Messages to Central Control

by A.D. Hitchin

-Beautiful lexical kaleidoscopes amidst a morass of ugly, horrific and painful truths-

Messages to Central Control is a daring and challenging work and from the outset, notions of a stable form, content and author are all thrown into question - the reader is compelled to leave everything they believe in at the door and to enter with eyes and mind open. For those that aren't versed with Hitchin's work, he is the foremost contemporary practitioner of cut-up poetry, his literary forebears including the likes of William Burroughs, Brion Gysin and Genesis P-Orridge.

214 pages, Paperback

First published April 3, 2011

About the author

A.D. Hitchin is a writer and editor whose work spans both the commercial and the counterculture. He began his career on the avant-garde scene and his use of the cut-up method has been discussed by academia and appeared in many magazines, websites and publications, culminating in co-editing the CUT UP! anthology, the first of its kind. Hitchin marked his move away from more cryptic, abstract work with the publication of CONSENSUAL in 2016, described by one reviewer as 'reading for the end of the world'. Following a series of spiritual experiences beginning late 2017, Hitchin cancelled his planned follow-up book and withdrew CONSENSUAL from sale, instead choosing to embark on a decidedly different path more in keeping with what he describes as 'a new incarnation'. Hitchin has performed at various London galleries, including the Underdog Gallery and The Horse Hospital, where he also exhibited and sold his artwork. Commercially Hitchin works with publishers in a variety of areas, including acquisitions, structural editing and ghostwriting. His most recent work includes writing the text for Prince: Purple Reign, a colouring book-cum-biography, released on Plexus Books in December 2017.