The Lay of the Land.

The Lay of the Land

Paul Warren

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The lay of the land

Twelve images by Paul Warren Foreword by Gary Cummiskey

Text set in kano sans serif

Artwork copyright of the artist 2025

For Veronica and Joe.

Foreword

I am the earth that gives life ...

The ophthalmologist lament

The visitor

T.V is dead

Heroes and martyrs exposed to the sun

And weel may the keel row

The death of hollywood

A countryside walk

The weight of memory

Photographic evidence

The premonition

Tranquility disturbed

The lay of the land

The death of hollywood and The premonition were previously published in issue 89 of Insprational Art magazine.

Tranquility disturbed was originally published by Sweat drenched press.

Paul Warren is an Artist and illustrator with an interest in surrealism, dada, abstract and punk art .

He works in a variety of different mediums including collage and more recently digital collage and photomontage.

His work has been published by Dumpster fire press , The odd magazine, Word vomit zine , Fevers of the mind press, Vile bird Journal , The Argyle literary magazine, The ROOM surrealist magazine and Sweat drenched press .

Paul lives in Daventry U.K.

A special thank you to Gary Cummiskey for providing the foreword to this book.

Gary Cummiskey is a poet, short story writer and publisher living in Johannesburg, South Africa. He is the author of several poetry chapbooks and collections, the latest being Animal eyeball (with Paul Warren) (Dye Hard Press) and Somewhere else (Graffiti, Kolkata). In 2009 he published Who was Sinclair Beiles , a compilation of writings about the South African Beat poet , co-edited with Eva Kowalska. A recent recording of Gary reading from a selection of his work titled I Telephoned God is available from Sloowtapes and as a download from Bandcamp.

Also available on Issuu.

Desire follows one step behind.

A Victorian Surrealist melodrama.

by Paul Warren .

& Animal eyeball

by Gary Cummiskey and Paul Warren.

When the recording breaks down // We see the fields opening up

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