The Blasted Tree

We are once again switching things up around here. X is pretty much cooked for poets and publishers, so we are unlikely to post here much, if ever, going forward. Leaving the account active to keep our name though!

I'm moving in a month and a half and do not want to carry all these books! Thus, @theblastedtree is having a moving sale. All books are $5 off until the end of May. Check out our offerings below, then help me out and buy a copy!

Art on Tezos Friday Recap 🔔 → @WildMissingNos announces the Tezos Art Review: Pixel Art Anthology Book to release August 12. Pre-orders available now via @theblastedtree 👾📖 → @fafo_lab open-sourced the colleKT 3D gallery tool. Spin up your own space and play around with how your work is shown 🧱 → The #Terminality event is up an running: mint pixel art, photos, or text on zeroterminal (dot) art. Tez-native simplicity in action ⚡ → @UnknownCo123 announced “No Mods: Meme Rot” via @infiniteink_art featuring dystopian glitch artists @uczine, @bongdoe, @Abs0lutelywrong, @VSTRVL_FFF, @TerosEso, @xed3n4e, @obyor_, and @kingxerox5. Launching next week 👀 → @editart_xyz launched a Discord server for generative art lovers. A new space to talk code, concepts, and art 🧬 → @LumineersX teased #photoliminal, a photography community event coming August 1–6. All formats and price points welcome 🚪📷 → @riniifish is exhibited in "Silicon-based: New Creator", a group show at Tang Contemporary Art in Beijing. Runs until August 13 🐞🖼️ → @CinziaGabrielPH & @coralinesaidso announced Women by Women, a 48h OE on August 5 for women painting women. Tag your favorite creators 🎨👭 → @TezosCommons announced Artz Friday - July Community Call, inviting artists to share what they’ve been making. Hosted by @Crypt0nio & @YinYangYoeshi 🧑‍🎨🎤 Today 2pm EST → @artcommissiontz celebrated 12 months of themed group curations. Over 400 artists supported, made possible by @328_lad, @spike_0124, @_TransparentArt, guest curators and @TezosFoundation 🎉 → @LordTruffington announced the winners of the @editart_xyz generative art contest! Top prizes went to pieces co-created by @baiweiart, @_stc & @NFTNatter 🥳👏 → @SkurpySocial launched 1/1 collabs! Artists can now co-create and share earnings directly via Skurpy 💥 → @objktcom featured @basileus_eth as Collector of the Week, celebrating him for long-term vision, deep taste, and thoughtful curations → @Hackatao's piece "HACK THE PAINTBOX, 2025" from the @paintboxed1981 curation sells for 17.2k tez → @TheTezos kicked off Artists’ Week with community calls, events, games, and S.A.D.#55 on Farcaster. It’s a week to celebrate creativity, connection, and contribution 🫂🎨 Video: Do Not Enter Bamboo Town by @riniifish

TzAR (Tezos Art Review): Pixel Art Anthology is coming August 12 👀 Pre-order this colorful crash course through the pixel art underground from @theblastedtree now! 🔗👇

TONIGHT!

Tune in at 9PM EST / 6PM PST, and be sure to check your timezone as we broadcast coast-to-coast! --- meet.google.com/bdv-qivi-nah

Join us for a virtual reading with @sachaarchermeat and @NeilSurkan! On Wednesday, Jan. 29 we'll gather online for a celebration of some recent Blasted Tree publications, including Archer's HAVANA SYNDROME and Surkan's Die Workbook. Google Meet link below 👇

Happy book birthday to HAVANA SYNDROME by @sachaarchermeat and GAME GENIE POEMS by Kevin Stebner! Here's everything you need to know about these limited edition poetry artbooks 👇

New chapbook! Die Workbook by @NeilSurkan is available today. Ltd. ed. of 50 chapbooks bound in light blue linen covers. $10 + shipping from our online store, full chapbook can be read on The Blasted Tree's website. 🔗👇

Tomorrow we celebrate our 10th anniversary! If you're in Calgary please join us at Loophole to celebrate. Doors at 7pm, free entry, gnarly performances guaranteed!

You can read the full review on the Erato Magazine website here: eratomagazine.com/2024/07/07/cha…

The first poetry chapbook I published was Far Too Close by Jesse Anger. 10 years later, Terry Trowbridge has reviewed it for @EratoMagazine. We love to see poetry chapbooks making their way through the world🥹

@jones_yyc @NeWestPress Amazing! Congrats Samantha!

@derekbeaulieu Nice!

Looking for Blasted Tree books out in the real world? You can find our two new poetry books at @shelflifebooks and Pages on Kensington in Calgary 📚

HAVANA SYNDROME is a grimy, ink-splattered concrete poetry adventure in the hinterlands of typographic representation. theblastedtree.com/havana-syndrome

an alphabetized list (by word) of all bird species observed at Cootes Paradise (Hamilton, Ontario) between 1948 and 2022 superimposed on a map of marsh. #cootesparadise #hamilton #hamont #birds

The publication of these books coincides with The Blasted Tree's 10 year anniversary, so we're throwing a party and funding drive. Please consider contributing by buying books or a chapbook bundle! theblastedtree.com/blog/10-years-…

Both books are available in limited editions of 100 copies from our online store and PDF versions can be downloaded (for free!) from The Blasted Tree's website. theblastedtree.com/store