(Apologies for cross-posting)
MASTHEAD LITERARY ARTS MAGAZINE
ISSUE 8
http://www.masthead.net.au/
It's been a long time coming, but I assure you, it's worth the wait. This
Masthead is the biggest yet, and features our most ambitious project so far:
a comprehensive retrospective of the life and work of Alaric Sumner , who
was until his death in 2000 the UK editor of this magazine.
Alaric's death brought to an untimely end the work of an artist whose sheer
variety of working methods - in performance, in visual art, in music and in
poetry - ironically obscured his achievement. Masthead guest editor Lawrence
Upton and I hope that this feature will redress a little of what has been
overlooked. And we hope that readers will enjoy the humour, audacity,
intelligence and beauty of this work as much as we do.
The work is presented chronologically, and it is possible to follow the
restless evolution of his ideas to their fruition in some major later
works. As this later work especially demonstrates, Alaric died prematurely
- he had much to do, and was beginning to develop methods and styles of work
which were totally unique to him. "Remembering Alaric Sumner: A
Retrospective" is intended as a resource for anyone interested in Sumner's
work, and as well as the largest selection of his work available in one
place, we have included a series of interviews with people who knew and
worked with him, some extra documentation and a complete record of his
publications and performances.
Issue 8 also features some exciting writers in their 20s: from Melbourne,
two writers deeply involved in theatre, Dan Spielman and Jasmine Chan, and
Mark Goodwin from the UK. But the young don't have it all their way:
there's a fantastic selection of poetry and prose from Michael Ayres, Trevor
Joyce, Tom Lowenstein, Rebecca Seiferle, Colin Robinson, Mairéad Byrne, Jeff
Harrison, Iain Britton and James Graham: which is to say, passionate,
formally questioning and various work from all around the globe, presented
here for your pleasure and delight.
Masthead at last has its own domain name at www.masthead.net.au, although
the archives of the past eight issues - Issues 1-7 plus the American Terror
special - will remain at the old site at http://au.geocities.com/masthead_2/
until further notice.
Alison Croggon
Editor
February 7 2004
Alison Croggon
Editor, Masthead
http://www.masthead.net.au
Home page
http://www.alisoncroggon.com
Blog
http://alisoncroggon.blogspot.com
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