Event
The book launch of "Knitting drum machines for exiled tongues" took place on Thursday 23 February 2023, Morocco Bound bookshop, 1 Morocco Street, Bermondsey, London.
Download Knitting drum machines book launch flier.
Read here blog announcing the book launch by David Caddy.
The story of Morocco Bound
Firstly, the name reflects the shop’s location: Morocco Street. The area used to be famous for both its tanneries and its printing industry. Moroccan leather was some of the finest quality out there, so it was used for binding books back in the day.
It is also a pun which comes from the film The Road to Morocco in which Bing Crosby and Bob Hope travelling on a camel, Morocco bound!
With special guests: Tears in the Fence book editor and poet David Caddy, reader Bridget Knapper, and Prof Debra Kelly, Emerita in Modern Languages, Univ. of Westminster and Visiting Senior Research Fellow in the Centre for Language Acts and Worldmaking, King’s College London.
Book Reviews
Mark Leahy, 'this isn't a palimpsest about loss', Stride magazine, March 2023.
Simon Collins, Knitting drum machines for exiled tongues, Tears in the Fence, issue 77, p. 127-130.
Silvia La Bruna, Compte rendu: Knitting drum machines for exiled tongues (in French), Coordination internationale des chercheur.e.s sur les littératures maghrébines (International Association of Researchers on Maghrebian Literatures (CICLIM).
A translation in English of the CICLIM review is available here.
