Welcome to Recent Songs

My name is Cam Scott and I’m a writer and non-musician from Winnipeg, Canada, Treaty 1 territory. I write about left politics; contemporary sound and visual art; experimental poetry and prose; punk and its afterlives; and much else of passing interest besides.

My books include THE VANISHING SIGNS, a collection of essays on experimental literature and social space; ROMANS/SNOWMARE, the first layer of a potentially interminable work of text-based social collage; and WRESTLERS, a suite of visual poetry. Sometimes I sing in the punk band AGE OF SELF.

With this newsletter, I hope to create a minimally self-sustaining space in which to workshop new and ongoing projects, annotate my many musical loves, and think through the exigencies of a fraught political moment within earshot of an accountable chorus. Thank you for your interest and support.