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Author: Jamie Atherton

Join us for the launch of issue 3

Friday 3 May, 7–9pm, with readings and performance from 8pm. The Chateau — tucked into the basement of a hotel … More

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issue no.3: refuge

In the third issue, themed ‘refuge’:

Announcing the limited run Prem Sahib poster

For our first Failed States supporter gift, we are delighted to offer an original poster featuring artwork by Prem Sahib. … More

artist, Prem Sahib, refuge, supporter gift

A Dark Dawn by Baneen Mirza

Wealth fuels sprawl. It can also buy a false sense of being away, guarded from reality. In one such fictional … More

Baneen Mirza, photography, prose, suburb, writer

Jay Simpson

I found a weighty, rectangular stone about one meter long and half a meter tall and thick. Marina saw me … More

educator, island, jay simpson, photography, prose

beach holiday in indonesia by Oscar Gaynor

a grain of sand meets another rolling in a swell: plom plom plom tink plom plom plom  whoosh. beaches are … More

island, Oscar Gaynor, prose, writer

Euan Macdonald

Volcano, 2008, single-channel projection (still). Originally published in Failed States issue no.1: island, September 2017. Photograph courtesy of the artist … More

artist, Euan Macdonald, island, video

Jasleen Kaur

A thing that was a thing that was a thing, 2017, porcelain casts of kaolin* rock, each covered in a digital … More

artist, installation, island, Jasleen Kaur

Loomings by Sam Williams

This body will become an island. These bones will fracture and erode to sand; and this flesh will float in … More

artist, island, prose, Sam Williams, video

TGI Friday by Paul Clinton

Can one desire foreign islands and ‘the other’ without falling into the trap of exoticism? Michel Tournier’s 1967 novel Vendredi (Friday) offers … More

essay, island, Paul Clinton, writer

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