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ⵜⴰⵏⵙⴻⵎⵜ / Tenement Press, a house for homeless
ideas, is an independent publications project dedicated
to the championship and promotion of experimental
literary works—in English and first-time translation.
ideas, is an independent publications project dedicated
to the championship and promotion of experimental
literary works—in English and first-time translation.
(New works.)
(16.01.26)
Yellowjacket 23 /
978-1-917304-08-5
Everything that folds from Fowler’s soft bag of brain is a phenomenal and precious gift, and one anyone truly interested in language, human coping and the murk-sparks of the mind should know.
—Han Smith
SJ Fowler is a writer, poet and performer living in London. His collections include I will show you the life of the mind (on prescription drugs) (Dostoyevsky Wannabe, 2020), The Great Apes (Broken Sleep Books, 2022) and The Parts of the Body that Stink (Hesterglock, 2024). His work has become known for its exploration of the potential of poetry, alongside collaboration, curation, asemic writing, sound poetry, concrete poetry, and improvised talking performances. He has been commissioned by institutions such as the The National Gallery, Tate Modern, Wellcome Collection and Southbank Centre, and he has presented his work at over fifty international festivals, including Hay Xalapa, Mexico; Dhaka Lit Fest; Hay Arequipa, Peru; and the Niniti Festival, Iraq. Fowler was nominated for the White Review Short Story Prize, 2014, and his short stories have appeared in anthologies, such as Isabel Waidner’s edited collection, Liberating the Canon (Dostoyevsky Wannabe, 2018). In 2022, Tenement Press published MUEUM, Fowler’s debut novella, which was shortlisted for the 2022/2023 edition of the Republic of Consciousness Prize for Small Presses.
(05.03.26)
Yellowjacket 24 /
978-1-917304-13-9
With aphorism, deep pith and humour, Nadia de Vries delivers her sly lines and contrarian point of view with great force, making for an uncomfortable music.
—Peter Gizzi
Nadia de Vries is a poet from Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Her previous collections include Know Thy Audience (MOIST, 2023), I Failed to Swoon (Dostoyevsky Wannabe, 2021) and Dark Hour (Dostoyevsky Wannabe, 2018). She also writes fiction in Dutch. Her novels De bakvis (Uitgeverij Pluim, 2022) and Overgave op commando (2025) were translated to English by Sarah Timmer Harvey as, respectively, Thistle (The New Menard Press, 2024) and Surrender on Demand (Bloomsbury, 2027).
(16.01.26)
Yellowjacket 23 /
978-1-917304-08-5
Everything that folds from Fowler’s soft bag of brain is a phenomenal and precious gift, and one anyone truly interested in language, human coping and the murk-sparks of the mind should know.
—Han Smith
SJ Fowler is a writer, poet and performer living in London. His collections include I will show you the life of the mind (on prescription drugs) (Dostoyevsky Wannabe, 2020), The Great Apes (Broken Sleep Books, 2022) and The Parts of the Body that Stink (Hesterglock, 2024). His work has become known for its exploration of the potential of poetry, alongside collaboration, curation, asemic writing, sound poetry, concrete poetry, and improvised talking performances. He has been commissioned by institutions such as the The National Gallery, Tate Modern, Wellcome Collection and Southbank Centre, and he has presented his work at over fifty international festivals, including Hay Xalapa, Mexico; Dhaka Lit Fest; Hay Arequipa, Peru; and the Niniti Festival, Iraq. Fowler was nominated for the White Review Short Story Prize, 2014, and his short stories have appeared in anthologies, such as Isabel Waidner’s edited collection, Liberating the Canon (Dostoyevsky Wannabe, 2018). In 2022, Tenement Press published MUEUM, Fowler’s debut novella, which was shortlisted for the 2022/2023 edition of the Republic of Consciousness Prize for Small Presses.
(05.03.26)
Yellowjacket 24 /
978-1-917304-13-9
With aphorism, deep pith and humour, Nadia de Vries delivers her sly lines and contrarian point of view with great force, making for an uncomfortable music.
—Peter Gizzi
Nadia de Vries is a poet from Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Her previous collections include Know Thy Audience (MOIST, 2023), I Failed to Swoon (Dostoyevsky Wannabe, 2021) and Dark Hour (Dostoyevsky Wannabe, 2018). She also writes fiction in Dutch. Her novels De bakvis (Uitgeverij Pluim, 2022) and Overgave op commando (2025) were translated to English by Sarah Timmer Harvey as, respectively, Thistle (The New Menard Press, 2024) and Surrender on Demand (Bloomsbury, 2027).
(Works on the make.)
