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ADD A CHRISTMAS GIFT BOX

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 10:05:15 -0500

$5.00
Add a handmade sequinned satin Christmas gift box to your order by purchasing this listing!

Please note: necklace in photographs is for illustrative purposes only and is not included in this listing!

The Imperial - antique typewriter key statement charm choker

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 09:57:27 -0500

$49.00
An amazing statement choker on a silvertone chain, embellished with eleven typewriter keys and a mass of twinkly silver- and gold-tone charms.

The necklace includes:
-- 5 standard size genuine antique keys from a Royal Quiet Deluxe typewriter (5%, ?/, MAR REL, :, @c)
-- 1 large size genuine antique key from the same Royal Quiet Deluxe typewriter (BACK SPACE)
-- 5 wooden, antique-style mock black typewriter keys (J, N, L, S, H)
-- Various gold- and silver-tone charms: keys, padlocks, filigree
-- One genuine antique brass silver-plated minature key

The necklace measures 15.5in at full length (unfastened), and links can be easily removed to shorten the chain if necessary.

The Remington - silvertone typewriter key charm bracelet

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 09:47:28 -0500

$28.00
An elegant 7.5 inch (at full length, unfastened) high-shine, double-loop silvertone chain adorned with 12 charms. The bracelet includes:

-- Two standard size genuine antique keys from a Royal Quiet Deluxe typewriter (BACK SPACE and 3#)
-- One large size antique key from the same Royal Quiet Deluxe (TABULAR)
-- One small wooden, antique-style mpck red "TAB" typewriter key
-- One large wooden, antique-style mock white/ivory W# typewriter key
-- Two silvertone heart-shaped padlock charms
-- One filigree teardrop charm
-- One lapis lazuli beaded charm
-- One genuine antique brass, silver-plated minature key
-- One silvertone autumn leaf charm
-- One silvertone fancy minature key charm

Each charm is attached with a high quality brass jumpring. Jumprings can be removed to change or move charms, and links can be easily removed from the chain itself to shorten if required.

The Royal - genuine antique typewriter key bracelet

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 09:36:56 -0500

$33.00
11 genuine keys from a Royal Quiet Deluxe typewriter set on a silvertone bracelet. The bracelet measures 7.5in at full length (unfastened). Please note, if you buy this listing, you WILL receive the bracelet pictured!

The Underwood - long antique typewriter silvertone pendant

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 09:25:18 -0500

$33.00
An extra-long silvertone snake-and-link chain pendant adorned with six genuine antique typewriter keys -- five black keys from a Royal Quiet Deluxe typewriter, and one white mock-ivory key from an Underwood portable. Keys featured: E, 2", A, 4$, SHIFT KEY, SHIFT FREEDOM.

The necklace measures approximately 15in at full length -- links can be easily removed to shorten it if required.

Olympia typewriter keyring, mobile phone charm, bag candy

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 09:15:16 -0500

$11.00
A cute collection of charms strung on a silvertone chain, and topped with a a standard twist keyring, this little bauble would look perfect adorning your keys, mobile phone or handbag. Measuring approximately 3.5 inches from end to end, it features:

-- A silver plastic "Olympia" decal from an Olympia Splendid 33 typewriter
-- A real, tiny antique brass key
-- The large "SHIFT" key from a Royal Quiet Deluxe typewriter
-- A small silvertone heart-shaped padlock charm
-- A lapiz lazuli beaded charm
-- A wooden, antique-style typewriter cursor key

The each charm is attached with a high quality silvertone or brass jumpring.

12-link black antique-style typewriter bracelet

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 13:25:59 -0500

$16.00
Fan of retro typewriters? (Who isn't?!) If you are, or if you know someone who is, check this out -- it's a sweet silver-plated bracelet decorated with twelve black antique-style handmade wooden typewriter keys, like those from a c.1930s Underwood Master or Portable. It would make a great gift for any geek or linguist in your life!

Please note! Image is a sample bracelet -- the keys you get may not be the same as in the picture... but the bracelet will be just as sweet!

