Communions

Adam Lehrer

Published 30th September 2021

£10

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Lehrer makes me yearn for a time when being a critic was an artform in itself, and that makes me even more grateful to have him.

- Thomas Moore

…a gripping hybrid text about the paradoxes of drug addiction as a means of both freedom and enslavement, insight and stultification...Amidst the dull critical monoculture of the current moment, Lehrer's is a bold and unique voice. 

- Geoff Shullenberger

Channeling hallucinated versions of dead artists and junkies, these fragments access the uncanny allure of shared experience. Elements of speculative fiction, criticism and encrypted auto-biography merge to form a disconcerting portrait of the artist as addict. Neither denunciation nor valorization, Communions is an attempt to probe the haunting singularity of opiate addiction and its ineradicable influence on art and culture.

Horizontal Rain

U.H Dematagoda

Published 31st August 2020

£10

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Eschews the film flam of the usual suspects in new and exciting ways...ice cool and ultimately modern...it literally pings with electricity. '  

- Lee Rourke

‘Horizontal Rain is a disquieting philosophical dispatch from a phase of life many will recognise but prefer to forget; a study in male abjection on the booze-soaked margins…against a wider societal context of entropy and frustration’

- Rob Doyle

‘…this vivid portrait of romantic misadventure and male friendship is full of melancholy insights into the state of modern masculinity. Occasionally, it reads like a Glaswegian “Book of Disquiet”’

- Jude Cook, his ‘Book of 2020’

Set in Glasgow 2015. A man suddenly finds himself alone, but not for long. Soon his attention is consumed by another woman - sublime, inspired, unknowable - and different, he feels, from those who came before her. His friend, arrogant and unencumbered, taunts him as they drift aimlessly from one hangover to the next amidst a landscape of uniform grey, pulsating lights and insipid rain. Between querulous despondency and abject nihilism - an attempt to capture the disquiet of the decade just past, striking at the heart of a contagious male despair.

Cover image: Strawberry Moon on Iona by Sean Patrick Campbell (2018). https://spcampbellart.cargo.site/

Beyond

An Anthology

Published 19th June 2020

£10

Beyond is an anthology of short prose about the future and all of its disorientating and perturbing possibilities. We present work that ranges from the parallax of the present - into imagined realities which call back with responses and warnings to the ineluctable churn of our modern world. Frequently dark, often humorous, these writings bear the responsibility of interrogating our conception of normalcy, and pursuing its significance in a future which may be closer to hand than previously acknowledged.

Featuring work by Camilla Grudova, Joe Alexander, Matthew Crowley, Augustin Cambau, Leah Case, Nicholas E. Jung, Andrea Dandillot, Mickey J. Ellis, Gina Rodrigues, Mark Bolsover, and U.H Dematagoda.

Cover image: Chromatography #5 by Austrian painter Sarah Bildstein, from her series 100 Spectres. www.sarahbildstein.com

*Mature Content