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Seadog Books, Faversham (2026)

02/04/2025

A Stellar Key to the Summerland, Olivia Plender

Started in 1848, and presented as a scientific and rational response to the demands of the industrial world, the Modern Spiritualist Movement – still practiced today – was a heady mixture of evangelical and non-conformist religion, political agitation and popular entertainment. Whilst its adherents included mystics and magicians, its base was in working class communities, and it was intrinsically linked to political campaigns, particularly the anti-slavery movement, working class protests and the campaign for women’s suffrage. Assuming the role of the medium, women found a unique opportunity to give political speeches – in the guise of channeling a spirit – without transgressing social boundaries.

Mimicking the techniques of political and scientific pamphlets from the nineteenth century and combining Spiritualist ephemera with interviews, Olivia Plender’s graphic novel explores the hidden history of this movement.

Softcover, 112 Pages, 17.5x12.5 cm

23/03/2025

ATTN: 📓 FAVERSHAM 📓

From March 31st - April 13th 2025, we will be popping up in Faversham with at .

A special event will be held on April 9th as part of the pop-up. More details will be announced soon... 👀🐟.

31/12/2024

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

It's been a great year here at . We've had a total of twelve fantastic events, met a number of weird and wonderful people and parted ways with a lot of books!

Thank you to all of those who helped to make this all happen. We will see you again next year with a new and refined programme. If you would like to get involved, now is the time to get in touch.

A REVIEW:

October 31, 2024 - Howloween with Ken Hollings and The Howling, Margate Caves Margate, Kent, 7pm-10pm

September 22, 2024 - Widders Dump Walk with Sara Trillo, inspired by Riddley Walker, Wye, Kent, 10am-1pm.

August 29 - September 1, 2024 - Smugglers Festival, A secret woodland location near Deal, Kent.

August 25, 2024 - Selling copies of Riddley Walker at Bill Bones presents: Riddley Walker Discussion Group, The Horse Hospital, London, WC1N 1JD

August 1, 2024 - CLAY: A Human History with Jennifer Lucy Allan at Ozora Studios, 7 Jarrett's Yard, Margate, CT9 1BW, 7pm-9:30pm.

July 27-28, 2024 - SEADOG Publishers Fair, Margate Caves, 1 Northdown Rd, Margate CT9 1FG, 10am-5pm.

June 20, 2024 - Midsummer, details were shared by request only. Weird tales were told.

May 26, 2024 - Pop-up at Bar Nothing's Bar Boot, 17 Cliff Terrace, Cliftonville, Margate, CT9 1RU, 1pm-5pm.

May 9, 2024 - A secret location in Ramsgate, details were shared by request only. Weird tales were told.

April 26, 2024 - Constellations at Greenwich Design District, D4 Building, London, SE10 0EB, 6pm-9pm.

February 29, 2024 - Leapling Votives with Billie Vigne at Bar Nothing, 17 Cliff Terrace, Cliftonville, Margate, CT9 1RU, 7pm-10pm.

January 11, 2024 - Pop-up at Bar Nothing's Bar Boot, 17 Cliff Terrace, Cliftonville, Margate, CT9 1RU, 1pm-5pm.

18/12/2024

Solution 275-294 Communists Anonymous, Ingo Niermann, Joshua Simon (Eds.)

Contributions by Heather Anderson, Ann Cotten, Fiona Duncan, Elfriede Jelinek, Metahaven, Momus, Ingo Niermann, David Pearce, Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby, Santiago Alba Rico, Frank Ruda, Georgia Sagri, Georgy Mamedov and Oksana Shatalova, Joshua Simon, Alexander Tarakhovsky, Timotheus Vermeulen

The members of Communists Anonymous (COMA) share an extreme sense of empathy and justice, and therefore detest more or less any form of private property. COMA members restrain themselves from any effort to overcome capitalism before there is a new convincing model at hand of how to actually implement communism. The speculative self-help of COMA understands the historical incarnations of communism as substantially incomplete in thought and practice, and places communism where it originated—in the realm of fiction. Only as fiction can communism manifest itself again beyond doubt.

Solution 275–294: Communists Anonymous is a document of some imageries of communism and a testament to the current predicament of our political imagination. Atomized, privatized, and deprived of any infrastructure for solidarity—without any internationalist project, with moralizations compensating for the disappearance of political organization, with micro-politics replacing macro-politics—communists can only be anonymous in this world of ours. Edited by writer Ingo Niermann and curator Joshua Simon, this collection of essays and stories—written from the fields of art, literature, law, philosophy, activism, design, and science—proposes resolutions to current social contradictions, covering topics such as bacteria, bliss, immortality, q***rness, interculturality, poetry, transportation, childhood and motherhood, and all-encompassing sensual love.

