Saturday, 23 November 2024
Teeny's Zineys!
On Moments & Meaning...
This limited edition A5 booklet of poetry is a curated collection of the work of the Yorkshire New Wave poet, Clifford Nicholas.
Nicholas (1928-2021) was born in the North East of England, and his family moved to Leeds (West Yorkshire) when he was a small child. The University of Leeds is the site of the most complete hard copy collection of his previous work and is held in Special Collections.Friday, 7 June 2024
The Problem With...THE FETISH!
This zine is for anyone interested in 'love tokens', both historic and contemporary, and capital as theoretical subjects. The author uses key cultural studies critique from political and psychoanalytical theories in order to analyse and compare the two subjects.
Both these theories cover, amongst many other things, the way objects are fetishised and hence how they are removed from their ‘true’ origins. Here the author looks at desire (sex/romance) and capitalism (money/production) by providing a number of examples of how they are connected.Wednesday, 1 May 2024
On Waking & Walking...
This booklet is for anyone interested in experimental prose/poetry, wordplay, philosophy, psychogeography, walking, psychoanalysis, and dreams, amongst other themes. The text steps in and out of wakefulness via the movement of walking. It is both a play on words and an expression of the author’s interests as both a psychogeographer and an academic who studies psychoanalytic theory. The texts included here range from poems that reflect dream-like states, to rhythmic verses that imitate the act of walking itself. The prose texts involve imaginary interviews with people both real, dead, and fictional, and experiential texts on actual walks. Some of the contributions also include experimental forms that are coextensive with the contents of the text themselves.
Wa(l)king through the sixteen stations in T Richardson's newest zine is a desire-path pilgrimage of becoming-self, becoming-word, becoming-footfall, becoming-synapse, an uncanny encounter with "something that tugs and twists inside." Sixteen stepz across thresholds & wormholes of concrete poetry, mindfall mazes of mythic conversation, I/eye as iteration, creativity as cloud-edge congealment, movement as mantra, suturing a self stitched back through the science of ghosts to deathfugue & dreams & purloined theorylines even as the wa(l)king mind evaporates like breath forward!, forward!, out&into the pink significations of the mall. Highly recommended!
Monday, 12 February 2024
The Problem With...KITSCH!
This zine is for anyone interested in kitsch from an everyday or academic perspective. The author provides her own kitsch objects, alongside some well-known ones, in order to explore and critique kitsch throughout its history.
The zine is A5 size and includes text and black and white images for hard copies and colour for digital ones (highly illustrated). The hard copy cover is coloured card (colour not specified). The contents includes, among other subjects: kitsch from the 19C, sixties kitsch and contemporary kitsch. Here is the contents page:
Sunday, 4 February 2024
What I Love About...WORDS!
This zine is for anyone interested in words in the most general sense of the term. It may be the spoken word, books or political speech. In a more general sense the potential reader may be interested in culture or ideology. This zine discusses how words change and how words work.
Friday, 1 December 2023
What I Love About...MAPS!
This zine is for anyone interested in cartography and psychogeography, or those who might even be new to maps. While it is research-based it is written in layman's terms. This is the first full-colour zine in the series.