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Featured Track

Our featured track this month is And Then by Deaf To Van Gogh's Ear

blankpages is half way to 50! All you mental arithmetic skillsters will know that means we're on issue 25. Quite amazing really. And we keep growing and changing. Keep your eyes peeled for new opportunities within the blankpages team to be announced soon.

Returning to our fold this month is Kevin Bradshaw, after his excellent cover feature last month, he's our guest illustrator for August!

This month we have an excellent how-to feature from Stuart Douglas of Obverse Books, about starting your own small press, and we're featuring the music of Deaf To Van Gogh's Ear, who will be performing at Kro Bar for BlankSounds, Blank Media Collective's new quarterly live music night.

Alongside this, we're pleased to be publishing work created at the first Imploding Acoustic Inevitable Festival in the Lake District back in June. It's an Exquisite Corpse-style piece straight from the minds of the festival's audience... Make of it what you will...

This is of course on top of the usual high quality poetry, fiction and visual art spotlight we tirelessly present for your digestion.

So take a minute out and relax among the clouds with blankpages...

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Issue 25 Featured Artists

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    Mark Boardman

    Mark Boardman graduated from University College Falmouth in 2009 with a BA in Illustration. He paints primarily in oils and has exhibited paintings in Bristol and London.

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    James Shaw

    Poet, playwright and musician, James Shaw has just gained a first class degree in Creative Writing at John Moores University and has won the JMU Fellowship Award for 2010. His poetry has been published in Get Back Magazine and his screenplays have already generated offers from two North West publishers. Currently, he is working on the release of his first full album ‘Musical Moods’, having previously released the ‘Serving Scouse EP’ to high acclaim. In September 2010 he begins an MA at JMU in Screenwriting. James was born in 1981 in Liverpool, where he currently lives and works.

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    Hannah Morrison

    Hannah Morrison graduated from University College Falmouth in 2007 with a BA (Hons) in Fine Art (Printmaking). In 2008 her work was exhibited in a month-long solo show on the King Harry Ferry, Cornwall, and since then Hannah has enjoyed success in various comissions, competitions and group exhibitions.

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    Dave Weaver

    Dave Weaver is a Graphic Designer living in St Albans, Hertfordshire. He took to writing relatively recently, becoming a member of the Verulam Writers’s Circle, and has had a number of short stories published on various e-zines and two in printed anthologies. He is currently working on a fantasy novel, ‘Jacey’s Kingdom’, and a set of interconnected short stories set in Japan, ‘Flowerchain’.

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    Obverse Books

    Founded by Stuart Douglas in 2009, Obverse Books is a new small press. For more information, to read their blog or purchase their books, go to http://www.obversebooks.co.uk.

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    Deaf To Van Gogh's Ear

    Deaf To Van Gogh’s Ear are the group providing the soundtrack to this month’s issue. The quirky indie quartet have been making a name for themselves in certain circles over the last couple of years with their unashamedly experimental take on pop. Or is it an unashamedly poppy take on experimentalism? I think it’s probably both. They caught our eye some time back when they played at a Blank Media night and now we are proud to announce that they will be the first to play at Blank Media’s new series of live music events “BlankSounds” as part of their tour with virtuoso math-rock duo Chrik. Support comes from another duo, Nuzzlemuzzle, who will be providing their own unique approach to music with some Jackie Collins-influenced lo-fi indie. So come and join us at Kro Bar (Oxford Road, opposite the Academy) on Friday August 13th, you won’t be disappointed.

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