Softcover, 292 Pages, 11.2x17.8 cm
Published by: Sternberg Press

17/12/2024

Music from Elsewhere, Doug Skinner

A cacophonous cabinet of curiosities, gathering other musics channeled from the spirit world, the fairy kingdom, outer space, secret societies and occult lodges.

Compiled by musician, historian and archivist Doug Skinner, this unique collection of esoteric earworms gathers, and examines, music from other worlds. Notation is also included for several tunes so that you can play along at home.

Over eight themed essays you’ll find tunes hummed, strummed, and sung by spirits, sprites and fairies, extraterrestrial elevator music, dreamed ditties, marches for occult ceremonies, secret musical codes and languages, music made by animals, and more.

Doug Skinner has contributed to The Fortean Times, Cabinet, Fate, Weirdo, Nickelodeon, and other periodicals. In addition to his books of stories, comics, music, and translations of Alphonse Allais, Charles Cros, and Alfred Jarry, he has written many scores for dance and theater, most conspicuously for Bill Irwin’s The Regard of Flight, which toured for decades. TV and movie appearances include Ed, Crocodile Dundee II, several of George Kuchar’s videos, and a smattering of commercials.

Softcover, 184 Pages, 17x22 cm
Published by: Strange Attractor

16/12/2024

All in the Downs: Reflections on Life, Landscape, and Song, Shirley Collins

A legendary singer, folklorist, and music historian, Shirley Collins has been an integral figure in the English folk music scene for more than sixty years. In her new memoir, All in the Downs, Collins tells the story of that lifelong relationship with English folksong—a dedication to artistic integrity that has guided her through the triumphs and tragedies of her life.

All in the Downs combines elements of memoir—from her working-class origins in wartime Hastings to the bright lights of the 1950s folk revival in London—alongside reflections on the role traditional music and the English landscape have played in shaping her vision. From formative field recordings made with Alan Lomax in the United States to the “crowning glories” recorded with her sister Dolly on the Sussex Downs, she writes of the obstacles that led to her withdrawal from the spotlight and the redemption of a new artistic flourishing that continues today with her unexpected return to recording in 2016.

Through it all, Shirley Collins has been guided and supported by three vital and inseparable loves: traditional English song, the people and landscape of her native Sussex, and an unwavering sense of artistic integrity. All in the Downs pays tribute to these passions, and in doing so, illustrates a way of life as old as England, that has all but vanished from this land.

Softcover, 280 Pages, 13.2x19.2 cm
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16/12/2024

Being an Art Tosser, Simon Salmon

Salmon Sashimi Press are a small time, small pocket, small town press based on the Kent coast in the South East of England.

Simon Salmon is a water spirit singing where the estuary of the Thames meets the waves of the North Sea. Salmon once got caught by the beak of a cormorant but was dropped back into the water due to his tasteless verse.

This is a pamphlet of poetry. A fish bookmark is included.

Softcover, 25 Pages, 11.2x17.8 cm
Published by: Salmon Sashimi Press
Edition of: 50

10/12/2024

I draw a fake effigy. “Who let us into hell?” It says, Sara Lefysk

With the shrieks of 10,000 Angels, Sara’s poem forces 10,000 insurance companies to fall to their knees in terror at meeting “the daughter of a solitary fish” speaking with the language of “a small but savage town.”

When they found me scraping

my ugly little teeth against the

pavement, my diagnosis was

dental. When they sent me to

the actual dentist, my diagnosis

was an eight-fold path.

No one could tell me anything

because my diagnosis was small

and vegetal.

When my diagnosis was glass-jar

heart, the treatments were: wild

hare, water of rye and water of

snake.

My diagnosis was a never-

ending receipt.

Sorting rocks from beans until she kills all desire, Ethel carries a shovel as if she really knows how to dig a grave. When she is let loose inside the orchard, she is a wide-eyed god, dehydrated and convulsing. Nailed to the ground, laughing with the sun in her eyes, she is dreaming of a videotape about an even more disposable fashion. Fashioning a wound or planning for gestalt, out in the field or trapped in the cloisters, she fingers the firmament and role-plays a joy, then vomits all over the sanctuary carpet.

Softcover, printed with thermographic ink on receipt paper, 12.7x7.5cm
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09/12/2024

And there I was, I was just hanging out, doing nothing. Then death appeared and said something dumb, Angel Warwick

Welcome to Grief Club. This is death’s party and they know everyone. The Angel of Death is in pursuit, but their bicycle chain is rusted and you’ve already cycled across England.

