Dominic J. Jaeckle is an author, editor and publisher.

dominic.james.jaeckle@gmail.com /
editors@tenementpress.com

(Pour homme, pour femme, poor Dom.)

(As editor / publisher.)

Tenement Press
tenementpress.com

Tenement Press—a house for homeless ideas—is an independent publications series dedicated to the championship and promotion of experimental literary works in English and first-time translation, a collection of works in series.

(The Yellowjackets)

A sideways resuscitation of Penguin’s abandoned, yellow-topped miscellany series—an effort to win the colour back from cowardice, Tenement’s ‘Yellowjackets’ are a thread of angular works in English and first-time English language translation in which the poetic, political and philosophical intersect.


24. Nadia de Vries
All My Dead Jesters

With collage-works
by Guy Maddin.

With aphorism, deep pith and humour, Nadia de Vries delivers her sly lines and contrarian point of view with great force, making for an uncomfortable music.

Peter Gizzi

(05.03.26)    See here.


23. SJ Fowler
BARABUS (Graft II/III)

Frenetic and exhilarating outbursts, as eye-witness accounts from a mind's eye of true originality. Harnessing a sublime gift-of-the-gab, Fowler—garbed as a healthcare professional—rushes headlong into a world full of genuine trepidation and make-believe. Convincingly performative and harrowingly memorable with great tracts that remain branded-on-the-brain long after the event, he digs breathlessly into episodes of hardcore mundanity as if he/we were actually there.

Andrew Kötting

(16.01.26)     See here.


22. Sharon Kivland
Envois / The Complete Correspondence:
Love Letters from Jacques Lacan
to Sharon Kivland, 1953-1981

The sum of all values in a letter is its meaning. What it means is up for grabs, its grabbiness tied, like the knot, to the love, here, of the woman. But what we know is that the woman does not, cannot, exist. Kivland, here, is this non-existent woman, meaning everywhere, and everywhere drives meaning. The meaning of this book is desire, its way of constricting, dilating, evading, enveloping... The problem with this book is that it is beautiful, which is also the problem of the woman. Still, there is no stopping the encore.

Vanessa Place

(25.10.25)    See here.


21. Friedrich Hölderlin,
Der Tod des Empedokles /
The Death of Empedocles /

ein Trauerspiel /
A mourning play

Translated from the German      
by R. Martz      

Recorded & arranged
by Seth Tillett

This powerful poem, part bardic chant and part street-corner rant, is delivered with such sustained force, pedal to the metal, that it sounds as if she were practicing circular breathing techniques, like a saxophone player, even on the page. Martz’s mistranslation [term of art] of Hölderlin gets to the heart of the matter: a human who wants to be like the gods but is brutally repressed by them.

Lucy Sante

(30.09.25)    See here.


20. Alix Chauvet
Cyclamen

[What] Cyclamen ultimately offers us is a regenerative rewilding of the English language: a wondrous terrain ringed by vines of unruly syntax and dotted with the fruit of words refusing domestication by any single tongue.  

Mia You

(05.09.25)    See here.


19.  Batool Abu Akleen
48Kg. / ٤٨ كغم    

Translated from the Arabic by the poet
with Graham Liddell, Wiam El-Tamami,
Cristina Viti & Yasmin Zaher.

What is happening in Gaza is a genocide not a war, but not since Akhmatova have I read poetry that so potently reckons with the relationship between war and the body. They create a new category of literary grace out of the cataclysm. These are poems of fire and agony, bombing and starvation, but they are also poems of grace, cleverness, tenderness and yearning. A great international poet arrives with this collection, but it is also a landmark work of resistance. No human should have to write their poetry from inside death's dominion, but Batool Abu Akleen has done it, and the result is truly astonishing.

Max Porter

(16.06.25)     See here.


18. Steven Zultanski
Help

Help is a completely unique and compellingly brilliant work. I was riveted by the strange theatre of discussion, the sociality of speech and the hilarious, macabre themes it naturally leads to.

Holly Pester

(04.04.25)    See here.


17. Milo Thesiger-Meacham
Audible Heat

A wonderful bringing together of natural and cultural histories.

Tom McCarthy

(28.02.25)     See here.


16. Wadih Saadeh
A Horse at the Door

A chronology of poems selected
& translated by Robin Moger

With an afterword
by Youssef Rakha

Reading Wadih Saadeh, in this inspiring translation by Robin Moger, one finds oneself entering the aftershocks of an imagination devastated by war and the deep internal and external exiles that follow such destruction. His poetry, loose and open—attentive and philosophical—lives in the remnants of what is left, of what survives to tell its tales, in both short-form, slightly surreal parables, and longer autobiographic tracings. It speaks of dust, of being dust, of stones talking to stones, of separated limbs and shadows walking their own way, clinging to shapes, of being water, of being rubble, new languages learnt, friendships, and tobacco at the source of a breath. Of travelling without arrival. Of moving without settling. As though one is forever seeking to settle but one doesn’t know how, or into what form. In the end, the poet settles on passing, and finds aliveness in its slightest movements. Like passing one’s hand through one’s hair, as he does it in the closing sequence of his ground-breaking poem from the Lebanese civil war. An extraordinary and painfully timely collection.

