The Brutalists return, exclusively to Mineshaft Magazine

Tony O'Neill, Adelle Stripe and Ben Myers - collectively known as The Brutalists - return with their second collection of poems in the new issue of US magazine Mineshaft.

A cycle of poems written exclusively for Mineshaft #24, Cheap Thrills follows The Brutalists' debut anthology Nowhere Fast, published in 2008. Illustrations are provided by London 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 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.

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Copies of Mineshaft #24 can also be purchased via Beat the Dust's online bookstore: http://www.beatthedust.com/item-detail.asp?id=34

Other News

O’Neill’s third novel, Sick City, will be published by Harper Perennial US in 2011: http://www.tonyoneill.net

Myers’ second novel, Richard, will be published by Picador in 2011: http://www.benmyersmanofletters.blogspot.com

Stripe’s second poetry collection, Cigarettes in Bed, will be published by Blackheath Books in 2009. She will be reading at the Manchester Literature Festival on October 19 2009: http://manchesterliteraturefestival.co.uk/09-programme/october-19/no-point-not-being-friends/

Praise for Brutalism One: Nowhere Fast

“Brave new writing, touched with tenderness and a raw emotional depth” - The Guardian

"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 estate; 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