Hardback, 418pp Greenwood Press, 1998compiled by Ben Young  In this thorough research guide to the career and music of Bill Dixon the author has documented how Dixon refined a sonically unique pan-tonal language of trumpet playing. As a trumpeter, composer, educator, and theoretician, Bill Dixon has politically and musically influenced many phases of the development of Black music in the second half of the 20th century. This authoritative guide details information about the life and music of Bill Dixon. Bill Dixon comments throughout the text on the familiar and unfamiliar aspects of his career as it unfolds between performances and recordings. The recollections of those who have collaborated with Bill Dixon over the years supplement the thorough research here presented on the life and career of Bill Dixon and, additionally, the New York avant garde artistic sphere in which he worked.Bill Dixon has refined a sonically unique pan-tonal language of trumpet playing. As a trumpeter, composer, educator, and theoretician, Bill Dixon has politically and musically influenced many phases of the development of Black music in the second half of the 20th century. This authoritative guide details information about the life and music of Bill Dixon. Bill Dixon comments throughout the text on the familiar and unfamiliar aspects of his career as it unfolds between performances and recordings. The recollections of those who have collaborated with Bill Dixon over the years supplement the thorough research here presented on the life and career of Bill Dixon and subsequently, on the New York avant garde artistic sphere in which he worked.Music and music history scholars, especially those interested in jazz and Black music, will be attracted to the wealth of information provided, often from primary sources, on Bill Dixon and Black music through the 50s, 60s, and 70s. The discography included encompasses issued and non-issued recordings as well as listings for every known Bill Dixon performance. Collaborations with dancers, directors, filmmakers and painters, among others, are also documented.

Hardback, 21 x 28.5 cm, 192pp Omnibus Press, Oct 2026 Poly Styrene was many things: a pop star, a punk, a songwriter, a single mother, a woman of colour, a Hare Krishna convert and an artist, but she is best known as the singer of X-Ray Spex. Dayglo is the definitive statement on Poly Styrene as an artist. Poly Styrene was a singer-songwriter, an artist, a free-thinker, a post-modern style pioneer and a lifelong spiritual seeker: a true punk icon. But this rebel queen with the cheeky grin was also a latter-day pop artist with a wickedly perceptive gift for satirising the world around her - her brightly coloured, playful aesthetic sharply at odds with the stark monochrome style and nihilism of punk. Here, for the first time, the vibrant jigsaw of Poly's inspiring and often moving story has been lovingly pieced together by her daughter, singer-songwriter Celeste Bell, and writer/artist Zoë Howe (author of the acclaimed Typical Girls? The Story Of The Slits, amongst many others). From growing up mixed-race in Brixton in the 1960s, to being at the forefront of the emerging punk scene with X-Ray Spex in the 1970s, to finding faith with the Hare Krishna movement, to balancing single motherhood with a solo music career and often debilitating mental health issues, the book honestly and openly explores Poly's exceptional life, up until her untimely passing in 2011. Based on interviews with those who knew and loved Poly whether personally or through music, this oral history book includes testimonies from Vivienne Westwood, Don Letts, Glen Matlock, Jonathan Ross, Neneh Cherry, The Slits' Tessa Pollitt, Thurston Moore, Jon Savage, and many others. Heavily illustrated throughout including personal photographs, flyers from the punk scene and hand-drawn artwork and lyrics for X-Ray Spex and beyond the book beautifully captures Poly Styrene's creative and personal legacy, reminding us that if anyone had the power to turn our worlds dayglo, it was her.

Pre-order. If you'd like to pick up your copy at the Globe Unity Orchestra residency in November please select 'Collect from cafe' from the 'Shipping' drop down menu at checkout when placing your order.   Softcover, 288pp FMP, November 2026Sixty years ago, Alexander von Schlippenbach received a commission from Rias Berlin to compose a piece for the Berlin Jazz Days (Berliner Jazztage). At the time, Schlippenbach caused a sensation; his composition and his large ensemble, composed of the crème de la crème of the German Free Jazz scene, became famous overnight. The book Globe Unity 60 tells, for the first time, one of the possible stories of this exceptional ensemble, including details about the recordings the Globe Unity Orchestra has released over the past 60 years. In addition, all known liner notes by Alexander von Schlippenbach have been compiled, as well as liner notes and reviews by third parties. For this purpose, both Alexander von Schlippenbach’s archives and those of FMP were utilized, and Gérard Rouy and Cristina Marx generously provided photographic material spanning nearly 60 years. Over the decades, all these texts and memories feature repetitions upon repetitions, transcriptions and rewritings, melodies and counterpoints; the orchestra ceases to exist more than once, only to carry on after all. The visual material is supplemented by two exclusive interviews by Maxi Broecking with Alexander von Schlippenbach and George Lewis, as well as new texts and recollections by Paul Hubweber, John Corbett, Steve Lake, and Mats Gustafsson.

