Blank Media Collective

BlankPages: Issue 13

<i>This month's contributors and featured artists include...</i>

<b>Kyle Saxton / Lynn Myint-Maung / The Freezing Fog / Annette Cookson / David Gaffney / Jack Welsh / Joe Booker</b>

We're delighted to announce the launch of blankpages issue 13! Alongside this month's fantastic pieces of art, fiction and poetry, we have a review of and photographs from blankpages issue 12 launch party.

Issue 13 Featured Artists

  • Sketch of Dog 2

    Raggaphoto

    <b>Kyle Saxton</b> gathers his inspiration from the urban cityscape, he likes to find dark gritty places to work with, he sometimes marks the area with vibrant colours and images that purposely contrast that particularly place, other times he simply adds something that looks beautiful which adds something to the photograph.

  • Lynn Myint-Maung

    <b>Lynn Myint-Maung</b> travels in Europe a fair bit and write mostly about things connected directly with nature - she lives on a smallholding on the Pennine moors and feels lucky to be so constantly in touch with the natural world, though not when birds crap on her car...

  • The Freezing Fog

    <b>The Freezing Fog</b> are fresh from the critical acclaim heaped upon their recent second album, we speak to this 5-piece who's aim is to produce 'feel good rock' of the kind not heard since the 1970s. Mixing Black Sabbath and psychedelia, they aim to re-introduce a sense of fun into rock, whilst also moving the genre forward. You can judge how well they're doing for yourself, as the issue contains two mp3s of the band in action.

  • Annette Cookson

    <b>Annette Cookson</b> is Manchester-born (and proud of it!), Annette's poetry covers topics of love, loss and the joys of being a Mancunian in a modern way, with contemporary cultural references and a manner that is touching and frank. A regular on the local scene, Annette has built a reputation for herself as one of the Manchester poets that you really want to hear. She recently read at the blankpages re-launch party where she got a great reception.

  • David Gaffney

    <b>David Gaffney</b> is another Manchester-based writer, David has several short story collections to his name as well as more unusual entries on his CV - stories in Powerpoint and co-writing short operas. It is as a short story writer that he appears here, expertly building up the tension in a chiling story of how the end of a relationship can spark a terrible chain of events. 'Gelling' more than maintains the blankpages tradition of both challenging and readable fiction.

  • Bangkok Barrier (2009)

    Jack Welsh

    <b>Jack Welsh</b>'s work employs pre-existing objects and found materials that are then positioned within newly created paradigms. These hybrid objects frequently suggest narratives that thrive on the tensions and relationships between the materials utilised in the work and preconceptions of existing forms and objects.

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BlankPages Team

  • Editor: John Leyland
  • Music Editor: Dan Bridgwood-Hill
  • Visual Editor / Designer: Michael Thorp
  • Visual Editor / Designer: Henry Roberts

We would love to hear what you think about blankpages - drop us an email and let us know at editor@blankmediacollective.org.