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Dadaoism is the first anthology from Chômu Press. Editors Justin Isis and Quentin S. Crisp have selected twenty-six novellas, short stories and poems setting out an aesthetic manifesto of rich and stimulating prose style, explosively unhindered imagination and anarchic experimentation.

In their submissions guidelines, they challenged would-be contributors as follows: "We aspire to edit and compile an anthology that will be the literary and psychic equivalent of a tour around the edges of a dying galaxy in a spectacularly malfunctioning space vehicle." Please "take your protein pills and put your helmet on"; this is not easy reading. Expect views of some fantastic literary nebulae, and encounters with word-form singularities.

From Reggie Oliver's 'Portrait of a Chair', in which consciousness is explored from the point of view of furniture, to John Cairns' 'Instance', a nano-second by nano-second account of a high-speed telepathic conversation, to Julie Sokolow's 'The Lobster Kaleidoscope' in which naïve wordplay acts as a foundation for existentialist philosophy in a story of inter-species love; from those such as Michael Cisco, with growing followings, to unexpected new voices such as Katherine Khorey, Dadaoism presents a mystery tour of the literary imagination to demonstrate that outside of exhausted mainstream realism and uninspired genre tropes, contemporary English-language writing is thriving and creatively vital.

Contents:

• 1 'Portrait of a Chair', by Reggie Oliver
• 2 'Autumn Jewel', by Katherine Khorey
• 3 'Visiting Maze', by Michael Cisco
• 4 'The Houses Among the Trees', by Colin Insole
• 5 'Affection 45′, by Brendan Connell
• 6 'M-Funk Vs. Tha Futuregions of Inverse Funkativity', by Justin Isis
• 7 'Spirit and Corpus', by Yarrow Paisley
• 8 'Timelines', by Nina Allan
• 9 'Jimmy Breaks up with His Imaginary Girlfriend', by Jimmy Grist
• 10 'Body Poem', by Peter Gilbert
• 11 'Testing Spark', by Daniel Mills
• 12 'Noises', by Joe Simpson Walker
• 13 'Romance, with Mice', by Sonia Orin Lyris
• 14 'Grief (The Autobiography of a Tarantula)', by Jesse Kennedy
• 15 'Orange Cuts', by Paul Jessup
• 16 'Instance', by John Cairns
• 17 'Kago Ai', by Ralph Doege
• 18 'Fighting Back', by Rhys Hughes
• 19 'Nowhere Room', by Kristine Ong Muslim
• 20 'Koda Kumi', a Justin Isis re-mix of 'Italiannetto' by Quentin S. Crisp
• 21 'The Lobster Kaleidoscope', by Julie Sokolow
• 22 'The Eaten Boy', by Nick Jackson
• 23 'Poppies', by Megan Lee Beals
• 24 'Abra Raven', by D.F. Lewis
• 25 'Pissing in Barbican Lake', by Jeremy Reed
• 26 'Rock 'n' Roll Suicides', by Jeremy Reed