Hardback, 29.5 x 29.5 cm, 208pp Soul Jazz Records, October 2026   This deluxe new large-format hardback book features 100s of striking and beautiful record sleeve designs from Folkways Records, one of the most iconic independent record companies in the world.Ronald Clyne, the primary designer at Folkways Records, was responsible for more than 500 record sleeves on almost every subject imaginable, as well as for numerous artists including Woody Guthrie, John Cage, Lead Belly, Langston Hughes, Pete Seeger, Angela Davis, Mary Lou Williams, Sarah Webster Fabio, Allen Ginsberg and many more, all of whom feature in this book.Folkways Records was founded by Moses Asch in 1948. Encouraged by Albert Einstein to document all the ‘sounds of the world’, the record company released over 2,000 records of folk, jazz, blues, gospel, experimental and electronic music, nature sounds, political speeches, poetry, self-help records and more in its almost 40 year history.Founder Moses Asch died in 1986. The following year Smithsonian Folkways was created after Asch’s family donated the entire catalogue to the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. Folkways Records is today part of Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, the non-profit record label of the Smithsonian Institution.This book is a celebration and visual history of Folkways Records and the artwork designs of Ronald Clyne.

Softcover, 736pp Wordsworth Editions, 2025Algernon Blackwood (1869 – 1951) – ‘The Ghost Man’ – was a British broadcaster, journalist, traveller, mystic, and paranormal investigator, and, above all, a prolific author of weird, occult, and supernatural fiction. Often, he wrote about the untamed wilderness, from deserts to vast, primeval forests, vividly depicting a natural environment that is at once awe-inspiring, alien and hostile. Many of Blackwood’s most famous tales – such as The Wendigo and ‘The Willows’ (both included in this collection) – are set in the empty places of the world. Like his psychic detective ‘John Silence’, Blackwood was fascinated by elemental spirits, reincarnation, other dimensions, and higher states of consciousness. Wherever such things broke through, he sought them out, and now so can you in this comprehensive collection of his short fiction. As Blackwood explained himself: ‘I believe it possible for our consciousness to change and grow, and that with this change we may become aware of a new universe.’   ‘Of the quality of Mr. Blackwood’s genius there can be no dispute … he is the one absolute and unquestioned master of weird atmosphere.’ – H.P. Lovecraft

Hardback, 320pp, 24 illustrations Reaktion Books, September 2026Discover why a beaver was said to bite off its own testicles, why the baleen of a right whale was prized by medieval knights or why you should give your crush the gift of a great auk.Creatures of Story and Song pieces together evocative legends, poems and historical accounts from a thousand years of history to remember fourteen of Britain’s extinct creatures. More than merely charting their demise, this book explores the rich legacy that such creatures as the eagle, boar and wolf left on our cultural landscape, and sheds light on what it was like to live alongside them. As some, like the beaver, look set for a comeback, Lee Raye’s book offers curious readers charming context on these animals’ ancestors.

Softcover, 232pp Peninsula Press, October 2026Lucy Frost is an insomniac cleaning woman in Paris. She writes in a notebook at night, documenting a series of interwoven disappearances from her adopted city. First, her great-aunt, who vanished in her old age, but in her youth researched the Bièvre River. The Bièvre River itself, buried in 1912, for centuries the core of Paris’s textile industries. And finally the river’s laundresses, among France’s earliest labour and ecological activists, many of them active in the Paris Commune of 1871.   When Lucy receives her great-aunt’s research papers, she picks up this abandoned project and prises the defunct river’s story from the literature that depicted its winding path. Rousseau, Chateaubriand, Hugo, and Rabelais give bearings to her voice. What arises in her nightwriting is a disquieting meditation on age, failure, and maintenance.  Riverwork unearths not just an urban river but also a philosophy of research and the archive, a politics of hydrology, an ontology of ageing and belatedness, and a consideration of the unrepresented labour of women, past and present. Along the way it resurrects, in unforgettable prose, a forgotten Parisian river and the writers and workers it threaded together.

