issue two is now live! With new fiction by Brian Dillon, adjacencies from So Mayer, a portfolio by Bethan Huws, interviews with Aaron Angell and Phillip Lai, feature essays by Nicolas Trembley and RZ Baschir, a short essay by Robert Glück about a photograph and a short essay by Fi Churchman about food, as well as a studio visit with Ghislaine Leung. See online at /
Join us to celebrate the launch of draught issue 2.1.1
With readings by
Brian Dillon
So Mayer
Dimple Bangalore
Aea Varfis-van Warmelo
Thursday 30 April
Thomas Dane Gallery, 3 Duke Street St James’s London SW1Y 6BN (note the address: the gallery has two locations).
Doors 6:30, readings 7:00
No drinks (pub after).
Issue 2.1.1, with contributions by Brian Dillon, So Mayer, Bethan Huws, Robert Glück, Nicolas Trembley, Ghislaine Leung, RZ Baschir, Fi Churchman and conversations with Phillip Lai and Aaron Angell will be published on 27 April at
i wrote a short essay about collecting languages with my grandmother when i was a kid and the impulse to keep track of good words and good phrases ever since, especially since i’ve learned to live and write in my second language.
it’s lovely when outlining a simple memory gives way to half-remembered truths and realisations, even more lovely when an extremely talented editor commissions you to write about it over a beer at your local pub.
grateful to @oritgat for giving me the opportunity to return to a topic i just love talking and writing about, and for her precious insights.
generally thrilled to be alongside such thought-provoking work in the latest edition of @draughtjournal 🍒🌸
Issue 1.2.3 is now live!!!
With texts by @elsa_court and @octavia.bright this concludes our first issue. Issue 2.1.1 will launch late April with springtime events but for now read Bright on Apple TV show Pluribus and a painting of cherries in an ashtray and Court on language notebooks and different images of the world. Link in bio and in stories!
Issue 1.2.3 launch event
With readings by
Elsa Court @elsa_court
Fi Churchman @fi_churchman
Octavia Bright @octavia.bright
RZ Baschir
Wednesday 4 March
ArtReview Bar, 1 Honduras Street London EC1Y 0TH
Doors 6:30, readings 7:15
BYOB (it’s called a bar, but bring your own drinks please!) rsvp at [email protected]
Next up from issue 1.2.2: Owen Hatherley @owenthomashatherley on his CD shelves; ‘there is also a row of stranger objects. One is in a silver plastic bag; another is a tall bright blue book with a digital photocollage of Ionic columns and held hands on the cover; there is a slipcase with a pink ribbon around it; and also a cardboard box covered in images of the early 2000s cartoon The Powerpuff Girls. These are the K-Pop CDs.’
Second from issue 1.2.2: Carol Mavor’s new work
Writ in Water: Like a Lagoon
The Early Poetics of Nanu del Cielo
Just as Clarice writes in Lispector – Nanu writes in del Cielo. In the words of Hélène Cixous, ‘Every writer writes rigorously in her own language.’ Link in bio and in stores!
First up from our issue 1.2.2 is @rachaelvallen on the Exeter Book, riddles and poetry: ‘This anthology of Old English verse, with one riddle in Latin, consists of various poems, some harder to relate to, like those about being an exiled travelling soldier, but also lots of thinking about god and animals, and most famously, about 100 surviving riddles, many of which have never been answered, but are also about god, and animals, and weather and also tableware and sex.’ Link in bio and in stories
Last reading of the year for me in the beautiful @edelassanti for @draughtjournal .Thank-you for the invitation to read new work , provisional and unset , that’s in the spirit of this remarkable new magazine ( photo @mapesburyroad 🙏🏽) @tallulahandhope 🙏🏽
