03.30
- wake, try to get back to sleep, doze with the radio on. insomnia is a thing.
04.30
- get up, make coffee, drink coffee, go back to bed, mentally start making
lists of things to be done
06.30
- wake and get up, make coffee and tea for Sarer
07.00
- unload dishwasher, rouse the three stepsons, well, those who haven’t woken
yet, or made noises to suggest they’re awake.
08.00
- Drop boys at school, return home for breakfast and more coffee. Make sandwich
for lunch.
08.45
- Head out, walk to the bus stop, wait for the number 70, travel into town and
walk from the town centre to Spike Island. Go upstairs into Associates Space
and empty rucksack of laptops and their chargers, a portable hard drive, my
diary, my phone, phone charger, vape, vape charger. Plug-in everything. Think
about plans for a new text/art project, and when to begin work on it.
09.30
- switch on new-ish laptop, check emails. Reply to Catherine Vidler re: her
book we’re publishing via Hesterglock Press thru our Prote(s)xt imprint, reply
to James Knight regarding the same issues re: typesetting etc his book, Void
Voices we’re publishing.
10.00
- buy coffee in Spike Island cafe, peer into gallery space at Bristol-based
artist Harriet Bowman's exhibition 'All Round-er (sad sale)’. Remind myself to
plan a new text/art project, and to begin work on it. Having recently stopped
smoking hand-rolled cigarretes, I sit outside in the sun, vaping.
10.15
- Contact Ellie (eldest daughter) about meeting later this week.
10.18
- Fire up the old MacBook which has Photoshop installed on it. Figure out how
to re-size 78 visual poems of Catherine’s from lo-res png’s to hi-res jpg’s for
publishing.
10.40
- Find a way to re-size the poems. Re-size them, and then rename in separate
folder. Upload images to Blurb software, and begin laying out the images
(having to refer to original png’s for the correct order). Remind myself to
plan a new text/art project, and to begin work on it. Typeset pages for
Catherine’s book. Wonder when I’ll start writing / working on my own work.
Research and then download pdf’s of media interviews with Donald Trump and Subcomandante
Marcos.
12.47
- Save Catherine’s book. Re-hydrate. Eat my home-made sandwich (hummus), an
apple and drink plenty of water. Look in awe at a huge book on the work of US
artist Nancy
Spero,
from the well-stocked reference library in the Associates work space.
13.15
- Check emails. Read and delete various emails relating to other poets readings
and new books. Send proofs to Catherine. On old Macbook, re-design/re-size
Catherine’s book cover, as Blurb seem to be the best print-on-demand service
for her book. This take a while. Upload
covers and send proof to Catherine. Check James’s cover (having moved this from
Createspace to Lulu for printing) - it needs re-sizing/re-designing so I get on
with this. Make a mental note to email poet & compadre Miggy Angel over at
Burning House Press to find out which month he’d pencilled me in to be
guest-editor.
14.30
- Do some updates on the website re: Hesterglock Press, Prote(s)xt imprint
books.
14.57
- Text Sarer to remind her I’m meeting James Knight at 16.00 today. Think about
what/how to read/perform in London with fellow Dostoyevsky Wannabe authors on
27th.
15.05
- Go through my own archives of text art / Poem Brut
15.50
- Go downstairs to cafe. Drink water. While waiting for James, I carry on
reading Shane Jesse Christmass’s Police Force as a Corrupt Breeze (Dostoyevsky
Wannabe, 2016).
16.04
- James arrives, buys us both coffee. We chat about Shane’s books (James is a
big fan), and chat about this and that . . . it’s the first time we’ve met
face-to-face. We look at proofs. We agree on some things; as Hesterglock don’t
have a corporate marketing strategy to comply with we decide to bring forward
to publication date of Void Voices to October 15th, and maybe a reading in
London around that time.
16.30
- We say goodbye’s. I pack my rucksack, and walk back along the docks to catch
the 70 bus home.
17.35
- Arrive home. Make early dinner for everybody (Sarer teaches martial arts 3
evenings a week and needs to prepare). Eat dinner.
18.30
- Sarer leaves for work. Tidy kitchen, load dishwasher etc etc.
19.00
- Make adjustments to James’s manuscript, get email from compadre-poet Miggy
Angel and so start to think about themes for guest-editing Burning House Press
for the month of November. Confirm with Andrew Wells a joint Haverthorn Press /
Hesterglock Press reading event with Haverthorn Press in October. Contact
recently published poets Katy Wareham Morris, Matti Spence and James K. to
check their availability for reading at the event. Haverthorn Press have a new
book out by David Spittle called B O X, so we’ll do a double book launch for
David & James.
20.00
- Update website(s), do some Twitter/Instagram stuff.
21.00
- Continue reading Miggy’s new book, Extreme Violets (Hi-Vis Press).
22.00
- Bed.
Paul Hawkins is a poet & text
artist, sometimes known as Bob Modem &/or haul pawkins. He has had a number
of books published, most recently Lou Ham: Racing Anthropocene Statements
(Dostoevsky Wannabe
2018). Paul co-runs Hesterglock Press (including the Prote(s)xt imprint) with
partner-in-crime Sarer Scotthorne, publishing mainly innovative/experimental
poetry & Poem Brut. More details at www.hesterglock.net
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