The void lurks, voracious at our limits. Who among us has not heard its call, our toes an inch away from its formless edge?
In this third issue of Offal, we deploy legion voices to answer the call. Literary forms range from cut-up headline poetry to footnoted fighting guides and a relationship breakdown told through the medium of Venn diagrams. There are hotel reviews that aren’t hotel reviews, mathematical- poetic tributes to departed drum’n’bass DJs, appropriated 1970s text-art, manifestos, poltergeists, BASIC games, apocalyptic power chords, songs about the Fuhrer’s missing gonad, and a full medievalist play by Booker-shortlisted author Fiona Mozley.
Includes free interactive WhatsApp chatbot with a bad attitude. ‘Mr Offal’ now guides curious users through a dimly navigable archive of recordings, performances, DJ mixes, guided meditations and unsolicited psychiatric evaluations.
In the house: Tommy Gilhooly / Amy Gillies / Ali Hildyard / Alice-Louise MacGillivray / Irfan Master / Fiona Mozley / David Turner / Luke Turner / Philippa Snow / Luke Una / GCHQ / Gavin Weale / Karen Whiteson
Edited by Mark Blacklock and Roderick Stanley. Designed by Richard Turley and Julia Schäfer. Distributed by Public Knowledge Books. 186pp / A5
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