Category: Zines

Echoes and Imaginings – Issue #3

On By Mick CanningIn Echoes and Imaginings, Folk traditions, hauntology, project, psychogeography, Zines8 Comments

…is now in my Etsy shop.

It follows the same pattern as the first two issues, more or less, although there is a bit of a change in the contents – nothing drastic, but in this issue, for the first time, I’ve included a fiction piece. Against that, there are only two poems. I want it to keep the same vibe, but I also want it to change and grow. There is one piece of my artwork included, and I think I might use more of this in future editions. But that vibe is still folklore, psychogeography, speculation…

And my timing is atrocious. All three issues so far have been compiled just before Christmas, so by the time they’ve been printed up we’re into January. If I had any commercial acumen, they’d have been up for sale around the end of November just in time for Christmas.

But I haven’t. Put it down to the anti-capitalist in me.

Initially, I had thought I would limit the zine to four issues, but I think now it might go on for a little longer than that.

We’ll see.

And I also have a zine on a completely different subject almost ready to go to print. Watch this space!

Echoes And Imaginings Issue #2

On By Mick CanningIn Echoes and Imaginings, Folk traditions, hauntology, psychogeography, Zines4 Comments

It’s out.

Issue #2 of Echoes and Imaginings has arrived. It’s available both in my Etsy shop or directly from me – message me on the contact page. The format is similar to the first issue, with articles folkloric and psychogeographical. Poetry and photographs. A bit of re-hash from this blog, and new stuff.

And speaking of this blog, I’m slimming it down. It may not be immediately obvious, but I’ve already deleted a third of the posts, with more to go. For all sorts of reasons. Just tidying up, really.

New ‘zine – Issue 1

On By Mick CanningIn Echoes and Imaginings, Folk traditions, psychogeography, Zines58 Comments

I’ve completed my first new year’s project.

Ladies and gentlemen, I’d like to present Echoes and Imaginings, issue one.

Quite pleased with the title, actually. My aim is to produce at least four issues, although whether I do or not depends largely on how quickly I can put each issue together. I want them to roughly reflect the seasons of the year, without being too dogmatic about it. There is a slant towards folklore, psychogeography and a bit of speculation, as well as photography and poetry. Future issues may well have some of my artwork included.

I’m already writing articles for issue 2…

In this issue you can find Hoodening, Wassailing, a meditation on time, photographs, poetry, and more. There are lots of trees. Some of the articles have appeared here as posts, although there is some re-writing, but most of the poetry and the pictures are new. It is available through my Etsy shop, or just message me directly (I use PayPal).

Personally, I reckon it’s a thing of beauty.

And as well as these four issues, I have ideas for some others, which I expect to bring out at random times.

At the moment, I feel this is the way for me to go. I don’t see myself finishing a novel any time soon, although I do have an almost finished one sitting there. I don’t currently feel inclined to get it published, though. And equally, I don’t feel inclined to go through all the hassle of submitting poems or short stories to different publications or into competitions.

And on another note, you have probably seen on other blogs the ongoing issues of pirated e-books (especially on Amazon, I hear). I think we have AI to thank for a lot of this, and it seems so many authors are having their books ripped or plagiarised it’s becoming ridiculous. For that reason, I have simply decided my books will no longer be available as e-books, and have deleted them.

Vikings

On By Mick CanningIn illustrations, linocuts, poetry, Vikings, writing, Zines25 Comments

Allow me to introduce a new joint venture, a magazine (or zine, as I’m informed we hip youngsters now say):

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The final poem in my recent collection, The Night Bus, is a poem called Vikings, and it is reproduced in this here zine with a series of super illustrations.

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This is a collaboration between myself and my talented friend Mark Prestage. As already indicated the poem is mine, while Mark designed, cut and printed the linocuts.

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Mark also did the hard work of putting the zine together, while I just sat around and drank beer. The zine is printed on 16 pages of high quality paper, in a preliminary edition of 40 numbered copies.

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In the UK the price is £4.50 including postage and packaging, and it can be ordered from my Etsy site: here, or directly from me (just email me) using Paypal. Unfortunately the cost of postage overseas makes it impractical to offer outside of the UK (typically doubling the cost of the zine, or even more).

If people make lots of approving noises, we have ideas for similar projects in the future.

Mark also blogs here: drifting in lower case and twits: twit and is well worth a visit.