The Tale of the Elephant Tail
Fiction Bart Plantenga Fiction Bart Plantenga

The Tale of the Elephant Tail

Fiction

It is well known that people of means prove their status in society by indulging in luxuries that few can afford. Some may prefer an over-priced artwork by a master, while the more adventurous among us will no doubt include an elephant hunt on their bucket list.

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Surreal-Absurd Sampler Judson Hamilton
Surreal-Absurd Marcus Silcock Surreal-Absurd Marcus Silcock

Surreal-Absurd Sampler Judson Hamilton

Surreal-Absurd

"These poems are from a manuscript I’m working on called The Vogue for Flatness, so we’re still learning about one another. Poems for me are a way to filter the world, to make sense of it, to live in it. Perhaps it’s having been raised in suburbia or a childhood steeped in comics and cable TV, but there seems to me no other honest way to do this than through the surreal, absurd, and grotesque." - Judson Hamilton

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A Knife in the Face
Society Cai Draper Society Cai Draper

A Knife in the Face

Society

Cai Draper flows seamlessly between prose and poetry to recount his days as a kitchen worker. The anger, the stress, the pressure, the long hours and the occasional threats of horrendous violence all laid bare.

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Fungi
Images Katy Wimhurst Images Katy Wimhurst

Fungi

Images

These visual poems sit on a line between facts and aesthetics. Factual statements about the natural world, in this case about a type of fungi, are cut up randomly, and the resultant prose mixed with photographic images.

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 Surreal-Absurd-Sampler Brian Clifton
Surreal-Absurd Marcus Silcock Surreal-Absurd Marcus Silcock

Surreal-Absurd-Sampler Brian Clifton

Surreal-Absurd

“There was a game I used to play as a child. My friends and I would turn off the lights of a room and stare at each other's faces. Because we could only see vague outlines, our imaginations would fill in the details, would distort the faces we knew until they were strange and stranger. I think these experiences are related to seeing the surreal blossom in the contemplated mundane.”

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Curators Conversation: Entanglements in Time
Future World(s) Mariana Lemos Future World(s) Mariana Lemos

Curators Conversation: Entanglements in Time

Future World(s)

‘Entanglements in Time’ is an exhibition at Lewisham Arthouse in London from 6-15 August 2021, showcasing UK-based artists Bart Hajduk, Jasmin Märker, Kristina Pulejkova, Margo Trushina, Solveig Settemsdal and Yambe Tam. Exhibited together for the first time, the works of these artists challenge anthropocentric markers of temporality by examining timelines that stretch far beyond the duration of human existence. On the show’s last days, co-curators Kristine Tan and Mariana Lemos came together to discuss the project.

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Surreal-Absurd Sampler Glen Armstrong
Surreal-Absurd Marcus Silcock Surreal-Absurd Marcus Silcock

Surreal-Absurd Sampler Glen Armstrong

Surreal-Absurd

“I’ve been writing requiems for people I admire lately, some of them fictional, some of them still alive. These folks may have ended up on gum wrappers or Mr. Cobain’s t-shirt or Mr. Zapruder’s movie. They usually share a unique talent that still can’t compensate for a unique and profound sadness. These are a few of those requiems.”

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Bad For Glass
Poetry of Life Adam Steiner Poetry of Life Adam Steiner

Bad For Glass

Poetry of Life

A deep dive into the literary puddle. Water has long been an elemental trope throughout literature, for the moving target of the swimmer, a medium of agency and transition; for the spectator, a fateful mirror, an abyss that both reflects and absorbs.

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Waiting on a Padded Abyss
Images Mercurius Images Mercurius

Waiting on a Padded Abyss

Images

Influenced by such widely disparate sources as Hieronymus Bosch, Bruegel, animation, video games and the Japanese Yōkai spirits, José Castiella’s works are the result of pure chance at the same time as an attempt at controlling the process as it unfolds.

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Cosmologgorhea
Images James Knight Images James Knight

Cosmologgorhea

Images

Cosmologgorhea began as a collaborative twitter creative word game with Richard Biddle (also a Mercurius contributor), and has evolved into a combination of fragmented texts and visual poems, with each of us creating several vispos.

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