Caroline Bergvall

(13.12.24)     See here.


15. Lucy Sante
Six Sermons for Bob Dylan

With an afterword
by Greil Marcus

Inspired by sermons recorded in Black churches in the 1920s and 1930s, Sante’s are soul poems for 21st-century uncertainty.

Ursula /  Hauser & Wirth

(22.11.24)     See here.


14. Chris McCabe
Dreamt by Ghosts


(31.10.24)     See here.


13. Giovanbattista Tusa
Terra Cosmica / Traces of Georealism

Giovanbattista Tusa finds the words that won’t fill the disquiet and the terror of the illegible revolt of the elements against our way of production. The fury of climate deregulation and the ecological crisis have a history and a foreseeable future that we now must become acquainted with. This book is a magnificent tool to help us begin to accomplish the most urgent task of contemporary humankind: the only one that can save us.

Claire Fontaine

(23.08.24)    See here.


12. Edwina Attlee
A great shaking

In mediaeval manuscripts, engravings of the steps of life from birth to death often omitted women completely. In this fascinating collection, Attlee talks to them directly, making them entirely visible as she explores the legacies of indentured labour, the toils of women and the mythologies of motherhood, all in real time: the crows eat up the corn / the baby is back / and the women open their legs to the stove / pushing soft porridge into his mouth / like companionable silence. This empathy and companionship are the backdrop to her own negotiations of work, family and political activity, and expose how impossibly intermingled these are. She weighs the magical thinking of folktale and childhood against the real world to expose the gap between there and here, while continuing the ancient task of trying to find a way to make it all work. Her language is present and exact, and razor sharp: my mother is here / laughing like a broken plate. Throughout, there is love and wry humour: You are the word I will use to call the cows home at night (‘Old English love song, Traditional’). This is a deeply affecting collection; these poems come from a very genuine sense of communion with all those semi-visible individuals who labour and have always laboured for love, family and fairness.Forgive us this standing. Forgive us in strength. / Unforgive if forgiving undoes sorrow. Do not unstep your step.

Lesley Harrison

(01.07.24)     See here.


11. Mario Benedetti
El cumpleaños de Juan Ángel /
Juan Ángel’s Birthday

Translated from the Spanish
by Adam Feinstein

It’s extremely difficult to find a poem which fulfils the condition of a novel and a lyrical text without betraying both. El cumpleaños de Juan Ángelachieves this feat through experimental verse. It’s an extraordinary river-poem in which, without abandoning the nucleus of poetic art, Benedetti takes the genre of militancy and the pamphlet a step further. As if a true Ovid’s Metamorphoses, or Kafka’s Metamorphosis, the protagonist passes through different stages as revolutionary as they are imbued with a biblical, epic quality. It is so fortunate for all those discerning English-speaking readers that this book is now published.

Agustín Fernández Mallo

(22.04.24)     See here.


10. Stanley Schtinter
Last Movies

All films are haunted, both by the immortal light of the sooner-or-later dead that they curate, and by the filaments of meaning they extrude into unscripted human lives. Last Movies is an unexpectedly revealing catalogue of final interchanges between imminent ghosts and counterpart electric spectres on the screen’s far side. Profound and riveting, Schtinter’s graveyard perspective offers up a rich and startlingly novel view of cinema, angled through cemetery gates before the closing credits. A remarkable accomplishment.  

Alan Moore

(05.11.23)     See here.


09. Dolors Miquel
El guant de plàstic rosa /
The Pink Plastic Glove

Translated from the Catalan
by Peter Bush

The Pink Plastic Glove is language fighting for its life, or more appropriately, for its death. It points to what lies beyond language in a way that opens onto the archaic, and in a way that makes you gasp. Dolors Miquel is the grand disappearer of words, with a style so lucid, and savage, that it makes tangible the invisible behind words and the long blank at the end of meaning without ever losing faith in the power of language to do exactly that. I’m struggling to say exactly what the experience of reading this book feels like, which is exactly the effect of this supremely discomfiting book, to be in the un-worded presence, through words themselves, of the sacred. The Pink Plastic Glove is a supreme act of faith and despair.

David Keenan

(21.07.23)     See here.