Hardback, 285pp Goldsmiths Press, 2026 The STEIM foundation in Amsterdam was a music studio radically dedicated to the live, physical performance of electronic sound. From 1969 to 2021, the Studio for Electro-Instrumental Music supported artists in building new instruments, insisting on tangible, hands-on engagements with electronic sound.This book provides a comprehensive overview of STEIM’s work, drawing on original interviews and extensive primary source research in the archive of its longtime artistic director, Michel Waisvisz (1949–2008). It traces the studio’s evolution from its roots in the anarchic, situationist spirit of 1960s Amsterdam to the famous Cracklebox and to a long line of pioneering developments in sensor-based instruments between 1984 and 2000.A primary focus is Waisvisz’s landmark instrument The Hands (1984)—the world’s first sensor-based gestural controller—and the SensorLab platform it inspired. This emerging expertise fuelled an international artist-in-residence programme, attracting figures like Jon Rose, Nicolas Collins or Laetitia Sonami among many others and fostering a global wave of experimental instrument design.The common thread through this history is a paradigm called Touch, which championed musicians’ embodied presence over automation and predefined control. By documenting the pursuits of immediacy within highly mediated technologies, The STEIM Touch offers a crucial historical lens for today’s ongoing negotiations between artificiality and physicality in music creation.

Softcover, 367pp Invisible Books, Canada, August 2026  For decades, the history of Canadian electronic music has existed in fragments—footnotes, anecdotes, and half-remembered stories preserved by enthusiasts and archivists. A Nation of Tinkerers gathers these scattered pieces into the first comprehensive account of how Canada helped shape the global evolution of electronic sound. Beginning in the post-war years and spanning four decades, the book uncovers a vibrant culture of invention, experimentation, and collaboration rarely acknowledged in mainstream histories. Michael Rancic situates these developments within a broader story about technology, creativity, and politics. Drawing on archival research, interviews, and decades of music journalism, he reveals how early electronic music was shaped not only by breakthroughs in engineering but by collaborative communities spanning avant-garde composition, psychedelia, reggae, disco, hip-hop, and experimental pop. What appears, at first glance, as solitary tinkering emerges instead as a profoundly social practice rooted in shared curiosity, improvisation, and play. The book also examines the pivotal moment when public support receded and the free market took hold, reshaping both the tools available to musicians and the visibility of Canada’s inventors on the world stage. This shift produced lasting consequences: instruments once made in university labs or independent workshops struggled to secure mass production, even as electronic sound became central to mainstream music. By illuminating the work of overlooked engineers, composers, and scene-builders, Rancic shows how their innovations paved the way for contemporary electronic and pop artists—from Caribou and Grimes to The Halluci Nation and Kaytranada—and for the digital production environments that shape the music of Drake, The Weeknd, and Justin Bieber. In doing so, A Nation of Tinkerers reframes electronic music as a key site for understanding Canada’s cultural identity, technological imagination, and artistic legacy. Expansive, incisive, and richly detailed, the book provides an essential account of how Canada’s early electronic musicians and inventors helped build the sonic world we now take for granted.

Hardcover, 321pp NoBusiness Records, 2026 NoBusiness Records is pleased to announce publication of author Ed Hazell’s Energy Center, a pioneering study of Studio Rivbea, the arts and music center operated by saxophonist-composer Sam Rivers and his wife Bea. Perhaps the best-known and most influential of the artist-run venues of the 1970s New York Loft Era, Rivbea introduced wider U.S. audiences to artists such as Julius Hemphill, David S. Ware, the classic Anthony Braxton quartet with Kenny Wheeler, David Murray, Jemeel Moondoc’s Muntu, the Melodic Art-tet, and many others. But Rivbea was more than a concert space. It was the Rivers family home; a rehearsal site for Sam’s orchestra; a music classroom, a platform for playwrights, poets, dancers, and filmmakers; and a community focal point for musicians in Lower Manhattan.The book delves into the details of how Sam and Bea raised a family while keeping all these activities going. It chronicles the many artistic triumphs that took place at 24 Bond St., while also examining some of the conflicts and battles that shaped the Studio Rivbea story. Energy Center places Studio Rivbea in the context of an era when Black musicians and artists fought for self-determination and control of their art, resisting commercial pressures in order to develop their art.The book also includes the most accurate and complete sessionography of events at Rivbea ever compiled. In addition, dozens of previously unpublished photographs and a selection of posters and other ephemera add vibrant visual highlights to the unfolding story. In short, Energy Center is the most comprehensive history of a remarkable and utterly unique place that helped make possible some of the most important music of the late 20th century.

