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Michael Marcinkowski
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Currently Digital Humanities at King’s College London. Director of Education Digital Futures Institute. Formerly Bristol, Ambient Literature, poetryfoundation.org. LIVES OF THE SAINTS available from Broken Sleep Books michaelmarcinkowski.org
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New (late) late Summer issue of Poetry Theory Review now available: www.michaelmarcinkowski.org/ptr
October 4, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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Wednesday night! Bristol! www.headfirstbristol.co.uk/whats-on/ill...
Selah The Underground River Poetry Night w/ Eva Penney at The Ill Repute
Kulvert Books Presents Selah! The Underground River Poetry Night with Music by Bristol's Eva Penney. Come along to Kulvert Books 'UNDERGROUND RIVER' Poetry and Music Night with an open mic poetry slo...
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September 29, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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Early Summer issue of Poetry Theory Review now available. Featuring reviews of books from Kulvert, Broken Sleep, The Last Books, Monitor Books, Sad Press, and more. www.michaelmarcinkowski.org/ptr
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July 12, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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Early Summer issue of Poetry Theory Review now available. Featuring reviews of books from Kulvert, Broken Sleep, The Last Books, Monitor Books, Sad Press, and more. www.michaelmarcinkowski.org/ptr
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July 12, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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And someday there will be a more complete machine. One's thoughts or feelings during life—or while the machine is recording—will be like an alphabet with which the image will continue to comprehend all experience (as we can form all the words in our language with the letters of the alphabet). Then life will be a repository for death. But even then the image will not be alive; objects that are essentially new will not exist for it. It will know only what it has already thought or felt, or the possible transpositions of those thoughts or feelings. from Adolfo Bioy Casares's THE INVENTION OF MOREL (1940) translated from the Spanish by Ruth L.C. Simms
June 29, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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Bristoooool please join us on the 4th of July, a day of no other significance, to hear Michael Marcinkowski launching LIVES OF THE SAINTS with Yẽ Yẽ and John Phillips at Bristol’s most-best-poetry bookshop, East Bristol Books.
June 29, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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Friday 4 July at East Bristol Books! 7pm! Marcinkowski! Yě! Phillips! www.headfirstbristol.co.uk/whats-on/eas... @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social
Tottering State #7: Marcinkowski, Yě Yě, Phillips at East Bristol Books
Tottering State: Poetry for Unsteady Times. Tottering State #7 celebrates the launch of Michael Marcinkowski's *Lives of the Saints* (Broken Sleep), with poetry from Yĕ Yĕ (*South*) and from John ...
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June 29, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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The dream of AGI is amazingly limited.
May 16, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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YES I AM. See you there.
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ON SATURDAY 24 MAY: Dr @rkokayokay.bsky.social (HiPLA) is in conversation with Annie McDermott and Frank Wynne (@terribleman.com), two award-winning translators of Latin American fiction

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May 2, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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📕 Prof @drkatedevlin.bsky.social and Dr @michaelmarcinkowski.org contributed to The Routledge Handbook of AI and Literature.

The book explores how literary lenses can be used to better understand human interactions with AI 🔽

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New handbook explores the future of literature in the AI era
The Routledge Handbook of AI and Literature offers perspective on the past, present and future of AI and literature.
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April 29, 2025 at 8:58 AM
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Upcoming reading at East Bristol Books! 4 July! Linda Kemp, John Phillips, and me! Get tickets! www.headfirstbristol.co.uk/whats-on/eas...
Tottering State #7: Marcinowski, Kemp, Phillips at East Bristol Books
Tottering State: Poetry for Unsteady Times. Tottering State #7 marks two recently published titles from Broken Sleep Books concerned with poetic relations between language, belief, politics & the wor...
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April 25, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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Talk from @meredithmeredith.bsky.social. Great example of using serious theory/philosophy in tech discussion. media.ccc.de/v/38c3-feeli...
