In 2015, Copy Press Reader’s Union both formulated and affirmed its endeavour: finding common spaces for readers and writers to delve into the possibilities and limitation of ‘coming together’ in our contemporary society. And what followed was a series of inspirational events—chronicled below—taking place, on cold winter’s evenings and hot summer’s nights, with people in very close proximity, in the cramped spaces of a wonderful long-established bookshop, the upstairs room of a pub that has radical history and, sometimes, a gallery floor.
Then in 2020 came the covid-19 pandemic and it has revealed so much. Copy Press Reader’s Union has found itself having to ask again the very question with which it began: What are possibilities and limitations of ‘coming together’. A message was circulated—‘become fireflies and form again a community of flashes shining out, of dances in spite of all, of thoughts to transmit’. In the months that have followed this message has gathered momentum to become, for a foreseeable future, the calling of Copy Press Reader’s Union.
If you wish to join Copy Press Reader’s Union please email details to: mail@copypress.co.uk
CHRONICLE
Becoming Fireflies
Postcards from the Edge : LOCKDOWN 04-06 2020
Memory as Force
Programme
Speaking Out Loud 1
Programme
Yellow Papers: Nearness
Reading and Revelation 1-3
Programme
‘I’ without guarantees 1-3
Programme
Yellow Papers: extracts and contributions
Translation, Friendship at the Austrian Cultural Forum
Programme Notes
A celebration of the writing of Ilse Aichinger
Yve Lomax, Introduction
Amélie Mourgue d’Algue
Olumide Popoola
NaoKo TakaHashi
Emily Jeremiah
Rebecca May Johnson
Arat
Kristen Kreider
Erica Jarnes with Emily Gray
Inspiring Austrian Woman: Ilse Aichinger – ACF Digital Salon
Copy Press at Foyles Blog
Yve Lomax Making Use
Developing Pure Means
Cecile Malaspina
Jess Potter
Developing Wednesday Afternoon
Edith Marie Pasquier
NaoKo TakaHashi
Developing Revisiting the Bonaventure
Adam Kaasa
Helen Kaplinsky
James O’Leary
Developing Common
Pauline de Souza
Sally O’Reilly
Developing Diagrams for Seriality
Roderick Harris
Franky Williams
Gillian Wylde
Response: Redell Olsen
Developing Days of Surrender
Gavin Everall
Yvette Greslé
Cherry Smyth
Developing Object of a Life
Ian Kiaer
Sarah Jones
Developing Paris
Anya Lewin
Responses:
Catronia Andrews
Barbara Campbell-Lange
Peter le Couteur
Cordelia Mayfield
Amélie Mourgue d’Algue
Isobel Wohl
Susan Butler
Conway Hall, a Beginning
Who is the common intellectual?
Philippa Brewster, an Address