Editor’s Note A note from the editor regarding the theme of Generation and curating the issue. Released July 2019. ‘It’s the relationship with change and growth that has inspired me most while curating this issue and particularly the attit
       
     
An Interview with the creators behind Youth In Bed. Youth in Bed is a new short film that chronicles moments from three stories intertwined across generations - brought together by the very same bed. We spoke with the creative team behind th
       
     
Maybe I, too, Was Photosynthesizing by Hannah Nishat-Botero We share this beautiful illustrated series from the talented illustrator. ‘An exploration of the self through lived experiences of light. Based on a written account of memories and p
       
     
Waiting Room by Meadhbh Mcnutt Friends link arms and occupy space. Fingers lace before the curfew Meadhbh Mcnutt shares with us poetry exploring adolescent emotions.
       
     
An Interview with Temporary Pleasure ‘This movement will remain in bedrooms instead of dancefloors. (It) makes me sad because club music is designed to be experienced on a dancefloor, where the many become one.’ We spoke to Temporary Pleasur
       
     
At The Grave of Simone De Beauvoir by Ciara Burke In this poem and photo series Ciara Burke reflects on visiting Simone De Beauvoir’s grave.
       
     
Three Poems by Katie Simpson ‘i had to sit, had to feel / something steady..’ Katie Simpson shares a series of interwoven poems, striking and unique, it combines themes that are both historic and contemporary.
       
     
An interview with the creator behind @booksfightback ‘I see my entire life as a sort of education, which is ongoing and sometimes difficult and sometimes beautiful but always providing chances for reflection, growth, and perhaps change.’ We s
       
     
Post Memory from a Lost Country by Emma Zukovic ‘The stories told to us allow us to fabricate utopian images of a place that we may never have personally visited.’ Emma Zukovic reflects on cultural identity and post memory through beautiful
       
     
An interview with the up and coming spoken word poet Saoirse Johnston Gaffey ‘You can see the sense of taboo in our culture slipping away and the ability to speak candidly and forthright about topics such as love, sexuality, politics and culture
       
     
Three poems by Sharmila Rahman I often think about how much I love you and that odour that lingers once heavy doors shut; they leave this drastic sense of nostalgia and opiate infusions that get tangle
       
     
We spoke with up and coming photographer Lewi Dawson on being an artist in this generation, identity and creativity. ‘…That person can be or look or act any way they want to, without having to name a label on themselves. You know who you are
       
     
Shore by Aoife Burke And our hands carve out the old story Our minds are too timid to tell; No inch of our bodies strangers No verse left unread Aoife Burke’s poem Shore pairs together natural and intimate obse
       
     
We spoke with dancer Nuria Martin Fandos on her practice as a dancer in this generation. Photography by Jeremiah Cumberbatch. ‘I have been treating my dance practice as my daily therapy and meditation routine. There are some people that need t
       
     
Editor’s Note A note from the editor regarding the theme of Generation and curating the issue. Released July 2019. ‘It’s the relationship with change and growth that has inspired me most while curating this issue and particularly the attit
       
     
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Editor’s Note

A note from the editor regarding the theme of Generation and curating the issue. Released July 2019.

‘It’s the relationship with change and growth that has inspired me most while curating this issue and particularly the attitude in which we can engage and move on through experience and time.’ Photograph by Lewi Dawson

An Interview with the creators behind Youth In Bed. Youth in Bed is a new short film that chronicles moments from three stories intertwined across generations - brought together by the very same bed. We spoke with the creative team behind th
       
     
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An Interview with the creators behind Youth In Bed.

Youth in Bed is a new short film that chronicles moments from three stories intertwined across generations - brought together by the very same bed. We spoke with the creative team behind this Bafta Student Film Awards nominated short. Writer and director Edward Zorab and creative producer Mollie Cayzer-Colvin talk on their influences and inspirations behind this film and what it means to them. Photography is by DoP Edward Glynne-Jones

Maybe I, too, Was Photosynthesizing by Hannah Nishat-Botero We share this beautiful illustrated series from the talented illustrator. ‘An exploration of the self through lived experiences of light. Based on a written account of memories and p
       
     
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Maybe I, too, Was Photosynthesizing by Hannah Nishat-Botero

We share this beautiful illustrated series from the talented illustrator.

‘An exploration of the self through lived experiences of light. Based on a written account of memories and passing thoughts triggered by observing light and how it moulds things, this project explores existential anxiety, mental illness, body esteem, and being as the process of becoming.’

Waiting Room by Meadhbh Mcnutt Friends link arms and occupy space. Fingers lace before the curfew Meadhbh Mcnutt shares with us poetry exploring adolescent emotions.
       
     
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Waiting Room by Meadhbh Mcnutt

Friends

link arms and occupy space.