Feelings are Facts: Love, Privacy, and the Politics of Intellectual Shame
A debut of new research and analysis, focused on emotions and the affective register—love! shame! intimacy! What happens when we put lov...
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January 20, 2025 at 10:11 AM
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BIG DAY. Official release date for LIVES OF THE SAINTS. Huge thanks to @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social and @godzillakent.bsky.social for making it happen!
A picture of the book Lives of the Saints by Michael Marcinkowski sitting upright against a wooden background and pieces of slate. It has an orange cover with an image from a disciple of Hieronymus Bosch showing grotesque creatures facing a figure in a chair with a book on his lap with other figures smaller in the background.
December 31, 2024 at 5:32 PM
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BIG DAY. Official release date for LIVES OF THE SAINTS. Huge thanks to @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social and @godzillakent.bsky.social for making it happen!
A picture of the book Lives of the Saints by Michael Marcinkowski sitting upright against a wooden background and pieces of slate. It has an orange cover with an image from a disciple of Hieronymus Bosch showing grotesque creatures facing a figure in a chair with a book on his lap with other figures smaller in the background.
December 31, 2024 at 5:32 PM
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8PM (UK) 30 DECEMBER! Online launch event for @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social !!!!!!!!! I can’t be there live, but there will be a recording of me reading from LIVES OF THE SAINTS (available December 31!)!!! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/broken-sle...
December 5, 2024 at 7:27 PM
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Now in the material world, @mrm1.bsky.social 's LIVES OF THE SAINTS. Out officially on 31 December from @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social. New year new you new book.
Hand holding a copy of LIVES OF THE SAINTS. Page from LIVES OF THE SAINTS with poetry reading: 1) Equal pay for equal work; 2) Direct election; 3) Disarm the police; 4) Abol ition of capital punishment; 5) Wages are an evil; 6) Free schools supported by the state; 7) Total separation of mo ney and state; 8) Total ban on fossil fu els; 9) Abolition of land ownership; 10) Aggressive reforestation; 11) Redistrib ution of private property; 12) Common allocation of living space; 13) Abolition of currency; 14) Open all borders; 15) Everything for everyone without labour or prejudice. I REFUTE IT THUS The organ projects what is the true question of poetry. 'If the necessity of every duty is to be estimated by the frequency with which it is inculcated and the sanctions by which it is enforced and whose decrees are established forever in a particular manner the observation of those commands which seem to be repeated that they may be strongly impressed and secured by habitual submission against violation there is scarcely any virtue we ought more diligently exercise than that of compassion to the needy and. Page from LIVES OF THE SAINTS with poetry reading: Potato okra garlic turnip parsnip yam dill onion cabbage carrot spinach beet kohlrabi radish mushroom barley hops alfalfa lettuce chard corn ginger sprouts gourd apple bean kale rutabaga groat.
December 19, 2024 at 9:50 AM
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Somebody's just bought Pedagogy of the Oppressed. It is 10am
a black and white cartoon of a man holding a sign that says ' sickos ' .
Alt: a black and white cartoon of a man holding a sign that says ' sickos ' .
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December 14, 2024 at 10:01 AM
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8PM (UK) 30 DECEMBER! Online launch event for @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social !!!!!!!!! I can’t be there live, but there will be a recording of me reading from LIVES OF THE SAINTS (available December 31!)!!! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/broken-sle...
December 5, 2024 at 7:27 PM
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This year’s anthology has a wonderful selection from me!
brokensleepbooks.bsky.social Broken Sleep Books @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social · Nov 27
It truly is the most wonderful time of the year! Grab a copy of our 2024 anthology, featuring extracts from every book we published in 2024. Yippee!

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November 28, 2024 at 3:19 PM
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Just a reminder that I have book coming out with Broken Sleep 31 December. You can pre-order now! www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...
Michael Marcinkowski - Lives of the Saints | Broken Sleep Books
Lives of the Saints by Michael Marcinkowski explores poetry's power as it intersects with faith and governance, set against a backdrop of ecological ruin and dystopian futures. In a landscape that ble...
