Shadow Archer Press

the Holy Hermaphrodite

by Antony Hitchin

Cover art by Steve Viner

  A.D.Hitchin (UK) is a sometimes heretical purveyor of poetry and prose.  Poetry is one of his more respectable vices and he has been published in numerous small press and independent journals including ‘3AM’, ‘Zygote in my Coffee’, ‘Underground Voices’, ‘Ditch’ and ‘Guild of Outsider Writers.’ He is interested in violating both poetic and social conventional ’norms’ and detests the mundane. Antony is particularly passionate about trying to transcend dualities and binaries in his work. You can catch newly updated experiments at: www.myspace.com/antonyhitchin and http://antonyhitchin.blogspot.com/

  Cover Artist, Steve Viner

 (Dorset, UK)  is predominately a digital artist, using various found and made objects that create very dark gothic images. He is currently working on illustrating a children's book with an already published poet/ author, Petra  Whiteley with other projects pending. He has had a successful exhibition, which surprisingly due to the artistic content went well with a broad cross section of people. His work is due to be published in Osprey, The Glasgow Review, Unlikely 2.0. His cover art has been published in the first issue of Deep Tissue Magazine, Fissure #5 and on the cover of Connie Stadler’s chapbook, Tinted Steam. http://www.myspace.com/visionpig

 e-mail: visualpig@yahoo.co.uk

13 poems, 48 pages, including the interview,  "Cut Up in the 21st century" with Christopher Nosnibor.      signed limited edition 

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 Praise for ].the Holy Hermaphrodite

 

   'Antony Hitchin is one of England's most prolific, most VARIED and most excellent poets.'

- Duane Locke‏ ('Who's Who In America' [Marquis], 6,000 published poems [None self published or subsidized], Author of several collections including 'Watching Wisteria'[Vida Publishing] and forthcoming book, 'Yang Chu's Poems' [Crossing Chaos

 “A. D. Hitchin’s work is visionary, highly original and striking. The stunning pieces with their complex thoughts immediately pierce through the readers, connecting them to and speaking vividly to their unconscious parts of psyches, breaking through the barriers and bringing the striking images & concepts to life within their consciousness. The work is pulsing, charged, thought-provoking and unified by the theme of confronting the dualities and primal matrixes, seeking their resolution in - as the title suggests - The Holy Hermaphrodite. The styles are varied, brilliantly crafted, show his uniqueness and distinctive voice and his fantastic range. This poet is one to watch out for, he is one for the history of literature as it will be written for these times.”

 -- Petra Whiteley,(U.K) prose editor, Eviscerator Heaven, and author of The Nomad’s Trail (Ettrick Forest Press), regular writer for The Glasgow Review, reviewer and critic for Eleutheria, etc…

 “Words like genius and brilliant are often tossed about. This is not the case here. This is, by far, the most important chap I have ever read. This is beyond requisite reading for any poet; ignore it at your peril. A.D. Hitchin has transformed the Gysin/Burroughs cut up in a genre transmuting way. His themes of binaries, sexuality, identity, and the aching self imposed predicament of modern man scream, and the form and linguistic mastery blisteringly enhance originality second to none. Other poems such as Stars, Lucille, and Nubian are mind-bendingly beautiful with devastating impact.
 
 There is no question by the end of the 21^st century; Hitchin will be a name in the canons of the Greats.”
 
— Constance Stadler (USA), author Tinted Steam (Shadow Archer Press) and Sublunary Curse, (Erbacce Press) featured poet at Guild of Outsider Writers

     “The cut-up technique has come a long way since it was first devised by William Burroughs and Brion Gysin in 1959. and while perhaps only the latest in a long lineage of cut-up poets, it's no exaggeration to say that Antony Hitchin has effectively revitalised the cut-up technique and made it his own.

 Where his works differ from that of so many others is that he does not slavishly and uncritically cut and paste: Hitchin has truly mastered the technique in order to fashion poems which are not only revelatory in their experimentalism, but meaningful, on an infinite number of levels.

 This collection of poems demonstrates Hitchin's remarkable versatility, and his capacity to unravel – and to forge – new meanings from the tired old hulk of our language. Simultaneously reflecting and attempting to find meaning in the chaos of modern life, the works contained herein appear fresher and reveal new, different aspects with repeated reading. There is no doubt in my mind that Hitchin is one of the most – if not the most – exciting poets around. The revolution really does start here. “

 — Christopher Nosnibor (UK),  author of The Plagiarist and Bad Houses

“Antony Hitchin is a writer who's been wowing those with their eye on the most vireative corners of the cybernetic underground for awhile now. He has something to say and isn't shy about exploring boundary-defying ways of saying it. And that makes this one of the most highly-anticipated chap releases of the year. Miss this one, and you miss out big-time!”
 
—-Robert Chrysler (U.K.) Every Exit Impossible To Imagine With Wings (Trainwreck Press), founder of Discharge 2 Writers Group

  “Antony Hitchin is a lingual alchemist. In The Holy Hermaphrodite, he not only cuts-up and experiments with the idea of what poetry is, but how our very mind perceives these written words. Much like in his poem, Stars, "through transparent membrane walls everything starts."

 —  Suzanne Burns (USA), author of Misfits and Other Heroes