gorse journal

Taking pre-orders for gorses 12 + 13:

gorse.ie/book/no-12/

gorse.ie/book/no-13/

(Double release, like Tom Waits' Alice + Blood Money.)

You can now order @gorsejournal.bsky.social 12 which has my piece about Ole Mørk Sandvik, and reflects on the archive, photography, the process of researching, and commining with dead.

gorse.ie/book/no-12/

Leo von König (1871-1944): Bohème Café, 1909. Chansonnette Spela Albrecht and painter and poet John Hoexter.

@gorsejournal.bsky.social issue #12 with an essay of mine on the pitfalls of translating John Hoexter is out now: gorse.ie/book/no-12/

g13 is here!

More details on issues 12 & 13 soon.

gorse 13 has arrived to the house!

Finishing the year strong etc.: delighted to have an essay on my attempts to translate the expressionist poetry and prose of Berlin artist John Hoexter (1884-1938) in @gorsejournal.bsky.social #12. gorse.ie

This contains a seance I conducted with the photography of Norwegian musicologist Ole Mørk Sandvik from 1927. Delighted to see this piece come into print!

gorse 13: taboo.

'Language is a virus.' - William Burroughs/Laurie Anderson

Thank you! Mr @hitoneie.bsky.social again.

Catalogue for Sarah Pierce's SCENE OF THE MYTH exhibition (2023), with an extract from Roy Clare Potter's gorse 5 interview. With thanks to @immaireland

imma.ie/whats-on/sarah…

gorse.ie/book/new-gre...

Shortlisters have the chance to be published in one of our partner journals.

This year, we are working with @minorlits.bsky.social, @gorsejournal.bsky.social, Kill Your Darlings, Helter Skelter, Protoype, @thelondonmagazine.bsky.social & Tenement Press.

desperateliterature.com/prize

⭐Partner Journal Shoutout⭐
@gorsejournal.bsky.social is a stunning, original Dublin-based journal featuring essay, fiction, poetry & interviews.

gorse has published 2019 & 2022 shortlisters Joshua Riedel & Jona Xhepa @quetzalfiach.bsky.social

2025 Prize info at desperateliterature.com/prize

Have emailed you there.

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As in, congratulations!

Well, there you go.

Now in stock!

Thrilled to take delivery of our new Gorse Editions title, New Green Fool by Alan Cunningham. Readers will be familiar with Alan's work from his pieces in the journal & on our website. Pre-order details to follow. Cover art: @hitoneie.bsky.social. With thanks to @artscouncilireland.bsky.social

Have the chance to be published in one of our partner journals.

This year, we are working with @minorlits.bsky.social, @gorsejournal.bsky.social, @kydmagazine.bsky.social, Helter Skelter, @prototypepubs.bsky.social, @thelondonmagazine.bsky.social & Tenement Press.

desperateliterature.com/prize

Over the course of thirteen interconnected essays, in New Green Fool Alan Cunningham considers the potential for foolishness in setting one's identity – or identities – far too strongly in any direction.

Shortlisters have the chance to be published in one of our partner journals.

This year, we are working with @minorlits.bsky.social, @gorsejournal.bsky.social, Kill Your Darlings, Helter Skelter, Protoype, @thelondonmagazine.bsky.social & Tenement Press.

desperateliterature.com/prize

I am not British. And that’s just one of the reasons I was surprised to get a mention in the recent Cambridge History of the British Essay (2024). You can read the essay they mention here for free on @gorsejournal.bsky.social gorse.ie/provocation-...

#editorial #gorse12

Printed pages with correction marks.

Working on paper, and final proofing Alan Cunningham's New Green Fool. Pre-order details soon.

👀New post on David Lynch. Features an article I wrote for @gorsejournal.bsky.social years ago on Inland Empire and a video of one of his shortest, strangest films. Free to read.

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The cover of the first issue of literary journal gorse. A green background, with white, yellow and red typewriter keys in a jumble.

The interior proof pages from gorse number one.

Eleven years ago today, we published gorse no. 1. 🪅