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Happy Exchanges from 37 Looe Street

October 3, 2023 ·

A birds eye view of the artist books and ephemera that were received in exchange for books in the Reading the Migration Library exchange event at 37 Looe Stree in Plymouth, UK on September 19, 2023. In clockwise order starting top left, colour printed cards and poster from "Ruptured Domesticity" project, a handwritten lyric sheet on ruled paper by Mo Bottomley, a small colou-printed 'zine titled "Episode in two flats and an office" by Sef Penrose, a colour printed and coil-bound picture book called "The Leak" by Tim Britton, a thick, hardcover artist monogram titled "Four Hundred and Twenty-nine Significant Moments: Documenting an Artist's Research and Processes" by Lisa Watts, a grey artist's catalogue called "Materials of Resistance" by Clare Thornton, and a sheaf of loose printed papers making up a publications called "Neighbourhood 1. (Series 1:3 2021) by Merrydith Russell.

In September, 2023 I was generously hosted at 37 Looe Street for a week-long artist residency and an event featuring an artist talk and book exchange. The event was jam-packed with content, people, and artist book exchanges exchanges. It was an …

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Mail art from The Poem Factory (Ed Varney)

December 3, 2022 ·

Two book chapbooks and a sheet of 4 artist-stamps. Books: "Walking the Dog" with line drawing of Setter pointing nose to right; Ineffable Mystical Poems: with 5 pointed star coloured yellow with eyes on the top point; stamps - with line drawing of stone with "Mondo Postal 10" as title.

This nice packet of paper goods came in the mail from Ed Varney's "The Poem Factory" in Courtney, BC (on Vancouver Island). I initiated the exchange by sending the DADA of mail art 2 full sets of RML books (with a few more poetry chapbooks, added …

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La bibliothèque Liza Leyla

May 18, 2022 ·

Four books by Liza Leyla are lying on a grey surface. Three feature paintings by the writer. One features a photo of the writer.

Moving studio contents this week, I found four small books that were mailed as mail art to me from the prolific and generous Brussels-based writer, Liza Leyla (Eliza Muylaert). Leyla is diligent about sending publications addressed to Renegade …

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Embassy Cultural House, “A Trans-National Artist Collective…”

May 17, 2022 ·

Front page of the newspaper, "Embassy Cultural House"

A couple of copies of this tabloid summarizing community art activities generated during pandemic years arrived in the mail box from Embassy Cultural House (ECH) in London, Ontario. Thank you to Jamelie Hassan and Ron Benner for this big packet of …

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New Afro-Cuban Writing in Canada

May 7, 2022 ·

Afro-Cuban woman in a white dress holds a lit white candle and reaches toward the viewer.

Recently some published and unpublished writing from Hebert Poll Gutierrez arrived. Gutierrez, who lives in Calgary, became acquainted with RML when he attended Tertulia: Artist Book Publishing by American, Canadian, and Mexican Artists that was …

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