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My scourge began when I was seventeen, on the day my mother stood on our sitting-room hearth rug and started undoing the buttons on her blouse. I’m going to become a naturist, she said. I want to feel the breeze against my skin and go skinny-dipping like I did as a kid. When Dad’s only been dead two months? She stuck out her chin. They’d never been happy, she told me. He’d always been so uptight so keen on church and all that DIY! This is my new friend, Jon, my mother said. Screams shot up from the garde...

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Changes at Pen Pusher Magazine. We've been a bit quiet of late, I know. The reason? We're taking time out to reorganise our online presence, give our website a new look and focus, and to restructure the way PP is run; PP17 will now be published in March 2011 (when PP18 was scheduled to appear). We’ll be updating the website with news over the coming months, so do look out for updates. To PP readers and subscribers:. In the meantime, we have plenty of good news :. Pen Pusher Winter Party. Join us from 7pm.

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Innovative poetry publishers Donut Press give Pen Pusher a sneak preview of their brilliant autumn/winter titles from poets Matthew Caley, Jude Cowan, AB Jackson, Wayne Holloway-Smith and Ahren Warner. Has published three collections of poetry, the most recent being Apparently. Bloodaxe, 2010). Professor Glass. Will be published by Donut Press on November 1st 2010. S first collection of poems is provisionally titled Reuters Tapes. A twenty-one poem sequence. S ‘Liebling, when first you came to me, I tell...

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Pigs Can’t Look Up. Well, bébé, it’s slim pickings here, just me and Lorenzo Pig. Contemplating stuff like the new swimming pool. And the girls in the flat opposite who are always. In dressing gowns on their balcony smoking and we wonder why. Lorenzo can’t swim, of course or see out of windows. But he is, as you know, a splendid companion. With his footstool soul and heart of solid newspaper,. He is just exactly like a person Lovely, Italian leather Lorenzo. Try it, it’s really tasty! Share with a friend.

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SORRY, ALL GONE! All issue 16 content. Pigs Can’t Look Up. Thank You and Goodnight. Extracts index ». Background Illustration: Michael Constantine.

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Welcome to the new Pen Pusher Magazine. Pen Pusher began way back in the darkness of Christmas 2005 when the editor, Anna Goodall, decided to start a literary magazine that published the best new poetry and fiction, encouraged talented authors and poets, was a beautiful design object in its own right, and wasn’t averse to a bit of silliness and a few rubbish jokes. With the relaunch we are able to bring you a much more substantial publication, and this interactive website that will keep growing and impro...

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Interview with Sam Lipsyte. Sam Lipsyte is a funny guy. I know this, not because of the blurb on the jacket of his latest novel, The Ask. Which follows a failed-painter-turned-failed-arts-college-fundraiser as he attempts to extract money from an old school friend, who also happens to be a multi-millionaire. No, I know this because of the two email conversations I’ve had with Sam, and the fact I’ve read The Ask. Review, ‘ The Ask. Reckons Sam is ‘so funny you might lose an eye’ whatever that means. Centr...

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Pen Pusher | Magazine | Extracts | Contents

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SORRY, ALL GONE! Interview with Evie Wyld. Interview with Sam Lipsyte. Innovative poetry publishers Donut Press give Pen Pusher a sneak preview of their brilliant autumn/winter titles from poets Matthew Caley, Jude Cowan, AB Jackson, Wayne Holloway-Smith and Ahren Warner. The Lives and Deaths of Beloved Animals. Mario vs The Iron Man. Pigs Can’t Look Up. Fox watcher on island road. Granta Books, 2010. Thank You and Goodnight. This Party’s Got To Stop. Granta Books, 2010. I READ* by Nick Hodgson.

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Thank You and Goodnight. Blessing The Boats: New and Selected Poems 1988 2000. BOA Editions Ltd, 2000. This Life, This Life: New and Selected Poems 1970 2006. At The Loch of The Green Corrie. No point denying it: death can be a singularly life-affirming force in art. My most powerful memory of 2009 is of watching Anamaria Marinca’s performance of Sarah Kane’s play 4.48 Psychosis. With this knowledge on the recommendation of a friend who knew her. In the folds of her flesh. Is white with wonderful. This c...