Hesterglock Press is an unfunded small press, publishing mostly Poem Brut & other artistic, creative projects
We are based in Bristol, UK
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We are not currently open for submissions
Hester Glock collaborated with Paul H. on a sound project in 2007.
Paul used the name when setting up his first ever website, and the name has stuck with creative things he has subsequently been involved with since.
Sarer and Paul are both artists and poets, amongst other things, and have been running the press since 2012-ish.
They began with an old b & w laser printer, hand-making pamphlets.
Then they started to use print-on-demand services, though not always for every publication.
Hesterglock publish mostly experimental poetry, visual poetry, Poem Bruti-ish work as well as other artistic projects.
Hesterglock acknowledges the simple fact that we learn through mistakes.
Hesterglock continue to make mistakes.
Long may that continue.
Hesterglock gratefully acknowledge individuals who have supported their work over the past 13 years or so, whether that be buying a book, attending an event, or supporting us through their deeds and/or actions.
Thank you
Paul & Sarer
This website is under construction, as always . . .
Do get in touch with any questions, queries or orders here.
SJ Fowler
First edition: hardback limited to 40 copies
150 x 230 mm
64 colour pages
2018
£20.00 SOLD OUT
Second edition paperback
ISBN: 9780464869399
150 x 230 mm
64 colour pages
2018
£7.99 buy here
“The toner explodes on the office carpet spilling out a perfectly formed oeuvre. Serifs skywrite like migrating gannets. The rorschach accidentally tells you what to think. The dollar sign is a duck walking backwards into a lake. Aletta Ocean’s Alphabet Empire is an almighty triumph, a well-earned relief.”
- Chris McCabe
Five years in the making, a new collection of over 50 new pansemic, asemic, ink poems, water poems, grid poems, abstract letters and word portraits. All in monochrome, the collection is closed with an essay.
This is a book about technology and its absence, about materiality and the body, and hands, that are required for touch. A book about sex, eroticism, pornography, violence. A book that asks, abstractly, are letters shaped like bodies? Are letters like faces, captured in a screen?
The poems are hand wrought in black, grey, silver and white, fashioned with indian ink, paint and pen, worked with techniques edging around writing, vying with abstraction, watercolour and constantly harrying both semantic meaning with messed letters and word composition with busy pages.
AOAE is reviewed with I Fear My Best Work Behind Me (Stranger Press, 2017) by Michael Jacobson over at The New Post-literate. Jacket 2 magazine featured 3 poems from Aletta - view them here
- Chris McCabe
Five years in the making, a new collection of over 50 new pansemic, asemic, ink poems, water poems, grid poems, abstract letters and word portraits. All in monochrome, the collection is closed with an essay.
This is a book about technology and its absence, about materiality and the body, and hands, that are required for touch. A book about sex, eroticism, pornography, violence. A book that asks, abstractly, are letters shaped like bodies? Are letters like faces, captured in a screen?
The poems are hand wrought in black, grey, silver and white, fashioned with indian ink, paint and pen, worked with techniques edging around writing, vying with abstraction, watercolour and constantly harrying both semantic meaning with messed letters and word composition with busy pages.
AOAE is reviewed with I Fear My Best Work Behind Me (Stranger Press, 2017) by Michael Jacobson over at The New Post-literate. Jacket 2 magazine featured 3 poems from Aletta - view them here