Friday 31 July 2009

Whilst I Was Not Here…

Heavy Bear

Delighted to be the cover artist for Issue Two of Jane Crown’s Heavy Bear. Artwork can be found here Click on the cover to enter the zine and view contents – much good stuff there, including a review of ‘a bellyful of anarchy’ by David McLean.

Be sure to check out the most candid and informative biography [to date] of featured artist ‘pablo vision’ here

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Paraphilia Magazine

The always vibrant and exciting Paraphilia has got yet another issue up – this one issue three. Includes my piece “Psychology In The Cubicle”, but, as with all issues, absolutely excellent from cover to cover. Why not download all three issues for free here? That way you would also have issue one which includes “Babushka” – essential reading…

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Saatchi Gallery

Some new and some old artwork can now be viewed at the Saatchi Gallery – including the semi-famous ‘flying cocks’. Semi-famous these cocks might be, but semi-hard they are definitely not…

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Epic Rites Publications

A Bellyful Of Anarchy – Rob Plath

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“With a bodybag full of bloody memories, broken dreams and tormented visions of the future, American poet Rob Plath trudges through the darkened alleyways of your moral highground - a bellyful of anarchy is a tour de force dissection of a world gone rotten.” - RD Armstrong, Lummox Press

“A BELLYFUL OF ANARCHY IS AN ABSOLUTE MONSTER THAT WILL LEAP FROM YOUR BOOKSHELF AND KICK THE SHIT OUT OF EVERY OTHER BOOK IN YOUR LIBRARY”

More details at:

here and here

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Hellbound – David McLean

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…infamous for leading his readers deep into the shadowy woods of the human psyche and leaving them for dead, mclean offers a tight collection of poetry centred around clive barker’s popular hellraiser franchise…delving deep into the hellraiser mythology david does not merely interpret it, he reinvents it – making it distinctly his own…quite possibly the coolest chapbook you will ever buy…

“mclean’s poetry has always kicked your balls until you puked; with this volume you’re choking on blood and praying for replacement” - Jack Henry, d/e/a/d/b/e/a/t press & Heroin Love Songs

“Get yourself a copy of Hellbound - it’s a strangely righteous read in a tumultuous world.” - Jane Crown, Heavy Bear

More details at:

here and here


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Frostbitten – Mark Walton

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The first volume of the workers in blood series, Frostbitten continues to attract rave reviews…

“Mark Walton's poems fizzle with energy and capture the modern gay experience in all its many guises.” - Paul Burston, author (Shameless, Star People, Lovers & Losers, The Gay Divorcee, etc) and journalist (Time Out, The Guardian, The Times, The Sunday Times, The Independent on Sunday, etc)

“I found Frostbitten lucid, harrowing and compelling. It's a cogent and passionate first collection shot through with hard-won self-knowledge.” - Paul Magrs, author (Marked for Life, Never the Bride, Twin Freaks, Something Borrowed, Conjugal Rites, BBC Doctor Who series, etc)

More details at:

here and here