Released 31st March, 2023 // 76 pages // 978-1-915760-03-6 // RRP £22.99
 
./code --poetry is a colourful cacophony of computer languages. Authors Daniel Holden and Chris Kerr have created a collection of code poems – poems written in the source codes of a variety of programming languages. Inside, code and poetry are presented alongside visual artwork with the poetry itself embedded in the source code of a number of programs. Every program is entirely valid, and when compiled and run these programs produce the visual artwork presented alongside the individual poems in the collection. Lavishly formatted and bursting with colour, this unique book is essential for anyone passionate about visual art, poetry or programming. ./code --poetry is a Rosetta Stone for programmers, restored and rendered for the digital age, highlighting the intersection of three classic art forms.
 
PRAISE for ./code --poetry:
I love this book, because it grants poets permission to engage more directly with the software of our digital culture, thus extending all our tool-kits for expression.
   — Christian Bök

code is all around us. like bacteria. best not to think about how much of it there is. and fungus. we rely on it to survive. but most of us have no idea what it actually does. Holden and Kerr know. they don’t tell us, they show us. each poem basks in its own logic. unfolds in its own language. ASCII as love language. code and output. flower and fruit.
   — J. R. Carpenter
 
Poems have always aspired to make something happen. The source codes in ./code --poetry deliver on that promise.
   — Pedro Poitevin
 
I love this! Actually poetic and wonderfully executed.
   — Angus Croll
 
This book explores the aesthetic and rhythmic properties of code poetry in a new way ... It's a really beautiful book.
   — Ishac Bertran
 
This multi-lingual collection of code-poems is an exhilaration both to the mind and senses ... an elegant showcase humming with lyrical and visual energy.
   — Catherine Vidler
 
ABOUT Daniel Holden & Chris Kerr:
Daniel Holden is a programmer and writer working in the video games industry in Montréal. He has a nostalgia for the old internet and growing up in London in the 2000s.
 
Chris Kerr is a poet who lives in London. He has published Extra Long Matches with Penteract Press, Nam Gal Sips Clark with Hesterglock Press and Citidyll with Broken Sleep Books.