NEXT ISSUE – STAPLE 73: The Film Issue

Since Hollywood’s been obsessed with trilogies ever since The Godfather and Star Wars did such good business in the 1970s, it’s only fitting that Staple’s three issue survey of writing in relation to other art-forms, starting with visual art in 2009, and continuing with music in the spring of 2010, should reach its climax with an issue on the subject of film.

We bring together writings by screenwriters Michael Eaton and Georgina Lock, stories that allude to cinematic images – like the gun-toting women of Tyler Keevil’s ‘Antigone’s Mantle’ who bring a dash of Godard’s 1968 to present day Dyfed, Shirley Golden’s dying teenager taking refuge in thoughts of Philip K Dick’s androids in ‘Do Humans Dream of Electric Hearts’, or Jill Campbell’s new mother conjuring ambiguously benign help from ‘The Doula’ –  and poems covering everything from the eroticism of projectors (Sophie Mayer), the varied aftermaths of Marilyn Monroe’s classic films (Angela Readman), noir conventions (Emma Lee), and a re-enactment of Eisenstein’s Battleship Potemkin in text (Paschalla Sharpe). 

Elsewhere, Yelena Popova makes a graphic sequence of images in approximate homage to Calvino, Roger Knott Fayle recalls shooting a hip-hop video in Hyson Green using a camcorder the size of a suitcase, Richard Skinner writes a story entirely in remembered quotes and images from cinema, and John Hartley Williams constructs a three ring circus (or possibly full-blown bonfire) of filmic conventions.

With all the usual poetry, stories and reviews besides, this one promises to be a proper blockbuster of an issue.

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