The Burden of Happiness



Timothy Ades Will Ashon
Tim Atkins Richard Beard
Christian Bök Andy Brown
Ken Edwards Matt Fallaize
Harry Gilonis Jesse Glass
Paul Griffiths Alan Halsey
Robert Hampson Peter Hughes
Leopold Haas Tony Lopez
Rupert Loydell Peter Manson
Harry Mathews David Miller
Ian Monk Geraldine Monk
Roger Moss Jeremy Over
Tadeusz Pioro Robert Sheppard
Simon Smith Ross Sutherland
Philip Terry Tony Trehy
Alexei Vernitski Johan de Wit


Introduction

In the summer of 1977, when everything that seemed to matter was being articulated loudly and clearly by the Sex Pistols, I came across a slim volume of short stories based on the tarot pack by an Italian writer called Italo Calvino. Nothing could have been more different from the stridency of punk rock – these were delicately wrought miniatures telling tales of questing knights, evil enchantresses and vampires – but I was instantly won ove

–- Philip Terry
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Cover Art

Untitled (Visual Sonnet) #11

All of the Visual Sonnets are painted on paper, using black ink, water and Chinese brushes (employed in the traditional Chinese way). Any relationship to traditional Chinese painting or calligraphy is indirect – which might be another way of affirming a relationship, of course. The series as a whole would probably never have happened if Jeff Hilson hadn’t asked me if I could think of some “visual sonnets” for his anthology, The Reality Street Book of Sonnets.

-- David Miller
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Submissions

Ekleksographia is an exercise in asymmetrical publishing, and is a shoe (or even two!) thrown at the spotlit shrug and yawn. 

Acknowledgements

Thanks are due to the editors of the following publications and websites where which some of this material first appeared...

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