You Old Soak -- poetry pamphlet collection by Chris Lindores

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 08:54:49 -0500

$6.00
Chris Lindores is 21 years old and fast on his way to becoming Scotland's answer to Charles Bukowski. He's a hard-drinking, hard-talking, bad-punning genius whose poems are warm, funny and devastatingly honest. Any domestic mishap can become a haiku -- any rainy late-night walk home can become a philosophical puzzle. Set in the dark, seething underbelly of present-day Edinburgh, You Old Soak is the slightly tipsy bloke who wanders into the wrong pub / alleyway / strip joint / living room / dimension by accident. With strands not only of Bukowski but also Allen Ginsberg, Edwin Morgan and Tom Waits weaving through the pages, this pamphlet is a must-read. Annoyingly clever, achingly funny, poignantly true. Read This.

Published by Read This Press (with assistance from Forest Free Press), edited by Claire Askew and lovingly hand made.

NEW Speakeasy typewriter key cufflinks

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:30:35 -0500

$9.00
Fabulous 1920s style hand illustrations used as the arrow keys on an old typewriter keyboard. These are black antique-style wooden replica typewriter keys, the same size, shape and look of the real deal. They're mounted onto gold plated cufflink backs and would make a perfect retro gift.

7-link white antique-style typewriter bracelet

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 06:27:32 -0500

$16.00
Fan of retro typewriters? (Who isn't?!) If you are, or if you know someone who is, check this out -- it's a sweet silver-plated bracelet decorated with seven white antique-style handmade wooden typewriter keys, like those from a c.1930s Underwood Master or Portable. It would make a great gift for any geek or linguist in your life!

Please note! Image is a sample bracelet -- the keys you get may not be the same as in the picture... but the bracelet will be just as sweet!

White antique-style typewriter key flower earrings

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 13:30:59 -0500

$9.00
A pair of white, lightweight wooden antique-style mock typewriter keys mounted onto sweet brass filigree flowers and finished off with a brass earwire on each. Lovely, literary and perfect for an avid reader or book geek. Each earring measures approximately 2in at full length.

PLEASE NOTE: custom orders are currently available for this item -- just convo or email me your custom selection (either that, or you can just opt for a lucky dip!), or for more details: claire@onenightstanzas.com!

Read This Magazine 12 month subscription

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 17:17:44 -0400

$20.00
Issues 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21 and 22 (January - December 2009).

Pay now and have two beautiful copies of Read This delivered to your door every second month!

Read This Magazine Issue Eight

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 17:51:08 -0400

$2.00
Originally printed and distributed June 2008.

Poetry:
Jared Booth -- Old Folks
Jaime Garcia Pulido -- Wanting
Ben Gadsby -- Haiku
Jack Ousby -- The Sound of Trains
Donald Marshall -- Letters to Daniel
Kristi Kirkland -- The Smell of Construction
Bethan Townsend -- Whitman

Prose:
Mark Konkel -- Save One

Artwork by Yoshi Yoshitani

Read This Magazine Issue Three

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 17:50:31 -0400

$2.00
Originally printed and distributed January 2008

Poetry:
Chris Lindores -- Custard Molecules
Dan Mussett -- Five Poems
Dan Graham -- 1930s Haiku
Matthew Cranford -- Sudden Memorial to a 4th Grade Teacher
Michel Le Guilly -- Last stage
Jonathan Hayes -- Like eyes of the tapster & Arles

Prose:
Jon Asby -- Mary
Theo Moller -- I am the ghost

Read This Magazine Issue Six

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 11:17:37 -0400

$2.00
Originally printed and distributed April 2008.

Poetry:
Dave Lewis -- Afternoon Shift
Kim Moore -- Affair
Gemma White -- Lovesong for London

Prose:
Tom Hawley --Pseudobiographica
Melanie Brown -- What Spies Do

Artwork by Helen Askew

Read This Magazine Issue Fourteen

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 11:16:42 -0400

$2.00
Originally printed and distributed January 2009.

