Paul Hawkins aka Bob Modem

Servant Drone (2nd edition)
Bruno Neiva & Paul Hawkins

1st edition 2015 - out of print
2nd edition 2018
Knives Forks & Spoons Press
£9 buy

cover art: Privados Um by Bárbara Mesquita

Book launches


Book launch of Servant Drone, w/ reading by Paul Hawkins and Sarer Scotthorne, Bloom & Curll Books, Bristol, UK, 25/03/2016.  Footage by Jason Beech.


Servant Drone book launch, Gato Vadio Bookshop, Porto, 19-03-2016, by Paul Hawkins and Bruno Neiva
Introduction by Rui Torres
Footage by Tiago Silva

‘Reading Servant Drone is like rifling through Tristan Tzara’s confidential waste, receiving a spam email from Kurt Schwitters or eavesdropping on an inaudible conversation at the fringes of a deconstructivist house party. Fragmentary and beautifully bewildering, this is a work of dense collage, where found and made text stack up to build an edifice that threatens to topple time and again but is saved by a change in wind direction. Servant Drone is in perpetual motion, a shaken snow globe of references and registers, refusing the easy eternal verities, finding instead a more complex truth in the temporary furniture of the sublunar sphere. Deeply nuanced and obliquely radical, this is a book to keep in your pocket as a charm against the liquid spectres of a late capitalist Monday morning.’ - Tom Jenks

“What is the worst poetry myth? That it is a singular form, not naturally lending itself to collaboration? Or that what is actually contemporary, relevant, dynamic, is innately experimental or strange? Servant Drone is one of the finest examples of a poetic work which destroys both superstitions in one fell sweep. It is energetic, decisive, colloquial and necessary. It is a work of synthesis between two exceptional vanguard poets that balances satire, critique and humour with an intense methodological engagement." - SJ Fowler

Publication history:
#10 (Hawkins), #10 (Neiva), #11 (Hawkins) and #11 (Neiva), Queen Mob's Teahouse

Articles, interviews and reviews:
Servant Drone by Bruno Neiva and Paul Hawkins, Matthew Hall, Galatea Resurrects #26 (A Poetry Engagement)

Servant Drone by Bruno Neiva and Paul Hawkins, Matthew Hall, Yellow Field, Issue 11

The Daily Glance: Servant Drone, Bill Allegrezza, p-ramblings

In the Booklight - Bruno Neiva, Paul Hawkins & Servant Drone, Sarah James

Servant Drone, Bruno Neiva & Paul Hawkins, Steve Spence, Stride, Exeter, Devon, UK, Jan. 2016

3AM Top Reads of 2015, SJ Fowler, 3:AM Magazine, Paris, France and London, UK, Dec. 2015