After a brilliant Adelaide launch at Hard Boiled sore heads have been rested and its time for the boys hometown launch of their anthology of short stories:

Croak & Grist – Shane Jesse Christmass and Hop Dac.
Saturday 1st March, 2pm
Collected Works Bookshop
1 / 37 Swanston St, Melbourne
(03) 9654 8873

Collected Works has been a big supporter of Paroxysm for years and it’ll be a great venue for a Saturday afternoon. This top-shelf book of short stories is already selling well in Melbourne even before it’s launched so this should be a good one.

I’ll be flying into Melbourne that day to introduce the readings from Hop and Shane but then leaving for Adelaide the same day as Sunday the 2nd marks the start of Adelaide Writers Week. Keep an eye out for Paroxysm products at the book selling tent at this six day event.

A quick reminder people Shane Jesse Christmass and Hop Dac wing their way into Adelaide for the long awaited launch of Croak & Grist. Copies of the book will be available for $15 on the night (usually $20) plus pick up a copy of the two Paroxysm anthologies these boys have appeared in: Shotgun – $15 (usually $18) and Waste – $15 (usually $16).

Thursday Feburary 14th .
Hard Boiled @ La Boheme, 36 Grote St,
Free entry
7:30 for an 8pm start
(DON’T BE LATE as the launch is up first before the open mic)

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And for those of you in Melbourne waiting for your Croak & Grist launch – in the meantime why not get down to the launch of :

Exit Wounds from Heather Taylor-Johnson – a book filled with poems on birth & death.
Feb 15th, Wesley Anne on High St in Northcote, 8:30.

You’ll probably already know Heather from the ever popular Fingers & Tongues.

Adelaide crew – sorry but Heathers launch here has already been and gone.

Finally its here – the Adelaide launch of the long awaited collection of short stories, Croak & Grist. With the books authors Shane Jesse Christmass and Hop Dac coming all the way from Melbourne for this reading it really is a must see. So Adelaide crew get down to the next Hard Boiled sessions to see and hear live these two top shelf Paroxysm writers. Both guys should be familiar to you, having previously appeared in both Waste and Shotgun.

Thursday Feburary 14th .
Hard Boiled @ La Boheme, 36 Grote St,
Free entry
7:30 for an 8pm start
(so be on time to catch the readings as the launch is up first)
Then stay on for the open mic where the best poet on the night gets the cash.

CROAK & GRIST:
Read with caution. Croak & Grist is a psychotic collection of work from two thoroughbreds of the Paroxysm Press stable. The stories are host to paranoia, schizophrenia, illusion, delusion, mysticism, love and redemption, themes that are excruciatingly extracted, and transmitted in such an unflinching manner that they may cause a contamination in the mind.

Stay tuned for details of the Melbourne launch.