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November 25, 2024 at 8:17 PM
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This kind of thing is so great.
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PREORDER (31.12.2024):
The Broken Sleep Books Anthology showcases the best writing from the press in 2024, featuring extracts from every publication, covering poetry, non-fiction, and fiction.

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Plain off-green book cover for Broken Sleep Books 2024 Contents luke palmer - homunculus11 vikram kolmannskog - rhyheim: a porn poem14 otamere guobadia - unutterable visions, perishable breath17 nikki dudley - erode with me20 christopher arksey - variety turns23 jaydn dewald - then darkness: sketches26 raymond de borja - facture31 f. van dixhoorn, translated by astrid alben - collected works34 wendy allen & charley barnes - freebleeding37 simon alderwick - ways to say we're not alone40 ian macartney - shale bings43 ian patterson - collected poems49 linda kemp - annunciation sonnets52 martin malone & bryan angus - gardenstown55 rhian elizabeth - girls etc.61 nathan walker - skirting64 yanita georgieva - small undetectable thefts67 kashif sharma-patel - furnish entrap73 jos charles - a year & other poems76 stu watson - fernsehturm berlin79 darren freebury-jones - rambling82 kate noakes - chalking the pavement85 stefan mohamed - something man-made is here and it is dangerous88 jlm morton - red handed93 aaron kent & stuart mcpherson - all empty vessels96 kristján norge - the demon tracts98 héloïse de satgé - rein it in101 katy mack - first, i turn off the light104 kat dixon - eat the glitter107 simon barraclough - divine hours113 víctor rodríguez núñez, tr. katherine m. hedeen - despegue / departure116 caleb nichols - one for sorrow, two for joy120 emily barker - where the black swans swim123 ryan norman - tonight i want to live and126 antony owen - post-atomic glossaries129 gerry mcgrath - all the pretty lights135 jordan hamel - everyone is everyone except you138 rushika wick - horse141 emily abdeni-holman - body tectonic144 adrija ghosh - heir of sisyphus147 james roome - swords150 joshua jones - a haunting without allegory155 małgorzata lebda, translated by elżbieta wójcik-leese - queen cells158 stephanie ní thiarnaigh - the weight of a feather162 steve ely, with photography by michael faint - orasaigh165 alice wickenden - gig catharsis168 abdul kader el-janabi - all these fires, and night still dark171 andre bagoo - midnight bestiaries177 diana cant - i make you bird180 réka nyitrai - moon flogged183 alan sondheim - haptic, covid, philosophy186 morag smith - national song189 endre ruset, translated by harry man - noriaki195 eileen g'sell - francofilaments198 scott thurston - failsafe: a choreography201 alice brooker - climate kid204 carol rumens - minds eye: notelets & dialogues in tribute to paul celan207 rob miles - dimmet213 síofra mcsherry - midnight masses216 james byrne - the overmind219 yousif m. qasmiyeh, elena fiddian-qasmiyeh, saiful huq omi - the southern eye222 steve kilgour - hand-me-down haircut225 michael marcinkowski - lives of the saints231 a c clarke - alive among dead stars234 paul stubbs - beast, the lost chronicles237 vik shirley - some deer240 lauren garland - department store of futures243 pippa goldschmidt - night vision249 callum james - south downs: paths of the dead252 stephen emmersom - big song255 anna vaught - to melt the stars258 lucy holme - blue diagonals261 matthew kinlin & callum leckie - psycho viridian264 andy croft - the privatisation of poetry267
November 19, 2024 at 10:16 PM
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Lives of the Saints by Michael Marcinkowski explores poetry's power as it intersects with faith and governance, set against a backdrop of ecological ruin and dystopian futures. In a landscape that ble...
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November 13, 2024 at 9:23 AM
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PREORDER (31.12.2024):
Lives of the Saints by Michael Marcinkowski explores poetry's power as it intersects with faith and governance, set against a backdrop of ecological ruin and dystopian futures.
