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Placeholder Press @readplaceholder

Archiving the work of a passionate amateur publisher, 2019 - 2021

Joined July 2019
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we're still in hiatus, but we built a new website to be a better home for what we published while we were active. if you published with us, it's here for free. still planning to add more and make improvements, but today felt like the day to announce it. placeholderpress.co.uk/
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James Kessel and Joe Hedinger's piece, Places Been, will be joining us for Monuments on 22/10/22. Kessel is a Norwich based artist who has exhibited widely. jameskessell.co.uk Hedinger is a poet, bookseller, and Placeholder Press alum.
Ken Hurst is a staple of the Norwich independent art scene and is one of the pair that runs the award winning Norwich Art Shop. Catch his piece LIFE MODEL at Monuments on 22/10/2022 at Norwich Historic Churches Trust. kenhurstartworks.co.uk
MONUMENTS 22/10/22 NORWICH HISTORIC CHURCHES TRUST - 10AM-6PM Jonathan Trayner and Jamie Dyson will be showing their video piece 'after the rain' which features Grotto di Catullo (Italy) after a torrential downpour.
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honor ash will be joining us on 22/10/22 for Monuments at Norwich Historic Churches Trust Find out more about honor Catch their work at hnr.fyi/
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Jazz Owen previously joined us for @misplacementmag, and will be exhibiting their work on Norfolk folklore at Monuments. etsy.com/uk/shop/JazzOwenart Instagram - @jazzzzzzzzhands Website - jazzowen.com website portfolio
MONUMENTS 22/10/22 10AM - 6PM Norwich Historic Churches Trust Next week is our Monuments exhibition!!! We're super excited. There's going to be art, poetry, performances a small art sale of exhibitors.
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Alex is throwing a last minute house show to send off the former placeholder hq. This is going to be scrappy and diy, then jakob is doing a well planned and professional art show on the 22nd, plus we've redone the website. hot poet autumn, we're coming back. Dm for the address 💖
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thanks to @salopress for putting on a fantastic indie book fair! we're having a wonderful time, and if you're in #norwich, it would be great to see you too!
a photo taken from behind a table of books, zines and stickers at a book fair. people are talking, milling, and buying books in the background.

ALT a photo taken from behind a table of books, zines and stickers at a book fair. people are talking, milling, and buying books in the background.

Poster for the Norwich Indie book and zine fair, Saturday 14th of may at anteros arts, 10 - 5

ALT Poster for the Norwich Indie book and zine fair, Saturday 14th of may at anteros arts, 10 - 5

a photo of placeholder press' table, featuring four of our books, a stack of stickers featuring our logo and another design of the trans pride flag, and a small box of DIY zines and badges.

ALT a photo of placeholder press' table, featuring four of our books, a stack of stickers featuring our logo and another design of the trans pride flag, and a small box of DIY zines and badges.
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okay, we should have the second run of Entertainer of the Year Runner-Up sorted next week, ready for a table at the Norwich Indie Book Fair the week after, a Placeholder Poetry Social the week after that, before seeing out May with a new community project. exciting!
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coming up to the halfway point of #NaPoWriMo - how are we all feeling? if you're looking for today's inspiration, or need some brilliant poetry to beat the burnout, we just put 'Body as a second language' by Juliana Chang up on the site placeholderpress.co.uk/issue…
spent a lot of the weekend staring at a screen, so decided to get out of the house and put some poems up around the city. these are just pages torn out of Placeholder Issue 2, but should we print some proper posters for next time?
A large tree on a cobbled Tudor street. A bench has been built around the tree, and a book page has been taped to one of the seats.

ALT A large tree on a cobbled Tudor street. A bench has been built around the tree, and a book page has been taped to one of the seats.

A book page duct taped to a bright red postbox in a city centre.

ALT A book page duct taped to a bright red postbox in a city centre.

A book page taped to a parking meter on a city side street. The page features an artwork of words forming a ring. At the top of the ring, the words expand out as if two points collided.

ALT A book page taped to a parking meter on a city side street. The page features an artwork of words forming a ring. At the top of the ring, the words expand out as if two points collided.

A photo of a riverside walk, featuring wooden art pieces reminiscent of ship cargo. Taped to one of these is a page of poetry.

ALT A photo of a riverside walk, featuring wooden art pieces reminiscent of ship cargo. Taped to one of these is a page of poetry.
if you missed it: we're coming back from hiatus! in april we're improving what we've already done - reprints, upgrades, and making more of what we've published available on the website. today, we're sharing 'SHOPLIFTING GLITTER ON FRIDAY 13TH' by Thai Io: placeholderpress.co.uk/issue…
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a message i want to give placeholder: "I think about you all the time, and I love you, and I'm sorry I dropped off the radar. I can't promise I won't ever do it again, but I can promise I want to put the energy in and I want to be there." i love this press! new poem tomorrow ❤️
we're coming back ❤️ full post about the hiatus to come on the site for anyone interested, but so we're excited to return! we'll be spending april improving what we've done already, may is for community events, then new work in the summer we missed you. happy to have home ❤️
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our reboot is taking a while because jakob and i had to fire each other for making fun of poetry. going to spend the week putting everything from issue 1 and 2 online while we figure out whether bullying prose poets gets a pass because they're a bit more like sally rooney
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Placeholder Press retweeted
rrramble.@rrramble
17 Jun 2021
New to the lit scene, @readplaceholder is trying to do it all: print, poetry, art essays, the lot. Over ambitious, or a stroke of genius? Head over to rrramble.co.uk to find out what our writers thought > > bit.ly/2UfP872✨
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i'm really excited about the placeholder phase 2.0 we're putting together here. we're having meetings and shit. jakob made me make a trello account.
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sorry we haven't tweeted in three months, i've been trying to figure out how to make a pride month version of this logo that doesn't look like a hate crime
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Placeholder Press retweeted
🦉 misplacement magazine 🐙@misplacementmag
23 Apr 2021
We are delighted to have Emma Levin back for Misplacement Magazine. Back in Issue 1 of @readplaceholder we featured her instructions on how to install your freeview box and survive an encounter with yourself. You can read it on our website now. misplacement.co.uk/how-to-in…
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