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We have been overwhelmed by all of the donations to the bookshop crowdfunder. Thank you so much to everyone who has donated or shared the link. There are now just a few days to go, and we'd love your help to try and reach ยฃ10,000. This would enable us to cover the costs of additional staffing and admin and help us keep the space open next year. The GoFundMe page will close at the end of the day on Friday 23 October. Keep spreading the word!
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Iโ€™ll be joining the amazing @fatemaabdoolcarim and @shortestwitch at @1b.books with @monitorbooks and @poetrybooksociety next month! Come hang with us and hear some knock-it-out-the-park poetry.
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๐‘ฐ๐’Ž๐’‘๐’Š๐’†๐’•๐’š ๐‘ฏ๐’๐’–๐’“ {OCTOBER} pt.1 | 1st - 17th โœš โ€œI danced for the devilโ€ {Arthur Miller ~ The Crucible} Dancing shoes, idle hands & make-up fixed for the Libras, this October at ๐‘ฐ๐’Ž๐’‘๐’Š๐’†๐’•๐’š ๐‘ฏ๐’๐’–๐’“. Worm Credits ~ impious moving models @massive_joke & @publicvirtues | devil behind the camera @timonbenson โœš LISTINGS 1. Thu 1st Oct | 6pm start @alwaysalreadyreads โ€œTransgender Marxismโ€™ by J.J. Gleeson & E.Oโ€™Rourke {a reading group} Fri 2nd Oct | 8pm - 12am AD [SPECIAL GUEST] @matteo.polz Strana Italia {pulpit dj} Sat 3rd Oct | 8pm - 12am AD [CELEBRATING GUESTS] Trusted Takeover {pulpit dj} Sun 4th Oct | from 5pm @elusivejazz ~ @reona_tapdance_metalperc | Lewys Holt {a live show} โ€ข Wed 7th Oct | 6.30pm start AD IMPIETY READING HOUR ~ Aimeฬ Cesaireโ€™s โ€˜Notebook of a Return to My Native Landโ€™ {a book group - @ad_england} *upcoming: Wed 11th Nov / Wed 9th Dec* Thu 8th Oct | from 6pm @monitorbooks readings. Lila Matsumoto | @hotcheddar dj. @comfortableonatightrope {a gathering) Fri 9th Oct | 8pm - 12am AD [IMPIETY QUEEN] @grayanna {pulpit dj} Sat 10th Oct | 8pm - 12am AD [SPECIAL GUEST] @handbook_in_motion {pulpit dj} โ€ข Fri 16th Oct | from 7pm @adrian__steele__ ~ @martinhasfeldt | @burning.pyre | @rosabellaallen {a live show} & 8pm - 12am AD [IMPIETY RESIDENT] @crono_hotmas {pulpit dj} Sat 17th Oct | 8pm - 12am AD [IMPIETY RESIDENT] @_dijit_ {pulpit dj} Sun 18th Oct | from 4pm AD [SUNDAY SERVICE] ~ LECTURE BAR โ€˜Holbein: The Ambassadors & his Emissaryโ€™ by. @ian.hartshorne dj. fore-aft @helenskiadrinks {a public lecture} - - - - - - - - - - #impietyhour #bookandrecordshop #publicdrinkingrooms #culturalprogramme #octoberlistings
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Full list of contributors: Fatema Abdoolcarim Batool Abu Akleen Sarah Bernstein Rey Conquer P Eldridge Remi Graves Jennifer Hodgson Stewart Home Taylor Le Melle Huw Lemmey Mira Mattar Lucy Mercer Zsoฬfia Paulikovics & a tribute to the much missed Mark Pawson. Available to preorder now ๐Ÿ”—โซ๐Ÿ’š