(20th March 2026)
Yellowjacket 25 /
978-1-917304-12-2
(24th April 2026)
Yellowjacket 26 /
978-1-917304-11-5
(8th May 2026)
Yellowjacket 27 /
978-1-917304-14-6
(29th May 2026)
No University Press 3 /
978-1-917304-15-3
(26th June 2026)
Yellowjacket 28 /
978-1-917304-16-0
(Catalogue raisonné.)
(16.01.26)
Yellowjacket 23 /
978-1-917304-08-5
Everything that folds from Fowler’s soft bag of brain is a phenomenal and precious gift, and one anyone truly interested in language, human coping and the murk-sparks of the mind should know.
—Han Smith
—Han Smith
(25.10.25)
Yellowjacket 22 /
978-1-917304-06-1
Kivland, here, is this non-existent woman, meaning everywhere, and everywhere drives meaning. The meaning of this book is desire, its way of constricting, dilating, evading, enveloping...
—Vanessa Place
Yellowjacket 22 /
978-1-917304-06-1
Kivland, here, is this non-existent woman, meaning everywhere, and everywhere drives meaning. The meaning of this book is desire, its way of constricting, dilating, evading, enveloping...
—Vanessa Place
(30.09.25)
Yellowjacket 21 /
978-1-917304-10-8
Martz lends
her lips to speak
and be spoken.
We are a nudge closer
to the oracle.
—Arto Lindsay
(05.09.25)
Yellowjacket 20 /
978-1-917304-09-2
A wondrous terrain ringed by vines of unruly syntax and dotted with the fruit of words refusing domestication by any single tongue.
—Mia You
(16.06.25)
Yellowjacket 19 /
978-1-917304-03-0
What is happening in Gaza is a genocide not a war, but not since Akhmatova have I read poetry that so potently reckons with the relationship between war and the body. They create a new category of literary grace out of the cataclysm. These are poems of fire and agony, bombing and starvation, but they are also poems of grace, cleverness, tenderness and yearning. A great international poet arrives with this collection, but it is also a landmark work of resistance. No human should have to write their poetry from inside death's dominion, but Batool Abu Akleen has done it, and the result is truly astonishing.
—Max Porter
(04.04.25)
Yellowjacket 18 /
978-1-917304-04-7
A completely unique and compellingly brilliant work.
—Holly Pester
(21.03.25)
Harry Caul 1 /
978-1-917304-07-8
The ultimate agenda across Schtinter’s work, it seems, is an attempt to create a form of critical awareness regarding the destruction of certain intellectual and volitional faculties that humanity has fought to preserve over centuries—namely, the autonomy of thought and action.
—Art Monthly
Harry Caul 1 /
978-1-917304-07-8
The ultimate agenda across Schtinter’s work, it seems, is an attempt to create a form of critical awareness regarding the destruction of certain intellectual and volitional faculties that humanity has fought to preserve over centuries—namely, the autonomy of thought and action.
—Art Monthly
(28.02.25)
Yellowjacket 17 /
978-1-917304-05-4
A wonderful bringing together of natural and cultural histories.
—Tom McCarthy
Yellowjacket 17 /
978-1-917304-05-4
A wonderful bringing together of natural and cultural histories.
—Tom McCarthy
(13.12.24)
Yellowjacket 16 /
978-1-917304-02-3
Moger’s supple translation deftly navigates the text’s associative meanderings. Breathless, the reader stands amazed.
—Omar Berrada
(22.11.24)
Yellowjacket 15 /
978-1-917304-01-6
Inspired by sermons recorded in Black churches in the 1920s and 1930s, Sante’s are soul poems for 21st-century uncertainty.
—Ursula /
Hauser & Wirth
(31.10.24)
Yellowjacket 14 /
978-1-917304-00-9
[McCabe] is a man to be respected and enjoyed.
—Ivor Cutler
(30.09.24)
No University Press 2 /
978-1-7393851-7-0
Midsummer Song intermingles a lodestar of potent poetic sources into a lyric architecture which refuses to be singular in form or bound by convention.
—Laynie Browne
(23.08.24)
Yellowjacket 13 /
978-1-7393851-9-4
Tusa finds the words that won’t fill the disquiet and the terror of the illegible revolt of the elements against our way of production.
—Claire Fontaine
Yellowjacket 13 /
978-1-7393851-9-4
Tusa finds the words that won’t fill the disquiet and the terror of the illegible revolt of the elements against our way of production.
—Claire Fontaine
(31.07.24)
John Cassavetes 2 /
978-1-7393851-5-6
Jaeckle demonstrates how the cut-up’s disruption is also its irrigation, suspending these poems in quiet menace and beauty.
