VOLUME ONE: PARASITE LOST – D M Mitchell – PARAPHILIA BOOKS
Introduction by Michael Roth
Cover art and design by pablo vision
“…a derangement of the senses, an infiltration of one’s carefully constructed identity and its ultimate destruction from within; an invocation of one’s guardian demon; a letter to a secret lover; a hagiography of a disturbed saint; a dissolution of boundaries that follows contact with the meaningless; a manifestation of a cephalopod’s wet dream… …a funhouse mirror that disfigures the ideas of the dominant culture…”
“When David Michael K visited The Doctor’s office, housed in the mysterious Building, he hadn’t anticipated his life tipping into madness where reality melted and stretched and fiction merged with real life. In a satirical romp that sends up postmodernism, popular culture and satirises satire itself, our hero is chased by homicidal drug-dealing clowns, cartoon characters, pink UFOs and creatures of pure nightmare. Is this a serious book disguised as humour? or a joke at the expense of the intelligentsia? Fun stuff.”
Featuring: John S. Barker, Matthew Freyer, Christopher Glazer, Brick Marlin, Vladimir Petkovic, Lawrence Barker, Kurt Fawver, Charlie Zacherl, Edward Rodosek, John F. D. Taff, Dameion Becknell, Charles A. Muir, Martin Blanco, Martin Slag, Ian Welsh, Lenora Farrington-Sarrouf and Carey Borgens.
Short stories, poetry, essays, interviews, cartoons and more…
Todd Moore, John Yamrus, Rob Plath, Pablo Vision, Mark Cobb, Gerald Locklin, Jason Hardung, Tony Moffeit, Patrick McKinnon, Casey Quinn, Jack Henry, Zach King-Smith, Mike Meraz, Ben Smith, Mathias Nelson, Wolfgang Carstens, Erek Smith, William Taylor Jr, Zack Wilson, Karl Koweski and Brian Fugett.
“One of America’s most important and influential poets” – Lawrence Welsh
“Todd Moore has revolutionized poetry with a style that is all his own: the stripped down line that leaves an electrical impulse of lyrical violence; the outlaw persona of one who leaves blood on the page; a visceral experience of life, death, and rebirth.” – Tony Moffeit
“DEAD RECKONING exposes a corrupt and fetishistic America that habitually reinvents its own endgame.” – John Macker
Exterior art and design by pablo vision
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DOING CARTWHEELS ON DOOMSDAY AFTERNOON – John Yamrus – Epic Rites Press
“A master of the minimalist poem and the understated wisecrack.” – Todd Moore
“His sharp mind nails the target every time.” – Rob Plath
“A master of using the ordinary in an extraordinary way.” – Milner Place
Exterior art and design by pablo vision
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CRUDELY MISTAKEN FOR LIFE – Wolfgang Carstens – Epic Rites Press
“Stunningly evocative.” – Tony Moffeit
“Uncovering the roots of madness, inhumanity and sorrow… This is poetry: rich, full and brimming with life.” – Jack Henry
Exterior art and design by pablo vision
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LAUGHING AT FUNERALS – David McLean – Epic Rites Press
“A contemporary book of the dead.” – Todd Moore
“Brutally accurate observations and merciless truth.” – Misti Rainwater-Lites
Exterior art and design by pablo vision
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FROSTBITTEN – Mark Walton – Epic Rites Press
“Mark Walton’s poems fizzle with energy and capture the modern gay experience in all its many guises.” – Paul Burston, author (Shameless, Star People, Lovers & Losers, The Gay Divorcee, etc) and journalist (Time Out, The Guardian, The Times, The Sunday Times, The Independent on Sunday, etc)
“I found Frostbitten lucid, harrowing and compelling. It’s a cogent and passionate first collection shot through with hard-won self-knowledge.” – Paul Magrs, author (Marked for Life, Never the Bride, Twin Freaks, Something Borrowed, Conjugal Rites, BBC Doctor Who series, etc)
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Epic Rites Press publications are available from Small Press Distribution, Amazon, Outlaw Poetry and Free Jazz Network, and the Epic Rites Bookstore.
