sean burns 3rd full length collection from skrev press (www.skrevpress.com) is launched this weekend. wings are giving out (isbn 978-1-904646-56-3) contains long poems commissioned and toured across this past decade. inside you will find voltaire as a 300 year old tyneside barista, riffs on free-improvising pianist marilyn crispell, responses to some of eva švankmajerovás many amazing and provocative surrealisms, an exploration of mental distress and recovery, love and loss, ultimately revealing pearls within the city and crossing the borders between poetry and song.

this collection and other skrev press titles will be launched
Saturday 14th of November from 16:45 – 19:30.
Artsmill at Linden Mill. Linden Road. Hebden Bridge. West Yorkshire. HX7 7DN

sean burn is one of this country’s foremost experimental writers. … he draws on a wide range of contemporary cultural sources, often from other writers, artists and musicians who like him are on the margins or from the ‘underground’, and he also draws from histories, political, social and personal, including his own, and this gives much of his work the potency of felt experience which so many who work in a similar vein, lack. jeremy hilton – editor of fire

sean is available for spoken word / multimedia performances. further information at www.gobscure.info