Dwang No.1

dwang is to be a long-running series of yearly journals featuring new writing and graphics from writers, illustrators and photographers from around the world.

Previously unpublished poetry, prose, graphics. Published May 2009. Features new writing and graphics from up to fifty contributors: Dan Fante, Douglas Blazek, Billy Childish, Edward Lucie-Smith, John Hartley Williams, Charles Plymell, Salena Godden, Wes Magee, David Barker, Hugh Fox, Alan Dent, Ian Seed, Steve Richmond, Gerald Locklin, Jim Burns, Idris Caffrey, Peter Finch, Geoff Hattersley, Fred Voss, Tim Wells, Laurel Ann Bogen, K.M. Dersley, Mike Daily, Adrian Manning, Rob Plath, K.V. Skene, Christopher Twigg, Barry Southam, Lindsay Smith, Kirsty Irving, Dileep Bagnall, A.D. Winans, Tony O'Neill, Trevor Reeves, Ben Myers, Adelle Stripe, Simon Kovesi, Whitney Woolf, Stuart Crutchfield, Richard Lopez, Jonathan Hayes. Graphics from Yasmin Ramli, Phil Corbett and Hannah Battershell. Photography by Jonny Illingworth. Includes a never before published Wantling poem. ISBN: 978-0-9553402-3-9

This issue is dedicated to the memory of William Wantling.

Large format, approx. 7"/175mm wide x 250mm/10" tall. Handbound at the Tangerine Press workshop, using heavy duty acid-free boards, conservation glue, hemp cord; Colorado Plate Mid Grey cloth; distinctive Tangerine logo stamped onto the front cover in black ink; 3-page 'stepped' 160gsm Canson Mi-Tientes front endpapers--the page colours being Rust, Poppy Red and Royal Blue; 160gsm Canson Mi-Tientes Rust back endpapers; 85gsm Fabriano Bio Prima Off-White archival quality acid-free text paper. Two full colour images are printed on 118gsm White Mohawk Superfine paper.

Published in an edition of 100 numbered copies. Body text set in Baskerville Old Face--three other classic fonts are used throughout the journal. Lettered copies have been signed by Douglas Blazek.


This first issue of Dwang, dedicated as it is to Wantling, is particularly special as it contains new work from Douglas Blazek and Steve Richmond, both important figures in the US small press who had regular contact with Wantling during the 1960s.

The following are exclusive to Dwang:

Full colour reproduction of an image by Bristol-based artist and animator Yasmin Ramli on 118gsm White Mohawk Superfine paper. Yasmin's most recent project was an animated sequence for Channel 5. Find out more at madmin.tv

Full colour reproduction of a photograph by Jonny Illingworth on 118gsm White Mohawk Superfine paper. Jonny's work has been recently exhibited at the Viewfinder Gallery, Greenwich. S.E. London.

Phil Corbett's Hex Directory b&w comic strip, complete with prequel. Phil's most recent exhibition was Erotic Terrors of the Deep: Paintings and Prints from the Brain of Phil Corbett at the Bodhi Gallery in London's Brick Lane. Think cute, funny, dark, disturbing... Take a look at philcorbett.com

Unique 'Dwang readers' created by Hannah Battershell. Hannah is a self-taught artist who's distinctive images have most recently appeared in the so-hip-it-hurts Naked Punch.

'Dwang is brilliant.'
--Richard Long, visionary English 'landscape' artist.