Art Bureau's Highball Reading Series
Our main focus is publishing art books, but occasionally a poet whispers in our ears, and a chapbook is produced.

Sometimes it's easy to tell yourself:
Swimming through my mind like a fish,
the world all consciousness and nothing.
My sigh is pure melodrama, George.
I tear open the envelope, and I spy…
on grandma’s table

A STIFF BOUQUET

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Yesterday you cried in your sleep.
But I was too scared to wake you.

--} read more: Martin Reiner + Radio Prague

Martin Reiner (Czech Republic) No Through Road is the second poetry chapbook in Art Bureau's Highball Reading Series.

Martin Reiner is the author of five books of poems and a novel, as well as critical essays and literary theory. Born in Brno, Czech Republic, he attended military academies and was imprisoned for eight months before re-entering civilian life, working primarily in the arts since the 1989 revolution.

No Through Road is his first chapbook to be published in English.
Special thanks to Richard Hansen who published three of Martin's poems in his Poems-for-All series.

Fifty chapbooks are inserted into a Gooco printed poem envelope and signed by Martin Reiner.

SYNCHRONIZATION
We have adjusted to the Greek heat and tempo
but in different ways.

Since I always take a siesta in the afternoon,
I usually wake up early in the morning while
my family goes on sleeping.

So every morning I have two or three hours
to myself when I can write and paint and read.

And in the afternoon in the hotel room,
Marie and William have two hours when
they can listen to me snoring.

--} read more: Henry Denander + Adrian Manning

Bring Down the Sun is a joint chapbook with Henry Denander (Sweden) and (UK) poet Adrian Manning.

Henry Denander was born in Sweden. For 20 years he has worked on the business side of the entertainment industry. His poems and artwork can be seen in numerous poetry magazines, in print and on the web. Denander lives in Stockholm, Sweden and on Hydra, Greece with his wife and young son.

Adrian Manning is the editor of Concrete Meat Press. He has had poems, reviews and articles published in magazines in print and on the web.

Fifty chapbooks are numbered editions with signed poet cards by both poets.