SONNET 100 Book Launch & Virtual Event
Textshop Editions is hosting a virtual book launch and collaborative reading for its latest publication Sonnet 100.
Please join us on Wednesday, May 19 at 7pm (GMT) / 2pm (EST) / 11am (PST).
It is a collaborative project dedicated to producing limited series of experimental writing. Founded in 2021 by K. A. Wisniewski and Piotr Florczyk, these little books are limited to under 100 pages and have a limited print run of 150 copies. Our first books will be available in 2021. At the end of the print run, all titles will be made freely available as open access electronic editions.
We are currently not open to submissions, although interested parties may query us via the Contact page.
Sonnet 100
By Marilyn Allen
Poetry
April 2021
ISBN: 978-1736465813
Description
Sonnet 100 was written in isolation during the COVID 19 pandemic. This collection of 100 ‘new’ sonnets was written in collaboration with voice recognition software and explores the relation between the human and the digital, a dynamic which inevitably intensified during social distancing measures imposed upon communities during the Coronavirus outbreak. Shakespeare’s 100th Sonnet (“Where art thou Muse”) provided the primary text from which the 100 sonnets were created. Sonnet 100 examines the potential for new narrative flows to be produced through anomalies generated between human speech and computational voice recognition. These digital sonnets are frequently nonsensical yet poetic phrases emerge which resonate with the absurdities of our social and cultural lives.
Biography
Dr. Marilyn Allen is an artist, writer, lecturer and collaborator. Allen’s praxis involves collaborating with technology to examine how meaning is distributed between human and digital voices. Allen explores the potential for new narrative flows to be produced through the anomalies generated between the human voice and computational voice recognition systems. Allen describes this process as enacting ‘word events’ which generate a speculative space for the intensification of language. The diverse collaborative iterations and interactions adopted by Allen are a methodological approach to facilitate the synthesis of different voices and agencies.
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