Beginning Thursday 5 March 2020, gorse poetry editor Christodoulos Makris will be teaching a weekly course (duration 8 weeks) with title ‘Something Borrowed, Something New’ (aka Against Originality) at the Irish Writers Centre in Dublin:
“We learn from history as much as a rabbit learns from an experiment that’s performed upon it.”
– W.G. Sebald
In July 1937, the Nazi party put an art exhibition in Munich: Entartete Kunst, or, Degenerate Art. 740 modern works that the Nazis did not approve of were shown to ‘educate’ the public on the ‘art of decay.’ It was a rail against modernity and the moral collapse associated with it. The exhibition handbook explained that the aim of the show was to ‘reveal the philosophical, political, racial and moral goals and intentions behind this movement, and the driving forces of corruption which follow them.’
We are living in dark times. We want artistic responses to the theme of ‘Taboo.’ We are looking for fiction, essays, poetry, and art. Help us shine a light: info [at] gorse [dot] ie, subject line ‘gorse 13 taboo’. Submissions are open from 13th December until 10th January.
NEMESES: SELECTED COLLABORATIONS OF SJ FOWLER, VOLUME 2, publishes with HVTN Press on 26 October. We’re pleased to feature SJ Fowler’s collaboration with Rike Scheffler in gorse 11, our forthcoming Borders issue. Here is SJ Fowler on collaborations.
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.