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James Vella – Devourings
Book, SaleDevourings collects a variety of stories – each its own piece but bound to the next by a broader, unifying theme: being enveloped, devoured, by a moment, an encounter, a political situation, an emotion – which connect with absolute potency. Be they over a handful of paragraphs or a spread of pages, these short – and shorter – stories linger with a palpable resonance. Devourings travels to many destinations, encompassing several scenarios and introducing myriad protagonists – and, frequently, antagonists. ‘Esthers’ follows a snaking murder plot set in 1940s Argentina; the malevolent machinations of ‘USS Passumpsic’ play out on a late-1950s Pacific. ‘The Lamb Opened The Fox’s Throat’ takes place in a fantastical ancient Arabia, a place of magic and little mercy. Geographically and chronologically divergent dramas are connected by a consistent, compelling tone.£5.00 -
Atay Ilgun – Enuma Elis
Book, SaleAlso spelled as ‘Enuma Elish’, Enûma Eliš is the Babylonian creation mythos named after its opening words (incipit) which means ‘when on high’. It’s about thousand lines recorded in Old Babylonian on seven clay tablets. Here on this chapbook, the term ‘when on high’ is re-worked as poems about life, creation, death and eternity. Following a vague sequence, it starts covering meditations on flowers, stars, life and the idea of most absolute beginning and ending, but till the end poem itself finds remedies in the everlasting harmony of incarnation and fragments which has no beginning or ending.£2.00 -
Aidan Baker – Passing Through
Book, SaleIt all starts from a famous maxim of uncertain authorship – Writing about music is like dancing about architecture – and from a trope that is also a neurological phenomenon – synesthesia, the description or perception of one kind of sensation in terms of another. Smelling words, seeing sounds, hearing colours. Aidan Baker deliberately and skillfully plays with such figures, applying them not only to sensations but also to artistic techniques. The poems in this collection are about artworks that use other media than words – paintings, films and songs by a selection of such artists as Man Ray, Wim Wenders, John Coltrane, and Francisco Goya, among others. Each poem is at once a personal response and a dialogue with the artist, with Baker acting as author, spectator, and mediator. In this sense, besides playing with different senses and media, the collection entwines several literary genres and techniques: fiction and critical essay, poetry and prose, description and narration.£5.00 -
Strongheart
CD, SaleA heartwarming record by multi-instrumentalist, songwriter Matthew Anderson’s new project Strongheart. Heavily recommended to fans of Sigur Ros, Steven Wilson, Shearwater and anybody who is interested in the underground gems around U.S or any kind of artful music. Here at Wounded Wolf Press we’ve been long friends and in contact with Matthew Anderson even before this press were in existence, collaborating and making guest appearances on each others albums. For instance the drums on Svefn Plural’s ‘Skyhook’ (Except ‘Polaroid Girl’) were by Matthew and Atay did play guitars and mellotrons on his previous project Noble Dust. Package comes in six variations, differentiating in photograph on the cover -each is a crop from the original by George Anderson-, in ivory sleeve alongside with two informative cards within.£8.00 -
Treefingers – Op.I
CD, SaleTreefingers is a solo project of Atay İlgün focusing on ambient, drone-based and industrial music. It wanders through sounds of minds under the confusion of micro-cosmos and universe, supernovas with vivid details of elemental clouds, dreamy lands where giant machines were meant to be natural belongings creating beautiful forests. It does these with a zen like beautiful and very beautifully crafted soundscapes which simply deserves to be experienced in an enverioment where it’s sounds can live in. When it lives it gains the capability to slow one’s metabolism to turn the listener inside for an hour of healing , both physically and mentally. Package design is a reworked one of the first edition which was mostly designed by Alper Yıldırım. Photographs by Alper Yıldırım. Contains the bonus track ‘The Summit’ which was solely available from the mrsvee’s website.£8.00