language is punishment.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

PARIAH PRESS 🍷 @pariahpress.bsky.social · 2d

International Tracked now cheaper than Standard International, yes lads.

#RoyalMail

PARIAH PRESS 🍷 @pariahpress.bsky.social · 3d

Extremely busy at the BOP yesterday in Brizzle #Bristol

#booksky
#photography

We'll be in the main event space again today showing our limited edition photobooks, and banging on about archives and paper...

PARIAH PRESS 🍷 @pariahpress.bsky.social · 4d

'a seminal moment in the history of the literary form'

barf barf

PARIAH PRESS 🍷 @pariahpress.bsky.social · 5d

Publishers in the UK don't half like whinging. Yes, times are tight. The systems of the industry have changed. Stop sloughing your budgets into bad art and box-ticking. Crack on.

PARIAH PRESS 🍷 @pariahpress.bsky.social · 5d

Situation in UK: Deteriorating

PARIAH PRESS 🍷 @pariahpress.bsky.social · 5d

Krasznahorkai, not as good as he thinks he is. Wears his politics on his sleeve a bit too much in his novels. But, ya know, Sátántangó and The Melancholy of Resistance... decent. His screenplays, excellent.

PARIAH PRESS 🍷 @pariahpress.bsky.social · 6d

If you're #Bristol way for BOP at the weekend, this is well worth your Friday night...

#booksky

Richard James Foster @richardjamesfoster.bsky.social · 6d

In Bristol for a reading with the mighty Joshua Jones at the marvelous East Bristol Books tomorrow, yes, Friday 10 October, doors 18.30. Come & say hello!

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PARIAH PRESS 🍷 @pariahpress.bsky.social · 8d

And no, we won't be doing hipster scarves.

PARIAH PRESS 🍷 @pariahpress.bsky.social · 8d

Beautiful

PARIAH PRESS 🍷 @pariahpress.bsky.social · 8d

Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — 1 painting per day, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings.

9/20

The Attirement of the Bride, 1940
— Max Ernst

#blueskyartchallenge #art #painting

PARIAH PRESS 🍷 @pariahpress.bsky.social · 9d

Dispiriting & amusing to see a novel we passed on over two years ago (dull and poorly written in the main) feted by a publishing house we respected & now garnering rave reviews in the States.

Similar happened with an abysmal poetry collection we were sent. Won one of the top awards a few years back

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CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 10d

You can read Recipes for Disaster, our compendium of direct action tactics, in both English and Portuguese:

crimethinc.com/recipes

This "anarchist cookbook" details an array of ways to make the world a better place. Get a print copy as an insurance policy in case something happens to the internet.

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PARIAH PRESS 🍷 @pariahpress.bsky.social · 10d

I. God's Fox being readied at Digbeth Art Space, Birmingham... 14th Nov

II. Poster: GF in Berlin... Venue ripped us off, lawyers became involved.

III. Nico at The White Hotel, publication launch, Salford... a scummer attempted to sell postcards of a photo he'd taken of that poster.

#photography

PARIAH PRESS 🍷 @pariahpress.bsky.social · 10d

Yet another run-in tonight with associates (a complete stranger this time) of an author that bad mouthed us all over town for the best part of a year—out of drug glutton induced paranoia.

The Manchester scene (one for the lolz) awash with the fawning, gullible, non-bright & hateful, who knew?

PARIAH PRESS 🍷 @pariahpress.bsky.social · 12d

Regardless of yesterday's #NationalPoetryDay, today is always Poets' Day in the industry... Piss off early tomorrow's Saturday.

#Publishing
#Poetry
#Poets

PARIAH PRESS 🍷 @pariahpress.bsky.social · 12d

Correct

G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 13d

In all seriousness, publishers are going to have to figure out how to market books in the post-social-media landscape. That should be an implicit part of their job. What authors/artists can do on their own is increasingly limited and siloed.

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The Society of Authors @societyofauthors.bsky.social · 13d

A searchable works list has been released to identify the authors’ works that were stolen by US Corporation Anthropic, to train its AI models. It includes UK authors whose works were copied without their permission or payment.

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PARIAH PRESS 🍷 @pariahpress.bsky.social · 13d

Someone as bright and coherent an author as Iain McGilchrist shilling for the far-right bozo cult. Regurgitating their same old tired, lunatic drivel. Hapless

PARIAH PRESS 🍷 @pariahpress.bsky.social · 15d

For anyone thinking... 'wot's God's Fox ffs?'...

pariahpress.com/product-page...

PARIAH PRESS 🍷 @pariahpress.bsky.social · 15d

@petertatchell.bsky.social ⬆️

PARIAH PRESS 🍷 @pariahpress.bsky.social · 16d

Exhibition...

THE PHOTOGRAPHY OF CHARLES GORDON MONTGOMERY

Digbeth Art Space
Birmingham
B9 4AT

Launch: 14.11.25
Feat. Austin Collings

Selected works from God's Fox (2021) presented by Kay Fisher & Austin Collings. Runs until 10.01.26

#Exhibition
#Preview
#Photography
#Prestwich
#MentalHealth

An exhibition poster. Background image is a smiling boy with a black eye.

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PARIAH PRESS 🍷 @pariahpress.bsky.social · 16d

Magnum photographers print sale for Palestinian artists...
gulfphotoplus.com/collections/...

#photography
#Palestine

Palestine Print Platform — Magnum

Gulf Photo Plus is a community organization and the leading photography center based in the UAE, serving the wider SWANA region. We cultivate visual practices through year-round workshops, art progra...

gulfphotoplus.com

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PARIAH PRESS 🍷 @pariahpress.bsky.social · 18d

Never trust a publishing house or retailer that mails goods in black envelopes.

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The Thomas Hardy Society @hardysociety.bsky.social · 23d

The Thomas Hardy Society is officially on Bluesky! Follow us to learn more about #ThomasHardy - we'll be posting events, news, and more.

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