Sea Urchin Editions

07/09/2026

in stock from Moloko Plus:

KIEV STINGL - MEINE STERNE FALLEN

Audio CD released by Moloko Plus, Schönebeck, 2026. 10 tracks, 37:15 min. Recorded in Berlin & Hamburg, 2006-2024. Mixed & produced by Niklas David. Design: Julia Baudistel & rag, Vienna. Images © Audiac
€ 15,00

Kiev Stingl was born in 1943 in Aussig a.d. Elbe in Sudetenland, from which he and his mother had to flee after the end of World War II. After having first having found refuge in Mannheim he was relocated to Hamburg in 1949, where he attended secondary school and unsuccessfully studied Politicology and Ethnology. In 1985 he moved from Hamburg to Berlin. Since 1975 Stingl has been active as a composer, lyricist, singer, actor and performer and has authored four acclaimed LPs (‘Teuflisch’, ‘Hart wie Mozart’, ‘Ich wünsch den Deutschen alles Gute’ and ‘Grausam das Gold und jubelnd die Pest’) and four books (‘Flacker in der Pfote’, ‘Die besoffene Schlägerei’, ‘Kainer Maria Cowboy’ and ‘Sink skin’) and many other unpublished and unreleased works. His intoxicated and provocative behaviour, his existentialist stance paired with outstanding qualities as a song writer and lyricist make it fair to hail Kiev Stingl as one of the great lyricists, authors and performance artists of post-war Germany. Stingl died in Berlin in 2024.

On 20 February 2026, the second anniversary of Kiev Stingl’s death, Klangbad – the label of Hans-Joachim Irmler, founding member of the legendary Krautrock band Faust – released Stingl’s swansong and musical legacy, ‘Meine Sterne fallen’ (My Stars Are Falling). The beautiful and moving album is now available on CD, released by Moloko Plus. All titles by Kiev Stingl, arrangements by Niklas David.

On 20 February 2026, the second anniversary of the great Kiev Stingl's death, Klangbad – the label of Hans-Joachim Irmler, founding member of the legendary Krautrock band Faust – released Stingl's swansong and musical legacy, Meine Sterne fallen (My Stars Are Falling). All titles by Kie...

04/09/2026

03/09/2026

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YANNIS LIVADAS INTERVIEWED BY BEN SCHOT (plus five poems)

Jointly published by Moloko Plus and Sea Urchin, 2017. Language: English.
€ 10,00

In this slim edition, beautifully designed by Anneke Auer, publisher Ben Schot interviews poet Yannis Livadas about the position of poetry in general. Starting from Filippo Tommaso Marinetti’s violent notion of poetry, the discussion follows a precarious path of its own. Schot’s train of thought clashes with Livadas’s poetic language, but instead of heading for derailment the discussion opens new perspectives amid desolate piles of ashes and brightly burning flames of creation.

To this interview five English poems by Livadas and artwork by Schot have been added. The book was jointly published by Moloko Print from Schönebeck and Sea Urchin from Rotterdam in 2017.

Yannis Livadas is a contemporary Greek poet, born in 1969. He is also an editor; essayist, translator, of more than fifty books of American poetry and prose; an independent scholar with specialization on modernism, beat literature, postmodernism and haiku. He is also a columnist and freelancer contributor to various literary magazines, both in Greece and other countries. His poems and essays have been translated in eight languages. He lives in Paris, France.
https://www.sea-urchin.net/books/sea-urchin-books/yannis-livadas-interviewed-by-ben-schot/

31/08/2026

Last available copy:

VOID

Published by Sea Urchin, 2026. Hand made edition of 15 copies. 15,5 x 11,1 cm. Japanese bound and printed on semi-translucent Japanese paper. Flyleaf: Japanese Satogami. Design: Ben Schot.
€20,00.

