In the spring of 2009 I was in Rome for three
months. I spent a good deal of time looking around the
placce. The ancient monuments were awesome; predictably
captivating. However, it was the Italian Baroque that took me by
surprise. It left its mark on the automatic drawing I did
during my stay in the city. Here they are; dedicated to their viewers and the
buyers of the book. Amikam
Toren
One evening Amikam showed me his Rome Drawings, one by one. I felt privileged to be sitting in his kitchen as he turned the pages. My thought was that many others should enjoy this experience. I envisaged a book with an automatic text to accompany each drawing.In Metamorphos, Ovid describes
the portents of Caesars’ assassination. I selected a few lines, made five verses and edited the result seventy
times. Peter
Stickland
This first edition is limited to 50 copies. 25 copies are numbered and signed by the authors and are only available from the publishers, price £80.00. The remaining 25 copies are also only available from the publishers; price £30.00
The Breath of Psyche by Peter Stickland 2012
in collaboration with Clare Carolan
The
breath of Pan resonates across the bright blue oceans, filling the air with a
sweet music that multiplies with endless variations from the mountainous
terrains to the boundless deserts.
Psyche grows miraculously tall and sings; her
magical voice reverberating across continents, resounding through a million
hearts. All who hear the echoing sounds speak of a new dawn.
Price £20.00
Rogue School Diaries; compiled and edited by Christine Fasse 2011
Crawley, Greater London; March 2011: Werner Herzog’s Rogue Film School
takes place in Europe for the first time. For a few days, young filmmakers from
all over the world attend the event and spend time with one of the most
important living film directors. In this book Christine Fasse invited ten
filmmakers to recount their impressions of the film school.
Price £14.00
Rainforest Reveries by Christine Fasse, Peter Stickland and David Toop 2011
Awakening slowly in morning shadows, Céline senses what might now ripen and grow within her. The earth is ringing out. By obscure transitions, affirming visions in the girl’s self-determining mind are revealing new depths to her evolving character. The nameless hour has arrived, that mesmerizing, eternal hour, when children cease to look vaguely at the sky.
Price £15.00
From the edge of the floor by Peter Stickland 2011 in collaboration with Jenny Nolan
Happy go lucky Joe trusts cheerfully to luck and never worries about the future. In ancient cosmology and late adolescence, to be lucky is to be wise. Mostly, Joe’s friends imagine his luck is something akin to being foolhardy. Cinema critic, theorist of the French ‘New Wave,’ Joe loves being with those students who reign supreme in optimism, invent new theories with ease and conjure radical re-appraisals of the world with relaxed certainty. .
Price £15.00
Frank and Moustique go boating; a play for radio by Peter Stickland 2011
This book includes 26 drawings and comes with a free CD. The play is performed by Peter Stickland and Christine Fasse. Sound by David Cunningham.
Act 1. Life without the others; a disused dairy in Kentish Town. Act 2. Before the parachute opens; a piece of waste ground in Hackney. Act 3. A rahapsody of impertinence; a squat in St. John's Wood. Act 4. Paddling in public; a ship's chandlers in Wapping.
Seeking Chimera by Christine Fasse, Dominique Fasse and Peter Stickland 2011
A dying aunt describes to her niece the extraordinary influence a group of dancers had on her life. The dancers are the women of the Ouled Nail, a nomadic tribe from the Sahara Desert. The niece, Nancy Etheridge, a young Edwardian woman, decides to go in search of the dancers. Captain Lehuraux, an Indigenous Affairs Officer in the French Army, agrees to meet her in Algiers. He becomes her guide and teacher as they travel over the High Plateau to the Ouled Nail Mountains. This Algerian adventure proves to be the awakening of Nancy Etheridge. Eighty years later, Nancy's great-granddaughter, Berenice Sanson, inherits a box containing a novel by Nancy, a draft manuscript by Captain Lehuraux, an assortment of postcards and some letters between Nancy and her mother. Berenice decides to put these documents together in a book. An Algerian Adventure - The Awakening of Nancy Etheridge. Her book can be found in this book.
