Newsreader is a book-length poem of text and image that explores the linguistic and visual conventions of news as interactive globalised multimedia. It is presented as a coptic-bound hardcover book with newsprint pages.

Images of television newsreaders feature throughout this artist’s book, sparsely dispersing the poetic text, which is drawn from newspapers, magazines, periodicals, internet articles, and television news broadcasts, in addition to texts integrated into news in these contexts, such as horoscopes, advertisements, games, and conversations or comments. These fragments of language have been combined and repeatedly written through to produce the poetic text of Newsreader.

Jennie Cole, Newsreader (2015) 
Artist’s book, coptic-bound hardcover edition

Details:
Book measures 19 x 29 x 1.5 cm (at spine).
64 unnumbered pages.
Edition of 12.
An artist’s book by Jennie Cole. Made in London, 2015.

Construction:
Hardcovers of black tissue-lined rayon bookcloth, hand-painted with black acrylic paint on front cover.
Foil-blocked silver title on front cover.
Inner covers lined in 140gsm Gialloro Fedrigoni Sirio Color paper.
Inner pages of newsprint with Gill Sans text and found images, printed in black ink in digital tabloid style by Newspaper Club.
Exposed spine binding in coptic sewing with black linen thread.

Newsreader features in private and public collections including the Rare Books collection at The Poetry Library, Southbank Centre (London, UK).

This artist’s book is available for purchase online from Manticoria.

Jennie Cole, Newsreader (2014) 
Performance with video 

Newsreader was presented as a performance with video at Literary Kitchen Festival on 21 June 2014.

Jennie Cole, Newsreader (2013)
Poem in Otoliths 32

The text of Newsreader originally featured in Otoliths in November 2013, and was published as a standalone piece in Issue 32 of Otoliths in February 2014, viewable on the Otoliths website.