Any minit

I wrote to Robert Hogg to let him know that copies of Imminent were on their way to him, over in Canada. He emailed back with a poem, which made me laugh, copied below. (Another of Robert's poems is included in Issue 4 of the zine, which you can order from my shop for only £3).

 

Imminent 4 is imminent! (for Jo Dacombe
 
Any minit
in a mint
Altoids are
 
asteroids
one time
immanent
 
in Wales
now eminently
imported by
 
Wrigley
Canada
from who
 
knows
where
they'll fall
 
to my tongue so
Curiously Strong
or so it says
 
on the tin
they could be made
in China or
 
Timbuktu
or simply fall
from stars
 

All proceeds from the zine support the printing costs of the next one. There will be more from Robert in future issues that I'm planning, so do sign up for updates or subscribe to make sure you don't miss them. 

Thank you for your support for the zine, for poets and artists who contribute, and for caring about the natural world.

Imminent 4

IMMINENT issue 4 arrives for October, printed in a peachy orange as the autumnal colours begin to appear.

The orange issue is held together by ideas of time and landscape: seasonal change, endurance walking, times of day, eons of land formation and climate change. Visit my blog shop to order or subscribe.

The poets included also have publications out currently, so you can visit more of their work at the links below.

Phil Hall's latest chapbook, The Ogre, is by Trainwreck Press, and features Phil's artwork assemblages on the cover, which I find intriguing.

Robert Hogg's chapbook, A Quiet Affair Vancouver '63, also by Trainwreck Press, and of which I have a copy. The poem has a sense of time as the narrative unfolds gradually, and is set in the past with a photo of a very young Bob Hogg on the cover. I'm delighted to be working with Bob on a collaborative piece for a future IMMINENT.

Gerrie Fellows has a poem that appears for The Hunterian and you can read it online.

And my good friend Mark Goodwin's first chapbook to be published in North America is Erodes on Air, where "we are invited into a landscape of stone and snow warmed through with wit 
and Goodwin’s singular eye for the world and ear for its song", by Middle Creek Publishing.

IMMINENT 4 also includes artworks by Helen Goodwin, Peter Griffiths and me.

 

You can order a copy from my blog shop, or subscribe to two issues per year, only £8.80 including p&p.

Thank you for your support.

Imminent 1, 2, 3

IMMINENT is the little zine I started in March 2020 as a response to concerns about nature and the environment. Numerous excellent artists and writers have contributed to date, and their generosity has kept my creative brain moving, for which I am most grateful.

Making the zine has become a process of reciprocity. Artists and poets have sent me their words and images, and gradually, as I sift through these wonderful gifts, themes and threads have emerged. I take these threads and respond to them with my own words and images, and eventually curate it all together into a small collection of creativity, woven together and presented in one dominant colour (the colour also suggested by the content) in a riso printed booklet.

I have loved making it, and loved the new connections it has enabled me to make with other artists and writers, many of whom I have only corresponded with and never met. I hope I will meet them all one day.

I would love you to have the zine, and so I have made it as affordable as possible. The cost only covers the printing and distribution, the rest is made by generous creativity and the love of sharing. I hope you enjoy it.

Red - Issue 1 - the material world

Blue - Issue 2 - ice and water

Green - Issue 3 - the other-than-human

forthcoming is:

Orange - Issue 4 - landscape and time

I am also working on a collaboration with Robert Hogg from Canada, inspired by a poem he sent me. The zine is being created as a result of our correspondence between Canada and England, and will span time and distance, memory, imagining and journeys.

There are a few copies of Issues 1 and 2 left. You can purchase Issues 1-3 for £7+p&p or individual issues for £3+p&p.

Read past posts of this blog to find out more about each issue.

Thank you for reading.

PLEASE CLICK HERE TO VISIT THE SHOP PAGE TO ORDER

Imminent green (Issue 3)

The Imminent green issue gives thought to wildness - not the remote kind of wild of the wilderness, but the everyday wildness that is all around us and bumps up against our domestic lives. Industrialisation has brought us to where we are, exploiting all that nature has to offer, and the issue considers the notion of slowing down, and how to re-wild whilst acknowledging that we cannot turn back time. Poetry by Deborah Tyler-Bennett reflects on the impact of our first childhood encounters with wild creatures; Gerrie Fellows wonders at the objects that creatures leave behind; Mita Solanky retires an industrial wheel from its place of work and returns it to nature. With other contributions from Penelope Shuttle, Carole Miles, Andy Postlethwaite, Chris Turnbull and me, Jo Dacombe, we hope you enjoy the May issue of Imminent green. 

You can order the green issue below, or click subscribe for an annual subscription of two Imminent issues per year.

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