Price £12.50
Deserted Memory by Christine and Dominique Fasse 2010
Photographs, archives, memories; images remain with us; the ones we retain voluntarily and the ones which refuse to be erased. All images are fragments of memory. Fastened to paper they become less vagabond, but never captive. Separated or shuffled, they capture only a moment; sometimes they rearrange and reorder themselves to give a fuller form to time. The images in this book give birth to a story and though it is curiously familiar, the thread of it seems to get tangled or lost. The poems tell us that this story has happened once or several times and may even happen again. If history repeats itself what pasts are still to come? The future may not be completely unknown to us.
Dido's Lament or The Willing Librettitst by Peter Stickland 2009
Presented with the task of creating an opera, composer and librettist decide to adapt that part of Virgil's Aeneid that describes the tragic separation of the lovers, Dido and Aeneas. The year is 1680, the composer is Henry Purcell and the willing librettist is Nahum Tate. This novel gives expression to their remarkable talents, their creative friendship and the passions that are the source of their inspiration.
Price £12.00
This is revised edition of an earlier book. Clare Carolan collaborated on this version.
Mairi's Wedding by Andrew Hendry by Peter Stickland 2009
with a Foreword by Marie-Anne Mancio
This novel is a tribute to Neil Munro
In this fairy tale, where most things seem possible, the use of quotes from the Scottish author, Neil Munro, causes the fictive and the real to overlap. Artifice and reality are further conflated by the existence of a fictional book within the real book. Three of the characters are writing portraits of the guests as a wedding present for Mairi and each of them has a particular ore-occupation; for one it's character, for another its structure and for a third it's the lyricism of Neil Munro's language. The location of this romance could be anywhere in Western Scotland and while the characters are contemporary they could also be generations old. History and landscape, poetry and music, innocence and love, all these are woven together to form a web as delicate as gossamer.
Price £10.00
Dido’s Lament by Peter Stickland 2008 -
Dido’s Lament is a narrative account of how the opera Dido and Aeneas was created. It is set in Restoration London, the 1680’s, where Henry Purcell and Nahum Tate are collaborating on the composition of the opera. They are adapting Virgil’s tragic love story, Dido and Aeneas, a subject that connects with their own ambitions for love. This dramatic tale gives expression to their remarkable talents, their creative friendship and the passions that are the source of their inspiration.
Price £10.00
This book was re-edited with Clare Carolan and republished as Dido's Lament or the Willing Librettist
Loving - The tales of Jack and Adelia by Peter Stickland 2008
Jack, a stage and screen performer treats us to accounts of romantic events that occur while he is immersed in his performances. Adelia is a journalist and a writer and the events she describes mirror her preoccupation with the game of consequences. With Jack the reader inhabits a place that lies somewhere between the written page and the auditorium. With Adelia the reader discovers a place somewhere between life and fiction.
Dreaming in Public by Peter Stickland. Published 2004 by Futures Publications The chronology of these tales is full of playful narrative devices that make this a book of many surprises. The thread that ties these stories together is a delicate web of associations, but it bonds us beautifully to the highly charged emotional world that its protagonist inhabits.
Available upon request.
The Book of the Play by Peter Stickland. Published 2002 by gf2 Gallery "I don't get it. he got what he got by seeing to it. See what I've got? What do I see? Will I get to see you? Is getting you what I get? Will you see to it? Will I see? He got what I got. I don't see you. I don't get to see what she saw in him. She saw, she saw. Getting what you get by seeing what you see and getting it, is getting it."
Available upon request.
Artist’s catalogues
A Split Second of Paradise - the work of Julian Maynard Smith. Published 2008 by Station House
Failing the attempt at flight makes the desire for freedom from gravity the subject and so by accident we stumbled into the aim of drama, which is to give a treatment of the unachievable, as opposed to that of art, which is to make actual the previously unachieved. And thus we discovered our position between two stools.
Homage to Morandi by The Theatre of Mistakes. Published 2006 by Grey Suit Editions.
