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Volume 10, Chapter 12 | October 2023October 1, 2023
Image by Marc Schlossman We are here with the final issue of Visual Verse. The end of an era; the start of a new one. At this moment, Visual Verse has published 11,234 pieces of original writing from 3,330 writers all over the world. We are yet to learn of another publication that can boast such a prolific output and the myriad of styles, perspectives and ideas that Visual Verse…
Volume 10, Chapter 11 | September 2023September 1, 2023
Image by Kitty Harrison x Dylan Sauerwein Behold: the penultimate issue of Visual Verse. Make your words count this month, dear writers. Some of you have been asking what will happen to the Visual Verse website (https://visualverse.org) after our final issue next month. Rest assured that your words are not going anywhere. We are finalising plans with a brilliant partner who will take over the website and ensure it stays…
Volume 10, Chapter 10 | August 2023August 1, 2023
Image by Marie-Michèle Bouchard This issue is dedicated to Shuhada’ Sadaqat, Sinéad O’Connor. Some people make art, others are artists. You will know an artist because their life and work can barely be separated. Sinead O’Connor was an artist and her output was not just her music, powerful as it was. Her output was also her motherhood, her spirituality, her Irishness, her activism, her womanhood, her relentless empathy, her resistance…
Volume 10, Chapter 09 | July 2023July 1, 2023
Image by Jim Pickerell / Documerica Welcome to the July issue of Visual Verse in which we celebrate the art of conversing with strangers. I have returned from a visit to Ireland where – despite the ever-invasive presence of technology in our lives – a vibrant culture of simple human interactions remains intact. I couldn’t walk two steps without a stranger making chit-chat. One woman was so keen to engage…
Volume 10, Chapter 08 | June 2023June 1, 2023
Image by Erica Marsland Huynh This month’s issue is dedicated to community. Community and connection have many benefits for us humans and this is particularly true for artists and writers. Somehow, amid the noise, we find ways to build communities that enable us to share our work safely and grow with our fellow artists. Whether it be a writing group with friends, a Friday night book launch or a summer…
Volume 10, Chapter 07 | May 2023May 1, 2023
Image by John Everett Millais/Birmingham Museums Trust In case you missed it, we dropped some pretty big news on Twitter (https://twitter.com/visual_verse/status/1650411123706068998?s=20) this week. In October 2023 we will publish our final issue of Visual Verse. This will conclude a full decade of publishing your glorious and eclectic words. We will grieve the beautiful space we have created with you, and the thrill of receiving your responses each month, but the…
Volume 10, Chapter 06 | April 2023April 2, 2023
Image by Sarah-Jane Crowson Ramadan Mubarak to all those our writers observing this month. May you find calm, set new creative goals and emerge with a fresh creative energy. For April, we are very excited to present a special month-long collaboration with artist, writer and visual poet, Sarah-Jane Crowson (https://sarah-janecrowson.com/about-sarah-jane-crowson/) . Sarah-Jane was shortlisted for our writing prize in 2021 and we have been keenly watching her work evolve ever…
Volume 10, Chapter 05 | March 2023March 1, 2023
Image by Adriaen van Utrecht/Rijksmuseum As you well know, our modus operandi at Visual Verse is to run a continual cycle of commissioning and publishing in order to reflect what’s happening in the world. Over the past decade your writing, imbued in our unique journal, has reflected many of the key moments in modern history: Trump’s rise, climate action, natural disasters, wars, global anti-racism activism, #metoo and now… the rise…
Volume 10, Chapter 04 | February 2023February 1, 2023
Image by Olga Naida For us artists, the month of February is often about seeking and exploring new pathways toward creativity, so we are inviting you to push yourself beyond your comfort zone with our latest prompt. Those on Twitter will have seen our posts inviting writers to transcend the first interpretation of our images and seek out deeper connections. The late Pau Casals i Defilló (Pablo Casals), a leading…
Volume 10, Chapter 03 | January 2023January 1, 2023
Image by an Unknown Artist, circa 1560 Thank you for your patience while we take some time to update the website. We have started 2023 with a big spring clean, making our digital home ready for more of your wonderful words. It feels good. And it reminds me that a good clean should not be underestimated in the pursuit of creative flow. The outcome is not important (ie. a spotless…
Volume 10, Chapter 02 | December 2022December 1, 2022
