Boris Belony, Richard Howard and Colin release three new zines – Boris Belony # 8 (Short Stories)/Container (Short Stories)/A Poetic (Poetry) – on Saturday the 6th of November from 7–9pm at Exchange Dublin in Temple Bar, Dublin. There will be reading, reading aloud and snorting in intellectual approval at the thick levels of irony vibrating through the air. Cian Nugent will provide delightful guitar music in the intervals. The three ziners are long-time friends and colleagues with a long history of writing and reading between them. They look forward to seeing you there to ring in the existence of these fine, unofficial publications.
Some critical praise for the works by esteemed literary criticist, B. M. W. Tillyard:
A Poetic:
by Colin
Colm Whelan’s A Poetic: zine is a meta-ironic take on poetry. At times attacking the indulgence of poetry, at others simply writing lovely words; always impossible to tell which. The images are striking and the blows against the pretentious poet even more so. Regardless of their intent, each poem displays an extraordinary linguistic dexterity and a furtive fondness for what is written down in words and letters on a page but that don’t go all the way across it. Witty and original, they will convert the most ardent poetry-hater.
Boris Belony # 8
by Boris Belony
When one reads all of Boris Belony’s zines (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and now, finally, 
as well as his compelling novel of short stories, Transmorphosis & Other Short Story, one is forced to realise that reality is a butt; a rupture on what was once complete, closed off. But it isn’t – there are other realities and these are the material of Belony’s brain (he believes there are 12+ dimensions of existence). His stories unite mental illness and non-mental illness like they were reality and non-reality, but each time, he retains a bizarre compassion and ontological unification. Hilarious and true, each story makes you want to be a Boris-dancer, dancing through planes of existence as if you were the legendary Snowflake.
Container
by Richard Howard
Richard Howard’s first published story ‘The Dogrog Phenomenon’ appeared in Electric Velocipede in 2007 and since then he has sold stories to US Science Fiction magazines such as Loki’s Journal, M-Brane and the legendary Weird Tales. Container is a finely-crafted collection of ominous short stories, subliminally science fiction in nature. However, there are no ray guns or time-travelling orcs within the pages of this zine – instead, the reader is treated to a portrait of a parallel Dublin, where the markers of reality have been subtly perverted. The familiar streets are crawling with factory workers, icy-eyed angels and deceptive foxes. Don’t get too comfortable in its pages as you may already be there. Dubliners’s dreamy doppelganger done to a tee.