This seminal piece of performance art, created in 1980, was inspired by the still lives of Giorgio Morandi. It was sensed that certain of the Italian artist's arrangements of little boxes, vases and containers might be alluding to family groups posing for the camera. The Theatre of Mistakes scaled up these boxes and containers to larger household items (suitcases, chairs and wardrobes) that seemed more appropriate to the stage.
Price £10.00+pp
Goingby The Theatre of Mistakes. Published 2007 by Grey Suit Editions.
Going is a five-act performance. In it, the performers have to learn all the parts, while trying to be each other rather than presuming to enact characters. It is a fugue put together out of the mannerisms of departure. It concerns going, or attempting to go when the participants are bound together as closely as the strands of a knotted ring. Each weaves a role identical to that of the others in different moments of the same role. Price £10.00+pp
In the spring of 2009 I was in Rome for three
months. I spent a good deal of time looking around the
placce. The ancient monuments were awesome; predictably
captivating. However, it was the Italian Baroque that took me by
surprise. It left its mark on the automatic drawing I did
during my stay in the city. Here they are; dedicated to their viewers and the
buyers of the book. Amikam
Toren
The
breath of Pan resonates across the bright blue oceans, filling the air with a
sweet music that multiplies with endless variations from the mountainous
terrains to the boundless deserts. 
Crawley, Greater London; March 2011: Werner Herzog’s Rogue Film School
takes place in Europe for the first time. For a few days, young filmmakers from
all over the world attend the event and spend time with one of the most
important living film directors. In this book Christine Fasse invited ten
filmmakers to recount their impressions of the film school.
Awakening slowly in morning shadows, 
Happy go lucky Joe trusts cheerfully to luck and never worries about the future. In ancient cosmology and late adolescence, to be lucky is to be wise. Mostly, Joe’s friends imagine his luck is something akin to being foolhardy. 
This book includes 26 drawings 
A dying aunt describes to her niece the extraordinary influence a group of dancers had on her life. The dancers are the women of the Ouled Nail, a nomadic tribe from the Sahara Desert. The niece, Nancy Etheridge, a young Edwardian woman, decides to go in search of the dancers. Captain Lehuraux, an Indigenous Affairs Officer in the French Army, agrees to meet her in Algiers. He becomes her guide and teacher as they travel over the High Plateau to the Ouled Nail Mountains. This Algerian adventure proves to be the awakening of Nancy Etheridge. Eighty years later, Nancy's great-granddaughter, Berenice Sanson, inherits a box containing a novel by Nancy, a draft manuscript by Captain Lehuraux, an assortment of postcards and some letters between Nancy and her mother. Berenice decides to put these documents together in a book. An Algerian Adventure - The Awakening of Nancy Etheridge. Her book can be found in this book.
Presented with the task of creating an opera, composer and librettist decide to adapt that part of Virgil's Aeneid that describes the tragic separation of the lovers, Dido and Aeneas. The year is 1680, the composer is Henry Purcell and the willing librettist is Nahum Tate. This novel gives expression to their remarkable talents, their creative friendship and the passions that are the source of their inspiration. 
In this fairy tale, where most things seem possible, the use of quotes from the Scottish author, Neil Munro, causes the fictive and the real to overlap. Artifice and reality are further conflated by the existence of a fictional book within the real book. 
Dido’s Lament is a narrative account of how the opera Dido and Aeneas was created. It is set in Restoration London, the 1680’s, where Henry Purcell and Nahum Tate are collaborating on the composition of the opera. They are adapting Virgil’s tragic love story, Dido and Aeneas, a subject that connects with their own ambitions for love. This dramatic tale gives expression to their remarkable talents, their creative friendship and the passions that are the source of their inspiration. 
Jack, a stage and screen performer treats us to accounts of romantic events that occur while he is immersed in his performances. Adelia is a journalist and a writer and the events she describes mirror her preoccupation with the game of consequences. With Jack the reader inhabits a place that lies somewhere between the written page and the auditorium. With Adelia the reader discovers a place somewhere between life and fiction. 
Dreaming in Public 
A Split Second of Paradise - 
Homage to Morandi by The Theatre of Mistakes. 
Going by The Theatre of Mistakes. 
