IMAGINED INVITED

David Greenslade invited 18 international Surrealist poets to play a game inspired by André Breton: compose a poem where they welcome anyone from time and space, with at least one visitor associated with Wales. The resulting anthology is a kaleidoscope of voices, images, speaking names, and improbable encounters with everyone from Haile Selassie to Iolo Morganwg, Duncan Idaho to Patti Smith. --- Enchantingly colourful artworks, collages from the dissection table of Mark Sanders, respond to each poem with witty visual clues and puns. --- Mary Ann Caws (author: Surrealist Painters and Poets) says: "Delightful, funny, brings in lots of everyone from everywhere. Mark Sanders makes hysterically referential games! Imagine going from Wittgenstein and Ray Milland to Apollinaire in the poetic games here. Truly a board game with wit!" --- Michel Remy (author: Surrealism in Britain) says: "A mind-enhancing project, this text and image dialogue is a new sublime Conference of the Birds, which drives us into areas where revolt is synonymous with the marvellous." --- With new poems from Romania, France, Ireland, England, Czechia, Canada, USA and Wales, by: Luminita Amarie / Jean Bonnin / Neil Coombs / David Rees Davies / Roxana Dumitrache / Jonathan Edwards / Sarah Glaz / Tim Grant / David Greenslade / Steven Hitchins / Doru Mihai Mateiciuc / Desmond Morris / David Nadeau / Rhea Seren Phillips / Brian Purdy / Dagmar Stepankova / Rhys Trimble / Christopher Twigg / Nerys Williams --- Published by Hafan Books, Swansea --- ISBN 9781916044241