Draught
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Draught is a new journal made at the School of Arts and Humanities at the Royal College of Art. Issue 1.1.1 launched 8 October https://draughtjournal.com/
Hey, look, the latest issue of @draughtjournal.bsky.social has a new piece by @alicehattrick.bsky.social reflecting on their recent book, 'Fancy Work'.
Scraps
<p>For weeks, I spent evenings stitching scraps of fabric, sometimes well into the early hours of the morning. I had accumulated these materials – onc
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Launch event for Issue 2.1.1. @draughtjournal.bsky.social Thursday 30 April Thomas Dane Gallery 3 Duke Street St James's London SW1Y 6BN Doors 18:30, readings by 19.00 With readings by Brian Dillon @suchmayer.bsky.social Dimple Bangalore Aea Varfis-van Warmelo And then the pub afterwards.
issue two is now live! Contributions by Brian Dillon, So Mayer, Bethan Huws, Nicolas Trembley, RZ Baschir, Robert Glück and Fi Churchman, as well as a studio visit with Ghislaine Leung and interviews with Aaron Angell and Phillip Lai www.draughtjournal.com
Hey kids, come along to this, it’s going to be great, obvs. @draughtjournal.bsky.social @suchmayer.bsky.social @aeavvw.bsky.social
First up from issue 1.2.2: Rachael Allen on the Exter Book – 'about 100 surviving riddles, many of which have never been answered, but are also about god, and animals, and weather and also tableware and sex' - with new riddle poems www.draughtjournal.com/article/ridd...
Riddles
<p>When I teach the below poem by the Canadian poet Sylvia Legris, I’ll often remove the title and ask students to guess what the title of the poem co
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Hey look everyone, the latest issue of @draughtjournal.bsky.social is out, with four new great pieces of writing by four great writers. First of all we have 'Riddles' by Rachael Allen
Riddles
<p>When I teach the below poem by the Canadian poet Sylvia Legris, I’ll often remove the title and ask students to guess what the title of the poem co
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Issue 1.2.2 is now live!!! Texts from Rachael Allen, Carol Mavor, Eley Williams and Owen Hatherley. Read now at www.draughtjournal.com
Issue 1.1.2 is now live! We are so excited to start adding to issue 1 with two new texts: a studio visit by Bhanu Kapil and Dawn Chan writing about one detail in Laura Owens's last exhibition www.draughtjournal.com
This is tonight! Come along if you can! There will be readings by brilliant writers, and, there will be drinks. @draughtjournal.bsky.social @jencalleja.bsky.social
Portfolio: On Bookmarks and Other Ruins @dreamsofbeing.bsky.social's notes-on-bookmarks are in complete & total dialogue with everything that draught stands for: the provisional, the note, the process, the engagement. We're honoured to publish with a new essay www.draughtjournal.com/article/on-b...
On Bookmarks and Other Ruins
<p>There is something indescribably intimate about the act of interrupting one’s reading, the act of marking one’s place in a book, a subtle gesture t
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‘As a tangible object gets made, the person who is making it also gets made in the process’ Conversation between draught editor Shehnaz Suterwalla and curator Glenn Adamson on making, material intelligence and culture www.draughtjournal.com/article/glen...
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‘My eyes fall upon an image, or it ‘floats us smoothly down a stream; resting’ filmmaker Mark Cousins writing about one (nsfw) detail from Bertolucci’s ‘1900’ — or a list of things in his head, an image that ‘for a fragment of a second, is the whole movie’ www.draughtjournal.com/article/1900
1900
<p>I know what could be said about this image – there are movie stars in it, for example, so you could start with that – but I don’t know what I will
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The brilliant Francesca Wade on Gertrude Stein and Christian Marclay
Draught@draughtjournal.bsky.social · 11mo ago'The Clock and The Making of Americans are two radical efforts to foreground, formally, the experience of time passing. One is a mammoth stream of prose, the other a film which never ends' In Adjacencies, Francesca Wade on The Making of Americans and The Clock www.draughtjournal.com/article/pres...
'The Clock and The Making of Americans are two radical efforts to foreground, formally, the experience of time passing. One is a mammoth stream of prose, the other a film which never ends' In Adjacencies, Francesca Wade on The Making of Americans and The Clock www.draughtjournal.com/article/pres...
