Black Arsenal
Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2024
How did Arsenal become a focus of London’s everyday multiculture? Co-edited with Clive Nwonka, Black Arsenal emerged from a public conversation between Nwonka and Paul Gilroy at the Barbican in October 2022, which explored the unique relationship between Arsenal and Black culture. Black Arsenal in book form expands this dialogue across London’s historic and contemporary Black cultural landscape with photographs, archival material and a selection of commissioned essays.
Hardback, 256 pages.
More information at W&N.
Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2024
How did Arsenal become a focus of London’s everyday multiculture? Co-edited with Clive Nwonka, Black Arsenal emerged from a public conversation between Nwonka and Paul Gilroy at the Barbican in October 2022, which explored the unique relationship between Arsenal and Black culture. Black Arsenal in book form expands this dialogue across London’s historic and contemporary Black cultural landscape with photographs, archival material and a selection of commissioned essays.
Hardback, 256 pages.
More information at W&N.
The Underground Sea
Miners and the Miner’s Strike
Canongate, 2024
The Underground Sea brings together a collection of rare texts by John Berger on miners and miners’ strikes. The collection includes a transcript and image-essay of his 1973 Open University & BBC documentary exploring Émile Zola’s Germinal; alongside a number of Berger essays and interviews from the writer’s archive.
Co-edited with Berger’s biographer, Tom Overton, and designed by Scott King & Tom Etherington, The Underground Sea was published on the 40th anniversary of the miners’ strike of 1984–85.
Hardback, 128 pages.
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Miners and the Miner’s Strike
Canongate, 2024
The Underground Sea brings together a collection of rare texts by John Berger on miners and miners’ strikes. The collection includes a transcript and image-essay of his 1973 Open University & BBC documentary exploring Émile Zola’s Germinal; alongside a number of Berger essays and interviews from the writer’s archive.
Co-edited with Berger’s biographer, Tom Overton, and designed by Scott King & Tom Etherington, The Underground Sea was published on the 40th anniversary of the miners’ strike of 1984–85.
Hardback, 128 pages.
People of the Book
Work in progress, contracted to Verso Books (UK) & Ullstein Buchverlage (GER)
In 1931, a list of the names and addresses of the Jews of Berlin was drawn up into a public directory. Assembled not by the Nazis, but by the Jewish community themselves, among the 71,000 names in the directory were some of the world’s leading figures of the arts, sciences and radical thought – the vast majority of whom, within the following year, would be exiled from their homeland. People of the Book is an exploration of the directory, its listings and the year it was assembled.
Work in progress, contracted to Verso Books (UK) & Ullstein Buchverlage (GER)
In 1931, a list of the names and addresses of the Jews of Berlin was drawn up into a public directory. Assembled not by the Nazis, but by the Jewish community themselves, among the 71,000 names in the directory were some of the world’s leading figures of the arts, sciences and radical thought – the vast majority of whom, within the following year, would be exiled from their homeland. People of the Book is an exploration of the directory, its listings and the year it was assembled.
Mirror Reflecting Darkly: The Rita Keegan Archive
Goldsmiths Press, 2021
From the Bronx to Soho to Brixton, Mirror Reflecting Darkly is an exploration of the artist Rita Keegan's archive collection. Part biography and part critical history, it reproduces a cross-section of Keegan's archive, mapping an artistic practice that spans her long involvement in the British Black Arts Movement, her years as a fixture of Soho clubland, as well as the intimate documentary traces of her everyday life as a working Black female artist. Co-edited with Rita Keegan and Ego Ahaiwe-Sowinski.
Paperback, 160 pages.
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Rita Keegan Studio
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Goldsmiths Press, 2021
From the Bronx to Soho to Brixton, Mirror Reflecting Darkly is an exploration of the artist Rita Keegan's archive collection. Part biography and part critical history, it reproduces a cross-section of Keegan's archive, mapping an artistic practice that spans her long involvement in the British Black Arts Movement, her years as a fixture of Soho clubland, as well as the intimate documentary traces of her everyday life as a working Black female artist. Co-edited with Rita Keegan and Ego Ahaiwe-Sowinski.
Paperback, 160 pages.
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Rita Keegan Studio
Can I Come In and Talk About These and Other Ideas?
13 Proposals from B.S. Johnson
Text und Töne, Autumn 2020
Throughout his acclaimed career, B.S. Johnson – ‘Britain’s one-man literary avant-garde of the 1960s’ – wrote to commissioning editors, TV producers, and literary agents with letters brimming full of ideas. Can I Come In... brings a selection of these proposals to light in a visual history of B.S. Johnson’s abandoned work.
With an Afterword from Johnson’s son Steve and a postcard reproducing the author's plan for a 'Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Johnson'.
Paperback, 64 pages.
More information at Text und Töne
13 Proposals from B.S. Johnson
Text und Töne, Autumn 2020
Throughout his acclaimed career, B.S. Johnson – ‘Britain’s one-man literary avant-garde of the 1960s’ – wrote to commissioning editors, TV producers, and literary agents with letters brimming full of ideas. Can I Come In... brings a selection of these proposals to light in a visual history of B.S. Johnson’s abandoned work.
With an Afterword from Johnson’s son Steve and a postcard reproducing the author's plan for a 'Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Johnson'.
Paperback, 64 pages.
More information at Text und Töne
