The catalogue to the recent Kay Sage Yves Tanguy exhibition in New York is on sale now directly from the gallery and will be in bookstores in late November.
The Plotinus, a new novel by Rikki Ducornet, is out now from Coffee House Press.
Out this Novembe 30, Sun Step Black Lake, a new collaboration between Allan Grauabard and John Welson (preview and preorder here).
This week Bloomsbury Press is releasing Surrealist Sorcery, by Will Atkin, which looks like a fascinating if unfortunately high-priced study of occult practices in Surrealism encompassing Ithell Colquhoun, Gherasim Luca, Victor Brauner, Mimi Parent, Jean Benoit among others.
Perahim: De l'avant-garde à l'épanouissement, de Bucarest à Paris, the catalogue to the 2021 exhibition, provides a survey of the artist’s work accompanied by texts from Michel Remy, Èdouard Jaguer, Petr Kral, Alain Jouffory and others.
Christian Dotremont, Peintre de l'écriture: the catalogue accompanying the 2022 exhibit of Dotremont’s painting
Une saison avec Marianne: Alain Segura’s memoir of Marianne Ivsic from their initial meeting in 1967 when the author first encountered Guy Debord and others in the situationist milieu.
Maga suivi de Les Pélerins: Two unpublished works from the early 1970s by Claude Tarnaud and Henriette de Champrel are now available from Le Grand Tamanoir in paperbook and coffret d'art editions, both facsimile reproductions.
Encuentros, by Javier Gálvez and Bruno Jacobs: A series of photographic “encounters” evoking figures such as Hans Bellmer, Harry Houdini, Fulcanelli, and others.
Just published: LIse Deharme, cygne noir, by Nicolas Perge, a rare exploration of Deharme’s life and works.
Out now: Robert Desnos’ Night of Loveless Nights in English translation and with the French original. Thanks to Brandon Freels for pointing it out.
Alice Rahon’s paintings will be exhibited alongside Ranu Mukerjee’s at Galerie Wendi Norris in New York from 6 September, 2023. In addition, Mary Ann Caws will read from her translation of Rahon’s poetry Shapeshifter on Saturday the 9th.
Soapbox is now on its 226 issue with poetry by Anne-Marie Beeckman and a myth of sorts by Jacques Abeille.
Contents:
A Poem Instead of a Preface
“Y” is a Crooked Letter
Hands Off the Word Surreal! Manifesto
Undoing Reality
Toward a Surrealist Re-Enchantment of the World
Charles Fourier and the Surrealist Quest for an Emancipatory Mythology
Why Be So Attached to Your Penis?
Learning How to Fly
Free Jazz: Imagining the Sound of Surrealist Revolution
Uncovering the Surrealist Roots of Détournement
Chance Encounters at the Crossroads of Anarchy and Surrealism:
A Personal Remembrance of Peter Lamborn Wilson (Hakim Bey)
The Marvelous Dance of Anarchy and Individuality
The Black Humour of Maurice Spira
No More Fattening Frogs for Snakes
A Spark in Search of a Powder Keg
Ouroboros
Now available: issue 6 of S, a journal from the Leeds Surrealist Group.
4 pages (including wraps) - A5 format - colour - August 2023
Texts, poems, images, collective games including:
The First Automatic Riddle of the Holbeck Sphinx
Four Interpretations of a Fallen Insect Wing
A Proposal for the Rewilding of Found Objects - an essay by Sarah Metcalf
Spoon - a game of interpretation
Spoon From Memory - an exercise in remembering an object
Four Automatic Texts and an Imaginary Portrait