Poetry:
Howie Good -- The Late News
Andrew Burke -- The Bloop
Ryan Lamon -- My Eyebrows Have Grown
Tamarisk Kay -- Knitting Poetry
Samuel Prince -- The Coast is Clear and Calling You

Prose:
Amy Bernays -- Courting Permission

Artwork by Amy Bernays

Masters-- University of Edinburgh MSc Creative Writing Poetry Class of 2009 anthology

Tue, 13 Oct 2009 16:09:25 -0400

$8.00
"Masters," the brand new handmade poetry anthology from Read This Press, features the work of eight talented young poets currently based in Scotland. All the poets in this volume graduated in 2009 from the prestigious University of Edinburgh's postgraduate MSc programme in Creative Writing, and all of them specialised in poetry. This anthology is to commemorate their year's work together and to showcase their talents as they move on to develop their writing futher.

Poets featured:

Niki Andrikopoulou -- Greek political poet with a particular interest in the long poem

Claire Askew -- Scottish poet, editor, lecturer and publisher now studying for a Creative Writing PhD

Aileen Ballantyne -- former journalist who has written for a variety of British national newspapers and now focusses on poems in Scots

Dave Coates -- Northern Irish poet and editor, currently working with the Scottish Poetry Library in Edinburgh

Aiko Harman -- prolific poet originally from Los Angeles, USA, former Poet in Residence at the London Poetry Festival

Natalia Herrero -- Mexican poet with an interest in mythology, spiritualism and the occult

Struan Robertson -- Scottish poet, editor and filmmaker with a particular interest in metapoetry and the short form

Hayley Shields -- Newcastle-born poet and editor with an interest in Scottish history and ethnology, myth and fairy tale.

Read This Issue 19-- September/October 2009 Issue

Tue, 13 Oct 2009 15:54:39 -0400

$2.00
The brand new issue of Read This Magazine is now available on general sale! Full of yet more literary loveliness for you to dig into! Printed and distributed October 2009.

Poetry by:
Tom Mitchell
Makyla Curtis
Renee Emerson
Carla Martin-Wood
Laurence Davies
Peycho Kanev
Kate Macnamara
Julia Sanches

Artwork by:
Michelle Brotherton

Sharks Don't Sleep -- a poetry pamphlet collection by Eric Hamilton

Thu, 08 Oct 2009 18:23:15 -0400

$6.00
The first collection of poems by New Jersey-based writer and performance poet Eric Hamilton.

Eric Hamilton's work can be dark, dirty, unflinching, reckless and rude – also a spoken-word artist, he takes what seem like poems for performance and wrestles them onto the page. The result is a book that crackles with life -- it draws you in, speaks to you directly: questions your morals and sucks you into conversation. These are stories of heartbreak, addiction, misery and loneliness, but also of courage, survival, happiness and hope. With his debut chapbook, Eric has created a fierce, startlingly original collection of pieces which reflect every aspect of what it is to be young in twenty-first century North America – the howling darkness, but also the light.

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Eric Hamilton is a deranged artist who paints everything from canvas to freight trains. He also writes poetry and enjoys sharing his spoken word at slams or cafes everywhere from NYC out to LA. He was born and raised in Las Vegas, spent a lot of time living in east Los Angeles, and is now unemployed and attending college as a journalism major in New Jersey, where you can find him at art galleries and coffee shops politicking with the poets, art-fags, and random transient folk. He's a bit of a broken man who receives a lot of undeserved attention from women, smokes cigarettes, and stumbles in and out of short-term relationships looking for love. He spends most of his time waiting for lung cancer and responses from publishers, and has been known to occasionally set fire to a booklet of poems aged with the experience of time.

Read This Magazine Issue Seven

Wed, 02 Sep 2009 12:20:05 -0400

$2.00
Originally printed and distributed May 2008.