Clinical, Brutal: An Anthology of Writing with Guts (print anthology – Clinicality Press)
Paraphilia Magazine Issue Five (online)
Mungbeing 28 (online)
Quantum Genre on the Planet of Arts (print anthology – Crossing Chaos Enigmatic Ink)
Paraphilia Magazine Issue Three (online)
Heavy Bear (online – featured artist & cover art)
Paraphilia Magazine Issue One (online)
Black River Publishing – Literary Bitch (online)
Mungbeing 23 (online)
Black-Listed Magazine (online)
Heroin Love Songs Vol. 4 (online & print)
Epic Rites 2 (online)
Umbrella (online – including cover art)
The Poetry Warrior (online)
Bare Back Magazine (online)
The Shine Journal (online)
Rural Messengers Press – Side of Grits (online)
Sein und Werden – Fetishes and Philias (print)
MungBeing 22 (online)
Epic Rites 1 (online)
Clockwise Cat 12 (prose & 3 reviews – online)
Fissure Magazine (print – Shadow Archer Press)
Eviscerator Heaven 4 (pdf download)
Sein Und Werden – Memento Mori (prose – print)
Sein Und Werden – Memento Mori (art – online)
Neonbeam 6 (print)
MungBeing 21 (online)
Eviscerator Heaven 2 (pdf download)
The (twice)
Debris Magazine (online)
Zygote in my Coffee (online)
Heroin Love Songs Vol. 1 (online & print)(pushcart nominated)
MungBeing 20 (online)
Parasitic (online)
Instant Pussy (print)
Neonbeam 5 (print)
Sein und Werden – Sein, Cos, Tan (print)
Clockwise Cat 10 (online)
Cherrypicked Hand (online)
Gloom Cupboard (print – Erbacce Press)
Dogzplot Flash Fiction Anthology (print)
Explorsion (print)
Beat The Dust (selected by guest editor Mark SaFranko)
Straight From The Fridge (online)
Dogzplot (twice plus some art in summer edition)
Bad Marmalade (three times)
Word Slaw (online)
Lit Up Magazine (online)
Up The Staircase (online)
Medusa Netzine (online)
Stories about ‘him’ by other writers published at The New York Review, Lit Up Magazine, Clockwise Cat, Bad Marmalade, etc
Cover art and design for Rob Plath’s A Bellyful Of Anarchy (Epic Rites Press)
Cover art and design for David McLean’s Hellbound (Workers In Blood, Vol. 2 – Epic Rites Press)
Cover art and design for Jason Hardung’s The Broken And The Damned (Epic Rites Press)
Cover art and design for Todd Moore’s Dead Reckoning (Epic Rites Press)
Cover art and design for Wolfgang Carstens’ Crudely Mistaken For Life (Epic Rites Press)
Cover art and design for John Yamrus’s Doing Cartwheels On Doomsday Afternoon (Epic Rites Press)
Cover art and design for David McLean’s Laughing At Funerals (Epic Rites Press)
Cover art and design for Mark Walton’s Frostbitten (Workers In Blood, Vol. 1 – Epic Rites Press)
Cover art and design for Jack Henry’s Crunked (Epic Rites Press)
Cover art and design for Amanda Boschetto’s Badlands (Epic Rites Press)
Cover art and design for Rob Plath’s There’s A Fist Dunked In Blood Beating In My Chest (Epic Rites Press)
Cover art and design for James Darman’s The Buddha Doesn’t Live Here (Epic Rites Press)
Cover art and design for David McLean’s Hellbound – Expanded Version (Epic Rites Press)
Cover art and design for The Epic Rites Journal – Issue #1 (Epic Rites Press)
Cover art and design for David McLean’s Of Dead Snakes (Rain Over Bouville Publications)
Cover art and design for Linda J. Washinton’s Hybrid (d/e/a/d/b/e/a/t press)
Online journal front cover art:
Heavy Bear – Issue Two
Umbrella – Winter 2008
Music/sound effects credits for Steven Young’s BLANK (short b&w film – 22 mins – featuring drug-addled vampires, psychotic wheelchair-bound swingers, testosterone-crazed neighbours, bugs, transvestites, and a demented, and truly disturbing, preacher)
I am enormously pleased that my written work – “Automata Exhibition” – is included in the current issue of Paraphilia Magazine. Originally written about a year ago, around a sequence of paintings by the incredibly talented Siolo Thompson, I am fantastically pleased that three of Siolo’s paintings accompany my work, and am deeply honoured that one of these is a completely new canvas painted for this project.
Once again Paraphilia have produced an electric issue that puts the predictable tedium of most other journals to shame. A fantastic collection of words and images, Issue V also includes a fascinating 24-page interview with legendary Stooges’ guitarist James Williamson.
