Having spent three years in the early 1990s occupying properties and protesting in Claremont Road, east London, in Place Waste Dissent poet Paul Hawkins maps the run-off, rackets and resistance along the route of the proposed M11 Link Road.
From Claremont Road to Cameron via surveillance culture and Occupy: transient-beta memory traces re-surfacing along the A12. This collection is an important reflection on a historic site of resistance, offering us illumination, ideas and inspiration for the future.
Influx Press (1st edition 2015)
DIISONANCE was initially based on a series of responses to Place Waste Dissent by Steve Ryan. The book contains artworks by Steve Ryan & Paul Hawkins, as well as new, collaborative & experimental poetry by Sarer Scotthorne, Miggy Angel, Andrew Jeffrey, Janine Ellul, Roy McFarlane, Linda Kemp, Rowan Evans, Leire Barrera, Dan Eltringham, Seni Seneviratne, Emteaz Hussain, Paul Hawkins, George Askwith, and Arts on the Run members Passy Kulmisli, Vertaa Lune, Maachouq Hamza & Mark Wood. More info here
Hesterglock Press (2017)
Place Waste Dissent
expanded 2nd edition due 2020
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Paul Hawkins works mainly in poetry, visual art, & performance. Paul co-runs Hesterglock Press with Sarer Scotthorne, publishing mostly the future-facing. They’ve written a number of books, some collaborative, some not. Their most recent is Go Sift Omen (Knives Forks and Spoons Press, 2019).