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Claire Potter
ROUND THAT WAY, 2017



But the air lays thin and low in the towns around here. Precipitation from the hills causes the pressure to drop off, it puts distance between the air’s molecules, bringing on headaches and low spots where storms kick up. Round that way is Claire Potter’s second published book. It brings together CHAVSCUMBOSS, a poetic experiment in writing while watching the performance of masculinity by the YouTube user of the same name—and a short story, PRESSURE, in which a house fire raises painful heat in the residents of a small northern town.

‘Claire Potter’s writing is like a wicked eye, scanning behaviours, angles and dimensions. This new work turns line-breaks into a kind of social thought, and beats stories out of the awkward gaps in country, accent, architecture, and flesh. Left stung by its pages, readers will take great pleasure from the extraordinarily nervy shapes and voices in this book.’
-> Holly Pester

Born in St. Helens, Merseyside, Claire Potter is an artist, writer, and performer, publishing and performing widely, with work commissioned by Tate, Wysing Arts Centre, and Arts Councils in England, Ireland, Northern Ireland, and Norway.

Their experimental fiction Mental Furniture is published by VerySmallKitchen (2014)—extracts are recorded and released as Mother To No Swimming Laughing Child, with collaborator Bridget Hayden (Fort Evil Fruit, 2015). They organise Shady Dealings With Language, an event and publishing project of performance and art writing. They live and work along Todmorden Smash Belt.




40 pages
170 mm x 105 mm,
60 mm cover flaps
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 978-1-910055-38-0
£6.00




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