Book Launch + February News

Hello Ghosties and Ghoulies,

It’s been a LONG time since I last updated you, but things have been busy here at The Braag. As I’ve told everyone who will listen, I moved house in November. I balance The Braag part time along with my freelancing, library work and chronic fatigue syndrome and it felt less like balancing and more like being on a see-saw.

I’ve got a lot to update you on! Firstly, we are launching pamphlets by Kirsten Luckins and Timothy Fox! Today, Thursday 20th at the Lit & Phill library, Newcastle 6-8PM.

Kirsten Luckins’ Offworld navigates the journey of two runaways as they planet-hop through a disintegrating empire of colonised worlds. Described by author Josie Giles as "Lush with desire. The writing is sensuous, bodily, attuned to the satisfactions of food and movement, but it's also desirous of the future, yearning for the great possibility of other worlds. There's dense pleasure in the writing, thick patternings of sound that wake the tongue to its needs. To read with Luckins is to journey through complex and compromised deep space, and to understand how all travel is an effort to reach into the numinous potential of experience."

Timothy Fox’s every house needs a ghost is made from the viscera of a working class upbringing in the American Deep South, every house needs a ghost is both haunting and haunted. It includes the voices and stories of faith healers, queer teenagers, orphaned children, meth heads, single mothers and dead grandparents. Unsettling, gothic, and clear-eyed.

They are both available through thebraag.co! They are the kind of books I set the press up to publish, and I hope you enjoy them as much as I do.

We also have new limited run micro-chapbooks by Bruce Rimmell and Joe Pickard. These are gorgeous hand-made a6 books with linen stock covers and hand-stamped with the Braag logo. They move from the shrine of Mithras to English Heritage car parks, exploring time and landscape.

While I’m here—if you don’t want to miss out on anything the Braag does—given that its so deliciously stylish and gorgeously curated by yours truly, we do offer subscription boxes of our titles.

Finally, our journal Carmen et Error has re-opened for submissions after its three month hiatus and we’d love to read your work!

Later aligators,
Kym
The Braag CIC