E-Man Groovin
16-08-2005, 20:55
New Sheffield publisher releases ground-breaking new title.
Sheffield-based literary collective Scriberazone have just published Contraflower, which is a collection of exciting & beautiful new contemporary writing.
Scriberazone have been publishing material on the internet since 1999 and have discovered that there is a wealth of untapped talent out there who are yet to be discovered by established publishers. Scriberazone see their role as similar to the punk rockers of 1977 or the early hip-hoppers of 1979 in wresting an artform away from the stagnant establishment and giving it back to the people.
That the majority of the work that they publish is poetry simply adds to the daring nature of what they are doing. As an artform, poetry has been mishandled by the establishment and now it seems irrelevant and distant. Contraflower, however contains pieces about the life that we all live today: nightclubs, being stoned, music festivals, and of course, falling in and out of love.
The book features Sheffield writers (Adrian Carter, New City Scribe) as well as scribes from as far away as Tel Aviv and Florida. Poet laureate Andrew Motion has hailed it as "a crucial part of the contemporary scene" and critic and poet Peter Finch said "It's a new literary world out there and Scriberazone are at the forefront"
It's an eye-opener and as Kultureflash said, Contraflower "is poetry for the inspired"
Buy online from Amazon.co.uk (http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0955032601/qid%3D1124225530/202-2824697-2635052) or for a discount price at the Scriberazone website (http://www.scriberazone.co.uk/shopping.shtml)
Sheffield-based literary collective Scriberazone have just published Contraflower, which is a collection of exciting & beautiful new contemporary writing.
Scriberazone have been publishing material on the internet since 1999 and have discovered that there is a wealth of untapped talent out there who are yet to be discovered by established publishers. Scriberazone see their role as similar to the punk rockers of 1977 or the early hip-hoppers of 1979 in wresting an artform away from the stagnant establishment and giving it back to the people.
That the majority of the work that they publish is poetry simply adds to the daring nature of what they are doing. As an artform, poetry has been mishandled by the establishment and now it seems irrelevant and distant. Contraflower, however contains pieces about the life that we all live today: nightclubs, being stoned, music festivals, and of course, falling in and out of love.
The book features Sheffield writers (Adrian Carter, New City Scribe) as well as scribes from as far away as Tel Aviv and Florida. Poet laureate Andrew Motion has hailed it as "a crucial part of the contemporary scene" and critic and poet Peter Finch said "It's a new literary world out there and Scriberazone are at the forefront"
It's an eye-opener and as Kultureflash said, Contraflower "is poetry for the inspired"
Buy online from Amazon.co.uk (http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0955032601/qid%3D1124225530/202-2824697-2635052) or for a discount price at the Scriberazone website (http://www.scriberazone.co.uk/shopping.shtml)