Book Launch: !  All’arme / ?  And what… if not

by Eilish Martin 

A ‘career apex’ poet whose natural home is at once on the margins and at the heart of the hybrid, Eilish Martin’s practice in !  All’arme / ?  And what… if not is at once experimental, interdisciplinary and intercultural. In content and visionary concept, the poetries published in this 96-page tête-bêche (head-to-toe) double book brings together lyrical fragmentation and narrative drive, language play, intertextual dialogue and textual innovation with unsettling anxieties and deep care for public and private worlds. The collection catalogues some small part of what she has referred to as the ‘compulsive journey’ of her poetry-making and verbal-visual improvisations across the past ten years.

Thursday, October 17th, 6:00 – 7:00 pm

Ulster University Art Gallery, Block BC

York Street, Belfast City Campus