PHOSPHOR – issue number 2

“It would not be an exaggeration to state that, without grasping the fundamental and continuing importance of objects (both poetically and critically) within the surrealist movement, one would fail to understand Surrealism itself.”

from the editorial, Of Phantoms and Representations, by Kenneth Cox

72 pages • B5 format • ISSN 1755-0009

texts, stories, poems images on the theme of

PHANTOM OBJECTS

includes

Bruno Solarik, Palpable Phantoms - as perceived by the interwar Czechoslovak surrealists

Tributes to Franklin Rosemont by Michaël Löwy and Guy Ducornet

Fetish and The Magic of Objects - two essays by Jan Švankmajer

Midland Red – a short story by John Hartley Williams

The Substanced Object and Melancholy Ghosts – two illustrated reflections by Eugenio Castro

Stephen J. Clark, The Absent Double – an essay on objects

Pervert, Tramp or Delinquent? - reflections by Peter Overton upon the game ‘Explorations of Absence’ played by Leeds Surrealist Group

poems by - Andrew Boobier, Franklin Rosemont

images by – Jan Drabble, Kathleen Fox, Peter Overton, Franklin Rosemont, John Welson

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PHOSPHOR – issue number 1

a new magazine manifesting

surrealism’s continuing creative luminescence

“It is ironic that those who like to refer to surrealism’s ‘legacy’ look anywhere but to surrealism itself for its continuity.”

“Today, surrealism’s dynamic has many vectors throughout the world, not only in the form of various organised groups, and in their activities and projections into the public sphere, but also in those individuals who prefer to adventure alone.”

“…what distinguishes such practices that are termed ‘surrealist’ is a question of intention and of intelligence, propelled from within a social, political and moral dimension; it is thus, moreover, a sensibility, a way of looking at and acting upon the world.”

from the editorial, To Be Continued…, by Kenneth Cox

68 pages • B5 format • ISSN 1755-0009

texts, stories, poems images on the theme of

Narratives of Absence

includes

Ted Joans, I, Black Surrealist – an extract from his unpublished autobiography

Eugenio Castro, The Limitless Mirror – a reflection upon absence

Leeds Surrealist Group, from Explorations of Absence – taken from a collective game exploring the relationship between abandoned places, their images and lost objects

short stories by - Rikki Ducornet, Michael Richardson, John Hartley Williams

poems by - Andrew Boobier, Kenneth Cox, Ted Joans, Katerina Pinosova

images by - Gareth Brown, Stephen J. Clark, Kathleen Fox, Rik Lina, Peter Overton, Martin Trippett, John Welson

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plus additional postage – £0.76 UK 2^nd Class

AIRMAIL: £1.90 Europe – £3.00 Rest of World

SURFACE MAIL: £1.80 Europe & Rest of World

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