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MONITOR BOOKS {08.10.26} โœš Join us as Monitor Books descends upon our impious sepulchre stage for readings from Lila Matsumoto & Edwin R Stevens, with pulpit takeover by Comfortable on a Tightrope playing records in the bar upstairs. Not to be missed! Monitor Books | @monitorbooks presents ~ Lila Matsumotoโฃ ๐Ÿšจ Edwin R Stevens | @hotcheddar โฃ๐Ÿšจ Comfortable on Tightrope | @comfortableonatightrope {dj} โฃ from. 6pm on. Thursday 8th October at. ๐‘ฐ๐’Ž๐’‘๐’Š๐’†๐’•๐’š ๐‘ฏ๐’๐’–๐’“ | @ad_england โฃ ๐Ÿ“70 Oldham Road, Manchester {M4 5EB} โฃโฃ Readings will start promptly at ๐Ÿ”.๐Ÿ’๐Ÿ“๐ฉ๐ฆ, ready or not. โฃ *๐˜๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฐ๐˜ด๐˜ฆ ๐˜ธ๐˜ช๐˜ด๐˜ฉ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜จ ๐˜ต๐˜ฐ ๐˜ข๐˜ต๐˜ต๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ ๐˜“๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฏ๐˜ช ๐˜š๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ๐˜ฆ๐˜ณโ€™๐˜ด ๐˜ญ๐˜ข๐˜ถ๐˜ฏ๐˜ค๐˜ฉ ๐˜ข๐˜ต ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฆ๐˜ข๐˜ณ๐˜ฃ๐˜บ ๐˜Ž๐˜ถ๐˜ญ๐˜ญ๐˜ช๐˜ท๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜ด ~ ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ช๐˜ด ๐˜ต๐˜ช๐˜ฎ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜จ ๐˜ธ๐˜ช๐˜ญ๐˜ญ ๐˜ข๐˜ญ๐˜ญ๐˜ฐ๐˜ธ ๐˜บ๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ ๐˜ต๐˜ฐ ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ๐˜ซ๐˜ฐ๐˜บ ๐˜ข๐˜ญ๐˜ญ ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ฆ๐˜ท๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜จโ€™๐˜ด ๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ๐˜ข๐˜ฅ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜จ๐˜ด ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ ๐˜ข ๐˜ง๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ๐˜ป๐˜บ ๐˜ฐ๐˜ง ๐˜ญ๐˜ช๐˜ท๐˜ฆ ๐˜ญ๐˜ช๐˜ต๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜ข๐˜ต๐˜ถ๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ* *As always, there will be books & booze for sale | Any small donations {collected on the sepulchre door / n.o.t.a.f.l.o.f.} helps us cover costs & are appreciated | Thank you* โœš โฃ About the artistes ~ Lila Matsumoto is a writer & musician, author most recently of ๐˜›๐˜ข๐˜ญ๐˜ฌ ๐˜ข ๐˜‰๐˜ญ๐˜ถ๐˜ฆ ๐˜š๐˜ต๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ๐˜ข๐˜ฌ (Monitor, 2026). She plays in the band Food People, who recently released ๐˜™๐˜ข๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜ด๐˜ฎ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฌ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฅ ๐˜Š๐˜ฉ๐˜ณ๐˜ช๐˜ด๐˜ต๐˜ฎ๐˜ข๐˜ด (Slipping, 2026). She lives in Nottingham.โฃ โฃ Edwin R Stevens is a writer and musician. His most recent record is ๐˜ˆ ๐˜—๐˜ญ๐˜ข๐˜จ๐˜ถ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ฐ๐˜ง ๐˜Ž๐˜ช๐˜ฎ๐˜ฑ๐˜ด (Wrong Speed Records, 2026) and his short story collection ๐˜š๐˜ฆ๐˜ข๐˜จ๐˜ถ๐˜ญ๐˜ญ๐˜ด is published in a new edition by Perfect Angel Press. He lives in Glasgow. โฃ Comfortable on a Tightrope have been presenting concerts, records, tapes, books, etc. since 2004. *art by Rei* - - - - - - - - - - #impietyhour #bookandrecordshop #publicdrinkingrooms #culturalprogramme #monitorbooks
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Last summer redux! The final fling of an uncomfortably hot summer, launching Samatar Elmi's new collection on @kulvert_books, Agen Bien Fou, with support from @nellosborne reading new work Seฬances Near Me, forthcoming from @spitepress. So distinct in tone and affect, yet both unsparing and political, in their own ways. An excellent evening. Nell then chaired the Bristol launch of @galia_melon's Somebody Should Have Pressed Record, on @strangeregionpress, a long-form experimental text about the speaker's parasocial relationship with Joseph Gilgun, why not. It's as odd and brilliant as that sounds.
