Steampunk’s Not Dead
Its original conceit is that it takes us to the rooftops as well as to the tunnels. It has been claimed as an example of steampunk but it’s a double bluff text playing large with its historical eye-wash. White uses primary texts to create his secondary ones and overtly cites five sources, plus the James Colvin ‘Terminal Session’ triple bluff that cavorts back to the great Michael Moorcock who started it in the first place and then back again (which adds up to the three) plus the ‘listening post’ pothook of the South Kensington Science Museum plus the American Technical Society of 1911 publication.
Richard Marshall on Tony White‘s ‘rediscovered’ steampunk classic Albertopolis Disparu.
The Recession Session – Visual Diary
The Recession Session – photographs of a night at The Betsey Trotwood, Clerkenwell. 3:AM/Beat the Dust/Lost Elation contributors, interviewees, editors and staff got together for a night of sub-five-minute readings. The weird, the wonderful, the funny, and the serious. Interspersing the rants, readings, and rhymes – mostly while people took the warm air of a […]
Birthday
the sun takes the nights
and wraps them in moss
sticks them in the back of my throat
where all the dreams and thoughts and words go
that choke me when i blow out my birthday candles
but
i never speak of them
again.
i have loved many people.
By Suzy Devere.