1.1 Congratulations to our cover designer, Niall McCormack, Silver Medalist at Society of Illustrators, Illustrators 56.
1.2 Listen to Niall talking about vintage Irish book and pamphlet design on RTE’s The Book Show (at the 12.45 mark).
Editors’ note: As we head towards publication, we thought we would introduce our contributors.
Fantômas, Lolita, cargo cults, poèts maudits, who better to tell a Serge Gainsbourg story than Darran Anderson? Whether it’s essays on memento mori, imaginary cities, the night, the Shipping Forecast or the literary nasty, if Darran keeps writing ‘em, we’ll continue to read. He is, as Lee Rourke says, one of our brightest minds. His essay for gorse is on the moderns and their literary and artistic antedcedents.