w. ‘A Letter Always Suggests a Word’ insert by Matthew Stuart
220 × 280mm, 48pp. + insert
Edition of 500, ISBN 978-1-0686252-1-3
published by BFTK, May 2025, London, St Leonards-on-Sea & New Haven
Printed in rosed Valentine pink with dimensions of the french paper size coquille, ‘These are Addressed to You’ is a collection collection of twenty-six abécédaire missives by Sharon Kivland, written and sent daily to the editors (MS & AWL) between Friday 7 February and Tuesday 4 March 2025. Interjected with melancholic ‘Mes horizons’ postcard erasures and an insert of abcedminded replies by Matthew Stuart titled ‘A Letter Always Suggests a Word’, this publication is both a standalone edition and precursor to BFTK#8, which focuses on letters (alphabets) and letters (correspondence). ‘These are Addressed to You’ addresses what it means to be addressed and to address, to write with love and scorn, to seal with a kiss and conceal impressions and hair within a letter’s folds, to inscribe with ink and thread, to speak with and to those we admire. Drawing on / from Freud and Lacan, Joyce and Carringdon, Camille Corot and many more, these letters are about writing and reading, about language falling and bumping you on the head.
