OUT SOON - STAPLE 71: The Art Issue
To mark the impending opening of Nottingham Contemporary, and to celebrate the long relationship between word and image – from the Book of Kells and William Blake to contemporary cross-overs between art and text – Staple 71 brings together poetry, fiction and articles by artists and writers to see where the common ground might lie. Cornelia Parker talks about her work on subjects as diverse as Noam Chomsky, the Bronte sisters, the leaning tower of Pisa and a burned Florida forest, Mik Godley explains how his painting used online resources to explore questions of war and history in Silesia, and Ellen Bell presents collage works made from dictionaries and shorthand manuals.
Meanwhile Mark Czanik’s ‘The Secret’ explores a relationship shaped by a cache of stolen comic books, Mel Fawcett tells the story of a builder turned painter in ‘The Gift’ and Tim Love enters the mind of a Schiele-obsessed voyeur in ‘The Muses’. Barbara Cumber imagines herself as the ‘mad painter’ Richard Dadd in her poem ‘The Fairy Feller’s Master Stroke’, while Fawzia Kane looks at Arshile Gorky, Robert Vas Dias recreates cubism at 32,000 feet, Rory Waterman presents three poetic snapshots of the Faroe Islands, and Sophie Mayer explores the work of Kiki Smith.
With Myra Schneider, Peter Porter, Shirley Golden, John Hartley Williams, John Saul and Marion Bell drawing on myth, perception and sensory experience elsewhere, we hope this latest issue offers a slice through the fascinating connections between word and image.
Price: £6.99 single issue/Subscription £15 for 3 issues UK/£25 overseas.
Please send cheques to Staple Magazine, 114 – 116 St Stephen’s Road, Sneinton, Nottingham NG2 4JS.
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STAPLE 69/70: The Publishing Issue – OUT NOW
The Publishing Issue, guest edited by Rebecca Swift of The Literary Consultancy, lifts the curtain on the writing industry, from unpublished first draft to final place in posterity. Agents, editors and best-selling authors join forces with fresh talents to dig behind the writing courses and How To Get Published guides and reflect on why we write, and what impact writing can make on the wider world.
Includes tributes to E.A.Markham from Mimi Khalvati, Margaret Drabble, Kathryn Heyman, Susheila Nasta and Alastair Niven, Marsha Rowe on editing, Tim Clare on incompetence, Jude Cook on posterity, Ross Bradshaw on bookselling, David Smith on agencies and Charlie Weaver Rolfe on failure to get published.
Plus fiction and reminiscences of the writing life from Jenny Downham, James Flint, Terry Darlington, David Belbin, Sarah Shaw, Heather Reyes, Nick Taussig and Jane Harris, poetry from Mimi Khalvati, Fiona Sampson, Richard Skinner, Jacqueline Gabbitas, Christine McNeill, Victoria Lawless, Frances Spurrier, Yuko Minamikawa Adams and Lou Wilford. All photography by Julian Hughes.
Price: £10 double issue/Subscription £15 for 3 issues UK/£25 overseas.
Please send cheques to Staple Magazine, 114 – 116 St Stephen’s Road, Sneinton, Nottingham NG2 4JS.