Image by Kabiur Rahman Riyad Presenting our final issue for 2022 which also kicks off the tenth volume of Visual Verse. Phew! By my calculations, a printed box set containing every issue of Visual Verse would span nearly 2 metres on a bookshelf. That’s a lot of words, capturing a decade’s worth of life-altering history that we have shared together. Thank you to each and every one of you for…
Volume 10, Chapter 01 | November 2022November 1, 2022
Image by Kitty Harrison Today we celebrate nine years of innovative, diverse, brave and wonderful writing. Happy birthday to all writers, readers and friends of Visual Verse. Visual Verse is nine years old today! Kristen and I, with designer Pete Lewis, launched the site on 1st November 2013 and since then (through country moves, career changes, successes, knock-backs, crises, euphoria, births, deaths, and trips to London, Newcastle, and Berlin) we…
Autumn Writing Challenge 2022 WinnersOctober 15, 2022
Autumn Writing Prize: Announcing the Winners and Shortlist https://www.visualverse.org Some of you have already seen the news over on Twitter – the winners of our Autumn Writing Prize have been announced and we are so thrilled with the four winning pieces. Congratulations to our winners: Excavating by Ankh Spice (https://twitter.com/seagoatscreams) Ouch by Mims Sully (https://twitter.com/MimsSully) Kinfolk by Robin Houghton (https://twitter.com/robinhoughton) Exotic does not mean beautiful? by Osahon Oka (https://twitter.com/osahonoka) We…
Autumn Writing Prize 2022October 1, 2022
Image by Etta/Girl With Red Hat https://www.visualverse.org We are thrilled to launch our second ever Autumn Writing Prize, giving us a chance to unearth talent we might not otherwise spot. This is also an opportunity for you to flex your writing ambitions with our fast-paced writing challenge. How to Enter Visit the Visual Verse website (https://visualverse.org/submit/) and submit a piece of writing in response to the image prompt above. This…
Volume 09, Chapter 11 | September 2022September 1, 2022
Image by Omar Musa Dreams do come true, people. I have wanted – for so long – to present the work of Omar Musa (http://www.omarmusa.com.au) here on Visual Verse. Omar is a Bornean-Australian author, visual artist and poet from Queanbeyan, Australia. He embodies the power of courageous art, producing hip hop, spoken word, poetry and (as you see here) magnificent woodcuts. His latest book Killernova (https://www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page/omar-musa-killernova) , published in the…
Volume 09, Chapter 10 | August 2022August 1, 2022
Image by John Crozier We have had an influx of submissions from new writers (is it the Euro heatwave?!) and with this came lots of enquiries about when to expect confirmation if a piece is published. A gentle reminder that we do not notify writers when a piece is published. We read over 150 subs every month and publish 100 of them. We would love to notify each and every…
Volume 09, Chapter 09 | July 2022July 1, 2022
Image by Wangari Maathai International School Is nine an auspicious number? Today we present Chapter 09 of Volume 09 of Visual Verse. This month our offering is powered by youth. Your image prompt has been created by primary school students at the Wangari Maathai International School in Berlin (http://wangari-maathai-schule.de/en/) . Under the guidance of teacher and artist Dee Mulrooney (http://deirdre-mulrooney.com/) , and with a little help from The Curved House…
Volume 09, Chapter 08 | June 2022June 1, 2022
Image by Reed Geiger Thank you for your patience as we find our feet with our new trans-continental team constellation. The Visual Verse home is now Melbourne, Australia, while our chief editors are in Sydney (Lucie Stevens) and London (Isabel Brookes). We will shortly put a call out for new editorial volunteers, who can be based anywhere in the world, so stay tuned if you are interested in joining our…
Volume 09, Chapter 07 | May 2022May 1, 2022
Image by Miikka Luotio Today we take flight with a new issue of Visual Verse and we take flight to a new home for Visual Verse. After almost a decade in Berlin, The Curved House is moving to Melbourne, Australia. We will continue to run Visual Verse as a global publication, with half the editorial team in Australia and half in Europe, and we will continue to publish diverse and…
Volume 09, Chapter 06 | April 2022April 1, 2022
Image by Vony Razom This month sees the publication of Aftermath (https://www.andotherstories.org/aftermath/) , by Visual Verse co-founder Preti Taneja. Written in the literal aftermath of the killing of Saskia Jones and Jack Merritt, by Usman Khan, this exceptional work is an exploration of grief, guilt, trauma, politics and deeply-rooted injustice. Nikesh Shukla calls it a “masterclass in literary brilliance” while Max Porter calls it “a major landmark in British narrative…
Volume 09, Chapter 05 | March 2022March 1, 2022