Softcover, 11x17cm, 216pp Book Works, October 2026‘The world was getting dark, and they willed it on. After a wrong turn, a bad guess, they walked a road familiar to neither of them.’ Will and Jay haven’t slept for days. After meeting at a party, they’ve gone back to Will’s flat where they can chat and kiss and fuck forever—but something else happens. In the aftermath of what he believes to be a haunting, and troubled by the memory of a radio show from his childhood, Will lands in America and embarks on an all-consuming journey. The first novel from poet Robyn Skyrme, Old Owl and Matt is a queer road trip through memory, grief and magic.   ‘Robyn Skyrme’s debut novel reflects a talent long on display in his poetry: an electrifying precision with emotion, place and meaning, and the desire to wield it in powerful, discomforting ways. As a book that’s both queer and ghostly, Old Owl and Matt prioritises complexity over comfort, and through his compelling storytelling Skyrme lets us sit with pain and loss in all its shapes, offering us almost euphoric glimpses of hope and joy within the cold landscape of grief.’ – Huw Lemmey, author of Unknown Language

Softcover, 192pp PM Press, 2026After decades organizing from within the labor establishment, Joe Uehlein realized that winning real climate and economic justice meant moving beyond the limits of traditional labor and environmentalism. As former secretary-treasurer of the AFL-CIO’s Industrial Division and director of the AFL-CIO's Center for Strategic Campaigns, Joe fought from the inside. But in 2005, he stepped away from the AFL-CIO to found the Labor Network for Sustainability, forging deep alliances between labor, climate, and environmental movements. His vision: transform the labor movement to embrace ecological responsibility—and environmentalism to uplift working-class solidarity. But Joe’s work has never been confined to boardrooms or picket lines. With a guitar in hand, he’s shared stages with Pete Seeger and Tom Morello, turning songs into rallying cries and stories into tools for resistance. Three Roads weaves strategy, memoir, and music into a powerful call to action. Through compelling personal narrative and frontline insight, Joe offers an urgently needed blueprint for bridging movements and pushing boundaries. This is a book for anyone who dreams of a world where working people and the planet thrive together. Because the road to justice has to walk in more than one direction—and we need all of them.

Paperback, 140mm x 210mm, 336pp, 16 pages of colour illustrations Strange Attractor Press, 2026Writer, artist, and wilfully dissident surrealist Ithell Colquhoun (1906–1988) invested her unique works with magical learning, esoteric lore, and a palpable sense of mystery. Despite having published widely on esoteric and occult topics during her lifetime, Colquhoun was never to produce a single book-length edition of her magical writings. As a result, many of her essays were lost or neglected. Edited by writer, folklorist and anthropologist Amy Hale, A Walking Flame: Selected Magical Writings Of Ithell Colquhoun gathers nearly 40 texts by this unique artist and magical practitioner, and displays cohesively, and for the first time, the impressive breadth of Colquhoun’s magical interests and expertise, and how these came to inform her singular works. Ranging from early encounters with the Kabbalah and esoteric colour theory, to Celtic mysticism and alchemy, A Walking Flame promises to shed a necessary light on an integral body of Colquhoun’s thought that has remained occluded for too long.

Softcover, 7.5 x 10 inches, 392 pp Primary Information, September 2026Deaf Material by Christine Sun Kim showcases the artist’s vast archive of deaf imagery in mainstream culture. Personal yet expansive, the publication collects over 600 vernacular photographs and images Kim has taken in her daily life or collected from books, online resources, and the archives at Gallaudet University. Frustrated by the lack of documentation of Deaf history, Kim began this project in an effort to determine what and who defines deaf aesthetics. The breadth of the archive—which spans pop culture imagery, memes, advertisements, disability signage, artworks, personal ephemera, and much more—presents an overview of deaf visual culture filtered through the incisive criticality and biting humor that the artist has become known for. It is the artist’s hope that Deaf Material will inspire others to begin their own archival projects so that a public and global archive of Deaf culture will emerge. The publication unfolds over the course of 400 pages with a Tumblr-style aesthetic that is framed by 24 distinct categories such as Airports, Celebrity ASL, Call and Wait, Deaf Power, Deaf/death, Parking Lots, and Trash. Kim teases out subtle connections through recurring visual patterns and thematic motifs across these chapters. Interwoven with these images are captions by the artist that expand on the archive through anecdotes, historical context, and commentary, providing an outline of deaf experiences and aesthetics since the late nineteenth century. Christine Sun Kim is an American artist based in Berlin. Kim’s practice considers how sound operates in society, deconstructing the politics of sound and exploring how oral languages operate as social currency. Musical notation, written language, infographics, American Sign Language (ASL), the use of the body, and strategically deployed humor are all recurring elements in her practice. Working across drawing, performance, video and large-scale murals, Kim explores her relationship to spoken and signed languages, to her built and social environments, and to the world at large. Kim’s work has been extensively exhibited and performed internationally.