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Cover of the book Lives of the Saints by Michael Marcinkowski, published by Broken Sleep Books. The cover features a surreal medieval-style painting with strange, fantastical creatures and figures in bizarre scenarios, typical of the works of Hieronymus Bosch. A figure in regal attire sits on a throne, surrounded by grotesque hybrid creatures and surreal characters. The background includes pastoral scenes, with additional figures and animals engaging in mysterious activities. The book title appears at the top in teal, the author's name in dark red below it, and the publisher's name at the bottom in the same red on an orange background. Postscript to Lives of the Saints ‘As such the crush the Lord our God whose chaunce like grief veil plait drownt death. Haecceity “just this” the chaine of chalice Rome vom fear buck leave gland sear and truss in martyr’s weave. Agone hap burnt as Passion’s Lot, hwaet penss lack waft in wither wake blear solum mark not knowing known as diaphragm the cannon’s march to poem begg and vanguard soil rotten breathe as groaning crush and blaring doubt selah selah selah.’ Lives of the saints I Number One Which might just be something specific to the afterimage of an empirical society and I guess it’s a question of whether or not there’s much value in worrying about methodology or thinking about the question of social organisation and no matter what we might want to say about management or teleology they’re both just dependent on the question of cause and I had stupidly thought that Arnold’s book was going to be about the variability of culture and how it exists previous to our understanding of it or the way that culture is nothing except a refactoring of the non-sensible into the sensible but really he just seems to talk about reticence and cause and I guess it’s that ‘I think that the artists who aren’t very good should become like everybody else so that people would like things that aren’t very good’ which is still just that the intelligibility of anything is always just the intelligibility of some previous state of affairs which is still really just only about an older belief in a particular understanding of the movement of time which to me is only just a bare and somewhat foolhardy commitment to the lasting efficacy of cause. II Or that it’s the readability of the poetic line or more than any- thing it’s the lyrical proposition of the thing and no matter my feelings toward you or the collective will of ours toward history or the balkanisation of the state it’s forgetting which is the supposed progressive idea of language being the bulwark of memory and trace or the recognition of trace and the repetition in which it’s the very idea of trace that is underwritten in the perspectivist longevity of trace and it’s that repetition is itself just change in the longue durée which as in the contextualisation of the thing or the actual density of a line built up and the particular coherence of gravity none of this being choice but only our situation being previous to the invention of the ideal or the repetition of form which in the opposition to a monist realism there’s nothing that we can say about the line other than that it’s just the return of the same which laid out across the moment of the lyric is change. III all of which is just the question of whether or not we can have some criteria against which the poem is able to be judged or the idea that there is an outside to the informational question of judgement or the communica- bility of judgement and it’s about the supposition of certain sets of particular facts which is really just a question of judicial selection or the bracketing off of certain parameters toward the claim of phenomenolog- ical experience and in that there’s a need for the delineation of certain understandings of horizon or the possibilities of the repeatability of phenomena which are not such as the specificity of texture or the absence of texture but for some reason I always think that you’re unhappy with me or that I’m somehow screwing things up and it’s that I don’t seem to have any real purpose with things and maybe there are other methods of reparative behaviour or things I could do differently but the difficulty is maybe to be able to feel the quality of a work without any recourse
November 12, 2024 at 10:27 AM
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Tomorrow!! 6PM Priory Rd Lecture Theatre www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bristol-po...
February 6, 2024 at 11:00 AM
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The Bristol Poetry Institute is pleased to announce the 2023-2024 Annual Reading featuring Don Paterson. 6PM on 7 February in Wills Memorial. Free and open to all. Book here to secure your place! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bristol-po...
Bristol Poetry Institute Annual Reading 2024: Don Paterson
Join the Bristol Poetry Institute in the Great Hall of the Wills Memorial Building for a reading from award winning poet Don Paterson.
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January 23, 2024 at 2:39 PM