Image by Susan Fenimore Cooper I had planned a special issue for March to celebrate International Women’s Day (8th March). Then, Russia invaded Ukraine*. All plans went out the window but, guess what?! The women rose up. Four brilliant women came to my rescue and helped me to assemble a glorious, unique issue featuring our very first musical response to a Visual Verse prompt. I am so proud and grateful…
Volume 09, Chapter 04 | February 2022February 1, 2022
Image by Yasin Aribuga We’re only a month in but already I have the feeling that 2022 will be a year of change for many of us. In fact, the question is not whether change will happen, but how it will happen. Will it be a transition, displacement, digression, transgression, move, evolution or a seismic shift? Will it happen by design or by surprise? This is what is on my…
Volume 09, Chapter 03 | January 2022January 1, 2022
Image by Dee Mulrooney We made it! Another year over, a new one begins, and to celebrate we present our first issue of Visual Verse for 2022. This one comes with a large dose of gratitude. After another challenging year we are ever more grateful to you, our community of readers and writers, for continuing to deliver exciting, challenging work. This past November were were especially floored by your responses…
Volume 09, Chapter 02 | December 2021December 1, 2021
Image by Monica Silva Welcome to our final newsletter of 2021! December marks the festive season for many people, and a time to reflect on the year that has passed. It’s been another year of wide-spread uncertainty, anxiety and social isolation – themes that have run through many of the submissions we’ve received. And as the pandemic flexes its muscles again, the opening of Amanda Gorman’s poem The Hill We…
Volume 09, Chapter 01 | November 2021November 1, 2021
Image by Frederick Cayley Robinson https://www.visualverse.org November has arrived and that means something extra special to us – it’s our birthday! Happy eighth birthday to every member of the Visual Verse community! Whether you’ve been part of our tribe for some time now, or have just recently entered the fold, we want to thank each one of you for making VV what it is: dynamic, diverse, celebratory and inspirational. Together,…
Volume 08, Chapter 12 | October 2021October 1, 2021
Image by Nickhil Jain https://www.visualverse.org We are delighted to announce the winners of our first ever Autumn Writing Prize. These four pieces have been selected from an astounding 279 entries: WINNERS T18.0XXA – Breathing Obstruction by K Roberts Head judge, Preti Taneja, says: “It is very hard to use this device of forward slashes without them distracting from the feeling of the piece, instead becoming part of its focus, language…
Autumn Writing Prize 2021September 30, 2021
Visual Verse Autumn Writing Prize OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS Image by Nickhil Jain https://www.visualverse.org Dear writers, The Visual Verse Autumn Writing Prize is now open for submissions. This is your writing prompt courtesy of photographer and developer, Nick Jain. Your task is to write 50-500 words and submit here (https://visualverse.org/submit/) by 10am Uk time (GMT) today, 30th September. Please ensure you start the submission process at least 10 minutes early as…
Volume 08, Chapter 11 | September 2021September 1, 2021
Image by Vika Wendish https://www.visualverse.org Another issue of Visual Verse is upon us. It has been a cruel and trying month for many around the globe. Our hearts go out especially to the people of Afghanistan who have endured unimaginable anguish. I often think about how those in such circumstances process their trauma and a recent conversation with a group of artist friends reminded me that a person’s own creativity…
Volume 08, Chapter 10 | August 2021August 1, 2021
Image by Veronica Lissandrini https://www.visualverse.org Rise, write and shine. Your August issue is here and isn’t it a beautiful one? With the help of my co-curator this month, Divya Ghelani, we showcase four women to watch: one artist and three writers, all with abundant talent. I was deeply moved by this month’s writing – actual tears in some cases – and I felt a kind of tectonic shift as I…
Volume 08, Chapter 09 | July 2021July 1, 2021
Image by María Victoria Rodriguez https://www.visualverse.org Here in the Northern Hemisphere, we are able to socialise again. The sun is shining and the air is a-buzz with energy. It is particularly enlivening to feel a sense of community once more and to be part of a place. Culture, food and the spirit of people can give us so much. That’s why this month’s image felt just right. María Victoria Rodriguez…
Volume 08, Chapter 08 | June 2021June 1, 2021
Image by Tanya Layko https://www.visualverse.org Last month was one of the best issues of Visual Verse. The writing you submitted throughout May was brave, innovative and unpredictable. It was a pleasure to watch the issue grow and we especially loved seeing more experimentation. Keep it up! We look forward to seeing what comes from this new prompt, a magnificent image I was drawn to for it’s collage-like quality. It’s by…