Sea Urchin’s VOID is a small selection of the 98 woodcuts that were printed in the first illustrated edition of Andrea Alciato’s ‘Emblematum liber’. Originally, Alciato’s manuscript consisted of Latin epigrams and mottos only. The Italian jurist, who lived from 1492 to 1550, distributed his unillustrated work among fellow-humanists to convey classical knowledge and morality, hoping it would inspire other scholars, artists and artisans.
Heinrich Steiner, a printer from Augsburg, took this all too literally when he pirated the work in 1531 and added woodcuts to Alciato’s writings without the author’s consent. Doing so, Steiner unwittingly started the long line of illustrated emblem books that would be published in Europe in the centuries to follow. Steiner’s unauthorised edition was successful and saw a number of reprints, but Alciato was unhappy with the woodcuts, which he considered crude, full of mistakes and in some cases at odds with the contents of his writings. For that reason (and also because of Steiner’s success), he published his own illustrated version of the work in 1534.

The design of the woodcuts in Steiner’s 1531 pirate edition has been attributed to the Augsburg artist Jörg Breu The Elder (c.1475–1537). This Sea Urchin edition holds a small selection of Breu’s woodcuts, stripped of Alciato’s edifying and moralising words. Thus transported from the Symbolic order, to which Alciato’s emblems belong, to the realm of the Imaginary, these images are now open to more personal interpretations and projections.
https://www.sea-urchin.net/books/sea-urchin-books/void/

24/08/2026

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MARK A. MURPHY - SEA WAKE & SOME LAST POEMS BY MILNER PLACE

Risographed edition published by Moloko Plus, 2021. Language: English. Design: Andrea Lühr.
€ 10,00

British poet Mark A. Murphy was born in West Yorkshire in 1969, where he studied Philosophy, Sociology, History, Politics and Poetry in Huddersfield. He first attended poetry workshops in 1986 and read with the Albert Poets in and around Yorkshire in the early 1990s. Murphy saw a chapbook of his poetry published in Huddersfield in 1996 but lapsed into alcoholism, depression and anxiety the following decade. He didn’t start writing poetry again until 2005 but suffered from serious health problems in 2007 and 2016, which limited his literary output to one chapbook and a small number of poetry compilations. At the moment Murphy is chief editor of the online poetry journal POETICA REVIEW. Murphy’s series of poems Sea Wake is a tribute to his countryman Milner Place, who died in 2020. Moloko+ has published these poems as a risographed chapbook and has added four of Milner Place’s last poems to this edition.

Milner Place started writing poetry at the age of 43 in 1973 to divert his attention from a novel that he was struggling with to finish. The novel would never see the light of day. Instead, Place would become better-known for his poems than for his prose. His poetry was published by various established presses, of which Moloko Plus is one. Milner Place was born in North Yorkshire, England in 1930. After having briefly followed an agricultural study Place led the family farm and worked as a forester and bartender. From the age of 23, when Place left for South Africa, much of his eventful life was spent at sea until he settled down in Huddersfield in 1987. Place captained various yachts and ships for 11 years, was involved in smuggling during the Algerian War and raced the Count of Barcelona across the Atlantic. His early poems were written in Spanish but since his return to the UK, Place has written his poems in English. Place died in Huddersfield in 2020.
https://www.sea-urchin.net/books/moloko-books/mark-a-murphy-sea-wake-some-last-poems-by-milner-place/

22/08/2026

in stock from tapetopia, Berlin:

UNITED STATES OF MELANCHOLIA, PART I

C-90 released by tapetopia/aufnahme + wiedergabe/Iron Curtain Radio, Berlin, 2026. Hand numbered edition of 100. Cover art: Igor Tatschke. Design: Maik Reichenbach, Laireen & tapetopia
Compiled by Henryk Gericke, Maik Reichenbach & Alexander Pehlemann. Liner notes: Henryk Gericke.
€15,00

‘…The political revolt of punk was succeeded by the aesthetic adventure of post-punk. During the Cold War, dark wave, gothic and industrial also had their equivalents under the unlucky star of the GDR. The title “United States Of Melancholia” refers to a shadowland behind the perpetually rising façade of construction and to a nationally ingrained melancholy that, in the GDR, seemed to well up from deeper strata beneath an officially prescribed cheerfulness. Therefore, “United States of Melancholia” shifts its focus to little-known bands and projects that preferred to stay out of the light in the socialist model state—not least because, for them, the sun set in the East.

‘“United States of Melancholia” is conceived as a triptych, bringing together different soundscapes within the same genre. Part I reflects the transition from punk to the emancipation from punk rock. Part II compiles songs rooted in a classic understanding of new wave. Finally, part III offers darkly tinged electronic and semi-acoustic tracks. The hand numbered C-90 “United States of Melancholia, Part I” contains tracks by Rosa Extra, Kein Plan, Kein Mitleid, Death Joy, Volkr Zimmermann and others.