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Really excited about this show @nan_moors_bar_venue_todmorden next month. Maria W Horn is one of my fave artists, plus a reading by the mega Lila Matsumoto, so it's a dream support slot. I've done a very limited run of A2 screen printed versions of the poster. They'll be for sale on the night, or before if you DM me. ยฃ25 plus p&p. @_mariawhorn @monitorbooks @nan_moors_bar_venue_todmorden
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This month's edition of Endpapers on @noodsradio is a beautiful guest mix from poet and drummer Remi Graves (@shadebutter). Huge thanks to Remi for putting this together! Remi says: "Had fun stitching this mix together, itโ€™s a collage of ambient music I play when I want to write or get out of my head, some unreleased demos from my band @rusbandofficial and tracks that I just love listening to. "I also threw in a sound piece I made for Bow Arts a while back after looking into The Phoenix Garden archive (that cute oasis behind the Odeon (RIP) in Shaftesbury Avenue). The garden was a disused car park until a group of volunteers came together in 1980s to give it new life. They built a pond, planted feverfews, mullein, yarrowโ€ฆ the garden is still in use today. All this to say, this is music to keep you going xx" -- If you're looking for something to read while listening to this dreamy mix, I'd highly recommend either of Remi's excellent poetry titles - 'with your chest' (@14poems) and 'Coal' (@monitorbooks). Tracklist in story highlights, and link to listen back in bio โ›…
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Weโ€™re very pleased to be part of Glue, the ICAโ€™s annual book fair, which returns on 12 & 13 September, bringing together over 90 publishers for a weekend celebrating independent and artist publishing. Alongside a vibrant fair, the weekend features talks, workshops, book launches and an exhibition, spotlighting the artist-led networks that sustain creative publishing today. Entry to the fair is free and everyone is warmly welcomed. Saturday opening hours: 12 โ€“ 7pm Sunday opening hours: 12 โ€“ 6pm Tickets for talks and workshops ยฃ5
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Weโ€™re excited to announce the winner and runners-up of this yearโ€™s prize, along with the release of โ€˜Eleven Stories 2026โ€™! Mimi Kawahara (@mkawahara29) takes the top spot with โ€˜Disaster preparedness test, ex post factoโ€™, a โ€˜devastatingly intimate...portrait of mourning...that understands grief not as a problem to be solved or overcome but as a condition to be inhabited.โ€™ (Ottessa Moshfegh, 2026 judge). Our runners-up are Eric Baker (@baekboi_sung) and Emily Roese (@emilyroese) with their stories โ€˜This History of Violenceโ€™ and โ€˜Slugโ€™. ABOUT THE COLLECTION: โ€˜The Desperate Literature Short Story Prize remains a beacon for experiment in times when this is both increasingly rare and increasingly vitalโ€™ โ€”Joanna Walsh โ€˜so structurally inventiveโ€™ โ€”Ottessa Moshfegh You can get Eleven Stories in PDF via our website and keep an eye out for stories appearing with partner journals in the coming months! Thanks to our Judges: Claire-Louise Bennett Ottessa Moshfegh Joanna Walsh The full shortlist: Katie Assef (@katie_shireen) Saad Bin Iftikhar (@saad_109393) Imogen Clarke (@imogenclrk) Christian Emecheta (@emechetachristian) Jennifer Green Esther Leaming (@estherdreaming) L. J. de Pedro Alexandra Symons-Sutcliffe (@lxndr_a) Thanks to our partners and particularly @degrootfoundation for all their unfailing support! Without