No. 2

gorse, no. 2, 30 September 2014
285 pages (the first 150 copies are individually numbered)
ISBN: 978-0-9928047-1-8

Ireland €19 (inc €4 P&P)

UK / Europe €22 (inc P&P)

Rest of World €22 (inc P&P)

“If music affects snakes, it is not on account of the spiritual notions it offers them, but because snakes are long and coil their length upon the earth, because their bodies touch the earth at almost every point; and because the musical vibrations which are communicated to the earth affect them like a very subtle, very long massage; and I propose to treat the spectators like the snakecharmer’s subjects and conduct them by means of their organisms to an apprehension of the subtlest notions.”
-Antonin Artaud

[Editorial]
We Go This Way

[Essays]
I Am Love by Claire-Louise Bennett
More Rigged Than Recollected by Alan Cunningham
The Isle is Full of Noises by Brian Dillon
Kill Fee, An Experimental Review by Matthew Jakubowski
Gaze on Your Omphalos by Catherine O’Sullivan
This Was Tomorrow by Simon Reynolds
Christmas in Nowhere by Tim Smyth
The Sky Has Gone Mad, Antonin Artaud in Ireland by Susan Tomaselli

[Fiction]
Outposts by Rob Doyle
Black Chalk With Touches of White on Brown Paper by Tristan Foster
Rigor Terra by Hugh Fulham-McQuillan
Festschrift by Jonathan Gibbs
Europe, in Winter by Niven Govinden
Conditions by Mira Mattar
Extrapolations by Colm O’Shea

[Poetry]
Three Poems by Dylan Brennan
Civilisations’s Golden Dawn: A Slideshow by Christodoulos Makris
Three Rune Poems by SJ Fowler
Two Graphic Poems: Revolution XIV & The Second She Wolf by Lies Van Gasse

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Cover by Niall McCormack

“Visceral, arresting.” Sunday Independent