Invited as a researcher for the Performance in Residence programme, Gregg Bordowitz posed himself a guiding question: “Is poetics a relevant term for current art-making, and if so how?” With this incisive query, Bordowitz brings to light insights gleaned over three decades of work across video-media, art criticism, coalition-based AIDS activism, poetry and pedagogic practice, while revisiting the concerns in his own work for freedom, autonomy and self-determination. The publication assembles poetry, epistolatory and critical texts written by Bordowitz over 2013–2014; the working period of Edition V – Appropriation and Dedication. In addition the publication includes poetry and essays by Robert Duncan, a psychoanalytic text by Wilfred Bion, and poetry by Essex Hemphill and Ari Banias.