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| Mineshaft #24: The Brutalists Edition (Paperback - New) |
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Full blurb:
Tony O'Neill, Adelle Stripe and Ben Myers - collectively known as The Brutalists - return with their second collection of poems written exclusively for US magazine, Mineshaft #24, Cheap Thrills follows The Brutalists' debut anthology Nowhere Fast, published in 2008. Illustrations are once again provided by artist, Lisa Cradduck.
Now in its tenth year, Mineshaft is an independently published underground art magazine that showcases art, comics and literature from some of the world's greatest artists. This issue also features work by Robert Crumb, Charles Bukowski, Spain Rodriguez, Sophie Crumb and many others.
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First page first lines:
From ‘Babylon’ by Adelle Stripe:
walk on dark pavements through empty streets
hire purchase cars all over the roads
no people on foot this side of the bridge
just tarmac, fried chips, and pebble-dashed fronts
boarded up windows, signs say ‘TO LET’
but no one keeps shop in this wreck of a town
today the old pub comforts its guests
with silence, cheap beer, and sixty watt bulbs…
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Category: Literary magazine
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Author: Tony O’Neill, Adelle Stripe and Ben Myers
The Brutalists are three young poets – Ben Myers, Tony O’Neill and Adelle Stripe – and artist, Lisa Cradduck. All three writers were born in the late 1970s in towns in the north of England and came of age in the 1990s. All have independent and chequered histories within the worlds of music, literature, journalism and wanton hedonism. When they first met in London during the heat-wave summer of 2006, their ambitions were the same: to create an alternative to the closed-off poetry scene in the UK.
A tongue-in-cheek nod to art and literary movements that had gone before them, they chose the name The Brutalists to consolidate their ambitions, and immediately incurred a backlash from the establishment world of stiff academic poetry. It wasn’t all bad though, Dogmatika called their debut work “a symphony of the housing estates” and UK broadsheet newspaper The Guardian wondered “are we witnessing the creation of literary history right under our noses?”
Currently scattered between New York and Yorkshire, Myers, Stripe and O’Neill have since published a selection of separate works, including novels, poetry collections, chapbooks, broadsides, biographies and a plethora of anthology contributions – many of which you can buy here at Beat the Dust Bookshop.
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Publisher: Mineshaft
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Reviews:
“MINESHAFT is about all of the odd and overlooked corners of our culture… The Brutalist poems fit right into the underground aesthetic of the zine, detailing the day-to-day life of the working class in an unflinching manner. Adelle Stripe's stream-of-consciousness memories about her awakening sexuality were particularly memorable.”. -Rob Clough, High-Low Comics
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| Book code: BTD028 |
| Price: GBP £ 4.95 |
| USD $ 6.95 |
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