Bøker av Mark Staniforth

£1.20 Volume 7, Number 10 PUBLISHED BY PAUL RAYMOND

"[W]hat we once considered to be our trash may, after all, turn out to be our greatest treasure" - so said the conceptual writer Kenneth Goldsmith in the introduction to his 'Publishing the Unpublishable' [Ubuweb]. "It could be many things: too long, too experimental, too dull; too exciting.. it could be a work of juvenilia.. [or] a guilty pleasure". 'Great Fryup Dale' is all these things and more: the fantastical detritus of a decade of trying and failing to fashion a meta-realistic sense of place. It is in those very failures that the magic lies. 'Great Fryup Dale' proposes a hyper-subjective history for the post-post internet age.

"[W]hat we once considered to be our trash may, after all, turn out to be our greatest treasure" - so said the conceptual writer Kenneth Goldsmith in the introduction to his 'Publishing the Unpublishable' [Ubuweb]. "It could be many things: too long, too experimental, too dull; too exciting.. it could be a work of juvenilia.. [or] a guilty pleasure". 'The Fryup Cookbook' is all these things and more: the fantastical detritus of a decade of trying and failing to fashion a meta-realistic sense of place. It is in those very failures that the magic lies. 'The Fryup Cookbook' proposes a hyper-subjective history for the post-post internet age.

"The Sonnet," wrote Phillis Levin in her introduction to The Penguin Book of the Sonnet, "is a portrait of the mind in action." In committing to the creation of one sonnet per day for a year, 'Anti-Sonnets' challenges the convention of toilsome authorship and instead renders the process of production at centre stage. Building on a vast contextual scaffold, 'Anti-Sonnets' uncovers the form's true post-internet potential.

Porn stars and serial killers, nazis and nymphomanics, hunchbacks and bare-knuckle boxers: just a few of the disparate cast of characters who call the remote moorland community of Fryupdale their home. These 18 short stories reveal the truths behind their lonely, sad and sometimes hilarious lives - and why the world beyond village limits will always seem so distant.

FLUXCUP is the product of a year-long aleatory event in which three hundred and sixty-four nations and territories played off in a knockout tournament determined by the roll of two dice. In collaging found texts to chronicle each nation in relation to the stage of its exit, FLUXCUP confronts inescapable nationalistic stereotypes and resists age-old cartological hierarchies to compile a truly aleato-geographical atlas of the world.