Fingers

lace before the curfew

Meadhbh Mcnutt shares with us poetry exploring adolescent emotions.

An Interview with Temporary Pleasure ‘This movement will remain in bedrooms instead of dancefloors. (It) makes me sad because club music is designed to be experienced on a dancefloor, where the many become one.’ We spoke to Temporary Pleasur
       
     
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An Interview with Temporary Pleasure

‘This movement will remain in bedrooms instead of dancefloors. (It) makes me sad because club music is designed to be experienced on a dancefloor, where the many become one.’

We spoke to Temporary Pleasure, a project exploring club culture and its influence as a space for all.

At The Grave of Simone De Beauvoir by Ciara Burke In this poem and photo series Ciara Burke reflects on visiting Simone De Beauvoir’s grave.
       
     
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At The Grave of Simone De Beauvoir by Ciara Burke

In this poem and photo series Ciara Burke reflects on visiting Simone De Beauvoir’s grave.

Three Poems by Katie Simpson ‘i had to sit, had to feel / something steady..’ Katie Simpson shares a series of interwoven poems, striking and unique, it combines themes that are both historic and contemporary.
       
     
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Three Poems by Katie Simpson

‘i had to sit, had to feel / something steady..’

Katie Simpson shares a series of interwoven poems, striking and unique, it combines themes that are both historic and contemporary.

An interview with the creator behind @booksfightback ‘I see my entire life as a sort of education, which is ongoing and sometimes difficult and sometimes beautiful but always providing chances for reflection, growth, and perhaps change.’ We s
       
     
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An interview with the creator behind @booksfightback

‘I see my entire life as a sort of education, which is ongoing and sometimes difficult and sometimes beautiful but always providing chances for reflection, growth, and perhaps change.’

We spoke to the creator behind Books Fight Back about her social media and educational path.

Post Memory from a Lost Country by Emma Zukovic ‘The stories told to us allow us to fabricate utopian images of a place that we may never have personally visited.’ Emma Zukovic reflects on cultural identity and post memory through beautiful
       
     
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Post Memory from a Lost Country by Emma Zukovic

‘The stories told to us allow us to fabricate utopian images of a place that we may never have personally visited.’

Emma Zukovic reflects on cultural identity and post memory through beautiful text and imagery. Post Memory from a Lost Country explores the influence of generation and history beyond physical space.

An interview with the up and coming spoken word poet Saoirse Johnston Gaffey ‘You can see the sense of taboo in our culture slipping away and the ability to speak candidly and forthright about topics such as love, sexuality, politics and culture
       
     
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An interview with the up and coming spoken word poet Saoirse Johnston Gaffey

‘You can see the sense of taboo in our culture slipping away and the ability to speak candidly and forthright about topics such as love, sexuality, politics and culture is being led by young poets.’

We spoke with this spoken word on her influences and being a writer tody.

Three poems by Sharmila Rahman I often think about how much I love you and that odour that lingers once heavy doors shut; they leave this drastic sense of nostalgia and opiate infusions that get tangle
       
     
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Three poems by Sharmila Rahman

I often think about how much

I love you

and that odour that lingers

once heavy doors shut;

they leave this drastic sense

of nostalgia and opiate

infusions that get tangled

in the mess of my head.

We spoke with up and coming photographer Lewi Dawson on being an artist in this generation, identity and creativity. ‘…That person can be or look or act any way they want to, without having to name a label on themselves. You know who you are
       
     
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We spoke with up and coming photographer Lewi Dawson on being an artist in this generation, identity and creativity.

‘…That person can be or look or act any way they want to, without having to name a label on themselves. You know who you are and you don’t have to prove yourself to anybody. I believe there there should be no line to push people aside in separate areas of gender. There is a whole spectrum of gender and you can be placed anywhere..’

Shore by Aoife Burke And our hands carve out the old story Our minds are too timid to tell; No inch of our bodies strangers No verse left unread Aoife Burke’s poem Shore pairs together natural and intimate obse
       
     
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Shore by Aoife Burke

And our hands carve out the old story

Our minds are too timid to tell;

No inch of our bodies strangers

No verse left unread

Aoife Burke’s poem Shore pairs together natural and intimate observations in this descriptive and evocative writing.

We spoke with dancer Nuria Martin Fandos on her practice as a dancer in this generation. Photography by Jeremiah Cumberbatch. ‘I have been treating my dance practice as my daily therapy and meditation routine. There are some people that need t
       
     
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We spoke with dancer Nuria Martin Fandos on her practice as a dancer in this generation. Photography by Jeremiah Cumberbatch.

‘I have been treating my dance practice as my daily therapy and meditation routine. There are some people that need to read, walk or meditate on a daily basis. For me, dance rehearsal, creative time and physical exhaustion are what get me out of my head. It’s when I let go, when I leave everything behind and I allow myself to be me without any barriers.’