Grapevine Editions 001: Catherine Madden and Anthony Elliott

Grapevine Editions 001: Catherine Madden and Anthony Elliott

Folds is the first publication from Grapevine Editions, combining Catherine Madden’s collage poetry and Anthony Elliott’s fractured analogue photographs work in dialogue in an exploration of complex feelings about past romances. Catherine Madden explains: 

“I decided to find and go back to any writing I had written about the people I was in a relationship with at the time it was happening, this mainly meant looking through old notebooks but I also used old text messages where I described my feelings about someone to a friend. I then planned to intersperse these words with what I had written about each relationship more recently […] I was aiming to create a knotty nonsense poem to capture the essence of the relationship from my point of view”

Catherine shared a poem from the collection with us, which is currently available from the Feminist Library Bookshop. 

C 2008

 

he asked me if I’d ever been to kiss him we were tube little northern girl I said yes 

 

erection we said we actually have an underground  where it wasn’t I’m from I had a hairband on 

 

night in his bed he kissed me by the corner of the why he was so distant rising sun cafe in New       Cross

 I spat to you as a mate 

 

but I my retainer into his hand one night and the duvet he ran his fingers all along my naked C gave me a tea body as if to find out what it looked 

 

ball 

 

and he said that he was like with his hands

 I put a letter

 still wanted me

 and asked if

 through his door 

but didn’t keep a funny because I was wearing copy 

 

he told me he was very good I was fake and pretending something hadn’t 

 

we’re more friends now