Ghayath Almadhoun writes love poems in the shape of nightmares: I have brought you a severed hand is a surreal mix of absurd humour
The rebuilt windmill provides a hypothetical link between the time from which Nan’s ‘story’ springs and the present
and for good reason
run according to Shyria Law and underpinned by Pan-Shyist ideology
Melville House Publishing
Ben Rivers: Urthworks Gosha Rubchinskiy Ghayath Almadhoun writes love poemsMACK, 2025, softcover, 176 pages, 17 x 21. 5 cm Urthworks draws on a trilogy of films by Ben Rivers imagining the future of a planet at three stages after environmental collapse. Working with 16mm film and digital imaging technology, Rivers captures extraordinary real locations in Japan, Tuvalu, Lanzarote, Arizona, the Mendip Hills, and Somerset as well as fabricated environments. Observational images are interspersed with fantastically costumed