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Cloth House has come from about 3 years of work, from 2020-24. It's been edited by @laurenmenekshedorothy with more care than I could begin to thank her for.

I don't know how to introduce the text, and I don't have a kind of "this collection explores x, y, z" thing, because it doesn't, but it does all kind of tie to the house I've lived in for the past 4 years, which I'm moving out of this month.

It feels serendipitous to be moving out just as Cloth House arrives. Everything that surrounded me while writing it is in boxes; I've cried about leaving it as everything I wrote within it is being pushed out into your hands ears eyes yada yada.

I've made a little visualiser on YouTube, but I'd recommend listening to the audio version on soundcloud, maybe on the bus or between errands. It includes me reading, and some sounds found and recorded, including a 7 min piano improvisation I did on Anthony Burgess' grand piano.

Lucy at @deathofworkerswhilst_press is phenomenal and her work deserves huge commendation. Her services to poetry this year, running a whole operation by herself and churning absolutely beautiful books out is really something. Your pre-orders help her pay for the operation so she can publish, so do buy some off the website in my bio. It's also, I think, quite good, if that encourages you at all.

Cloth House has come from about 3 years of work, from 2020-24. It's been edited by @laurenmenekshedorothy with more care than I could begin to thank her for.

I don't know how to introduce the text, and I don't have a kind of "this collection explores x, y, z" thing, because it doesn't, but it does all kind of tie to the house I've lived in for the past 4 years, which I'm moving out of this month.

It feels serendipitous to be moving out just as Cloth House arrives. Everything that surrounded me while writing it is in boxes; I've cried about leaving it as everything I wrote within it is being pushed out into your hands ears eyes yada yada.

I've made a little visualiser on YouTube, but I'd recommend listening to the audio version on soundcloud, maybe on the bus or between errands. It includes me reading, and some sounds found and recorded, including a 7 min piano improvisation I did on Anthony Burgess' grand piano.

Lucy at @deathofworkerswhilst_press is phenomenal and her work deserves huge commendation. Her services to poetry this year, running a whole operation by herself and churning absolutely beautiful books out is really something. Your pre-orders help her pay for the operation so she can publish, so do buy some off the website in my bio. It's also, I think, quite good, if that encourages you at all.

Cloth House has come from about 3 years of work, from 2020-24. It's been edited by @laurenmenekshedorothy with more care than I could begin to thank her for.

I don't know how to introduce the text, and I don't have a kind of "this collection explores x, y, z" thing, because it doesn't, but it does all kind of tie to the house I've lived in for the past 4 years, which I'm moving out of this month.

It feels serendipitous to be moving out just as Cloth House arrives. Everything that surrounded me while writing it is in boxes; I've cried about leaving it as everything I wrote within it is being pushed out into your hands ears eyes yada yada.

I've made a little visualiser on YouTube, but I'd recommend listening to the audio version on soundcloud, maybe on the bus or between errands. It includes me reading, and some sounds found and recorded, including a 7 min piano improvisation I did on Anthony Burgess' grand piano.

Lucy at @deathofworkerswhilst_press is phenomenal and her work deserves huge commendation. Her services to poetry this year, running a whole operation by herself and churning absolutely beautiful books out is really something. Your pre-orders help her pay for the operation so she can publish, so do buy some off the website in my bio. It's also, I think, quite good, if that encourages you at all.

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Forthcoming ~ Cloth House, Joseph Conway

A cloth house; a house made of cloth- like a tent with no pegs, no poles; it stands up alone by the force of its material. Like a clothesline, but with no wire, and the birds that perch on it are held up by nothing much but the force of the material’s phantom spine. Like a flag, but- well, you know, no stick to wave it off but the wind.
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Joseph Conway is a poet from Doncaster and Manchester. His first chapbook is Cloth House from death of workers whilst building skyscrapers press. His work is included in Stat Magazine, Typewronger, and Dears Magazine. He edited the Lemming for five years, and runs poetry night Other People’s Poetry and workshop series The Less Said The More We’ll Shut Up About It with Abhijeet Singh.
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Book Specification:
Publication release date: Friday, 29th May 2026
First Edition.
Print run of 50.
210mm x 297mm x 0.3cm: 31 pages
Sewn chapbook inside protective wallet
ISBN-13: 978-1-9194857-4-4
£18.40 - Pre-order available on website
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Handmade Textile/Paper Fragment, book design and production by Lucy Wilkinson.
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