Tom Chivers

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Tom Chivers

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WHO WE DO IT WITH

City State, an anthology edited by Tom, designed by Mercy

MERCY SAYS:

Almost certainly the begining of a beautiful friendship - we've found Tom's fingers in similar pies to ourself so many times that we had to take a look up his sleeve and give him a tickle.

As well as a brilliantly discerning poet and editor, Tom is the man behind London Word Festival and poetry-imprint Penned in the Margins, which publishes Ross Sutherland and Michael Egan, among others, and Mercy did a really enjoyable series of designs for.

We've also collaborated on bringing some acts to Liverpool, including Holly Pester and James Wilkes' show 'Broadcast Linguistic Transmissions', as well as doing some great partnership shows at LWF - and Tom's also selected and written some excellent work for our ezine series.

Absolutely irreplacable on the publishing and live-literature scene, Tom also has pride of place on our red telephone. We can't wait to get going on some more integrated projects with him and his off-shoots.