Issue 2: Texts ect
I wanna video
I wanna rock ‘n’ roll
Opposite: Vilhelm Hammershoi, ‘Interior. Strandgade 30’ (1901)
Above: Naomi Hobson, ‘Summer Rains’ (2025)
Over, left: Andrew Mockett, ‘H’ (2022)
Over, right: Emma Haworth, ‘Walled Garden Sunshine’ (2024)
Beyond: Sophie Charalambous, ‘Late Summer Garden’ (2024)
Can you find the ten differences between these two versions of ‘The Sailor’s Farewell’
‘The Travels of Sir John Mandeville’
Anonymous woodcut illustrations from Anton Sorg’s 1481 Augsburg edition of ‘The Travels of Sir John Mandeville’, a largely fantastical travelogue, written in the late fourteenth century (perhaps by an Irish physician living in exile in France). The book purports to recount an English knight’s travels across the Levant, to India and, eventually, to Cathay (China).Many marvels are encountered: men born from trees, hermaphrodites, snails as large as houses, and people with only a single gigantic foot, which they employ as sunshade.
Playlist:‘The Gainsbourgs’ for Serge Gainsbourg, Jane Birkin, and Charlotte Gainsbourg, by
Ashley Saville
1 ‘The Lemon Song’ - Led Zeppelin
2. ‘L’hôtel particulier’ - Serge Gainsbourg
3. ‘Concerto in G Major, RV 575: II Largo’ - Antonio Vivaldi, Luka Consort, Viktor Lukas
4. ‘Fame’ David Bowie
5. ‘Deadly Valentine’ - Charlotte Gainsbourg
6. ‘In Every Dream Home a Heartache’ - Jane Birkin, Bryan Ferry
7. ‘Tomorrow Never Knows’ - The Beatles
8. ‘Somethin’ Stupid’ - Frank Sinatra, Nancy Sinatra
9. ‘MacArthur Park- Single Version’ - Donna Summer
10. ‘Carnival of the Animals, R. 125: The Swan’ - Camille Saint-Saëns, Saint-Saëns: Organ Symphony
11. ‘Child in Time’ - Deep Purple
12. ‘Lemon Incest’ - Serge Gainsbourg, Charlotte Gainsbourg
13. ‘Mozart: Requiem in D Minor, K. 626: I. Introitus’ - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
‘This, Just This’
by Edward Barker
This trickle of desk light in the gloaming sparkles against a pool of copper wire, mimicking sunset; some crumpled papers, a blue medical mask poised like the beginning of a still life composition; and the oval pencil jar in egg-shell blue livery only recently re-noticed and become again the shapely form of when it first arrived; my neighbours wife hasn’t noticed his new goatee; once the curtains are drawn the world soon goes and I’m captured by angles, shadows and the scrickle of mice being the skirting boards; so many years holding the electric of words against each other — their mixture combats and alliances. I too, have wasted my life but the purposeful one was all chewed up with ambition.
‘Sound Mirror’ (2015) by Luke
For 2
220 gms – spaghetti
70 gms – guanciale (cured pork cheek)
Lots of – freshly grated Pecorino Romano
Plenty of – freshly ground black pepper
Cut the guanciale into small cubes. Cook in a large frying-pan until golden brown.
Meanwhile cook the spaghetti in a large pot of well-salted boiling water until aldente.
Add a couple of spoonfuls of the pasta water to the guanciale in the frying pan and stir.
Drain the spaghetti. Add it to the guanciale in the frying pan. Take off the heat, and mix in the grated cheese. Add pepper.
Eat at once
From ‘A Little Book of Cursery Rhymes’ (2024)
by H. Lipwash [Phil Shaw]
‘The
by George MacDonald
Come Home.
George MacDonald (1824-1905) was a Scottish poet and writer. His novels ‘Lilith’ (1895), ‘The Princess and the Goblin’ (1872) and ‘At the Back of the North Wind’ (1868), have assured him an enduring position as the ‘father of modern fantasy writing.’ The poem above was written in 1893.
Works by David Surman
Above, ‘She Wolf’ (2024)
Over, ‘Living Mountain’ (2025)
Beyond, ‘Red Owl’ (2025)
all works copyright of the artists