Unlock the Clockcase

non-profit, small-press publishing


Unlock the Clockcase started in New York City in 2006 as a publisher of letterpress chapbooks. now based in Boston, the press has expanded to publish original works of literature in paperback and ebook.

newest publications

a river unraveled

“A song is a meeting place. A geometric arrangement in which the notes are markers or placements and the repetition, a constant vanishing.”

~ angela muir


sand texture

once upon a time

“Now I am a plaster cast into which this requiem for my future refuses to spill…”

~ Daniel Schwartz

black sand texture

ripponlea 6

“Her thoughts and emotions didn’t seem to be her own. They became bleak and unworthy, or hopelessly scattered.

Or worse—tightly focused, locked in an unbreakable spiral. A spiral that centered on one thing.

Someone who waited for her under the earth.”

~ Johnny Murray

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