—Daisy Lafarge
John Cassavetes 2 /
978-1-7393851-5-6
Jaeckle demonstrates how the cut-up’s disruption is also its irrigation, suspending these poems in quiet menace and beauty.
—Daisy Lafarge
(31.07.24)
John Cassavetes 1 /
978-1-7393851-4-9
Coursing through it this essential belief: that the right painted apple, the right sentence, the right thought: would change the world. The revolution is in the waiting room.
—Mike Hoolboom
(01.07.24)
Yellowjacket 12 /
978-1-7393851-8-7
Attlee’s curt and cute syntactical meanderings elucidate a cosy, foamy and furious domestic space that feels like a quiet feminist revolution.
—Rachael Allen
Yellowjacket 12 /
978-1-7393851-8-7
Attlee’s curt and cute syntactical meanderings elucidate a cosy, foamy and furious domestic space that feels like a quiet feminist revolution.
—Rachael Allen
(22.04.24)
Yellowjacket 11 /
978-1-7393851-2-5
Benedetti’s writing—concise, lyrical, irrepressible—charts ideological and spiritual discovery.
—Leo Boix
Yellowjacket 11 /
978-1-7393851-2-5
Benedetti’s writing—concise, lyrical, irrepressible—charts ideological and spiritual discovery.
—Leo Boix
(01.03.24)
No University Press 1 /
978-1-7393851-3-2
An excavation of future thinking. In its radical mode of communal translation, An Anarchist Playbook recovers equally radical political energies.
—Adam Thirlwell
(05.11.23)
Yellowjacket 10 /
978-1-7393851-1-8
Profound and riveting, Schtinter’s graveyard perspective offers up a rich and startlingly novel view of cinema, angled through cemetery gates before the closing credits. A remarkable accomplishment.
—Alan Moore
Yellowjacket 10 /
978-1-7393851-1-8
Profound and riveting, Schtinter’s graveyard perspective offers up a rich and startlingly novel view of cinema, angled through cemetery gates before the closing credits. A remarkable accomplishment.
—Alan Moore
(05.11.23)
Tenement Press
x purge.xxx
978-1-7393851-1-8
Here is the endgame of endgames.
—Iain Sinclair
(19.10.23)
Tenement Press
x Prototype Publishing /
978-1-913513-46-7
If Hotel itself were a concrete edifice, it would be more like Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas’s Circus-Circus than the Grand Budapest, despite its tasteful, clean exterior.
—TLS
(21.07.23)
Yellowjacket 9 /
978-1-7393851-0-1
The Pink Plastic Glove is a supreme act of faith and despair.
—David Keenan
(09.06.23)
Yellowjacket 8 /
978-1-8380200-9-5
Baraheni is a literary man, so his revolt took the form of breathing ‘reality and harshness’ into the Persian language, and turning it against his oppressors.
—Kirkus
(14.12.22)
Yellowjacket 7 /
978-1-8380200-8-8
A 20th century Dante, he grieves at inequity, feels disgusted by corruption, and wails against the evil that people do.
—Lynne Tillman
(04.10.22)
Yellowjacket 6 /
978-1-8380200-7-1
Remarkable prose poems for the 21st century.
—Chloe Aridjis
(24.10.22)
Yellowjacket 5 /
978-1-8380200-5-7
If Los Angeles were Paris, Jeffrey Vallance would surely be declared a national treasure.
—Artforum
(28.06.22)
Yellowjacket 4 /
978-1-8380200-6-4
SJ Fowler's MUEUM is an essential artefact for our troubled times.
—Chris McCabe
Yellowjacket 4 /
978-1-8380200-6-4
SJ Fowler's MUEUM is an essential artefact for our troubled times.
—Chris McCabe
(28.02.22)
Yellowjacket 3 /
978-1-8380200-4-0
This is translation as intrepid and inspired re-visioning, a form of poetry of its own, as forged by Edward FitzGerald, Ezra Pound and Anne Carson.
—Marina Warner
(23.10.21)
Yellowjacket 2 /
978-1-8380200-3-3
Schtinter runs with wolves.
—Sukhdev Sandhu
Yellowjacket 2 /
978-1-8380200-3-3
Schtinter runs with wolves.
—Sukhdev Sandhu
(15.04.21)
Yellowjacket 1 /
978-1-8380200-1-9
Both wise and wild, [Brossa’s] poems are surreal and matter-of-fact, playful and minimalist and utterly original. In his ability to make it new, Brossa is an essential modern poet.
—Colm Tóibín
Yellowjacket 1 /
978-1-8380200-1-9
Both wise and wild, [Brossa’s] poems are surreal and matter-of-fact, playful and minimalist and utterly original. In his ability to make it new, Brossa is an essential modern poet.
—Colm Tóibín