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Some creative partnerships begin with a plan; others begin with a spark. Sardines, the new collaborative pamphlet from poets Vasiliki Albedo and Lucy Holme, began with something stranger and more serendipitous: a misremembered Frank O’Hara poem. From that ‘mistake’ – part omen, part invitation – a year-long conversation unfolded. Themes surfaced and resurfaced – girlhood, grief, appetite, the sea as both sanctuary and warning – not by design but by the natural drift of two poetic minds in dialogue. The pamphlet’s title, Sardines, holds this tension beautifully: the ordinary made luminous, the playful shading into the political, the small thing that opens into a world.
Find out more about Vas and Lucy’s collaboration on our blog, Notes from the Edge.
‘With Sardines Vasiliki Albedo and Lucy Holme have created something unique and intriguing. Throughout the pamphlet an ongoing conversation between these two weaves around poems which, in their own way, are also in conversation. The quiet, thoughtful letters within this collection both connect to and contrast with the rich language and imagery of Albedo’s and Holme's poetry. Sardines is a poetic dialogue that circles place, personal histories and fears with unflinching vulnerability and clarity. Not to be missed.’ ~ Sophia Argyris
‘The poems in Sardines speak to each other across the waves. Pages are oceans, thoughts travel from one shore to another. This is truly how I imagine a collaboration should be; not just a call and response, but a veritable ecosystem in which the poems need each other to thrive.’ ~ Corinna Board
‘Sardines begins with a letter and ends with a blending of voices; and somewhere in between, two poets discover that the sea, grief, the body, and the lyric 'I' have always been shared territory. In this correspondence in poems between Vasiliki Albedo and Lucy Holme, each dispatch calls across to the next. The result is something beautiful and rare: a pamphlet in which collaboration feels not like a constraint but an act of generosity, until, as Holme says, it almost doesn't matter who wrote what. "Butterflied, bone-softened" and shot through with the salt and sorrow of lives actually lived — where, as Albedo writes, "fear is a country you have yet to inhabit" — Sardines is one of the most original and dazzling pamphlets I have read.’ ~ Emilie Jelinek
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Some creative partnerships begin with a plan; others begin with a spark. Sardines, the new collaborative pamphlet from poets Vasiliki Albedo and Lucy Holme, began with something stranger and more serendipitous: a misremembered Frank O’Hara poem. From that ‘mistake’ – part omen, part invitation – a year-long conversation unfolded. Themes surfaced and resurfaced – girlhood, grief, appetite, the sea as both sanctuary and warning – not by design but by the natural drift of two poetic minds in dialogue. The pamphlet’s title, Sardines, holds this tension beautifully: the ordinary made luminous, the playful shading into the political, the small thing that opens into a world.
Find out more about Vas and Lucy’s collaboration on our blog, Notes from the Edge.
‘With Sardines Vasiliki Albedo and Lucy Holme have created something unique and intriguing. Throughout the pamphlet an ongoing conversation between these two weaves around poems which, in their own way, are also in conversation. The quiet, thoughtful letters within this collection both connect to and contrast with the rich language and imagery of Albedo’s and Holme's poetry. Sardines is a poetic dialogue that circles place, personal histories and fears with unflinching vulnerability and clarity. Not to be missed.’ ~ Sophia Argyris
‘The poems in Sardines speak to each other across the waves. Pages are oceans, thoughts travel from one shore to another. This is truly how I imagine a collaboration should be; not just a call and response, but a veritable ecosystem in which the poems need each other to thrive.’ ~ Corinna Board
‘Sardines begins with a letter and ends with a blending of voices; and somewhere in between, two poets discover that the sea, grief, the body, and the lyric 'I' have always been shared territory. In this correspondence in poems between Vasiliki Albedo and Lucy Holme, each dispatch calls across to the next. The result is something beautiful and rare: a pamphlet in which collaboration feels not like a constraint but an act of generosity, until, as Holme says, it almost doesn't matter who wrote what. "Butterflied, bone-softened" and shot through with the salt and sorrow of lives actually lived — where, as Albedo writes, "fear is a country you have yet to inhabit" — Sardines is one of the most original and dazzling pamphlets I have read.’ ~ Emilie Jelinek
If you are in Europe or USA, please note that non-UK postage will be calculated when you select your country from the drop down menu on the next page.