ISSUE 18

Brave New Word ISSUE 18 

AKA The Magnificent Return

Editor's note:

Hello there! It's been a while. The last time I did a new issue of Brave New Word - the world wasn't falling apart that blatantly. We live in some tough times, and it is hard to make plans for the near future, not to mention anything long term.

I think it is ironic that the last time I did the introduction, I mentioned having one of the lowest points in my life. Guess what? The best was yet to come. It is was a different kind of bad, but bad nevertheless.

I didn’t intend to make such a long pause in-between issues. I intended to start soliciting submissions from the get-go, but then the lockdown happened, and things started falling apart. I've lost my job, spent like three months freelancing non-stop, got numerous job offers that fell through because "y`know its crysis, bro, can't be sure noh moh,” my book of visual poems fell through because of that, an exhibition became a non-starter, and to top things - landlord raised the rent. In this atmosphere - doing another issue of BNW wasn't at the top of my list of priorities. These were some crazy months. Down with whining.

This issue has a different approach than the rest. I wasn't posting calls for submissions and actively inviting to send something (apart from a couple of instances when I was finishing the issue). But the submissions were going regardless. I guess there is enough interest. It's been five months since the last issue and no announcements whatsoever, but I still got 42 submissions - more than enough to choose from - the meme of Brave New Word lives on.

Ok, enjoy the issue.

Without further ado - Brave New Word, Issue 18.

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Issue Line-up:

1. John Guzlowski - Five poems
2. Paul Ilechko - One and an Other (the Dialogs)
3. Dave Read - Six Asemic Pieces
4. Andriy Antonovskiy - Transhumanism 
5. Oormila Vijayakrishnan Prahlad - Visual Works
6. Mark Young - Five Poems
7. Serse Luigetti - Three Visual Poems
8. Jeff Bagato - Three Poems
9. Tom Jenks - Letter Frequency Visualizations
10. David Matthews - Three Work-in-progress poems from the book "Max Nix"
11. Jim Leftwich - trashpo photos 02.11.2020
12. AG Davis - Five poems
13. Steven J Fowler - 3 Crayon Poems
14. Rőczei György - Trios 1 2 3
15. Andrew Brenza - mirror & mirage

Andriy Antonovskiy - Transhumanism

Andriy Antonovskiy is a poet from Ukraine who currently lives in Barcelona. He is a strong proponent for Catalan Independence and he considers his primary mission to be building a cultural bridge between Ukraine and Catalonia.

Photo by Zhenia Perutska.

AG Davis - Five poems

AG Davis is a sound poet & extreme performer, author of the hypermodernist poetry books
Bathory and Glass, both published by Abstract Editions in 2016 and 2018, respectively.
Another book of poetry is due out later this year.

Rőczei György - Trios 1 2 3

Rőczei György (1956. Budapest) – Graphic artist, artist book publisher, teacher. His works are in collections of Hungarian and other countries.

Steven J Fowler - 3 Crayon Poems

SJ Fowler is a poet and artist. He works in the modernist and avant-garde traditions, across poetry, fiction, theatre, sonic art, visual art, installation and performance.  He is the poetry editor of 3am magazine, Lecturer at Kingston University, teaches at Tate Modern and is the curator of the Enemies project.

Jeff Bagato - Three Poems

Jeff Bagato produces poetry and prose as well as electronic music and glitch video. He has published nineteen books, all available in the usual online markets, including And the Trillions (poetry) and The Toothpick Fairy (fiction). A blog about his writing and publishing efforts can be found at http://jeffbagato.com.

Mark Young - Five Poems

Mark Young's most recent books are a collection of visual pieces, The Comedians, from Stale Objects de Press, & turning to drones, from Concrete Mist Press. Due out within the next few months are turpentine from Luna Bisonte Prods, & from, from Ma Press of Finland.