Silver Press
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Silver Press is an independent feminist publisher, based in London.
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Introduction by Sarah ShinImages by Sammy LeeIONE has been dedicated to facilitating dreams for over fifty years, building upon ancient and modern dream practices to awaken the deep seeds of creativity located within them. Sharing this…
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‘May my story be beautiful and unwind like a long thread . . .’, she recites as she begins her story. The storyteller is the living memory of her time: at once an oracle, weaver, healer, warrior, witch, protectress, teacher…
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A modern mystical journey through love – a many-headed snake twisting through devotion, sacrifice and the dream of returning home.In her visionary debut, Nisha Ramayya conjures an opalescent world by way of Tantric ritual and myth.…
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With an accompanying Reader featuring contributions by Laya Firestone Seghi, Lourdes Cintron, Susan Faludi, Chris Kraus, Lola Olufemi and Hannah Proctor.Shulamith Firestone’s visionary first book The Dialectic of Sex dared to look at…
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Human history is filled with unacceptable sounds: high-pitched voices, gossip, talkativeness, hysteria, wailing and ritual shouts. Who makes them? Those deviant from or deficient in the masculine ideal of self-control: women, catamites,…
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Edited by Sarah Shin and Rebecca TamásSpells brings together contemporary voices exploring the territory where justice, selfhood and the imagination meet the transformative power of the occult. These poems unmake the world…
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A Twenty-First-Century Guide to Sailing the Sea of StoryWith an introduction by Theo Downes-Le Guin, Karen Joy Fowler, Molly Gloss and Kelly LinkUrsula K. Le Guin’s essential guide to the writer’s craft, now publishing in…
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A brand new anthology on feminist sonic cultures and radical listening for peace.Bodies of Sound began by enquiring into how sonic experience is intervening in realms such as gender, memory, disability justice, anti-colonial ways of…
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INTRODUCTION BY IONEFOREWORD BY LAURIE ANDERSONILLUSTRATIONS BY AURA SATZWhat is the difference between hearing and listening? Does sound have consciousness? Can you imagine listening beyond the edge of your own imagination? In…
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ILLUSTRATIONS BY ANICKA YIIn the 1970s, microbiologist Lynn Margulis and atmospheric chemist James Lovelock developed the Gaia theory. Embracing the circular logic of life and engineering systems, the Gaia theory states that Earth is a…
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Edited and introduced by Edna Bonhomme and Alice Spawls.With contributions from: Edna Bonhomme, Gwendolyn Brooks, Rachel Connolly, T.L. Cowan, Maggie Doherty, Nell Dunn, Anne Enright, Tracy Fuad,…
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Fifteenth anniversary edition, with a new preface by the author and contributions by Katherine McKittrick and Saidiya Hartman.A haunting lifeline between archive and memory, law and poetry.In November 1781, the captain of the slave ship…
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Edited by Sarah Shin and So MayerFor the first time, Space Crone brings together celebrated author Ursula K. Le Guin’s writings on feminism and gender. Witness to the twentieth century’s rebellions and upheavals,…
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“A reminder that Black feminism can be a promise, even if the world that we have inherited is so perilous. Fugitive Feminism is a bricolage: an intellectual imprint and philosophical harmony between what it means to flee and conjure a…
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With a Foreword by Francesca Wade and an Introduction by Sophie LewisDiane di Prima began writing her ‘Letters’ in 1968, conjuring a potent blend of utopian visions, ecological urgency and spiritual insight. By turns a manifesto…
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Translated by Daniella ShreirWith an Introduction by Eileen Myles and Afterword by Frances MorganAnd there were other girls who were odd ones too and that was how it was. We loved each other and that was that. I was 18 in May 1968 and it…
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With an introduction by Ali Smith and a new Afterword by Nell DunnIn 1964, Nell Dunn spoke to nine of her friends over a bottle of wine about sex, work, money, babies, freedom and love. The novelist Ann Quin says she appears to be a…
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With a Preface by Reni Eddo-Lodge and an Introduction by Sara AhmedAudre Lorde (1934-92) described herself as ‘Black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet’. Her extraordinary belief in the power of language – of speaking –…
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With an Introduction by Sheila Heti and an Afterword by Marina WarnerA debutante frees a hyena from the zoo so that it might take her place at her coming-out ball; an artist paints a portrait of a man’s dead wife, but finds she has…