We are delighted to share a curated collection of texts recommended to Cove Park by former residents, bare minimum collective (Funded Residencies 2023/24). bare minimum is a six-person interdisciplinary anti-work arts collective comprising Diamond Abdulrahim, Vera Chapiro, Christie Costello, Lola Olufemi, Christine Pungong, Leo.

These titles were sourced and acquired for the Cove Park library through a partnership with Aye Aye Books at CCA Glasgow. To purchase your own copy, visit Aye Aye Books online bookshop.

bare minimum Reading List 

• M.E. O’Brien, Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052-2072
• Hannah Black, Tuesday or September or the End
• Avery Gordon, Ghostly Matters
• Ntozake Shange, if i can cook / you know god can
• Lola Olufemi, Experiments in Imagining Otherwise
• Momtaza Mehri, Bad Diaspora Poems
• Gargi Bhachattaryya, We the Heartbroken
• Jamaica Kincaid, My Garden (Book)
• Beatrice Adler-Bolton and Artie Vierkant, Health Communism
• Yara Rodriques Fowler, there are more things
• Sophie Lewis, Abolish the Family: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation
• Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, The Most Secret Memory of Men
• Sonia Sanchez, Homegirls and Handgrenades
• Saidiya Hartman, Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments
• Elizabeth Povinelli, The Inheritance
• Micha Frazer-Carroll, Mad World: The Politics of Mental Health
• Gloria Anzaldùa, Florida Anzaldùa Reader
• Kathi Weeks, The Problem With Work: Feminism, Marxism, and Postwork Imaginaries