Free pdf download of the magazine – and previous issues – can be found here:
CHIKUMA ASHIDA, SID GRAVES, JOHNNY STINGRAY, CAROL TORRES, JIM LOPEZ, MICHAEL K, MICHAEL CANO, CHARLES PLATT, AUDREE FLYNN, BRIAN BLUR, ANDREW MABEN, THOMAS HASTINGS, DM MITCHELL, CHRIS BRANDRICK, JANA, CLAIRE GODDEN-ROWLAND, MALCOLM ALCALA, CRAIG WOODS, MAX REEVES, SUE FOX, DIRE MCCAIN, EVITA CORBY, DAVID BRITTON, CRICKET CORLEONE, RICHARD A. MEADE, SALENA GODDEN, GUTTERSAINT, GENE GREGORITS, PABLO VISION, SIOLO THOMPSON, BRIAN ROUTH, PATRICIA WELLS, MICHAEL BUTTERWORTH, RICK GRIMES, HANK KIRTON, RICH FOLLETT, DARIUS JAMES, DESTINY MCKEEVER, NICK TOSCHES, JOHN BARRYMORE, CHRIS MADOCH, CLAUDIA BELLOCQ, ANGELA SUZZANNE, RON GARMON, KATE MACDONALD, MARY LEARY, DOLOROSA DE LA CRUZ
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And many, many thanks to Siolo…
Siolo’s website (for information about many multimedia projects) can be found here:
“Live Alone” by Isaac Thompson – animation by Siolo Thompson
With written work published in numerous journals, prestigious gallery showings of fine art painting, a starring role in 3rd Eye Film’s forthcoming “The Sheets Must Be Silk”, the phenomenal success of the “Live Alone” video (over a million hits, front page prominence on both YouTube and I-Google, inclusion in the 2009 International Festival of Film and Technology), Siolo is currently expanding her one woman empire by working on her next project: “Darkland Homecoming – A Kobicho Tale” – hand painted backgrounds, objects and characters with digital animation.
The Making Of “The Sheets Must Be Silk” Slides – starring Siolo Thompson
Producers – Lucien Flynn & Will Chase
Executive Producers – Ben Andrews & Rodrigo DeMedeiros
1st Assistant Director – Gale Benning
Director of Photography – David Barbosa
3rd Eye Films
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pablo vision / pablo recidivision can also be found at:
The Broken And The Damned – Jason Hardung – Epic Rites Press
“The Broken and the Damned by Jason Hardung is a love poem for the schools of lost children. The story of a boy waiting at the corner of lost and found for the light of his mother’s eyes to change to gold. A long drive into that dark episode we call father that always finds us where we live. These hungry poems will inhabit you like a junkie’s old leather coat. The fix is the verse. They need to be held and read out loud to your delinquent heart. Hardung’s history packs a .38, does time, rides shotgun with a Cadillac moon singing liberation lyrics that will provide a solid rush, that feeling you get when you first feel the poem enter the bloodstream.” – S. A. Griffin
VOLUME ONE: PARASITE LOST – D M Mitchell – PARAPHILIA BOOKSIntroduction by Michael Roth Cover art and design by pablo vision“…a derangement of the senses, an infiltration of one’s carefully constructed identity and its ultimate destruction from within; an invocation of one’s guardian demon; a letter to a secret lover; a hagiography of a disturbed saint; a di […]
Featuring: John S. Barker, Matthew Freyer, Christopher Glazer, Brick Marlin, Vladimir Petkovic, Lawrence Barker, Kurt Fawver, Charlie Zacherl, Edward Rodosek, John F. D. Taff, Dameion Becknell, Charles A. Muir, Martin Blanco, Martin Slag, Ian Welsh, Lenora Farrington-Sarrouf and Carey Borgens.Cover art and design by pablo visionMorpheus Tales
Click image to enter the weird and wonderful world of Quantum Genre in the Planet of Arts. Published by Paraphilia Magazine, this Quantum Anthology of words and images includes contributions from Pablo Vision V. Ulea Irene Frenkel Nicholas Alexander Hayes Rochelle Dinkin D. Harlan Wilson Rachel Kendall Rachel Isaac Benjamin Robinson Michael Blekhman Izya Shl […]
Tree Killer Ink:Tree Killer #5 - Rob Plath, Todd Moore, Lyn Lifshin, John Dorsey, Zach King-Smith, MJ Taylor, Marie Lecrivain, Jason Hardung, David Smith, Alan Britt, Paul Harrison, Michael McAloran, Jack Henry, Ben Smith, James Darman, William Taylor Jr, Dave Rindahl, Dennis Bagwell, Frankie Metro, Pablo Vision, John Yamrus and Wolfgang CarstensTree Killer […]
Available and forthcoming EPIC RITES PRESS publications:THERE’S A FIST DUNKED IN BLOOD BEATING IN MY CHEST – Rob Plath – Epic Rites Press“Read Rob Plath at your own risk. His words will stick behind your eyes. His heart may even expose a shadow you’ve kept hidden from yourself.” – Dan Fante“Rob Plath’s poetry does what powerful writing should, mercilessly ex […]
“Clinical, Brutal: An Anthology of Writing with Guts is a collection of works in both poetry and prose that encapsulates the ethos of Clinicality Press and the essence of Clinical Brutality as a mode of writing.Featuring some of the most exciting up and coming writers, as well as a number of more established cult figures, this collection is a short, sharp sh […]
Art at Platform 58:All Platform 58 issues can be viewed or purchased here***Platform58 Anthology:Containing artwork from issues 011 - 015 (over one million online views), and including 261 pieces of art by 164 international artists, the Platform58 Anthology is now available in softcover and hardcover formats at Blurb.
