Montez Press September News

Sinkhole: Three Crimes by Rosanna McLaughlin launch event at ICA London, 18th October

We are pleased to announce that our latest release, Sinkhole: Three Crimes, a novel in three parts by Rosanna McLaughlin, will be launched at the ICA, London on Thursday the 18th [removed];

Sinkhole: Three Crimes submerges readers in a grotesque and comical world on the edge of collapse – much like our own. Britain is immersed in a toxic swamp, and sinkholes are opening up in the ground with alarming frequency. Amid the mayhem, three crimes take place: Stonehenge has been stolen, a porn-addicted ghost writer faces the phantoms of her past, and a murder occurs among ex-pats in a Goan village.

Rosanna McLaughlin is an author and cultural critic. Double-Tracking, her debut collection of satirical essays and short fiction on the subject of middle-class duplicities, was published by Carcanet in 2019. An original proposal for the book was shortlisted for the Fitzcarraldo Essay Prize in 2016. Rosanna has written on subjects including Ariana Grande, the legacy of Section 28, and the weaponisation of Ana Mendieta. In 2017, she was writer-in-residence for the British Council Caribbean, researching the political fallout following Mendieta’s death. Her reviews and essays have been published in frieze magazine, ArtReview and the Guardian, among other places. She is co-editor of The White Review.

Come along on Thursday 18th October and celebrate the launch of Sinkhole with readings from Rosanna McLaughlin, Shola von Reinhold, and other readers to be confirmed.

→ Pre-order Sinkhole: Three Crimes 
→ Book tickets to the launch at ICA, London

September Interjection: New Light by Olivia Douglass

Olivia Douglass is a British-Nigerian writer and poet. They are the author of Slow Tongue, a verse/lyric-essay hybrid that responds to the work of M. NourbeSe Philip. Their writing appears in publications including Bath Magg, Nothing Personal, and Prototype 2. A Barbican Young Poets Alumna, Olivia has been commissioned by the National Poetry Library and Galleria Duarte Sequeira, alongside curating reading rooms for Passa Porta Festival and reading at NoguerasBlanchard Gallery. They have held residencies with Talawa Theatre Company and Theatre Peckham, been shortlisted for the Rebecca Swift Foundation’s Women Poet Prize 2020, and in 2021 were longlisted for a Jerwood Compton Poetry Fellowship. Olivia curated Strange Echoes at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in 2022, a six-day Black experimental poetry convening. Their writing is concerned with articulating alternative visions of liberated Black queer experiences, away from colonial [removed];

Read four poems by Olivia at the link below:

→ Interjection-008-09_Olivia [removed]

MPR September Schedule 

Montez Press Radio is back and broadcasting from NYC and London this September.
 

Wednesday the 21st September with Edition Eric Schmid, Will Fraser, Gryphon Rue, Phill Niblock, Belladonna* Collaborative, Philippus Johan, Josh Citarella, Yung Chomsky, Ebony Haynes, Channel PTP, Johann Diedrick, and Katie Giritlian.

Thursday the 22nd from 12pm London / 7am NYC with Katayoun Jalilipour, Suzanne Treister, Tenement Press, Gelare Khoshgozaran, EYESORE, Sam Keogh, Matvei Yankelevich, Tony Iantosca, and Uche Nduka.

Friday the 23rd back in NYC with new shows from RiichPsycho, Esther Sibiude, Lucia della Paolera, Justine Lugli, Timothy Rusterholz, and Thomas Hobson Williams, plus re-airing some of our broadcasts from last month in Seoul.

Saturday the 24th with Anais Duplan, Tongue and Cheek, Art Against Displacement, TNT, Mutamur, Ruby McCollister, Aria Dean and Emmanuel Olunkwa, Psychic Liberation, Viktor Timofeev, and Tabitha Piseno.

Sunday the 25th with re-broadcasts from Seoul contributors including Rope Editions, Joo YunTakk, Pulsecom, Vomit & Tear, Arexibo, seesea, Noi, DJ Hotpot, and [removed] Sae, followed by a performance at 7pm from Ron House live at Ergot Records with DJ Vinnie Martini.

Monday the 26th with re-broadcasts from Psychic Liberation Night #2: Seoul Edition featuring Daham Park, Joyul, guixine, Choi Taehyun, Ben Kudler, Yeong-Die, Jiyoung Wi, Nick Klein plus a new sound piece from Ben [removed];
 

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