An evening of readings and conversation from Prototype authors Caleb Klaces, Lila Matsumoto, Elizabeth Reeder & Amanda Thomson, writers whose work celebrates hybridity of form and shifts the boundaries of poetic convention. Readings from recent and forthcoming works will be followed by a conversation with Prototype publisher Jess Chandler, exploring the overlaps between writing and visual art, poetry and music, and other spaces in between.

microbursts, published by Prototype Publications, is a collection of hybrid, lyric essays about the places between life and death; memoir and poetry; making and letting go. Originally written by Reeder as an intense text-based collection of lyric and experimental essays responding to the illnesses and deaths of her parents, it confronts the raw emotions of crisis, grief and creativity.

Formally audacious, linguistically fluid, sensitive and intricate in its visual presentation, microbursts uses the potential and elasticity of the essay form to explore intensely personal, yet universal, experiences and considers the ways in which we can express and communicate these through spatial and linguistic form. (see Radar entry 7551)

This discussion was wide-ranging, and included discussion about the evolution of microbursts in its hybrid form and included more general discussions of experimental forms of writing in each of our other works; the relationship between art and writing, and the importance of hybridity and how it can inform the work.

Microbursts was reprinted in December 2022, with the 2nd edition featuring a new cover Pantone.