I’m often associated with collaboration when it comes to poetry, and more recently, art-poetry too. Art-poetry being something ive tried to explore in my own work, teaching and in www.poembrut.com Recently I’ve had the pleasure to get a copy of one of the most considerable poetry / art collaborative volumes released in recent years - Gabriele Tinti and Roger Ballen’s THE EARTH WILL COME TO LAUGH AND FEAST.

Gabriele is an old friend, we bonded over our shared love of boxing and did an event together at the National Poetry Library. His poetry in this beautifully produced book is extraordinary, but more than that, it is perfectly set with the grim, atmospheric photo-art of Balen, whose speaks to, and compliments Gabriele’s poems to great effect. There is a really complex interchange of mediums in the book, between the poetic, the discursive, the morbid, the photographic and the hand-made / hand-written. You can also see the great director Abel Ferrara reading one of Gabriele’s poems in this video

I’ve had the chance too to publish a small selection of the work on 3am magazine here https://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/theearthwillcome/

And the volume can be picked up here https://powerhousebooks.com/books/the-earth-will-come-to-laugh-and-to-feast/