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DISCS

Voices from the Medway Delta ­ a limited edition (100), hand-numbered, 3-CD set,. £25

Features tracks from some of the area’s (and the country’s) leading musicians, singer-songwriters, and poets, including Billy Childish, Sexton Ming, Bill Lewis, Chris Broderick (and the Singing Loins), Pete Molinari, Kyra de Coninck, Wolfshead and special guest Guyana poet Maggie Harris, now based in Kent. These 3 discs also include new voices Zara Carpenter, Clea LLewellyn and Davey Rumsey.

Stuckism— it's a dirty job ... but someone's got to do it.

Region-free DVD £12
A 60 minute documentary film by Carol Lynn on this importamnt iunternational art movement which began its life in the Medway Towns. It includes biographies of some of the Stuckists; an article on the Medway Poets, the group from which the Stuckists emerged, by Jim Shean; rare photographs of Medway Poets Billy Childish, Sexton Ming, Charles Thomson, Rob Earl and Bill Lewis; the Stuckists and Tracey Emin.

Bill Lewis: Collected Poems, Vol 1. £10

28 tracks from original Medway Poet Bill Lewis.

Bill Lewis: Collected Prose, Vol. 1. CD £10

13 prose pieces from “The Book of Misplaced But Imperishable Names”, plus 2 songs with Davey Rumsey on guitar.

BOOKS

The Book of Misplaced But Imperishable Names by Bill Lewis. £7
This handsome 167 page paperback book, illustrated with drawings and photographs, is a mixture of autobiography, fiction and poetic prose of a magical realist nature. It covers the subjects of childhood, memory, the importance of names and the blurring of fact and fiction. It includes pieces written in the USA, Nicaragua during the Sandinista revolution, and Cuba.

“Bill is a shaman with words ... (his) performances combine myth, folklore and autobiography, his work is both contemporary and timeless. I highly recommend it.”
- Terri Windling — www.endicott-studio.com
“An innovator of the language” - Claribel Alegria (El Salvador)
“Dynamic, witty, passionate and compassionate.” - Sydney Carter
“Bill Lewis is the poet of the Paradigm Shift” - Martin Espada (USA)

From Chaucer to Childish: A Chronological Survey of Writers and Artists in the Medway Towns by Michael O’Connor. £7.99

Potted biographies/overviews of every important British writer or artist known to have spent time in the Medway Towns, including Dickens, Nesbit, Sutcliff, Holdstock, Constable, Turner, Blake and Spencelayh. Plus an essay on the birth of Stuckism.

ORDERING

To order any of these items, please send details plus a sterling cheque made payable to ‘Medway Delta Press’ for the cost price plus £1.50 p&p per item to:
Sales Department,
Medway Delta Press,
P.O,Box No. 479, Chatham, Kent, ME4 5WX.

If you have any questions, or you wish to order any item(s) from outside the UK, please e-mail us and we will be happy to discuss your requirements with you: medwaydeltapress@yahoo.co.uk

COMING ATTRACTIONS!

Please keep checking this website for news of our future publications as they appear. These include Stories From an Unnamed Country by Joe Machine, and three books by David Day, including The Quest For King Arthur with illustrations by Alan Lee.

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