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2025 Catalog
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The Sea is Mohammad al-Khatib's by Adania Shibli
A short prose piece about freedom. Limited to fifty copies. Free to read in the BLTX Palestine Zine Library at Room V, Chapterhouse, Sikatuna Village, Quezon City.
through every rupture a gleaming world by Angeli Lacson
Tiny poems for the revolution. Free to read in the BLTX Palestine Zine Library at Room V, Chapterhouse, Sikatuna Village, Quezon City.
six poems by Conchitina Cruz
There is an emergency. Free to read in the BLTX Palestine Zine Library at Room V, Chapterhouse, Sikatuna Village, Quezon City.
ncincilili by Adam David
A praise poem. Free to read in the BLTX Palestine Zine Library at Room V, Chapterhouse, Sikatuna Village, Quezon City. Download here: https://tinyurl.com/bd9793sd
2024 Catalog
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BRAVE NEW WORDS Volume One edited by Adam David
The inaugural volume of Brave New Words is a collection of creative work focussed on imagining tomorrows beyond all of today’s eternal struggle against atrocities and anxieties: wonderland or wasteland? Will the world truly be better off if we were all dead? Whatever will we do for entertainment once we’ve eaten all the CEOs and boardmembers of all multimedia multinational companies? Will we ever have a president from the ranks of the proletariat?
2023 Catalog
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Unbecoming by Angeli Lacson
In a series of brief notes, Unbecoming explores questions of loss, illness, pain, and disability. It attends to the minutiae of everyday life shaped by illness and injury to center the ordinariness of non-healthiness under capital and empire, as well as the ways in which this unwellness invites new forms of political belonging and solidarity.
elsewhere held and lingered by Conchitina Cruz
“What happens to the self when it permits the transgressive act? Past the boundaries of its predicament, the self in elsewhere held and lingered survives fractured, casting a vigorously unforgiving eye back on itself and fatally attentive to the mullioned and unsteady narratives to which it has opened itself up. Cruz’s second collection of poems is rigorously imagined and wrought with such tenacity that makes reading it a pleasure but none the less harrowing.”—Mabi David
2022 Catalog
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Modus by Conchitina Cruz
Poems inspired by academia, bad jokes, bureaucracy, dreams, ennui, fatigue, gerygones, guilt, misgivings, paper dolls, petty resentments, rooftops, self-importance, sewing, squandered love, submeters, wishes.
Dark Hours by Conchitina Cruz
“At this historical moment when the issue of how to respond to suffering is so fraught as to leave us speechless, the poems of Conchitina Cruz have found a way to speak. Here in this starkly beautiful volume, she has discovered a language sufficient to the terrors and the joys of the contemporary. The highest praise that can be given to any work of literature—and Dark Hours is most surely literature—is that it is contemporary. This is a very remarkable book.”—Lynn Emanuel
When the World Ended I Was Thinking About the Forest by Glenn Diaz
Diaz maps a network of texts emerging from the experience of Philippine modernity and its various artifacts like nation and narrative even as the world hurtles toward ecological collapse. Part poetics, unsent love letter, and critique of knowledge production, it looks for the forest in the novels of Rizal and other fictions, in museum exhibits, webinars, buildings, bureaucratic reports, and legislation.
Punan ni Faye Cura
Sa Punan, nag-iimis at nagtatagni-tagni si Faye Cura ng mga teksto para magpalagay ng tinig ng iba’t ibang babae—manunulat, artista, mga tauhan sa mito, mistiko, mandirigma—sa tula. Gamit ang salin ni Anne Carson sa Ingles ng mga kapi (fragment) ni Sappho bilang batayang teksto, sinasalin ni Cura si Sappho sa pamamagitan ni Carson sa Filipino, pagkuwa ay nagsusulat sa tabi at pagitan ng mga linya, upang magpalitaw ng mga pagnanasa, tunggalian, at pananalig ng iba’t ibang tagapagsalita.
The El Bimbo Variations ni Adam David
Award-winning critical darling and perennial bestseller—at least one thousand print copies sold out—the El Bimbo Variations is now back in print with a new cover, one new variation, and half a dozen grammatical edits! Read, cry, and marvel at one of the best testaments to the endurance of art across language, culture, and history! Free to download here!
You Are Here by Mabi David
In You Are Here, Mabi David examines the role of the secondary witness in memorial work, confronting the limits and possibilities of speaking from the position of the bystander, tourist, researcher, archivist, and artist. First published in 2009, this book of poetry was written largely in response to David’s encounter with the archives of Memorare Manila, a committee consisting of the survivors of the Battle for Manila in 1945.
Whitepaper
Paper Trail Projects is a small press dedicated to poetry and other investigations in language driven by the poetic impulse. It is a shoestring operation with a preference for the small-scale: small-sized books, slim volumes, zines, handmade artifacts, and ephemera. Founded by Conchitina Cruz and Adam David, Paper Trail Projects is interested in experiments with image and text, the retrieval and rereading of out-of-print or off-the-radar literature, as well as the literary production of grassroots communities and communities of writing outside the professionalized literary scene.