Edition Six: Noise
Introduction
It’s been a while but trust us, it’s worth waiting for. Sound the sirens, ring the church bells, and rattle those weird wooden things you get at football matches, because Pomegranate is hurtling into the future with a super-modern ultra-scientific techno-dynamic AUDIO issue. That’s right, we’ve finally harnessed the powers of the wireless and teamed up with the visionary Alex Pryce, founder and director of PoetCasting. This issue we’re bringing you recordings of some of our favourite poems, plus new material, from the first year of Pomegranate, read by the poets themselves. This revolutionary multi-sensory experience has been tirelessly worked towards and put together by Alex, alongside Pomegranate’s own Adham Smart. We hope this issue will go down in literary history as a collage of the work of the best young poets writing in 2009, who later went on to be great laureates, win Nobel Prizes, and influence the literary canon for ever after, as we feel sure they will.
But if you’re hard of hearing, or rhythms and rhymes don’t tickle your earbuds, we’ve also made this issue a smorgasbord of delights for the hungry reader. It’s packed with never-before-seen writing from the world’s brightest under-30s, with sparkling poetry that’s sure to delight the eyes as well as the ears, no matter what your tastes are – in Issue 6 you’ll find a haiku nestling happily alongside a prose poem, and writing about aural experiences snuggling up to poems about war, sex, and the seven seas. So settle down, chillax, and let us gently caress your eardrums and eyeballs.
Artwork Credit
work by Biology Big Brother @ flickr, used under a Creative Commons license.
All art in this issue is taken from flickr using a Creative Commons licence.