The pallbearers of my grief

have slipped to their knees.

I wander through the shifting gloom

between streetlights, until

I hit the reaching black

of country roads —

those corners you can't see around.

The blazing hell of headlights.

He's coming, he's coming for me.

Angel Warwick is a poet from the South Coast of England, as well as an avid cyclist and consumer of scotch whisky that tastes like peat bog water. He left school at 12 and learnt to write in online poetry communities.

Softcover, printed with thermographic ink on receipt paper, 12.7x7.5cm
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08/12/2024

Taking 500,000 Photographs of a Dogwood Tree, JL Rosser

They say pick a tree to grow old with, yet leaves still gather like withered lives around you, and even that tree—once rooted fast in your memory— now falls into the mire among its rotting children, remaining only to be seen across the frenzied moments of this search for “a life stripped away.”

The dogwood blooms droop

like sleeping children over

the water, and the twigs

droop like it hurts to carry

them. The roots of the trunk

spread out like Papa when

he walked too drunk. It’s

branches spindly and knobby

as his twiggy arms gorged

on bursitis. Liver stuck out

like the front of an 85’

Silverado. Legs like Marlboro

100s but this one woman;

she takes photos at funerals

to show them to the family,

so there’s Papa all folded up

like a paper plane that didn’t

fly far enough. Polaroids

ain’t useful. This is no time

to be useful. This is time

to sing badly in the woods

and scare deer.

JL is a q***r poet living in Georgia. Currently, most of the poems they write are about Yugioh cards and Youtube videos.

Softcover, printed with thermographic ink on receipt paper, 12.7x7.5cm
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27/11/2024

Ghostwriting, Paul Thek

Alessandro Di Pietro: Ghostwriting Paul Thek, edited by Cornelia Mattiacci and Peter Benson Miller, is conceived as a compendium of texts and notes generated for the artist Alessandro Di Pietro as he developed the exhibition project Ghostwriting Paul Thek: Time Capsules and Reliquaries. The traveling exhibition—which appeared at the Watermill Center, New York; CAN Centre d’Art Neuchâtel, Switzerland; Palazzo Monti, Brescia, Italy; and Fondazione Nicola Del Roscio, Rome—presented pieces conceived in dialogue with the work of the legendary US artist Paul Thek (1933–1988). The texts, notes, and other original sources featured in the volume—ranging from essays to WhatsApp messages, diary entries, and newspaper pages—are presented in the languages in which they were contributed by the twenty-five authors involved (English or Italian). They re-create the intellectual context for the development of Thek’s/Di Pietro’s intertwined ideas, blurring fact and fiction and maintaining a certain ambiguity of authorship. The publication’s sole reprint comes from Chris Kraus’s Aliens & Anorexia (2000). The exhibition/publication project was the winner of the eleventh edition of the Italian Council (2022) call for proposals issued by the General Directorate for Creativity of the Italian Ministry of Culture.

Paperback, 232 Pages, 19x13 cm
Published 2024 by: Mousse Publishing

20/11/2024

Cancelled Confessions, Claude Cahun

In 1930, Claude Cahun (born Lucy Schwob) and her partner, artist Marcel Moore (born Suzanne Malherbe) published their surrealist masterpiece, Aveux non Avenus, translated here as Cancelled Confessions and available in English for the first time in twenty years. Susan de Muth’s revised translation of Cancelled Confessions has a new introduction by art historian Amelia Groom which contextualizes it within contemporary q***r discourse.

‘It’s a surrealist, trans, q***r, autofiction, (anti)memoir, and also none of those things. It’s a text, and a life, felt as connection and at the same time completely singular.’ McKenzie Wark, author.

‘The book’s nine sections are prefaced by dreamlike photomontages (reproduced in high definition) which reflect, illuminate and converse with the verbal content. Upon publication, Aveux non Avenus simply baffled all but a few of Cahun’s friends and admirers, leading Cahun to describe herself as, ‘An unwanted Cassandra’. Now, however, is the time of the remarkably prescient Cahun and Moore. ‘Cahun was a pioneer of gender-bending role-playing…eerily ahead of her time she has attracted an almost cult-like following.’ The late David Bowie Cahun and Moore’s appeal is wide and universal. They were adventurers in life as in art. Cahun famously terrified Andre Breton in the 1920s when she appeared in a Paris café with her head shaved and painted gold. Having moved to Jersey in 1938, Cahun and Moore waged a mischievous two-person resistance campaign against the occupying N**i forces from 1940. Finally caught and imprisoned in 1944, they were sentenced to death in 1945, saved at the very last moment by the armistice.

Paperback, 256 Pages, 22x17 cm
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