Mirror Lamp Press No.1: Happiness
A brand new specially-commissioned poem of mine with title 'Bandsalat (Verse Chorus Verse)' appears in the inaugural issue (April 2021) of Mirror Lamp Press , a new Dublin-based journal operating at the intersections of visual art and writing. Mirror Lamp Press is a free quarterly magazine edited by Gwen Burlington and Eoghan McIntyre. Each issue explores the intersection of art and literature through newly commissioned texts and selected works of an illustrator or visual artist. It lives in the digital sphere and has been designed to be read online, with each issue made available as a freely downloadable PDF. If you fancy holding the words in your hands, we encourage you to print it too. Each issue is formatted linguistically and features five sections under the headings Subject, Object, Verb, Word, and Place. Issue 1 is themed around Happiness. My poem occupies the Object section as a response to the issue's theme through "a personal or art object." As the e...