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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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.
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Paul & Sarer
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Martin Wakefield
ISBN: 9781739807139
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For reasons I don't clearly understand, and into which I am not minded to delve, I am somewhat averse to explaining my poems. However, I think it might be interesting to give some context around Jungle Gym as a poetry collection.
The inventor of mathematical logic, without which we would not now be living in the world we are, George Boole, was married to Mary Everest, a progressive educationalist and mathematician. They had a daughter, Mary Ellen who, in 1880, married George Hinton, bigamist, mathematician, science fiction writer and inventor of the word “tesseract” to refer to a cube extended into the fourth dimension. George and Mary had a son, Sebastian, who invented the jungle gym (in British English, the climbing frame) in 1920 in Chicago.
One way of representing the tesseract is as a net — the net of cube is a cross, the net of a tesseract is a hypercube — and that is what Salvador Dali used in his 1954 work Corpus Hypercubicus which shows the crucifixion of Christ on a hypercube cross. This shape is made of four cubes stacked on top of each other with further cubes extending from the four exposed faces of the second-top cube of the stack. And this shape is at the centre of a jungle gym, is fully encapsulated in the jungle gym. And there is a boy hanging upside down within that hypercube thinking about time itself.
For Hinton, consideration of the fourth dimension was a moral imperative, that an intuition of the fourth dimension was to move beyond the limitations of the right/left and the up/down, to position a person in an ego-less, inter-related and composite world. And that upside-down boy — I call him Jungle Jim, others call him Batboy — is doing exactly that, vibrating with a sense of unreality, of timelessness, puzzling his origins and his destination, trapped yet comforted by the constraints of the tesseract, trepidatious of what may lie beyond. And my aim in writing the collection was to perform a sort of senso-archaeology, a phren-ontology, a peri-epi-phenomenology of the consciousness of that inverted youth. And, during this excavation, perhaps to uncover how much of the boy persists in the man.
Martin Wakefield, London, 12 November 2021
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