The following chapters are written by appropriating text from four different collections of Cigarette Cards manufactured in the 1920s. In each case, the numbered cards provide a unique structure and care has been taken to remove all direct reference to the collection’s subject matter.
New witchcraft ʢʡ. Reports of ritualistic witchcraft engender a great deal of fear in the communities. The Government/? was combating the phenomenon among adults through education/? and legislation. FEMINISM We are entering into a… new phase/?. Ellas estaban ya allí. Ellas amaron antes. Empowerment took on both a collective and an individual dimension. Those who… Read more »
Anna McQuillin, born 1990 is an artist and writer currently living and working in Sheffield. Anna studied Fine Art at the University of Leeds and L’école supérieure d’art de Grenoble, and is a studio holder at S1 Artspace.
Sara Torres (Gijón 1991) She studies Language and Literature at Queen Mary University of London. She is one of the coordinators of the national poetry encounter “La Ciudad en Llamas”. http://theforestofladies.blogspot.co.uk/ Illustrations by María Argüelles http://mariaarguelles.com/ Translation into English: Terence Dooley
I have always had a creative streak – in music (where I am an accomplished drummer and Cajon player) and song writing; drama or Creative Writing. From my first “works” issuing a family newspaper aged 8 and writing to The Times, aged 12, I have continued to put pen to paper, throughout my life. Whilst… Read more »
A writer from Northumberland.
Logos, Lexis, Lego is a short poetic sequence that aims to combine elements of Collage, Projective Verse and Open Verse Notation using found text from a variety of sources and my own writing. My poem takes you through an extraordinary collage where juxtaposed text creates a challenging, thought-provoking work that conceals poems within poems and… Read more »
A story about a man graduating from a London university in love with a girl, in poems, whom is from the North-East, and has to return there, due to having no work, and keep his shit together, but does not.
A chance-led conceptual book using as its source text the Tao Te Ching, Playing Tao was written using a simple playing-card method which could be replicated by anybody and using any text.
Sean Wai Keung has been published in various magazines, journals and anthologies, including Lunar Poetry (UK) and the Suburban Review (AUS). He studied at Roehampton University (2011-2014) and the University of East Anglia (2014-2016). His debut pamphlet won the Rialto Open Pamphlet Competition 2016 and is due to be published later this year. He currently… Read more »