#7 - SOLITUDE

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Oct 20
2 min

GALLERY: Garbage Disposal Unit

by Lydia Swinney Click image for full size and gallery Through working on this project, I wanted to develop a series of work that explore...

Oct 14
1 min

Manasvini Sn: Expressions Of History

Manasvini is a fine artist and illustrator from Bangalore, India. For our seventh issue, Solitude, we share with you one of her zines.

Oct 5
1 min

POEM: 'Anchorage'

Olúwádáre Pópóola is a 19-year old Nigerian poet. He writes from a city named by rocks and longs to see the world without discrimination.

Sep 30
4 min

Is The City Obsolete?

by Billie Walker "Those privileged to be invisible in the city are cis straight white rich men. No one else feels unseen in the safe way ...

Sep 25
3 min

POEM: 'We'

Alexander Billet is a writer, artist, and cultural critic, as well as the editor of the Locust Review and a writer for Jacobin.

Sep 23
3 min

Solitude And The Sixth Extinction

Our Environment Editor considers the isolation of the sixth mass extinction.

Sep 21
2 min

POEM: 'Verses of Rain'

Shama Jan is a student of literature at the University of Delhi, India. These days, she finds herself perplexed at the accident that she is.

Sep 14
8 min

BLM, BBC, NHS: In Conversation with Piers Harrison Reid

Poet, performer and A&E nurse Piers Harrison-Reid shares a poem and we interview him about racism, playing roles as a poet, and disagreeing.

Sep 8
1 min

DR: ME: Collages from Lockdown

Created during lockdown, this series of collage works by DR.ME emerged from an idle head space during this time of isolation.

Sep 2
5 min

Opening The Gap: Building Creative Counterpower Through Community

The Gap is a volunteer-run cultural space dedicated to young artists and local residents in Birmingham.

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