Tottering State returns to bookhaus with their first 2024 reading, in collaboration with Glasgow-based post-internet poetry publisher SPAM Press. We will celebrate the launch of three new pamphlets (spamphlets?) by Karólína Rós Ólafsdóttir, Jack Young and Courtney Bush, plus a new poetry collection by managing editrix Maria Sledmere, who will discuss the press in a Q&A with the poets after the readings. Tottering State is a Bristol reading series hosting the best in experimental, small press and innovative poetry from the UK and beyond. Wobbly spam. Poetry for unsteady times.

SPAM Press is a post-internet poetry publisher described by ChatGPT as ‘an avant-pop haven nestled in the digital realm’. Operating as a pamphlet press, zine, online magazine, literary journal, DIY organiser and podcast, SPAM embraces the collision of theory and pop culture in and against the oscillating stratospheres of late capitalism. Established in Glasgow in 2016, SPAM comprises a cheerful bunch of voluntary editors with interests spanning New Media writing, ecopoetics, hypertexts, video games and the magical, trashy detritus of life on the internet. With an international author roster and readership, they have published over fifty print publications by writers including Samantha Walton, Jennifer Soong and Daisy Lafarge. Their most recent anthology, Brilliant Vibrating Interface, was supported by the Edwin Morgan Trust Second Life Award and is accompanied with a ‘digital sibling’ of hybrid and transmedial experiments in text, image and film.

Featuring: Courtney Bush, Karólína Rós Ólafsdóttir, Maria Sledmere + Jack Young

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