tangerine press: outsider poetry : prose : graphics in handbound limited editions
tangerine press: outsider poetry : prose : graphics in handbound limited editions
2010
July 3rd--
Degenerate Sweethearts & Rebel Scum reading/happening. Coach & Horses, Romilly St, Soho W1. Readings from Kevin Williamson, Lee Rourke, Steve Finbow, Joseph Ridgwell, Jenni Fagan, Tim Wells, many more. Sponsors include Tangerine Press, Blackheath Books, Grevious Jones Press, 3am Magazine. From 7pm.
July 2nd--
Salena Godden's Book Club Boutique Get Committed! Get Hitched! party, incorporating the launch of the second Dwang journal. Venue: House of St. Barnabus, Greek St, Soho W1.
Readings from
Salena Godden, Joseph Ridgwell, Jenni Fagan, K.M. Dersley, many more. Also live music and dj's... From 7pm.
June--
Interview with Tangerine Press by Dr. Fulminare. Focussing on the recently published second Dwang journal.
May--
Publication of second Dwang journal. Thirty contributors, including: Richard Long, James Kelman, Billy Childish,
A.D. Winans, Gerald Locklin, Charles Plymell, Douglas Blazek, Fred Voss, Salena Godden, etc.
Jan 21st--
The Uncorrected Billy Childish: Selected Poems book launch party at Steve Lowe's L-13 gallery, 31 Eyre Street Hill, Clerkenwell EC1R 5EW. Free event! All welcome! 6.30pm til 9.00pm. Billy reads at 7.30pm, Penguin Book Burning, etc.
Jan 19th--
BBC 6Music's the Marc Riley show gives a mention to the upcoming L-13/Tangerine Press Billy Childish book launch and Penguin Book Burning.
Jan 12th--
Tangerine Press and Billy Childish on the Robert Elms show, BBC Radio London. Discussing the poetry scene, the new book/book launch, the Penguin Book Burning, etc.
2009
Dec--
First Dwang journal reviewed in Dazed & Confused magazine by Stuart Hammond.
Lettered edition of The Uncorrected Billy Childish sold out in two weeks. Previous record was Dwang #1 lettered edition, which sold out in four weeks.
Dec 30th--
BBC Radio 4's Midweek programme. Guests, including Billy Childish, reflect on the end of another decade. He also talks about the recently published The Uncorrected Billy Childish.
Nov--
Publication of The Uncorrected Billy Childish: Selected Poems. Chosen with an introduction by Dr. Albirt Umber. Over 100 poems included in two editions: numbered/pocket size, lettered/large format.
Review of first Dwang journal in Nude magazine by Benedict Newbery.
Nov 11th--
Launch of Nineteen Raptures publication in aid of RAPt (Rehabilitation for Addicted Prisoners Trust) in East London. Nineteen authors were asked to write on the subject of addiction, obsession and compulsion. All proceeds from the sale of the resulting publication go to the charity, who offer drug and alcohol treatment to prisoners in UK jails. Contributions from Will Self, Billy Childish, Bill Drummond, Bella Freud, Tracey Emin, Beth Orton, John Stammers, etc. Tangerine Press bound the limited edition slipcases for the first 52 (of 502) numbered copies.
Oct--
Article on Wantling and review of The Fix in 3am magazine by Joseph Ridgwell.
October 20th--
Death of poet Steve Richmond (1941-2009). RiP
August--
The Fix reviewed by Jim Burns in Beat Scene (issue 59).
July--
Only in the Sun and The Fix reviewed by Alan Dent in The Penniless Press (issue 27).
June
22nd--
Dwang journal launch party at Salena Godden's Book Club Boutique 23 Romilly St, Soho W1.
Readings from
Salena Godden, Tim Wells, K.M. Dersley, Melissa Mann, Adrian Manning. Also live music and dj's...
Exclusive-on-the-night, handsewn, ink stamped Son o' Dwang sampler pamphlets given out gratis.
June--
Collaboration with Beat the Dust for Dwang journal.
May--
Publication of the first Dwang journal. Some 50 contributors including new work from Dan Fante, Douglas Blazek,
Billy Childish
and Fred Voss.
Mar--
Full page review of Wantling's The Fix in The Stool Pigeon (#20) by Huw Nesbitt.
Jan--
Only in the Sun reviewed in Ambit (issue 195) magazine by Jim Burns.
2008
Nov--
Publication of The Fix by Wm. Wantling. Introduced by Len Fulton. Foreword by Professor Kevin Jones. A further 70 poems and an essay on Kafka.
Oct--
Review/article on Wantling and Only in the Sun by Len Fulton, in USA's Small Press Review (issue 428-429).
May--
Publication of Only in the Sun by Wm. Wantling, the first in a two volume celebration. Over 100 poems and a novel extract. Introduced by Professor Kevin Jones.
2006
June--
Publication of Building the Quoins by Mick Guffan. Mr. Guffan died aged 53 before seeing his first book in print..He was accidently shot in The Mitre public house in Tooting Broadway, London, only weeks after predicting his demise.with the aid of an enigmatic cat and a gas meter reading. We shall not see his like again.