Read Write [Hand]: A multi-disciplinary Nick Cave reader

€œThis is an exceptional anthology, a beautiful piece of art, a serious account of one man€s life work and a great example of the possibilities of new media in the 21st Century.€
€“ Dr Nathan Wiseman-Trowse, The University of Northampton

Read Write [Hand]: A multi-disciplinary Nick Cave reader is a provocative new e-collection of illustrated essays, accompanied by illustrative online mixtapes, which interrogates Nick Cave€s literary undertones and emphases, false-starts and fixations, achievements and overall credentials. Taking as its starting-point the notion that Cave€s work €“ as both songwriter and Writer €“ represents an extraordinarily rich nub of musical-literary intersection, this unique volume considers, amongst other things:

€“ Cave€s formative years;
€“ Cave€s bible;
€“ the cinematic Cave;
€“ Cave in Berlin;
€“ Cave and the ballad tradition;
€“ the hard-boiled Cave;
€“ Cave and poetic scrutiny;
€“ Cave€s video narratives;
€“ Cave as Englishman.

Taking in academia and journalism, polemic and poetry, not to mention photography, stop-motion animation, graphic art and collage, Read Write [Hand] represents an attempt to explore Nick Cave€s interdisciplinarity via its own multidisciplinarity. Utilising eBook functionality, as well as Spotify, YouTube and Silkworm Ink€s stunning new website, it features essays by Robert Brokenmouth and Prof. Nick Groom, poetry by Roddy Lumsden and John Clegg, cover artwork by Steve Wacksman and a new version of Cave€s €˜Bring It On€ by Cypress Grove & the Signifiers.

Sam Kinchin-Smith is Silkworms Ink€s music and non-fiction editor.