Paraphilia Magazine VI am enormously pleased that my written work - “Automata Exhibition” - is included in the current issue of Paraphilia Magazine. Originally written about a year ago, around a sequence of paintings by the incredibly talented Siolo Thompson, I am fantastically pleased that three of Siolo’s paintings accompany my work, and am deeply honoured […]
Highly pleased that the new issue of MungBeing showcases three examples of my artwork for Epic Rites Press. Although I do not like to talk about the process of how created, I do provide some incidental background - and tangential musings - relating to the artwork. View, and read, here. And find out more information, or buy the books, here.Many thanks to Mark […]
The stage is set. The curtains are pulled back. Fictionaut removes the privacy barriers to allow access all areas.Read “It Is Not Gravity Which Pulls Us Down” here, and “Being For The Benefit Of Mr Kite!” here.My Fictionaut profile can be found at http://www.fictionaut.com/users/pablo-vision
cover art & design for rob plath’s there’s a fist dunked in blood beating in my chest(epic rites press)cover art & design for amanda boschetto’s badlands (epic rites press)cover art & design for david mclean’s hellbound – expanded version (epic rites press)cover art and design for the epic rites journal – issue one (epic rites press)cover art and […]
New audio track: “syndrome”The tension is created in the drum loops; dynamic movement propelled by alternate panning and processing; feedback and harmonic sound pad (homage to martin hannett’s work for joy division) positioned to the right.Best listened to at volume, sat in-between the speakers with bass turned up (or sub woofer on)Preview at: http://www.mys […]
Forthcoming at Epic Rites Press:The Broken And The Damned – Jason Hardung – Epic Rites Press“The Broken and the Damned by Jason Hardung is a love poem for the schools of lost children. The story of a boy waiting at the corner of lost and found for the light of his mother’s eyes to change to gold. A long drive into that dark episode we call father that always […]
Heavy BearDelighted to be the cover artist for Issue Two of Jane Crown’s Heavy Bear. Artwork can be found here Click on the cover to enter the zine and view contents – much good stuff there, including a review of ‘a bellyful of anarchy’ by David McLean.Be sure to check out the most candid and informative biography [to date] of featured artist ‘pablo vision’ […]
well, not long since back from cyprus, i am soon to be offline again, heading over to france for a while. speed seeming to have been the essence of the time in-between, it will be nice to slow down for a bit, and hopefully recover somewhat.so quickly:mighty pleased to have done the cover art/design for david mclean’s hellbound. forthcoming on epic rites. loo […]
click, motherfuckers, click: a bellyful of anarchy it is with great excitement and pride that everyone at epic rites unleashes a bellyful of anarchy upon the world.click, motherfuckers, click: a bellyful of anarchy i wanna write books that make people ignitemy pages, smear the ashes beneath their eyeslike war-paint & go out to scalpthe false wig from soc […]
Taking another break. Apologies for many things not responded to / neglected – but highly unlikely to be any different on my physical return.Good vibes to all.
Highly delighted that I will be the cover artist – and featured artist – for the next issue of Heavy Bear. The current issue of Heavy Bear is up here, and very impressive it is too. The current cover art is excellent, and the biography of the cover artist - “cipher – the panic artist” - makes very interesting reading.cipher -the panic artist’s website can – […]
Well, taking a short break from taking a break, I’ll quickly say a few things.Delighted that the first issue of Paraphilia Magazine is now available as a free download here Filled with many exciting written pieces and images, and a very impressive line up of artists – this all looks very exciting indeed. So get clicking, and get downloading!!! Too much stuff […]