Poetry:
Lauren Pope -- The Invitation & A Tongue-Twister for Catullus
Colin James -- Allesverloren
Roxanne Paris -- Matricide: A Love Poem for my Mother
Charlotte Runcie -- The Explorer

Prose:
Brian Ross -- Reflections of
Jon Asby -- Fragments of a Relationship

Artwork by Laura Mossop

Skin Deep -- an anthology of poems on tattoos and tattooing

Wed, 02 Sep 2009 12:19:23 -0400

$6.00
A smoking hot collection of works by hip young poetic gunslingers from all over the world -- all united by the theme of tattoos, tattooing and body art. Edited by poet and tattoo obsessive Claire Askew, every copy of Skin Deep has been carefully assembled and handmade. Read This Press' first pamphlet anthology features work from brilliant and prize-winning poets including Kim Addonizio and Kevin Cadwallender, and with a foreword by tattooed goddess and internet sensation Gala Darling.

Poetry by:
Kim Addonizio
Lucy Baker
Kevin Cadwallender
Dave Coates
Morganne Couch
Marisa DiMattia
Drew
Eric Hamilton
Aiko Harman
Natalia Herrero
Jason Monios
Roxanne Paris
Lauren Pope
William Soule
Christian Ward
Noel Williams
Juliet M Wilson

Foreword by Gala Darling
Edited by Claire Askew

Read This Magazine Issue Fifteen

Sun, 30 Aug 2009 11:32:46 -0400

$2.00
Originally printed and distributed February 2009

Poetry:
Steven Nash -- The Day The Clocks Went Back
Sauda Kasim -- This is Circulation
Morganne Couch -- CA, VA, NC
Noel Williams -- A sky of accidentals
Kristina England -- The night before you ghosted
Michael Stephenson -- Bukowski in Glasgow
Ryan Van Winkle -- Falling 18, 39, 266
Jonathan Hayes -- Open Window, On The Bus, It's 9.33am, Awakening

Artwork by Derek McCrae

Read This Magazine Issue One

Sun, 30 Aug 2009 11:32:46 -0400

$2.00
Originally printed and distributed November 2007.

Contents:
Foreword by poet and critic Alan Gillis
Benjamin Dahlbeck -- Musings at the Interval
Sidian MS Jones -- Secret, secret
Sarah Quigley -- tryst & Untitled
Rebecca Rourke-Mooney -- Cradle
Hannah Sauerwein -- Sunrise
Daniel Watkins -- Resolution
Gemma White -- On Imperfection
Florian Raith -- Harlequin's Waltz

Edited by:
Claire Askew (Editor in Chief), Dan Graham (Prose editor), Lucy Baker, Struan Robertson, Hayley Shields (Poetry editors). Layout by Leon Crosby. Artwork by Helen Askew.

Read This Magazine Issue 16

Sun, 30 Aug 2009 11:32:46 -0400

$3.00
Originally printed and distributed in March 2009, as a special, limited edition issue for <a href="http://www.thiscollection.org">this collection</a> and StAnza Festival.

Poems by:
Roddy Lumsden
Brian McCabe
Ron Butlin
Alan Gillis
Sam Meekings
Dilys Rose
Christine de Luca
Simon Jackson
Morgan Downie
Andrew Greig
Aonghas Macneacail

Edited by:
Claire Askew (Editor in Chief), Dan Graham (Prose editor), Lucy Baker, Struan Robertson, Hayley Shields (Poetry editors). Layout by Leon Crosby.

Read This Magazine Issue 17

Sun, 30 Aug 2009 11:32:46 -0400

$2.00
Originally printed and distributed April 2009

Poetry by:
Howard Good -- Kiss of the Blowtorch
Eric Hamilton -- Yeah I know, we were children
Asmara Malik -- The Slices of Your Bread
Lauren Singer -- Not Watching the Breastfeeding Woman

Prose by:
Amy Bernays -- Reality TV

Artwork by:
Amy Bernays -- Reality TV set

Edited by:
Claire Askew (Editor in Chief), Dave Coates, Chris Lindores, Struan Robertson, Hayley Shields (Poetry editors). Layout by Leon Crosby.