gorse 11: submission call
For issue 11, we are seeking essays, short stories, poetry, and interviews that explore the theme of borders.
Art+Writing 4: Line
With Sara Baume and Tamarin Norwood, Poetry Ireland, Wednesday 25 October 2017, 7pm.
Art+Writing, organised by Paper Visual Art and gorse journals, is a series of conversations between practitioners who work at the intersection of writing and the visual arts.
These events bring artists and writers together to present and discuss their work, and to explore the overlaps.
#4: LINE participants are award-winning novelist Sara Baume and acclaimed artist and writer Tamarin Norwood.
The event is free but ticketed.
Subcritical Tests launch
Many thanks to all who came to the London (10th July) and Dublin (12th July) launches for our first Gorse Editions book, SUBCRITICAL TESTS by Ailbhe Darcy and SJ Fowler, and to Niven Govinden, Colm O’Shea and Susana Medina who also read in London. Thanks also to the Sun & 13 Cantons, Soho, and Poetry Ireland for hosting us.
A small Fahrt
News reaches us that Pádraig Ó Méalóid’s essay on Flann O’Brien for gorse no. 3, ‘The Cardinal & The Corpse: A Flanntasy in Several Parts,’ has been long-listed by the International Flann O’Brien Society in the ‘small Fahrt’ category (that is, best essay-length publication on a Flann O’Brien theme). To celebrate, we’re making the piece available on-line here. Enjoy!
Poetry Now/Mountains to Sea
The gorse reading at Mountains To Sea Book Festival took place on Friday 24 March 2017, and was part of its Poetry Now strand, curated by Alice Lyons. Bringing together three contributors from across the issues, it added a performative and multi-disciplinary aspect to the festival programme. Aodán MccCardle opened the event with a short performance-writing set, which led to the reading of a series of texts involving repetition, interruption and erasure. Christodoulos Makris read the entirety of his limited edition pamphlet if we keep drawing cartoons, its delivery beginning at the back of the auditorium and gradually moving to the front. Suzanne Walsh performed text from her commission to the exhibition A Different Republic, accompanied by an audio piece interrupting the vocalisation of the writing. The performances were followed by the launch of gorse no. 8, accompanied with a reading by Dimitra Xidous from her essay ‘We Cannot Be Trusted With Chairs’ which features in the issue. Our thanks to Alice Lyons and Poetry Now for their invitation to participate in Mountains To Sea 2017.