Volume 08, Chapter 07 | May 2021May 1, 2021
Image by Unknown Artist / Wellcome Trust https://www.visualverse.org Dear writers, This month we have a special collaboration with the much-respected imprint, Serpent’s Tail (https://serpentstail.com/) , to celebrate the debut novel (https://uk.bookshop.org/books/before-the-ruins/9781788163798?aid=7452) of Victoria Gosling. Let me tell you a little anecdote about Victoria Gosling (https://twitter.com/VictoriaReaderB?s=20) . Several years ago, I found myself an hour from Berlin, in a strange little Fort (replete with a moat) with cavernous rooms and an…
Volume 08, Chapter 06 | April 2021April 1, 2021
Image by Cris Martín https://www.visualverse.org This month at The Curved House HQ (Visual Verse mothership) we have been busy creating a new series of children’s books. So, in this spirit, we offer something playful to inspire your writing: a children’s book illustration by Spanish artist Cris Martín. We’re thrilled to be publishing Cris’ debut children’s book, coming out in the UK and US in October, so in the meantime you…
Volume 08, Chapter 05 | March 2021March 1, 2021
Image by Stefan Keller Guest edited by Zoe Turner, Comma Press https://www.visualverse.org For your March inspiration, we offer otherworldly vibes via a fantastical image by Stefan Keller. This scene, with its juxtaposition of worlds, is a nod to our core objective: bring together the worlds of artists and writers to create something spectacular. A wonderful offshoot of this aim is the way our platform also brings us together with like-minded…
Volume 08, Chapter 04 | February 2021February 1, 2021
Image by Tom or Judy Moore https://www.visualverse.org We’ve had an amazing response to the feedback form (https://forms.gle/NaiKLaM37AffoxkH6) , thank you. If you haven’t filled it out, please take a moment to have your say. We will digest and report in good time but it has already been so helpful to see your ideas and understand the needs and wishes of our writing community. And now, February! Allow us to unveil…
Volume 08, Chapter 03 | January 2021January 1, 2021
Image by Michael Easterling https://www.visualverse.org Happy New Year to you all! This past year has made online communities more important than ever and seeing the Visual Verse writing community strengthen and thrive has been an inspiration. Thank you to all of you for supporting each other by reading, sharing and tweeting. It warms our hearts to see how generous and encouraging you are. Though we can’t be sure what 2021…
Volume 08, Chapter 02 | December 2020December 1, 2020
Image by Oscar Ukonu https://www.visualverse.org Kristen here, publisher, curator and co-founder of our beloved Visual Verse. This final issue for the year 2020 comes with a personal message from me. This year, I have made some simple but significant changes to how I curate Visual Verse, including a commitment to featuring more contemporary artists. Prior to 2020, I was complacent in my approach to curation, sourcing images primarily from public…
Volume 08, Chapter 01 | November 2020November 1, 2020
Image by John Samuel Pughe / Library of Congress https://www.visualverse.org Our November issue begins a whole new volume and marks our 7th birthday. Lots to celebrate! After such a reflective year we are starting to understand just how significant this publication is. Every month for the past seven years, you have written fresh new pieces that reflect exactly what was going on in the world at that very moment. This…
Volume 07, Chapter 12 | October 2020October 1, 2020
Image by Jemima Muir https://www.visualverse.org Welcome to October! This month we are going south… the South East of England that is – with our guest curator, the novelist and writing advocate Sharon Duggal. She and her selected writers are responding to this fabulous image by a hugely talented up-and-coming illustrator, Jemima Muir. Sharon Duggal (http://www.Sharonduggal.com) grew up in north-west Birmingham as part of a large Indian family. Her acclaimed debut…
Volume 07, Chapter 11 | September 2020September 1, 2020
Image by Helen Marten https://www.visualverse.org It’s always important that we break new ground on our site and this month is no different. For the first time we are very proud to bring you an image and a lead piece by the same person: 2016 Turner Prize winning artist Helen Marten (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Marten) , whose debut novel The Boiled in Between is out this month from Prototype (https://prototypepublishing.co.uk/) . Helen studied at…
Volume 07, Chapter 10 | August 2020August 1, 2020
