Issue 15 · January 2020
Stimulus: Pottery by Elizabeth Fritsch.
In the current issue:
327 Brightnesses
The Burnt
Carving Out A City
I – A Dawn Rises Dawn was breaking over the mountains, its first sheen glancing off the peaks, and then slowly rolling...
The Conquest
Hermits Silent Retreat
More than a Moth
Morning Likeness
Small Bodies Thrash On Cold Parquet
The Truth
The Ultimate Triumph
Wanderers
Photographs from an ongoing project of exploration, of the wandering every-day human minds and souls. ...
The Thread
The Thread is LPB’s weekly column, publishing sequences of linked pieces, which explore the various intricacies of human thought.
Always invoking an echo, a summer’s day – by Myko Philip
‘Sometimes words stick. Read enough and the most innocuous and well-trodden of words can suddenly harl onto an older, wispier network of voices imbedded deep in our minds.’
Past Issues
Prose & Verse
More than a Moth
Sometimes, you cry for the very things you hate. This was the case when I—not older than ten, not younger than seven—watched my cat devour […]
Where does this end
Where does this end, he wonders Again and again, pointing to a wave or the sky Blinded by an echo with no double. One with the flatness.
In defence of tonality
In the closing bars of Rachmaninoff’s Prelude 10, Opus 32, we hear an airy, arpeggiated B major chord climb the keys, only to chromatically and resignedly sink back down to a low, closely spaced B minor chord, upon which the piece ends.
Success in Circuit Lies
In Hill’s later poetry, one is consistently caught unawares by some slantwise piercing glance. Amidst the rumbling ground bass of gnarled density and difficulty, a keen pure tone sometimes shines through.
Non-fiction
Visual Arts
Transformations – An experimentation of dissolving the sound and image of waves into lines
An visual amalgam of the sea surge.
Music
Interviews
The Entomology of Portraits – An Interview with Hernán Cortés Moreno
“I need to be constantly surrounded by people who look at me.” Hernán explains to me once he has done a tour of the house, filled with portraits of friends, family, and some of the eminent figures who have modelled for him.
Hidden in the thread
Thread on fabric [200 x 200cm]
& A conversation on the piece with Vasiliki Poula
About the journal
Our piccioletta barca, or ‘little boat’, aims to embark upon a journey without a destination; a platform from which we can explore interests and passions from a diverse group of disciplines. Ranging from music to art, philosophy and literature, we have attempted to delve into the intricacies of thought, without allowing content or form to constrain us.
