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Strange Region is a publisher of writing by artists, novelists and poets.

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We endeavour to use publishing as a collaborative tool to celebrate writing as performance, as architecture, as a mechanical component of creative practice and as a space to enjoy the perilous corners of the human experience.

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We were established in 2022 and are based in Bristol, UK.

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"An imploration for clear weather" Midē Songs + Picture songs. Technicians of the Sacred ed. Jerome Rothenburg

stockists:

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UK

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Argonaut Books Edinburgh//Arnolfini Bookshop Bristol//Bookhaus Bristol//Burley Fisher Books London//Category Is Books Glasgow//

The Corsham Bookshop Wiltshire//East Bristol Books Bristol//Far From the Madding Crowd Linlithgow//Gloucester Rd. Books Bristol//

Good Press Glasgow//Mount Florida Glasgow//Typewronger Books Edinburgh//Voce Books Birmingham

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EUROPE

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Ark Books Copenhagen//Hopscotch Reading Rooms Berlin//San Serriffe Amsterdam

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THE NETHERHOLE MARTYR

written by Good Friends for a Lifetime

edition of 200

129 x 198mm, 116pp

cover design by Joe Vaughan

isbn 9781739784027

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2024

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thirteen pounds

pre-order here

The year is 1320 in the stinking town of Netherhole. 

A young nun feels the hand of God clutch her guts, an 

ambitious Earl issues a dangerous decree, and a ghost 

rises from the river. 

Doctors, priests and rumours descend and Netherhole’s 

fortunes are changed forever.

 

 

The Netherhole Martyr is a play recounting a year in the 

fortunes of the people of Netherhole, a Yorkshire town in the grip of religious fervour after a young novitiate enacts a 

painful communion with the divine through her 

constipated bowels.

 

This surreal and macabre play, written in shades of Donne and Swift, is fully illustrated by Sigrid Koerner and Hannah Mansell.

VOCAL INHABITANTS

SUBMISSIONS OPEN

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we have opened submissions for our first anthology of new writing 

vocal inhabitants.

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submissions close on 30.06.24

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submissions page

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THE INFINITE FURY AND OTHER STORIES

book launch: Bookhaus, Bristol

november seventeenth

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tickets

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THE INFINITE FURY AND OTHER STORIES

written by Ian Macartney

edition of 300

116 x 177mm, 120pp

cover design by Joe Vaughan

isbn 9781739784010

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2023

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twelve pounds

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Two husbands talk at the end of everything. A train, full of flowers, is derailed by love. Edinburgh is enslaved by city-sized alien bodies. Something close to hell inhabits the basement of a bakery and ghosts explore the energy-root of the multiverse.

 

The stories read like dispatches from a digital apocalypse. Written as prose, speech, thought and game, this collection is a catalogue of post-internet mythmaking, a discourse in Celtic surrealism, gay techno-hauntings, acid-mannerism, and sprawling, spitting hyper-fiction.

 

Written with tender, geometric prose, Macartney uses the experiences of online youth, retail labour, modern queerness, and Scotland’s quiet and mysterious sadness to address the seething strangeness of social spheres, emotional exploitation, and the looming threat of ourselves.

COLLIDING WITH GREAT SPEED FROM GREAT DISTANCE, OFTEN MISSING

written by Joe Summers + Joe Vaughan

in collaboration with SVS Collisions, Munich

edition of 200

116 x 177mm, 28pp

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2022

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four pounds

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Colliding with Great Speed from Great Distance, Often Missing is a pamphlet created during the development of The Angel’s Share (a mixed media performance piece by Joe Summers & Joe Vaughan) as part of the SVS collective’s Collisions festival and exhibition. Part of the text was written in response to a period of personal and creative dissonance between the two artists and includes WhatsApp messages sent and received between them in the weeks preceding the SVS residency in Canfranc, at which only one of them was able attend. Some of the experimental texts explore the idea of meaning being derived from the presentation of two unrelated expressions and the similarities we automatically infer through our innate desire for meaning. Sentences overlap, collide and forge new phrases by virtue of their collisions. From this plurality one may gain something close to a singular, personal understanding.

Collisions exhibition + festival [a] Muffatwerk, Munich

July 2022

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link to website

THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND SOULS

written by Joe Vaughan + Joe Summers

cover design by Alex Harwood

edition of 100 risograph

116 x 177mm, 60pp

isbn 9781739784003

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2022

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ten pounds

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Three Hundred Thousand Souls is written documentation of a sound art performance created by Joe Summers and Joe Vaughan. Drawing inspiration from Aztec poetry, the philosophy of acoustic community and the history of Slovenian dissent, the artists performed on the streets of Ljubljana, Slovenia. They broadcast their noise via a handmade radio transmitter to an audience watching through binoculars from the castle that stands many hundreds of metres above the city. 

 

This book is an extension of the ideas, structures and geographies that inspired the work, as well as an act of poetic remembrance for the process of its creation and the friends, allies and guides who nurtured it into existence. Just as a radio may facilitate the migration of song across distance, so too does the written work allow art to travel across time.

 

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THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND SOULS

live pirate radio performance, Llubljana 2019

[a] Cirkulajica2

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link to recordings on First Terrace Records website

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