Image by Andi Sapey and Other.Dance.Art https://www.visualverse.org Welcome to the high holiday month of August, when we lighten your mood and invite you to transform with us into beings that might, if we wish hard enough, grow out of our human limitations and fly. Today’s image is one of freedom within confinement. It is a collaboration between British photographer Andi Sapey (https://www.andisapey.co.uk/gallery/) and Other.Dance.Art, in which two dance artists explore…
Volume 07, Chapter 09 | July 2020July 1, 2020
Image by Khadija Saye courtesy of the artist’s estate https://www.visualverse.org In solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement and to mark the third anniversary of the Grenfell Tower fire which in 2017 claimed the lives of 72 people in London, most of them from Black, Asian and ethnic minority families, Visual Verse brings you an image and lead words by five extraordinary creators. Our issue this month resonates with the…
Volume 07, Chapter 08 | June 2020June 1, 2020
Image from Getty Open Content Program https://www.visualverse.org For most of us, life remains under some kind of lockdown and things feel pretty overwhelming. So, this month we have decided to focus on three good news items close to home. Firstly, earlier this year our Deputy Editor, Lucie Stevens (http://www.luciestevens.com/) , won a residency at Varuna National Writer’s House (https://www.varuna.com.au/) in Australia. She was able to participate just before the lockdown…
Volume 07, Chapter 07 | May 2020May 1, 2020
Image from Getty Open Content Program https://www.visualverse.org Last month we launched our #dailyvisual project on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/visualverseanthology/) . We offer a new image every day and invite you to write 5-50 words in response (see below for a selection). It is a short, impulsive exercise designed to both cleanse the mind and entice new ideas. The act of doing a daily call-and-response made us realise that Visual Verse is very…
Volume 07, Chapter 06 | April 2020April 1, 2020
Image by Henry & Co. https://www.visualverse.org What’s on your mind? Isolation doesn’t have to mean loneliness, as every writer knows. But in these world-strange times, writing takes on even more meaning – and maybe also less. Meanwhile, we try to go on. We have been here for nearly seven years, feeding your inspiration, encouraging your wordy risk-taking, bringing you a community of writers around the world all responding to the…
Volume 07, Chapter 05 | March 2020March 1, 2020
Image by Ryan McGuire https://www.visualverse.org Spring has officially sprung and we are so excited about our March offering – a wonderful, whimsical image prompt and a tie-up with the acclaimed Galley Beggar Press (https://www.galleybeggar.co.uk/) Short Story Prize, 2020. This is the fifth year of the prize, judged by Guardian theatre critic Arifa Akbar, writers Todd Ewen and Toby Litt and Sam Jordison and Eloise Millar, co-directors of Galley Beggar Press….
Volume 07, Chapter 04 | February 2020February 2, 2020
Image by Omid Armin https://www.visualverse.org At last, your February prompt is here. What a ride 2020 has been already. Bushfires, deadly viruses and Brexit (among other things) have welcomed us to this new decade. Still, we soldier on with our art and pens. As you will have noticed, we are a day late because the Visual Verse team have been very busy bees. Preti is researching and writing her way…
Volume 07, Chapter 03 | January 2020January 1, 2020
Image by Charles Dana Gibson / British Library https://www.visualverse.org Welcome to 2020. We made it! Today is simultaneously the end of an era and a new beginning and it feels like the perfect time to reflect on some of the amazing achievements of Visual Verse and of our writer community. Visual Verse, first published in November 2013, is now in its seventh volume. We have published over 6700 pieces of…
Volume 07, Chapter 02 | December 2019December 1, 2019
Image by Mae Mu https://www.visualverse.org Welcome to the last issue of 2019 – a year in which so much has happened upon our planet. Never far from our minds is the reality of our changing climate and the questions around it, and our future. It has been an inspiration to watch, over the course of this year, as young people rise up and confront an issue that has long been…
Volume 07, Chapter 1 | November 2019November 1, 2019
Image by RUDE London. VISUAL VERSE IS SIX! Yes we have made it through our teething and toddler years and now we are in big school. Our labour of love project has reached the grand old age of SIX and we are proud, humble, grateful and downright amazed. We couldn’t have made it without all our readers, writers, leads, supporters and some very special guest curators who took over and…
Volume 06, Chapter 12 | October 2019October 1, 2019
