Galley Beggar Press - 3:AM Chapbooks

The Drone Age

jordison — Sun, 01 Jun 2014 11:00:00 +0000

Price:

£12.00

An artists' book of illustrations and poetry on the themes of warfare and pop culture. Images include reproductions of First We Take Damascus, The Aesthetics of Terrorism, Fashions of the Day, Unmanned Vehicles Will Destroy Us All (Save Endangered Jets), and Power Dressing A/W 2013.

Christiana is the author of The Wrecking Ball (Harper Perennial), Death of a Ladies' Man (3:AM) and The Socialite Manifesto (Beautiful Books), which is an artists' book satirizing the fashion and music industries with caricatures and collages. The Drone Age follows on from this book, delving into conflict and political imagery as well as fashion and pop culture, inspired by the author's Masters and PhD work on terrorism and political violence.

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Christiana Spens

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June 2014

A Hubristic Flea

jordison — Sat, 01 Mar 2014 12:00:00 +0000

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£4.00

OUT OF STOCK!

A Hubristic Flea consists of an excerpt of the diary Darran Anderson kept whilst living in Cambodia. As he explains, "I had left my camera behind in London and I thought I'd follow one of my favourite writers Christopher Isherwood and try to make myself a camera; a ludicrous thing to do but one that kept me busy and, in a strange way, from completely destroying myself. Given it reflects real people's lives (including my own), with romances and heartbreaks, glories, debaucheries and terrors, I'm not sure that it will ever be published in full. Perhaps it'll be a time capsule and in thirty years someone can look back to see what has happened to all the people involved, people who I was lucky enough to know and a country I fell in love with, despite myself."

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Darran Anderson

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March 2014

Gunk

jordison — Sat, 01 Mar 2014 12:00:00 +0000

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£4.00

Gerry Feehily's Gunk takes us into the glamorous exciting world of fashion and models – and demonstrates conclusively that they are neither glamorous nor exciting. But they are deliciously disturbing. And funny. And nasty. And as for the gunk…

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Gerry Feehily

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March 2014

Snorry & Frosti

jordison — Sun, 01 Dec 2013 12:00:00 +0000

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£10.00

Sold out! Sorry!

A haunting novella from Benjamin Myers about two old brothers, in a cabin, in a north European country, chopping wood, rubbing along, living and… well, we don't want to say more. But this is a special, strange and wonderfully touching piece of writing. Writing to love.

Praise for Snorri & Frosti

Two old guys shooting the shit – it shouldn't be brilliant, but it really is. (I once said no one would win my heart with a PDF, and now I've been made to look a knob.) -- Karl Smith, Dazed and Confused

It is a lovely little story, it took me about an hour to read and warmed, and then broke my cold, black heart. Well worth a read. Buy it and read it and you'll want to hug these pair of lovely old men. They are fucking adorable." -- Bookcunt

This is an extraordinary novella that I loved to tiny little pieces and if you are a BM fan or not, you need to read it! It is just truly glorious in every way! -- BookGeek

Also available…

Snorri & Frosti has also been published as a Galley Beggar single.

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Ben Myers

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December 2013

Christmas Lantern

jordison — Wed, 27 Nov 2013 12:00:00 +0000

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£4.00

"Imagine St Valentine's Day in graphite; hand in hand through a Cyrillic alphabet over the Vltava. Love in black and white. Blinding winter light and eye-brightening air. Dark stone sinking under the city to buried secrets and rising in a thicket of spires. Bone-coloured skies meeting snowy cobbles like cold potatoes. The stark castle on the hill. The deep chill of the oubliette. The echo of the voice of Kafka. Sugared heat in Styrofoam. The smile of a marionette."

Three beautiful short stories - Christmas Lantern, Prague in February and August 28 - by Francine Elena, whose writing has also appeared in 'The Best of British Poetry 2013' (Salt), 3:AM Magazine, 'Par Avion' (3:AM Press), Clinic, Poems in Which, Art Wednesday and The London Literary Project. Her stories reveal an arresting and original new voice, whose elegance and imagination will delight readers.

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Francine Elena

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November 2013

The Railway

jordison — Wed, 27 Nov 2013 12:00:00 +0000

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£4.00

"I step cautiously across the old wooden sleepers, each one less stable than the last. Through the gaps I can see two iron girders and then the drop into the shallow stream twenty feet below. As each sleeper wobbles, I slow down, my mind running through my options should the sleepers give way."

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Chris McKeon

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November 2013

Term

jordison — Mon, 21 Oct 2013 11:00:00 +0000

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£4.00

"The October sun gleamed weakly on the river. Pulling oars to the rhythm of a high, clear voice, four women heaved through it, single file in a slim quadruple scull. Swans paddled in the shallows, gulping bread from a crusty old woman on a bench. I thumbed into Google Maps, head heavy with jet lag, and checked my itinerary: over this footbridge, across Midsummer Common, and through the back gate of St Cassian's College. Simple enough."

Author:

Nina Frances Ellis

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October 2013

Flesh

jordison — Tue, 01 Oct 2013 11:00:00 +0000

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£4.00

"The desert meets me on a Monday. On the runway the plane reattaches its shadow. Rows of cars, magpie black, wait for versions of the same people; soft glitter at their wrists. One is for me. Sometime recently, it’s hard to say when exactly, I became worth paying for."

Author:

Raoul Colvile

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October 2013

Uncovered

jordison — Tue, 01 Oct 2013 11:00:00 +0000

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£4.00

"Some hijab, I notice, are trimmed in jewel tone silks; little pops of colour framing smiles against the black folds. Bright, rainbow-striped espadrilles peek from beneath the seat in front of me. Down the row, someone adjusts her headscarf, flashing her hot pink nail polish. One woman conspicuously flaunts a darkly shining, jewel encrusted clasp. It is easily larger than both my fists together. Joan Collins and Dynasty cross in my mind and I can’t help but smile."

Author:

Sara Grady

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October 2013

The Last European

jordison — Tue, 01 Oct 2013 11:00:00 +0000

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£4.00

"And so, to ride. In a long carriage painted in elegant colours, greyish and blue-ish; sprawled in your seat, now looking out of the window, now reading, nibbling an apple. An anonymous Eurocity Express passenger with an English-language paper in his hands. Moving around Europe blows out last scraps of context you've amassed and acquired – that is, of what is the individual."

Author:

Kirill Kobrin

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October 2013