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The line is a fuse*

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gorse is intended as a print object (we have strong views on this: see a 2016 interview with our editors at 3:AM Magazine, specifically, why print?). However, as we wait for our printers to re-open (to publish issue 11 of the journal), we thought we’d share the Editorials from past issues (now, mostly, out-of-print).

Vol. I (gorse nos 1-4)
1/ Where the Dead Voices Gather, gorse no. 1, January 2014
2/ We Go This Way, gorse no. 2, September 2014
3/ Whale in the Moon When It’s Clear, gorse no. 3, March 2015
4/ Wonder is Really Nothing, gorse no. 4, September 2015

Vol. II (gorse nos 5-10)
5/ The Geometry Blinked Ruin Unimaginable, gorse no. 5, March 2016
6/ Je est un autre, gorse no. 6, August 2016
7/ Falsing (After Marconi), gorse no. 7, December 2016
8/ Ex Corpore: A Study for Five Figures, gorse no. 8, March 2017 [Note: gorse no. 8 was printed without an editorial to allow the body of work to speak for itself. The editorial was accessible only on the website. For that reason, no PDF exists]
9/ A Kind if Blue, gorse no. 9, October 2017
10/ Editorial, or, why a bag of rubbish is not just a load of garbage** [PDF], gorse no. 10, September 2018

*From Mayakovsky’s Conversation with a Tax Collector about Poetry
** Christodoulos Makris’ Editorial for g10 is presented as it was designed, as a fold-out information sheet similar to those found in medicine boxes

this is no longer entertainment, a Dostoyevsky Wannabe event

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this is no longer entertainment (A Documentary Poem)
by Christodoulos Makris
Published by Dostoyevsky Wannabe

Wednesday 30 October 2019, 7.30pm.
Free Entry.

A celebration of the publication of this is no longer entertainment by Christodoulos Makris. Joining the author with guest readings are Nadia de VriesColin HerdDominic Jaeckle, and Joanna Walsh. Sounds courtesy of Dostoyevsky Wannabe Invisible DJs. The event is hosted by Susan Tomaselli, and it is kindly supported by The School of English, DCU.

About the book: this is no longer entertainment is formed entirely out of untreated anonymous or pseudonymous text found in the open comments sections of media websites and other digital platforms. It was composed by filtering this un-authored writing through a process of immediate, instinctive selection and reframing, which is inevitably modulated by the author’s interests and emotional temperature. The poem’s composition roughly covers the period 2014-2017; a period marked by a range of notable social-political shifts and events.
“A starkly innovative, by turns funny and worrying book” – Karl Whitney

About the author: Christodoulos Makris is “one of Ireland’s leading contemporary explorers of experimental poetics” (The RTÉ Poetry Programme). He has published several books, pamphlets, artists’ books and other poetry objects, with The Architecture of Chance (Wurm Press, 2015) a poetry book of the year for RTÉ Arena and 3:AM Magazine. He has presented his work internationally, and has received awards, commissions and residencies from the Irish Museum of Modern Art, StAnza Festival (Scotland), European Poetry Festival, and Maynooth University among others. He is the poetry editor at gorse journal and associated imprint Gorse Editions.
About the publisher: Dostoyevsky Wannabe is an experimental independent press publishing books and other underground things, based in Manchester. It is operated by Victoria Brown & Richard Brammer.

gorse no. 10 launch

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Please join us in celebrating the launch of GORSE No. 10, on Wednesday 29 August 2018, in Studio 6 at Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, with readings from the issue by Christodoulos Makris, Gregory Betts, and Colin Graham, plus a screening of a film by Lies Van Gasse and Rosalind Buck. Free to attend, refreshments available.