- Ins & Outs Press
Ins & Outs Press is a small
English-language publisher with international connections based inAmsterdam and registered in theNetherlands as a cultural foundation, or "stichting". It was started in 1980 byEddie Woods , Jane Harvey and Henk van der Does as a natural extension of "Ins & Outs" magazine, the first three issues of which were produced by Woods and Harvey in 1978. For two years the Press also operated the Ins & Outs Bookstore, located on the 'quiet fringe of the red-light district,' until Van der Does left the organization to start his own bookshop and Woods converted the ground floor of the six-story Ins & Outs building into a gallery and performance space.The Press remained periodically active throughout the 1980s and into the early 1990s. In 1993, with the premises lost the previous year following a series of acrimonious lawsuits with the landlord (and Woods having gone personally bankrupt), Ins & Outs went into a long spell of 'suspended animation' from which it only began emerging (and on a much smaller scale) in 2004.
Among the poets and authors published by Ins & Outs are
Allen Ginsberg ,Paul Bowles ,Harold Norse ,Jack Micheline ,William Levy ,Ira Cohen , Mel Clay,Gerard Malanga ,Lawrence Ferlinghetti , Norman Rubington/Akbar del Piombo,Bob Kaufman ,Charles Henri Ford ,Jack Hirschman ,Heathcote Williams ,Simon Vinkenoog , Hans Plomp,Rachel Pollack ,Gregory Corso , [http://www.bigbridge.org/issue6/robertov.htm Roberto Valenza] ,Bob Black ,Jan Kerouac , [http://www.greeninteger.com/pipbios_detail.cfm?PIPAuthorID=1605 Bert Schierbeek] , et al.The current directors of the Ins & Outs Foundation are
Eddie Woods and Jane Harvey. Ins & Outs Press has never had any employees, as such: all tasks, on every level, are performed by volunteers. Nor has Ins & Outs ever received state sponsorship in the form of either subsidies or grants; patronage (reasonably substantial over the years) is strictly private.Publications
* "Ins & Outs Magazine" issues 1, 2 and 3 (1978).
* "Crippled Warlords". Poetry anthology. Edited by Ronald Sauer (1979).
* "Manifesto: Cosa Nostra di Poesia." Longpoem by Ronald Sauer (1979)
* "Other World Poetry Newsletter." Tabloid-style exposé of the politics of poetry by Woodstock Jones (1979).
* Das Bauen im neuen Reich. Silkscreen print by [http://blogger.xs4all.nl/kirke1/ Kirke Wilson] , from a 'bandaged poet' photograph of Jules Deelder by
Ira Cohen (1980).* "Ins & Outs magazine no. 4/5" (1980).
* Postcard series. Photographs and drawings by various visual artists, including 14 of
Ira Cohen 's Bandaged Poets (1980-1981).* "Sale or Return." Poems book by
Eddie Woods . Bilingual. Dutch translations by Hans Plomp (1981).* "Natural Jewboy." Collection of prose writings and satirical verse by
William Levy , with illustrations by Peter Pontiac (1981).* "Jack Micheline in Amsterdam." Audio cassette of a 1982 live reading at Ins & Outs Press (1983).
* "Harold Norse Of Course." Audio cassette of a 1984 live reading at Ins & Outs Press (1985).
* Limited-edition silkscreen print of
William Burroughs by [http://blogger.xs4all.nl/kirke1/ Kirke Wilson] , from a photograph by Ira Cohen (1985).* Limited-edition silkscreen print of
Herbert Huncke by [http://blogger.xs4all.nl/kirke1/ Kirke Wilson] , from a photograph by Peter Edel. Co-published with Soyo Productions, Amsterdam (1987).* Limited-edition silkscreen print of
Allen Ginsberg by [http://blogger.xs4all.nl/kirke1/ Kirke Wilson] , from a 'bandaged poet' photograph byIra Cohen . Co-published with Turret Books, London (1992).* Limited-edition silkscreen print of
Xaviera Hollander by [http://blogger.xs4all.nl/kirke1/ Kirke Wilson] , from a photograph by Tony Newitt (1993).* " [http://schmoontherun.blogspot.com/2006/05/great-poets-now-eddie-woods.html Dangerous Precipice.] " Spoken-word poetry CD by
Eddie Woods (2004).* " [http://schmoontherun.blogspot.com/2006/05/great-poets-now-eddie-woods.html Tsunami of Love: A Poems Cycle.] " Two long 'letterpoems' plus four shorter poems by
Eddie Woods , which together narrate 'the rise and fall of an incredible love affair' (2005).* "Tsunami of Love: A Poems Cycle." CD recording (by Eddie Woods) of the entire Tsunami collection, with a special introduction added.(2007).
External links
* [http://www.corpse.org/archives/issue_8/foreign_desk/woods.htm A Brief History of Ins & Outs Press]
* [http://library.stanford.edu/depts/hasrg/ablit/amerlit/EddieWoods.htm The Eddie Woods Archive]
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