Maggie O'SULLIVAN
Red Shifts
£7.50 pbk
64 pp 150x150 mm
publ May 2001.
Cased, with additional material, lettered A-Z £35.
A multi-textual, full-colour book, punky, volatile & dissenting. Collage & mapping, underpinned by a visceral, tactile (un) nerving text.
Maggie O'SULLIVAN
WATERFALLS
245 x 170 mm (84pp)
£30 cased numbered edition of 75 with extra handwritten poem.
In glassine sleeve, printed & bound by Colin Sackett.
With cased limited signed edition with extra text red shifts, the two books for £40.
This publication of the complete WATERFALLS bookwork (companioning the etruscan red shifts) at last presents both books that compose the poetic project her/story: eye
"Excavating saying, riddle, lore, tale, song, lament, elegy, drawn from Irish mythological, ancestral and folk traditions, socio-political history, (particularly the Great Famine of 1845-52, the clearances, dispossession and exile), as well as personal mappings, meditations, family oral histories, her/story:eye is a multi-dimensional, visceral performance, interrogating its own trans/formations as it floods and explodes acoustic-aural-visual-verbal-sculptural force fields across red shifts and WATERFALLS in a passionate, radical, physicalised installation of languagings im/possibilities."