HESTERGLOCKSmall independent press & publisher




​Est. circa 2012

Hesterglock Press is an unfunded small press, publishing mostly Poem Brut & other artistic, creative projects

We are based in Bristol, UK

Editors: Paul Hawkins & Sarer Scotthorne

Art, design & layout: Bob Modem



​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.


Postcards From Mental States
Julia Rose Lewis & Paul Hawkins

64 page photo book 
landscape 229 x 178 mm premium color paperback
£20 + p&p 
BUY

Prints available from Julia & Paul’s collaborative work here

​for the Postcards From Mental States website look here
Our collaborative project, Postcards From Mental States started by exchanging digital archives of travelling through America at times when we had both felt overwhelmed; a simple realisation that we tend to document difficult times in our lives. We create archives of ourselves to revise at a time when we are less overwhelmed. We know we are very easy to very easily overwhelmed. If whelm originally meant to overturn, then a vessel is implied here. To overwhelm is to over-repeat turn a vessel. Turning over an engine gets a motorboat started, and yet overturning a boat pauses or stops the boat in the water. Exchanging our personal archives felt like turning over an hourglass. The passage of sand back and forth and back and forth is a soothing and subtle reference to death. The pattern of sand grains runs on the hourglass.

JRL & PH 
Nov. 2022