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Critical Bastards 17: Lies

Two new poems of mine are included in issue 17 of Critical Bastards magazine, published last month and revolving around the theme of 'Lies'.

Critical Bastards is an interdisciplinary arts magazine that has been operating out of Ireland since 2011. It's currently edited by Lily Cahill, Dorothy Hunter, Deborah Madden, and Sara O'Brien. Themes for past issues have included 'Bilocation', 'Expectation and Disappointment in Art' - as well as the all-audio issue 'Work' which included my performance piece 'Work Sharing'.

Issue 17: Lies aims to "explore the lie as strategy, as means of disruption, as method. It [...] questions the reliability of what is produced through art and writing. Can a lie function differently in these contexts? Do the parameters of truth, fact and fiction shift? How might various realities and unrealities assume form, collide and co-exist?"

In response to the brief my two poems printed in the issue - 'Dilemma' and 'Pop Art' - consider the lie as social-professional strategy.

My thanks to the editors for the invitation to contribute. The issue is designed by David Donohoe with cover artwork by Bassam Al-Sabah, and it also includes work from Isadora Epstein, Laura Fitzgerald, Áine McBride, Jennie Taylor, and others. It is available to purchase from the magazine's brand new website, as well as from selected stockists.


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