Anything Anymore Anywhere

Thursday, 9 September 2010

The Summer 2010 issue of 'anything anymore anywhere' is available to buy now by clicking on the link at the end of this post, or in the side bar. It costs £9, which includes postage worldwide. Costs got a little away from me this time (the issue features quite a lot of pictures and visual work) and that explains the big jump in price between issues. I am open to swapping copies for other little magazines, books etc, so email me (colinATanything-anymore-anywhere.com) if you are interested in that. I am sending copies out to contributors today. Here's the list:

nick-e melville

Eric Karl Anderson

Ruth Lepson

Bobby Larsson

Michael Wayne

Hilary Clark

Gareth Trew

Celia Gilbert

Chris Brownsword

Caroline Crew

Stephen Nelson

Caroline Zilk

andrew topel

Gregory Laynor

M.J. Nicholls

Josh Jones

A.W.Singerman

Greg Thomas

Claire Potter

Chris Emslie

Katie Craig

Victoria Gray

Irina Nedelcu

Sandy Christie

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anything anymore anywhere

The journal takes its name from a poem by Anselm Hollo, 'Question':

'Know the various abuses of the locution,
know all the shit one may have to eat in the afterhaze:
yet if you cannot say to another you, "I love you,"
how can you ever say anything anymore anywhere
in this world?' (Pick Up the House 48).

We like this poem a lot. We have never read a poem in which the word 'shit' appears to better effect than it does here. Ditto the words 'I love you'. We appreciate that Hollo expresses the compromised position that we constantly feel ourselves struggling against, especially in relation to uttering words such as 'I love you'. We find that reading this poem vigorously brings it home to us that we do want to say something, now, here, and it engages us to strive towards that.

Hollo's poem starts us thinking of the ways in which artists we admire have managed to say things in their own ways. It makes us remember the conclusion of Bruce Boone's essay 'Monsters', in which he asserts, in a glorious climax that follows his detailing of cultural debasement, 'To know this however, all of this, and still align oneself with hope is to be filled with great, enduring and unspeakable joy' (My Walk with Bob 20).

We feel ourselves desperate for that hope. We desire that enduring joy. We have our arms stretched towards the sky at the side of a muddy pitch screaming 'Pick US! PICK US!' We're not sure if this is the right time to say those three words. Our experience tells us that it's dangerous, especially now, and especially here. In an uncharacteristic moment of courage, though, and with a pretty feeble but definitely audible voice we somehow manage to say,

Dear readers, dear contributors,

We love you.

Now, please send us poems, essays, stories, anything.

Best wishes,

The Editors

editors@anything-anymore-anywhere.com

Anything Anymore Anywhere

Thursday, 9 September 2010

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