Image by Valérie Mannaerts/M Museum Leuven/Alexandra Colmenares. https://www.visualverse.org Never have our bodies, minds and countries felt so under pressure and fragmented. Yet strangely, art that serves to reflect on that can be strangely healing, and indeed, community building. At Visual Verse we are all about community. So this month we bring you our very special edition of ‘recommend a writer’, where we have asked some of our dear lead contributors…
Volume 06, Chapter 11 | September 2019September 1, 2019
Image by Joelle Chmiel Welcome to September, and as the seasons turn we offer you a fitting visual by Joelle Chmiel, who captures both a sense of stillness and of bustle at a transitional time of year. This month’s issue is guest-curated by our own Luke Larkin, who also edits Unstamatic (https://www.unstamatic.info/) , an online magazine of small prose and poetry. The artist and lead writers for this month are…
Volume 06, Chapter 10 | August 2019August 1, 2019
Image by Jakob Owens Welcome to August. In a time of great weirdness – in the climate, in politics and all of the rest – this is the month to stretch beyond the borders of language and reality towards some other future. And here it is – we bestow upon you this little piggy, along with a bumper summer selection of writing from the finest poets, fictionists and translators we…
Volume 06, Chapter 09 | July 2019July 1, 2019
Image by Franck V. Our offering for the month of July is a games writing special. We were asked to participate in FXP Festival (https://fxpfestival.com/) , a coding event for young people taking place in Cambridge this month, and this got us thinking about digital narratives and the relationship between storytelling and technology. Narrative games are about the creation of an entire world, and often a non-linear one, so where…
Volume 06, Chapter 08 | June 2019June 1, 2019
Image by Craig Carry It is June and, with light minds and grieving hearts, this issue is dedicated to Judith Kerr, author of the classic children’s books Mog, The Tiger Who Came to Tea and When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit. Our first lead writer, Sita Brahmachari, calls her piece “Spirit Guide to Childhood”. Kerr was a spirit guide for so many of us, sparking an early love of reading and…
Volume 06, Chapter 07 | May 2019May 1, 2019
Image by R. Coad/New Zealand Archive May Day, Labour Day, Workers’ Day: in many countries around the world today is a public holiday. It is also a day of both rest and unrest. Here in Berlin, where Visual Verse was born, protesters are marching the streets for fairness. Their voices rally against a fast-moving gentrification that Berlin has long resisted and while the chants are for a better future, there…
Volume 06, Chapter 06 | April 2019April 1, 2019
Volume 06, Chapter 06 of Visual Verse is now open for submissions. Image by Martin Reisch Submit your writing > (https://visualverse.org/submit/) Dear readers, writers and friends, April is the cruelest month – they say – although we don’t think so here at Visual Verse. We have some fine lead writing and an enigmatic image to get your creativity springing. Maybe even, we think, this ‘person in field’ is in a…
Volume 06, Chapter 05 | March 2019March 1, 2019
Image by NASA Dear readers, writers and friends, March arrives and with it new horizons. We are propelling you into space with this incredible image from NASA and a line-up of truly special writers. This month’s leads transport us from space to the places many never go, inside one of the most difficult environments the UK can imagine. These never-before-published writers have devised these pieces in workshops conducted inside one…
Volume 06, Chapter 04 | February 2019February 1, 2019
Image by Norbu Gyachung Greetings dear readers and writers, As you know, we at Visual Verse span many continents, come from many countries and reach out to you wherever you are. We are citizens of the world, and our site reflects that. While others build walls and diminish democracies, we will continue to use our platform as an antidote to boundaries of language, hierarchies of power and divisive and constructed…
Volume 06, Chapter 03 | January 2019January 2, 2019
Image by Matt Boyce Welcome to 2019! Yesterday, we launched our January issue in the quiet aftermath of new year celebrations. Your visual inspiration is an image by comic artist and illustrator Matt Boyce (http://mattboyce.com/mattboyce/) that fits the general ambience of the moment, at least for us. This is the first time we have featured an image with any kind of words incorporated and we are excited to see what…

Explore the newsletters published with each new issue of Visual Verse. These newsletters – written by our editors and/or guest editors – detail the artists and writers featured in each issue. They also give some insight into what was happening in the wider world and in the mind of the editors at that time. Note that there are no newsletters for Volume 01 as this initiative began part-way through Volume 02.

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