Softcover, 25cm x 19cm,  232 pp (112 illustrations, 87 in colour) Reaktion Books, September 2026 A richly illustrated history of medieval Europe's cuisine paired with authentic recipes for today The Medieval Kitchen reveals a world in which food was central to daily life, status and belief. From lavish banquets scented with exotic spices to humble meals of bread, greens and porridge, Hannele Klemettilä paints a vivid picture of how people across Western Europe and Scandinavia prepared, transported and enjoyed food. Richly illustrated and grounded in original sources, the book unveils the surprising sophistication of medieval cooking and dispels long-standing myths about what people ate and why. With more than sixty authentic recipes adapted for the modern kitchen – from hippocras to rose pudding – it offers readers a tangible connection to a bygone era. This is both an inviting culinary guide and a revealing study of how food shaped medieval culture.

Softcover, 352pp University of Chicago Press, 2009  edited by Marjorie Perloff & Craid Dworkin   Sound—one of the central elements of poetry—finds itself all but ignored in the current discourse on lyric forms. The essays collected here by Marjorie Perloff and Craig Dworkinbreak that critical silence to readdress some of thefundamental connections between poetry and sound—connections that go far beyond traditional metrical studies.Ranging from medieval Latin lyrics to a cyborg opera, sixteenth-century France to twentieth-century Brazil, romantic ballads to the contemporary avant-garde, the contributors to The Sound of Poetry/The Poetry of Sound explore such subjects as the translatability of lyric sound, the historical and cultural roles of rhyme,the role of sound repetition in novelistic prose, theconnections between “sound poetry” and music, between the visual and the auditory, the role of the body in performance, and the impact of recording technologies on the lyric voice. Along the way, the essaystake on the “ensemble discords” of Maurice Scève’s Délie, Ezra Pound’s use of “Chinese whispers,” the alchemical theology of Hugo Ball’s Dada performances, Jean Cocteau’s modernist radiophonics, and an intercultural account of the poetry reading as a kind of dubbing.A genuinely comparatist study, The Sound of Poetry/The Poetry of Sound is designed to challenge current preconceptions about what Susan Howe has called “articulations of sound forms in time” as they have transformed the expanded poetic field of the twenty-first century.

Softcover, 17.15 x 24.13 cm, 240pp Primary Information, 2024This volume brings together a half century's worth of work by the renowned American concrete poet Mary Ellen Solt. One of the few Americans, and rare women, in the concrete poetry movement, Solt edited the influential anthology Concrete Poetry: A World View (1968), which brought her to the forefront of that movement not only as a poet but as an acclaimed critic. While Solt was justly celebrated for her suite of visual poems Flowers in Concrete (1966), much of her work has remained little known or unpublished. From her lyrical engagement with the idiom of William Carlos Williams to her masterful forays into visual and concrete poetry, this volume, assembled and edited by her daughter Susan Solt, provides an in-depth document of a truly singular writer who was at the center of some of the most daring global poetic developments of the mid-20th century. The centerpiece is the section "Words and Spaces," which presents Solt's concrete poems as she envisioned them: typographically precise, visually stunning and commanding on the page.

Softcover, 82pp Tupelo Press, 2026translated by Naoko Fujimoto   A collection of translated Japanese waka-poems, including text collage and haibun-style discourses on translation.Of Women is a collection of translations of Japanese waka-poems from the seventh century to the twelfth century, featuring twenty female poets from this period, when Japanese women’s literature flourished. This book includes poems by famous writers from the era, such as Sei Shonagon (The Pillow Book) and Murasaki Shikibu (The Tale of Genji), and introduces some lesser-known female poets as well. Waka compacts much information in a short form: words with double meanings, unfamiliar phrases, habits foreign to non-Japanese speakers, and hidden historical backgrounds. Direct translations would fail to capture the author’s full intent, so Of Women takes several approaches to capture the original sensory images, including text collage and haibun, short essays that provide historical context and introduce the author before each waka.