Ben Redhead
2025
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115 x 195mm, 32 pages, Black & white printing, Saddle stitched, Letterpressed softcover, Edition of 100, 2025
Cows and other poems is a collection of recent poems by Ben Redhead.
Ben Redhead is a writer originally from Leeds, who has lived a third of his life in Glasgow, and is now based in Marseille. He has previously had work published by Worms Magazine, Sticky Fingers and Death of Workers While Building Skyscrapers. Cows and other poems is his debut pamphlet.
Erudite poetry emerges from the darkness of dreams. Redhead’s debut is where "letters go blind" —a penumbral precision, a lyric register built like a bothy: austere yet lit with conscience. Sensibility is awake here, embodied in verse both elemental and exact. There are flax-field passions and city cowsheds; a rural roughness meeting a busy sidewalk fag-end. It is poetry that roams the earth as it remembers the mind.
— Eleanor Tennyson
It takes a particular kind of poet to come up with “someone was handing out relief to all / but it’s blame-poisoned / as soon as you touch it it’s your fault”. And yet reading Ben Redhead’s pamphlet involves the quick realization that you have stumbled upon this illusive- whispered-about-poet. Burden’s tactical aftermath (to touch is to be burdened) are the points of drama in these poems I found myself most moved by; the betrayals of “real real real” so sharp. The reoccurring lexical instabilities, suffused with starving horses and so much love – not just relational love but love for Palestine, love to abolish the police –come together so well in these beautiful, strange little poems. Ah, you think towards the end of the pamphlet, I hear the moan with which the world rebirths itself.
— Leo Bussi
Owain Train McGilvary
2025
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127 x 162mm, 78 pages, Colour printing, Risograph & letter press covers, 2025
Charting McGilvary’s research over the past four years into The Threes Crowns, north Wales’ only gar bar which closed due to an arson attack in 2014, Coronau includes drawings, collages and filmstills by McGilvary, as well as texts by Adrian Howard and Marcus Jack.
Published in conjunction with Batman!, an exhibition of new paintings by Owain Train McGilvary at 20 Albert Road programmed by Lunchtime.
Owain Train McGilvary is an artist from Ynys Môn. He usually works with artist’s video, drawing, collage and painting. His projects pay particularly close attention to cross-disciplinary collaborations and reconfiguring existing archives. Previously he has worked with wrestlers, drag artists, musicians, writers and other visual artists to create multimedia, multilingual and multi-imaginative works.
Recent exhibitions include I’m attended as a portal myself with Bobbi Cameron for Glasgow International, Seeing Red at Pontio Arts Centre and Fel gwacter with Dylan Huw at Mostyn Gallery (all in 2024). In 2022-2023 he was a Wales Venice 10 Fellow supported by Arts Council Wales, Artes Mundi and DAC. He holds an MFA from The Glasgow School of Art and a BA(Hons) in Fine Art from Central Saint Martins. Between September - December he will undertake the Creative Wales Fellowship at The British School at Rome, looking to compare the comic book world of RanXerox with Giorgio De Chirico’s metaphysical paintings.
Julia Gilmour
2023
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30 x 200mm, 24 pages, risograph and full colour printing, saddle stitched
Published on the occasion of her exhibition Clutch, programmed by Lunchtime Gallery at 20 Albert Road, Glasgow (16.12.23 – 07.01.24), Clutch is a collection of poetry and drawings on paper by Julia Gilmour. Gilmour's poems are born from explorations into pop culture, working in and frequenting bars and raves in Glasgow, her personal experience of sobriety, the importance of her queer friends and family, including her uncle who died of AIDS in the 1990s, as well as her experiences of working in the fashion industry. Clutch uses words as another way to draw, experimenting with forms and stylistic choices. Clutch is interested in how we are interwoven with and often beholden to our everyday objects and materials.
Julia Gilmour is an artist from Glasgow. She is studying for an undergraduate degree in Scottish Literature and English Literature with a focus on Creative Writing at the University of Glasgow. She has exhibited in the group shows, Pop Girls Run Riot, French Street Studios, Glasgow (2023) and Are you free on Sunday?, Cathcart Road, Glasgow (2022).
Emalia Mattia
2023
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138 x 196mm, 32 pages, risograph printed, saddle stitched, comes with 3 inserts.
Published on the occasion of their exhibition Vessels at Lunchtime Gallery (02.12.22 - 05.02.23), Inscriptions and Verses is a pamphlet of writing and drawing by Emalia Mattia. Mattia repurposes lyrics and chords that their Grandmother would tape to the back of her autoharp when playing in her bluegrass band in the 1970s, accompanying them with fluid drawings of bodies in expressions of labour and passion, strife and joy. These characters, much like the ones in Mattia's paintings, become stand-in performers amongst imagined scenarios that embody local architecture, historical artifacts and illustrations of desire, as well as American country musician Tammy Wynette's the stoical lyric 'A real good life is hard to find'.
Emalia Mattia was born in Washington D.C. and grew up mainly in Liguria, Italy. Since graduating from the Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia in 2018, they have been developing their painting, printmaking, and performance practice in Glasgow for the past four years.
2022
Texts by Caitlin Merrett King, Teddy Coste and Phoebe Eccles.
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157 x 235 mm, 24 pages, risograph printed, saddle stitched
THE JUNCTION was a performance at Lunchtime Gallery by Teddy Coste that took place on 15th July 2022. A performance about trying to be an artist and trying to make a living, Coste criticises the looping and vertical game of Capitalism as it plays out in both gig work (working as a Deliveroo driver) and trying to establish oneself in a local art scene.
Teddy Coste is an artist who lives between Glasgow and Paris. He has performed at Radio Athènes (Athens), Montevideo (Marseille), Treize (Paris), Swimming Pool (Sofia), Het Nieuwe Instituut (Rotterdam) and Sans Serriffe (Amsterdam).