enjoy! WORD TRADE Book Launch Event 8/8/23

[sufi]

By invitation only
you are all invited to the launch of

enjoy!
by Edmund Davie

8 August 2023, 7.30PM
Royal Sovereign,
64 Northwald Road,
London E5

 

[mixed_biscuits]

By invitation only
you are all invited to the launch of

enjoy!
by Edmund Davie

8 August 2023, 7.30PM
Royal Sovereign,
64 Northwald Road,
London E5

Looks like the Sovereign has had a refurb

 

[Benny Bunter]

What is it, a new novel?

 

[woops]

What is it, a new novel?

no, it's all my poetry pamphlets in one elegant volume.

 

[sufi]

What is it, a new novel?

pre-order at https://wordtrade.co.uk

enjoy! by Edmund Davie

First limited edition of 100 copies.Available Now31 Jul 2023 Paperback 48 pagesCover image: Toby Whyte

wordtrade.co.uk

 

[jenks]

Ordered. Can’t be there unfortunately (on holiday) as I’d like to put names to faces.

 

[Benny Bunter]

Ordered.

 

[sufi]

Do remember dont forget tonight on the numerologically auspicious moment of 8PM on the 8th of the 8th 2023 at the Sovereign,

See you later on

 

[mvuent]

ordered

 

[Clinamenic]

Just ordered it!

 

[Clinamenic]

I expect this wave of proceeds will almost be enough to cover Luke and Woops' next bar tab!

 

[sufi]

I expect this wave of proceeds will almost be enough to cover Luke and Woops' next bar tab!

Unlikely

 

[sufi]

Unlikely

The scene is assembling in e5 rn

 

[sufi]

 

[jenks]

Woops there it is

 

[luka]

i'd be interested to know what people make of it. i don't have one yet. sadly. edmund can be an irritating and aloof poet. but i enjoyed his reading a great deal. there's something in there but i'm fairly serious in what i say in the blurb. it doesn't do any of the things you might expect poetry to do in the same way that his music does none of the things you might expect music to do.

 

[luka]

i think probably the more time he spent with me the worse he wrote

 

[luka]

it's an unusual career arc for a poetry. no interest in poetry till he started making money from it. and till this day the only poet he's ever looked at is jh prynne.

 

[luka]

you'll never find an idea in edmunds writing. theres no abstraction. you might occassionaly extract a feeling. possibly. you won't really find things. the physical existing world pretty much never intrudes. so it's hard to say what it's doing, or thinks it's doing.

 

[luka]

it doesn't look, or listen, or feel as a rule. it;s not remotely inclined to mysticism. i don't really know what to make of them if im perfectly honest.