08. Reza Baraheni
Lilith / A novella

Baraheni is a literary man, so his revolt took the form of breathing ‘reality and harshness’ into the Persian language, and turning it against his oppressors.

Kirkus

(09.06.23)     See here.


07. Pier Paolo Pasolini
La rabbia / Anger

Translated from the Italian
by Cristina Viti

With a foreword
by Roberto Chiesi
& an afterword
by John Berger

Pasolini’s poems thrive with passion and outrage. A 20th century Dante, he grieves at inequity, feels disgusted by corruption, and wails against the evil that people do. Pasolini doesn’t render a coming paradise, but contests hate with love, meanness with generosity, and through the reality of his beautiful poems, suggests the possibility of creating a better world.

Lynne Tillman

(14.12.23)     See here.


06. Kyra Simone
Palace of Rubble

With photographs
by John Divola

If the linebreak is a technology that creates ‘units’ or slows the pace of the reader’s eye on the page, I would argue that part of the power of the prose in Palace of Rubble has to do with the lack of separation, the lack of breath or space between ideas, and how that density operates on our attention. Each chunk of prose becomes its own edifice.

Maggie Millner

(04.10.22)     See here.


05. Jeffrey Vallance
A Voyage to Extremes /
Selected Spiritual Writings

Jeffrey Vallance is our Philip Marlowe, quite literally our private eye, with a private vision of pied beauty and sacred banality that extends to the horizon.

Dave Hickey

(24.10.22)     See here.


04. SJ Fowler
MUEUM (Graft I/III)

Shortlisted for the Republic of Consciousness Prize
for Small Presses, 2022 / 2023

MUEUM seems to eat any potential response to it. Sometimes I called it a mesmerising, bravura meditation on work, power, and subjugation; sometimes I called it the psychopathology of the institution; sometimes I just made sub-animal noises.

Luke Kennard

(28.06.22)     See here.


03. Yasmine Seale & Robin Moger
Agitated Air : Poems After Ibn Arabi

This is translation as intrepid and inspired re-visioning, a form of poetry of its own, as forged by Edward FitzGerald, Ezra Pound and Anne Carson.

Marina Warner

(28.02.22)     See here.


02. Stanley Schtinter, et al.
The Liberated Film Club

An anthology publication,
featuring works by ...

John Akomfrah;
Chloe Aridjis;
Dennis Cooper;
Laura Mulvey;
Chris Petit;
Mania Akbari;
Elena Gorfinkel;
Juliet Jacques;
Ben Rivers;
Dan Fox;
Sean Price Williams;
Adam Christensen;
Stewart Home;
Stephen Watts;
Tony Grisoni;
Gideon Koppel;
Astra Taylor;
Miranda Pennell;
Gareth Evans;
Adam Roberts;
Tai Shani;
Anna Thew;
Xiaolu Guo;
Andrea Luka Zimmerman;
William Fowler;
Athina Tsangari;
John Rogers;
Shama Khanna;
Shezad Dawood;
Damien Sanville;
Gareth Evans;
& Stanley Schtinter.

This is a chronicle of addiction, written blindfold by the light of a flickering screen to a soundtrack of Russian roulette loaded against prediction.

Brian Catling

(23.10.21)     See here.


01. Joan Brossa
El saltamartí / The Tumbler

Joan Brossa creates distilled excitement. He is both wise and wild. His poems are surreal and matter-of-fact, playful and minimalist and utterly original. In his ability to make it new, Brossa is an essential modern poet.

Colm Tóibín

(15.04.21)    See here.


(Harry Caul)

A series named for the precarious listener and protagonist of Francis Ford Coppola’s 1973 motion picture, The Conversation, a set of feature-length interviews and exchanges between makers, edited by Jaeckle and Schtinter.


01. Stanley Schtinter & Gareth Evans
Snow, Always Snow : A conversation between
Stanley Schtinter & Gareth Evans on the implications
& associations relative to a film, Schneewittchen

(31.07.24)     See here.


(No University Press)

An imprint from Tenement, publishing argumentative work of any field, so long as it is also work that strives beyond its field; work possessing a presentist enthusiasm that works beyond the policies of enclosure that define and underwrite the mission of academic publishing.


02. Maria Sledmere
Midsummer Song / Hypercritique

Midsummer Song intermingles a lodestar of potent poetic sources into a lyric architecture which refuses to be singular in form or bound by convention. This book is plural—at once an elegy for our world—and also—seance and party you won't want to miss. Your tools, dear reader, include countless luminary texts, summer light while it lasts, meadows, cinders, glass, and clairvoyance. Can the poet be everywhere? If nuance is purple and writing is light, this book may convince us that dream space is the necessary elixir to take with us into impermanence, bursting with everything in the world, an ecstatic catalogue and a devastated delirium. Like Christensen's alphabet, this book at once beams and cautions—like a horn of plenty spiraling out from the ear of Athena, a cornucopia of Sledmere's poetic powers. No other poet can make me feel giddy at the end of the world, gorgeous with intimate tears and flight. Descendants of Bernadette Mayer rejoice—now at long last we can dream not only the winter's dark but also in summers blindingly bright. Like when we climb into the red- / threaded spiderweb / of another plague year / and we activate the starlight / stimulus package / in thermotaxis.