“United States Of Melancholia” is a joint release by Iron Curtain Radio and the tapetopia series. The ICR and the tapetopia series release Eastern Bloc sounds from the 1980s. tapetopia focuses on cassette editions from the GDR, using original layouts and track lists that were never released on vinyl or CD, but were often regarded as cult classics within subcultural circles and viewed with suspicion by official circles. ICR also turns its attention to the so-called “actually existing socialist” brother countries…’

(Henryk Gericke)

C-90 released by tapetopia/aufnahme + wiedergabe/Iron Curtain Radio, Berlin, 2026. Hand numbered edition of 100. ‘United States of Melancholia‘ is conceived as a triptych, bringing together different soundscapes within the same genre. Part I reflects the transition from punk to the emancipation ...

19/08/2026

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ASMUS TIETCHENS - LEERE UND ZERFALL

CD released on Moloko Plus, 2018. Recorded at Audiplex Studio, Hamburg. Design: Robert Schalinski.
€ 15,00

In 2018 Moloko Plus released the CD ‘Leere und Zerfall’ by German musician and composer Asmus Tietchens. The CD presents six readings by Tietchens from the controversial philosopher Emil Cioran’s work ‘Lehre vom Zerfall’ accompanied by minimal electronic music. Tietchens’ special relationship with Cioran was already apparent from his use of Cioran quotations on other LPs and CDs, but here this relationship has led to an uncompromising conceptual piece of work. Moloko did a great job to release this CD and to have Robert Schalinski provide the digipak with a fitting minimal design.

Asmus Tietchens was born in Hamburg in 1947, where he has lived all his life. He got acquainted with musique concrète and electronic music at the age ten, when he tuned in on late night radio broadcasts of the Norddeutsche Rundfunk. While making a living as a copywriter, he started producing his own brand of electronic music in 1975 and released his first solo album, Nachtstücke 5 years later. Many albums and collaborations with other musicians and artists have followed since. From 1989 to 2013 Tietschens taught sound design, first at the University of Applied Science and then at the renowned art academy of Hamburg.

Romanian philosopher and essayist Emil Cioran (1911-1995), for whom even Friedrich Nietzsche was too optimistic and naive, counts as one of the most pessimistic, radical and nihilistic thinkers of our age. Although in later life Cioran regretted and denounced his fascist ideas, he overtly sympathised with Hi**er and the Italian fascists in the 1930s and with the Romanian death cult of the Iron Guard, who rose to power in Romania in 1940 before being banned one year later. After having studied and taught in Berlin he moved to Paris on a scholarship in 1937, where he would stay for the rest of his life. From 1945 onwards he published his books, which to a large extent consisted of aphorisms, in French. His best-known work ‘Précis de décomposition’ was published by Gallimard in 1949 and translated into German by Paul Celan in 1953. It is from this work that Asmus Tietchens reads on the CD ‘Leere und Zerfall’, a title which itself is both a reference to and a comment on Cioran’s book.
https://www.sea-urchin.net/audio-video/moloko-plus-audio-video/asmus-tietchens-leere-und-zerfall/

17/08/2026

Last available copy of this homage to Rotterdam :

BEN SCHOT - SHINER

‘Shiner’ is a set of 10 postcards printed on 300 gr Hahnemühle Britannia in a hand made jacket of 200 gr Fabriano drawing paper. The postcards show fullcolour photos taken by Ben Schot on the streets of Rotterdam. The set, complete with an obi strip, has been published by Sea Urchin in an edition of 15 hand numbered copies in 2026.
https://www.sea-urchin.net/books/sea-urchin-books/ben-schot-shiner/

16/08/2026

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UDO BREGER - IDENTITY EXPRESS

Published by Moloko Plus, 2021. Language: English. Photos: Udo Breger. Ticker Tape: Jürgen Ploog. Design: Ralph Gabriel. Cover art: Gregor Kunz/Wolfgang Schulz.
€ 15,00

