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Rose McLaren is an artist in London.



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Talk Into My Bullet Hole

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July 2015

Rose McLaren

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July 2015

‘Someday people are going to read about you in a story or a poem. Will you describe yourself for those people?’ ‘Oh, I don’t...

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May 2014

Art Does Not Know a Beyond: On Karl Ove Knausgaard

Rose McLaren

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May 2014

Karl Ove Knausgaard’s My Struggle has an oddly medieval form: a cycle, composed of six auto-biographical books about the...

                                 When I pronounce silence I destroy it —Wislawa Szymborska   Every morning the sun slides open and the people in the Village are watchful For some reason no one can quite remember all the pianos have been abandoned and instead the harmonium is the only instrument that’s truly mastered The Mayor has a professorial air though he has no education to speak of as there are no schools, universities or libraries The waters (they say) have never been navigable and swimming is strictly prohibited   The Villagers occupy themselves with digging Most families will own a set of spades forged by the country smiths, children are shown the local digging methods as soon as they are able to walk The Villagers pride themselves on inventing The Baron — it has an extra wide mouth and a side-wing, which can cut out the skin of the earth in one clean stroke The people are adherents of the Old Faith; they recite passages of the ancient texts whilst they dig and on certain high holidays it is a sight to behold   A part-blind woman who lives in the North is the oldest citizen She is a witch  (of sorts) but is a highly cultured woman If you visit more often than not they will bring her to you The Village has its own coat of arms with a picture of a spade leaning on a simmal tree The tree has lovely small red flowers and is considered holy, though it produces fruit which is inedible even to the bats   *   Citizens of Everywhere is a project by the Centre for New and International Writing at the University of Liverpool @CitizensofWhere #CitizensofEverywhere

Contributor

August 2014

Rose McLaren

Contributor

August 2014

Rose McLaren is an artist in London.

The Prosaic Sublime of Béla Tarr

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Issue No. 6

Rose McLaren

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Issue No. 6

I have to recognise it’s cosmical; the shit is cosmical. It’s not just social, it’s not just ontological, it’s really huge. And that’s why we...
Stalker, Writer or Professor? Geoff Dyer's Zona and Genre

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February 2012

Rose McLaren

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February 2012

‘So what kind of a writer am I, reduced to writing a summary of a film?’ wonders Geoff Dyer half way through Zona. Such...

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Interview

Issue No. 1

Interview with Mai-Thu Perret

Timothée Chaillou

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Issue No. 1

Swiss artist Mai-Thu Perret’s ongoing, fourteen year-old project The Crystal Frontier is a multi-disciplinary fiction chronicling the lives of...

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Issue No. 17

Editorial

The Editors

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Issue No. 17

An Englishman, a Frenchman and an Irishman set up a magazine in London in 2010. This sounds like the...

poetry

February 2013

Redacted, Redacted

Les Kay

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February 2013

Here the censorship, which you’ve taught yourself, is self-inflicted (low sugar, low fat); it begins with the swinging shadow...

 

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