Laynie Browne

(30.09.24)     See here.


01. Radical Translation Workshop
An Anarchist Playbook

An Anarchist Playbook is an excavation of future thinking. In its radical mode of communal translation, it recovers equally radical political energies.

Adam Thirlwell

(01.03.24)     See here.

(As author.)

Veronica Lake, Walden Pond & River Phoenix

A series of prose poems, Veronica Lake, Walden Pond & River Phoenix is a cumulative train of thought, a series of spines, a ‘Legend of Duluoz’ in which the author argues with varied objects of attention in a borderless field of enquiry.  


02. Dominic J. Jaeckle
Magnolia or Redbud /
Flowers for Laura Lee Burroughs

With collage-works
by Lucy Sante 
& an afterword
by David Keenan 

Magnolia or Redbud is a beguiling, intoxicating mystery garden. In its hothouse alcoves, groves and bosquets, figures and figurations merge into shadowy projections that flit between domestic and psychic scenes. Like cut flowers, Jaeckle’s poems sit in a medium that both nurtures and traps them, formally thwarting their speaker’s quest for secrets and centres. What to do with the floral impulse to locate a centre, when the centre is understood to be a trojan horse filled with market forces, and the alienated variegations of desire? Jaeckle demonstrates how the cut-up’s disruption is also its irrigation, suspending these poems in quiet menace and beauty.

(31.07.24)    See here.


01. Dominic J. Jaeckle
(with Hoagy Houghton)
36 Exposures /
A Bastardised Roll of Film

With an afterword
by Chris McCabe

Coursing through it all is this essential belief: that the right painted apple, the right sentence—the right thought—would change the world. The revolution is in the waiting room.

Mike Hoolboom

(31.07.24)    See here.




On Entertainment:
The Lassitude of D.H. Lawrence’s Dead Novel

(2018)            See here.


Blue Deer

(Works for the ears.)

02. Verse & Chorus
(with Nadia de Vries)

Apple Music / Spotify




Verse & Chorus (Tenement Press / John Cassavetes, 2021), a sonic experiment and collaboration between De Vries and Jaeckle, and that collates poems from two manuscripts: De Vries’ I Failed to Swoon (now out of print, see De Vries' All My Dead Jesters, 2026) and Jaeckle’s 36 Exposures. An exquisite corpse of an ‘I’ played out in a multiplicity of voices, Verse & Chorus was / is an act of cooperative reworking that quilts and collages cuts from these two titles to inform an immaterial third object. In order of appearance, Verse & Chorus features readings from Nadia de Vries, Cíntia Gil, Diamanda La Berge Dramm, Mark Lanegan, Stanley Schtinter, Becket Flannery and Vilde Valerie Bjerke Torset, with an accompaniment of borrowed songs and original music from Matthew Shaw, Lanegan and Duke Garwood. Verse & Chorus premiered at the Rewire Festival (The Hague), 2021, and—thereafter—was broadcast via Montez Press Radio (New York), Resonance 104.4FM and Resonance Extra (London).


01. Four Birds on Bad Weather

Apple Music / Spotify

A set of sentimental songs, written and recorded in 2011, and re-released 2025.

(Occasional collaborations.)

Varia.

02. (eds.) Dominic J. Jaeckle & Jess Chandler.
Seven Rooms / Assorted Materials from a Paper Hotel
(Tenement Press & Prototype Publishing)

‘A hotel is defined by its inhabitants,’ runs Hotel’s tagline. If Hotel itself were a concrete edifice, it would be more like Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas’s Circus-Circus than the Grand Budapest, despite its tasteful, clean exterior. Its commitment to ‘new approaches to fiction, non-fiction and poetry’ promises all manner of havoc. It is not the only journal committed to literary innovation, but it is among the best.

Camille Ralphs, The Times Literary Supplement

An anthology publication,
assemmbling works from across
the Hotel project, featuring works by ...

(Read Jaeckle & Chandler’s ‘Forethoughts’ here.)


(19.10.23)      See here.


01. Benjamin Pickford & Dominic J. Jaeckle
The Paintgrinder : Ralph Waldo Emerson and Karl Marx
on a Horizon of Thought

(2023)           See here.