Present Continuous
<p>Anyone who’s spent time with Christian Marclay’s <em>The Clock </em>(2011) will know the feeling. Sitting rapt in the dark, mesmerised by the short
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’Because I can only write with things, I thought a good idea is to go to the supermarket, and to look for something I could write with’ From the fascinating conversation our editor @jeremymillar.bsky.social had with artist Mark Manders for issue 1.1.1 www.draughtjournal.com/article/mark...
Mark Manders
<p>The March 1933 issue of <em>La Nouvelle Revue Française</em> contained an essay by the French writer Paul Valéry on his poem ‘Le Cimetière marin’ (
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'We get to write a book again, try to imagine what motivated and prompted a writer to write what they did, what mood they were in, what tone they were going for' In our I wish I'd made section, @jencalleja.bsky.social on a book she's always wanted to translate www.draughtjournal.com/article/bein...
Being Joachim Meyerhoff
<p>Writers, even if writing a retelling of an old fable or myth, immerse themselves in the works of others to emerge with work inextricably linked to
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‘What are you doing at the moment?’ ‘I’m in pain.’ In the Land of Pain documents the isolation of pain, but also the value of being among the pained, of having pain in common. Daudet describes the beginning of the season at the thermal baths of Lamalou: Daisy Lafarge @draughtjournal.bsky.social
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One of our formats is 'adjacencies', in which two works — which might, at first glance, seem unrelated — are considered in relation to one another. In this one, the excellent Daisy Lafarge considers a Netflix reality TV show in relation to the work of late-c.19 French writer Alphonse Daudet.
Draught@draughtjournal.bsky.social · 12mo ago'The coupling of boredom and intensity is constitutive of crip time, which is warped time' The first Adjacencies, in which two works are considered in relation to one another: Daisy Lafarge on illness, Netflix show Outlast & Alphonse Daudet's In the Land of Pain www.draughtjournal.com/article/flare
'The coupling of boredom and intensity is constitutive of crip time, which is warped time' The first Adjacencies, in which two works are considered in relation to one another: Daisy Lafarge on illness, Netflix show Outlast & Alphonse Daudet's In the Land of Pain www.draughtjournal.com/article/flare
Flare!
<p>‘Quitting is a disease,’ says Jordan, a 25-year-old ex-marine construction worker when his teammate Dawn has been vomiting for several hours after
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'like swallows beneath bridges, like starlings above clouds – points in time, and across landscapes.' 'Notes, Murmurations: The Notebook as Form of Rime' – Lisa Robertson on Samuel Taylor Coleridge's notebooks (& on notebooks, note-taking, a lifetime of reading) draughtjournal.com/article/note...
Notes, Murmurations: <br>The Notebook as Form of Rime
<p>On 27 November 1799, while taking the night coach from Yorkshire to London, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, after fitful sleep, awoke at sunrise and watch
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’What would be a reasonable assumption? English to Korean, or Korean to English? Is translation always direction-specific?’ Don Mee Choi on poetry, translation, politics and twinning draughtjournal.com/article/tran...
Transatlantic Translation Anthology
<p>When I happen to mention to people that I translate contemporary Korean poets, I’m often asked which poets I translate into Korean. Am I to assume
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Draught@draughtjournal.bsky.social · 12mo agoDraught is now live! www.draughtjournal.com Issue 1.1.1 with contributions by Glenn Adamson, Jen Calleja, Don Mee Choi, Mark Cousins, Daisy Lafarge, Mark Manders, Rosalind Nashashibi, Lisa Robertson, Christina Tudor-Sideri and Francesca Wade
'Day trip to the River Beane and back to London, August 2025': Studio Visit with artist Rosalind Nashashibi featuring a short text by Elena Narbutaitė and photos by GD draughtjournal.com/article/rosa...
For the inaugural issue of Draught Journal @draughtjournal.bsky.social: On Bookmarks and Other Ruins—a reflection on the bookmark as a fragile site of memory, desire, and incompletion, accompanied by images of my own bookmarks. draughtjournal.com/article/on-b...
On Bookmarks and Other Ruins
<p>There is something indescribably intimate about the act of interrupting one’s reading, the act of marking one’s place in a book, a subtle gesture t
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I don't know if you remember but some time ago I said that we'd have something to share soon. Anyway, it's this @draughtjournal.bsky.social
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Draught is now live! www.draughtjournal.com Issue 1.1.1 with contributions by Glenn Adamson, Jen Calleja, Don Mee Choi, Mark Cousins, Daisy Lafarge, Mark Manders, Rosalind Nashashibi, Lisa Robertson, Christina Tudor-Sideri and Francesca Wade
