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Room 57: Pat - Part One: Best Of Irish
2008 Jun 24
He chuckled – he loved fucking with Catholic priests; they were such miserable bastards sometimes, which he could understand given the amount of stuff they denied themselves. People had suspicions about him – they always had. At least those suspicions didn’t primarily stem from him being Irish anymore and they couldn’t land him in a [...]
Room 56: Rad - Part One: Walkabout
2008 Jun 24
A day off. A day to go walking in the park; a day to be at large in this place – listening to the sounds of the city that everyone else tuned out. To him it was ambient tunes, the true heartbeat of industrial; he built symphonies out of simple rhythms, found chord progressions where [...]
Room 55: Yasigi - Part One: Drunken Master
2008 Jun 24
People thought she was a scary motherfucker and she supposed that they could be right – she was after all a pisshead that was obsessed with martial arts. When you went into her living space all that you were likely to see was a mixture of beer and picture from kung-fu movies. You would look [...]
Room 54:Waresa - Part One: F-F-F-Fashion
2008 Jun 24
She looked glamorous with a capital G, darling. Cough. Tickle at the back of the throat. Playing 4st 7lbs by The Manic Street Preachers to make it an ironic act – whatever you can use to distance yourself from the act; it was an old device but it worked really well. Well, it did, except [...]
Room 53: Tez - Part One: Look
2008 Jun 24
Seriously though, what fucking use was it to be someone’s lookalike? Who wanted to be the flesh equivalent of a quotation mark? He really did like bearing a resemblance to his literary hero but that wasn’t all he wanted – he would have loved to channel the spirit of the man through his work. To [...]

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tinternet: swurl
2008 Jul 04
thanks to m1k3y i discovered this great site called swurl which gathers together loads of different data trails that thread through your life and puts them together in attractive and interesting ways — the timeline above being a great example (click through the image to get there).
comicsphere: freakangels friday fun
2008 Jul 04
In one place someone settles in and in another place someone is unsettled. Sometimes it is hard to remember that each episode is only six pages long. To do what he does with those six pages every week shows just how on game Ellis; shows how on game Duffield is as well. At his recent [...]
Comicsphere: Mister Crimson by Diego Tripodi
2008 Jul 03
Scouting around my flickr contact’s lists I happened across this character Mister Crimson and followed him here. He is an interesting character described thusly by his creator: Mister Crimson is the story of a pulp-era superhero that has been abducted through time. Taken from the 1930s, and sent 200 years into the future he is forced [...]
Comicsphere: Chip Zdarsky
2008 Jul 03
I found Chip Zdarsky on twitter in the lists of more than a few people that were following him and have checked out a lot of his work recently and I am really getting into his style. So today I discovered the above strip on The Canadian National Post website (you can click through the [...]
Call For Submissions
2008 Jul 02
Prose Submission Poetry Submission Picture Submission We are currently seeking submissions for a magazine based around the concept that is at the heart of Writers, Prizefighters And Caffeine Inspired All Nighters. The Right Hook Editions will focus on poetry and the Southpaw Grammar Editions are going to be centred around various types of fiction. If you have art [...]

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thoughtwork 1: preparation
2008 Jul 04
<!– @page { size: 8.27in 11.69in; margin: 0.79in } P { margin-bottom: 0.08in } –> He was constructing an entry point through the careful collaging of photographs he had taken over a long period of time – this kind of thoughtwork was never simple. It was different to the rewriting he had done before – with [...]
to fuck with
2008 Jul 01
To fuck with someone … to always fuck with someone – that was the psychology. It was the only way that he knew how to get attention. Getting attention meant that he was occupied and that staved off the boredom. He was not a person that was blessed with ideas ever. Attention and the action [...]
Making A Difference
2008 Jul 01
When you have sold all the weapons you can possibly sell and everyone that the guns were to be used on is dead; when all the places you wanted to conquer and control are under your thumb then you have to look farther afield. You have to create situations – create a market. If you [...]
form at art
2008 Jul 01
His listening habits had changed a lot since he had first started listening to music and he supposed that was only natural considering how the formats had changed. The change in the media that things was presented with was necessarily going to have to impact upon the way you consumed the product, after all it [...]
something new
2008 Jul 01
Gluteus maximus wasn’t a Roman emperor. Medulla oblongata wasn’t his wife. Latin is the favourite chance card of the lazy — they think it grants them some kind of day pass into the club intelligentsia. Anyone can parrot that bullshit for a little while but push past the superficiality of any act and you have [...]

It was forged in the years where punk burst like a boil on the infected hide of Thatcher's Britain and it has spread like an infection for 30 years. Speak to it and it will try to annex your consciousness. It suckled at the teat of Nancy Spungen and all the dead memes it digested are proliferating like a viral load in a bloodstream that is intent on escaping the vein. Haemoglobin thick as molasses is moving towards you in a tide swimming with information that pretends to be poetry and prose but is secretly encrypted recipes for Armageddon. Embrace the disease. Reading inoculates you against the coming plague. Warning: it is prolific!

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a suite of desolate elegancea suite of desolate elegance (book)

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a suite of desolate elegance, the first collected works of Paul Grimsley, contains a mixture of free verse and rhythmic modern poetry. with 45 poems that examine what it is to be human and vulnerable; the eye of the I speaking in a universal voice. this is a challenging and lyrical collection.

the subtle tonguethe subtle tongue (book)

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what is the subtle tongue? that belonging to the lover? the liar? death? this poetry explores the many permutations of the subtle tongue.

a slice of watera slice of water (book)

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a fluid and lyrical example of the best in modern poetry

the chameleon's wardrobethe chameleon's wardrobe (book)

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poetry that explores the many colours we use to dress our minds in. a lyrical, challenging and modern collection of poetry.

motemote (book)

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modern poetry that engages with the world today in a lyrical way.

All Flesh Is GrassAll Flesh Is Grass (book)

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Modern poetry that challenges the reader. Written in an accessible and lyrical style.

contact woundscontact wounds (book)

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modern poetry that engages on all levels -- it makes you think, it makes you feel. once touched by the words in this book you will never be the same again.

WarchalkingWarchalking (book)

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Warchalk marks the open nodes )( The battlefield of tomorrow stirs in the dream of today. It reaches through time and programs the flesh to bring itself to fruition. Warchalk is an outline around the present time's corpse. Warchalk: 9 tales that skin reality.

Proximity AlertProximity Alert (book)

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A collection of stories that takes you closer to some people than you would ever normally want to go. Staked out in the territory of a blooming bruise, 'proximity alert' takes you to childhood haunts, through the corridors of death, obsessive love, and the fecund minds of those whose dreams are others' nightmares.