Huge urgency and consummate skill
An interview with Jim Pennington
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5725771 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Douglas Field (0000-0002-8441-6366, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK, corresponding author), James Riley (0000-0002-5516-8754, Girton College, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 38 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 867-880 |
| Publication date | 2024-06-02 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Textual Practice (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0950-236X • E-ISSN: 1470-1308 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/0950236x.2024.2360842 |
| OpenAlex | W4400453228 |
| Language | EN |
Jim Pennington is a printer and small press publisher who trained at London's North-Western Polytechnic and the London College of Printing. Over the course of his long career, he has worked as a print room and production manager first for the British Safety Council (1971–75) then for the anti-poverty charity War on Want (1975–79) and then for the Lithosphere Printing Co-operative (1979–1991), among others. In parallel, Pennington ran Aloes Books, the influential small press he established with the poets Allen Fisher and Dique Miller. Aloes Books has published key works by Kathy Acker, Thomas Pynchon and William Burroughs, among many others
Aesthetics · Art · Medical education · Pedagogy · Psychoanalysis · Visual arts · Applied Psychology · Labor Movements and Unions · Medicine · Psychology
| Highly cited | No |
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