The Brutalists are back. This time via the brilliant Mineshaft Magazine.
Tony O'Neill, Ben Myers and Adelle Stripe have worked on a set of new poems, illustrated by Lisa Cradduck named 'Cheap Thrills'. It will be featured alongside an world exclusive from Robert Crumb, Bukowski's last poems, and many more drawings and words from the murky world of the counterculture.
You can buy a copy direct from Mineshaft's website or via Beat The Dust's bookshop.
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 graphic artists. Published twice a year it is printed on offset press
in the old fashioned way. This issue also features exclusive work by Robert Crumb, Charles Bukowski, Spain
Rodriguez, Sophie Crumb and many others.
Mineshaft’s online shop: www.mineshaftmagazine.com
Copies of Mineshaft
#24 can
also be purchased via Beat The Dust's
online bookstore: www.beatthedust.com
In other Brutalist news, O'Neill, Stripe and Myers each
have new books forthcoming - a variety of biographies, poetry
collections and novels
O’Neill’s third novel, Sick City, will
be published by Harper Perennial US in 2011 – he is currently working on a
Runaways biography.
www.tonyoneill.net
Myers’ second novel, Richard, will be
published by Picador in 2011 – he continues to write about music for The
Guardian online, Mojo Magazine, Bizarre and NME.
www.benmyersmanofletters.blogspot.com
Stripe’s second poetry collection, Cigarettes
in Bed, will be published by Blackheath Books in 2009 – she is currently
working on an epic poem based on The Yorkshire Ripper called The Beast I Am. www.blackheathbooks.org.uk
Praise for Brutalism One ‘Nowhere Fast’
“Brave new writing, touched with tenderness and a raw
emotional depth”
Guardian Online
"Their style sits between the heartfelt sex and drugs
scrapings of the beats and the Romantics’ sense of rebelliousness and innate
connection with place. In short, this series of
blank verse ruminations on the horrors of small town living are among the most
open and direct poems in circulation today."
The Roundtable Review
"The symphony of the housing estates… a game of
pass-the-parcel, with a dirty bomb at its center, wrapped in a pink bow."
Dogmatika
"Remembering has rarely been so rewarding ...like
postcards from places you’ve been to but long since forgotten" Shortlist
"These are poems for the modern generation; they
thrust the underbelly of Britain.... that we all try so desperately to
ignore straight in our faces. With all the agony that these realisations bring
there is a constant beacon of hope bursting from the pages. You can get out.
You can be something more. You can. We did."
Caught in the Crossfire