57 Productions
57 Effingham Road
Lee Green
London SE12 8NT
Tel: +44 (0)20 8463 0866
info@57productions.com
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57 Productions offers a unique & expanding catalogue of audio & audio-visual titles, featuring many of the most popular & exciting poets working in the UK & internationally today
The voices & works of many of these poets are featured on the Poetry Jukebox
57 has recently launched 'Poems of a Backwater Visionary' by Billy Childish - CD, reversed-board digipac - 62 poems recorded with Billy in 2007
The new, long-awaited CD from John Hegley is now launched - Family Favourites - bringing together John's poems & songs concerning his familial relations - both real & imagined - as well as touching upon the eternal themes of glasses & dogs
57 is also pleased to announce the CD release of Riding on de Riddym by Jean ‘Binta’ Breeze – a classic recording of over 30 poems by the celebrated poet & performer. The poems are drawn from all of Jean’s books to date & features work unpublished elsewhere – including the climactic title poem
plus - 57 release the first CD collection by one of our most popular poets, performers & radio presenters - Michael Rosen - with Carrying the Elephant & This is Not my Nose - a special double-CD collection of prose-poems - works of rare honesty, original humour & unique intimacy
NEW NOW! The 2nd Volume in the series of 'Poetry in Performance' CDs, presenting another unique sampling of contemporary spoken works. This new production is an aural odyssey through some of the most powerful & delectable lyrical works in currency - with both live & studio produced recordings, rare archive & special guest musical collaborations … featuring:
Roger McGough, Jackie Kay, Brian Patten, Maura Dooley, John Cooper Clarke, Imtiaz Dharker, Neil Rollinson, Moniza Alvi, Benjamin Zephaniah, Jayne Cortez, Kamau Brathwaite, Ian McMillan, Choman Hardi, Michael Donaghy, Rita Ann Higgins, Matthew Sweeney, … following on from Poetry in Performance Volume 1, out now!
"You couldn't find a better poetry showcase" Sue Arnold, The Guardian
Poetry in Performance Volumes 1 & 2 represent the first in a new series of audio-anthologies. Volume 3 will be published ... a.s.a.p. ... & will feature further voices whose work resonates through the performing arts, live-literature circuits & the media
57 is also pleased to announce new additions to the extant audio-list, including titles by John Cooper Clarke, Jayne Cortez & RS Thomas - & titles by Jeff Nuttall & Lorna Goodison
57 offers an electronic ordering & payment service (through WorldPay or PayPal) through the Catalogue section - allowing us to process orders & payment simply & safely online & by telephone in the UK & internationally - or you print-off order-forms as required
More t.b.a.
Poetry in Performance Volume 2 - Various Poets
Poetry in Performance Volume 1 - Various Poets
Reggae Head - Benjamin Zephaniah
Family Favourites - John Hegley
Poems of a Backwater Visionary - Billy Childish
The Dogfather - Adrian Mitchell
Riding On De Riddym - Jean 'Binta' Breeze
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