them, the prize wouldnโ€™t be possible. Our Partners include: @degrootfoundation @civitellaranieri @tenementpress @thelondonmagazine @kyd_magazine @helterskeltermag @minorlits @theliteraryconsultancy @spreadthewordwriters @cipher_press @folly.journal @bennreview @revistapajaroazul @souvenirmagazineparis @monitorbooks @charlotteseymour @badaud_e @salon_europe Thanks to everybody who entered the prize and, finally, thanks to our first-round readers, who have put in countless hours reading stories and selecting this wonderful shortlist. READERS: @fatemaabdoolcarim @vesnamarx @k.a.mccully @barbarabianchic @fifitoro @londresesficcion @terryacraven @fin_olafin @limeywesty @paris.librarian @madelinske & Dominique Chapla
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@nan_moors_bar_venue_todmorden & @monitorbooks present Maria W. Horn, John Powell-Jones & Lila Matsumoto live performances at the beautiful Fielden Hall in Todmorden on Saturday 19 September. ยฃ16 adv. Doors 5pm. Will def be a bar and hopef some delicious food ! @mariawhorn, a composer hailing from the north of Sweden, based in Stockholm since 2011. Maria w Horn is interested in the manipulation of time and space through sonic extremes - oscillating between minimalist structures and piercing power electronics utilizing both digital and analog synthesis as well as acoustic instruments and audiovisual components. @johnpowell_jones is a UK-based artist whose work spans sculpture, animation, print and installation. Drawing on horror, folklore and the visual language of videogames, he creates speculative worlds populated by mutated beings and unstable technologies. His practice examines how power, ideology and myth shape perceptions of the body, the other and the future. Lila Matsumoto , whose poetry publications are Talk a Blue Streak (Monitor Books, 2026), Two Twin Pipes Sprout Water (Prototype, 2021), which was commended by the Forward Poetry Prize and recommended by the Poetry Book Society, and Urn & Drum (Shearsman, 2018). Other publications include the poem poster โ€˜Roasted by myselfโ€™ (Prototype, 2025) and a creative-critical book on cross-disciplinary art practice, The Very Nature of Materiality is an Entanglement, produced in collaboration with OK-RM design studio (In Other Words, 2024). Dream line up and collaboration with @monitorbooks . Canโ€™t wait. Equinox season ! Lets goooooo ticket link in bio
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Plastic Language, vol. 23 1am, 05/08/2026, ch. 1ย @nts_radio This volume focuses on the work ofย @alan_fielden, which is read here by both Alan and his friends. There are recordings of Alan reading his poems solo on Peckham Rye, a polyvocal piece read with @jemimayong on a busy junction in Peckham, and a variety of voices reading from Alan's 99 Plays during an event called 'Hope So' at the wonderful @ivyhousenunhead, all interspersed with musical selections from Alan. Alan's work holds a lot of love, crisis, noise and beauty, and it's been a great joy putting this all into an hour of radio Thanks Alan for the poems, plays and ideas, and special thanks to Rory at Monitor Books (@r_r_c_o_ ;ย @monitorbooks)ย and Jemima Yong (and Juniper) for all the help putting this together. Thanks also to Sasha Elina (@sashaaeeea) for contributing a completely stunning flute piece for this. And of course, thanks to the readers:ย Bart Seng Wen Long,ย Kaisa Saarinen,ย Vlad Skofenko,ย Hestia Peppe,ย Nat Norland,ย Tara Fatehi,ย Peter Ely, Rey Conquer, Jess Stacey and Robert Stearn.
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