Udo Breger (1941) is a German author, translator and publisher with close ties to the Beat Generation. Breger studied English and Romance Language & Literature at the University of Göttingen from 1964 to 1971, during which period he also ran an art gallery in Göttingen. Between 1968 and 1975 his Expanded Media Editions published and organised projects with Joseph Beuys, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Allen Ginsberg, Brion Gysin, William Burroughs and others. In the mid-1970s Breger translated Robert Shea’s and Robert Anton Wilson’s ‘Illuminatus! Trilogy’ for Sphinx Verlag, Basel. With the exception of a couple of years spent in Sweden, Breger has since then worked in Basel as a publicist and translator of works by Walt Whitman, Alan Watts, John Lilly, William Burroughs, Franco Beltrametti and others for various publishing houses including his own. During his stays in the USA between 1978 and 1992 he met Andy Warhol, Herbert Huncke and Buckminster Fuller to mention some of his many overseas friends and acquaintances. Breger’s Expanded Media Editions and his magazine Soft Need has published works by cut-up artists Jürgen Ploog, Carl Weissner, Jörg Fauser, William Burroughs and Brion Gysin as well as works by Allen Ginsberg, Claude Pélieu and Gerard Malanga. Together with Axel Heil and Peter Weibel, Breger curated the exhibition ‘The Name is Burroughs‘ in ZKM Karlsruhe and the Sammlung Falckenberg, Hamburg in 2012.

Udo Breger’s ‘Identity Express’ was originally published in an edition of 500 by the Swiss Caos Press in 1979. This compilation of Breger’s fine-tuned ‘écriture automatique’, notes and intimate photographs of friends has a ticker tape text by Jürgen Ploog running across the pages from beginning to end, which functions as snippets of information viewed from a window in an inside-out and outside-in express hurtling through sceneries and memories stored in the author’s mind. Gregor Kunz’s cover art based on a photograph by Wolfgang Schulz and Ralph Gabriel’s elegant design form the icing on this fine cake, now made available again by Moloko Plus.

Reprint of Udo Breger's 1979 work. With photo's by Udo Breger and a tickertape text by Jürgen Ploog.

07/08/2026

Reduced in price:

GARY SNYDER - A RANGE OF POEMS

Hardcover published by Fulcrum Press, London, 1967. Second edition. Artwork: Gary Snyder & Will Petersen. Photography: Ken Walden. Design: Stuart Montgomery. Condition: Very good, slight discolouration of the page edges. Minor damage to the dust jacket.
€ 25,00

American poet, translator and environmentalist GARY SNYDER was born in San Francisco in 1930. After his parents had moved to Washington State and later to Oregon, Snyder discovered reading, poetry and the folklore of the Native Americans of the Pacific Northwest. He published his first poems during his time at Reed College, Portland and graduated with a dual degree in anthropology and literature in 1951. His experiences working summers as a hand in the timber industry were expressed in his poetry of the early 1950s. Having returned to his native San Francisco in 1952, Snyder studied Asian cultures and languages and began practising Zen. He read one of his poems at the famous 1955 poetry readings at the Six Gallery in San Francisco, which heralded the birth of the Beat Generation. But although there are all sorts of connections with the Beats, Snyder was never really part of that circle and rather thought of himself as belonging to the San Francisco Renaissance, which was spearheaded by Kenneth Rexroth. Snyder started studying Zen Buddhism in Kyoto, Japan in 1955, returned to California in 1958 and divided the next decade between Japan and California, writing poetry, translating and furthering his Zen studies. In 1970 he settled in Kitkitdizze, his property in the Sierra Nevada foothills of Northern California. In the 1980s Snyder was appointed a professor at the University of California and became deeper involved in environmental issues. He has been awarded several prizes for his poetry and is held in high esteem as an environmental activist.

‘A Range of Poems’ compiles several of Snyder’s earlier works from ‘Riprap and Cold Mountain Poems’, ‘Myths & Texts’, translations of poems by Kenji Miyazawa and ‘The Back Country’. It was published in 1966 by Fulcrum Press, London, followed by a second edition one year later. This particular copy of the second edition from 1967 is in very good condition with only slight discolouration of the edges of the pages and minor damage to the dust jacket, which has a 42/- price sticker on its front flap.

Hardcover compilation published by Fulcrum Press, London. Second edition, 1967. Condition: very good with only slight discolouration of the edges of the pages and slight damage to the dust jacket.