SCREE

Scree Reading Series

screemagazine — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 19:00:53 +0000

Yes- the first Scree Reading Series will take place this Friday, 13th April 3-6pm at Elvis Shakespeare, FREE. Featuring three of our long standing Scree contributors, including the very elusive Hugo Undershin. The cherry blossoms fall on happy ears.

Scree four now on sale

screemagazine — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 14:24:54 +0000

Scree four is now on sale. Contributors include: Graeme Smith, Rodney Relax, Pete McConville, Elsbeth Pancrazi, Julie Johnstone, Ross McClure, Lila Matsumoto, and Iain Morrison. Also comes with a split ep by i like ceareal, my friend and freakfoot & gangleshanks. The cover has been beautifully designed by Rachel Caunt. The issue is £2 and can be purchased online here, or at the Armchair Bookshop (West Port) and Elvis Shakespeare (Leith Walk).

Scree four in progress.

screemagazine — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 02:29:41 +0000

The theme is: Game.
Issue number Four will be out in December!
The cover has been made by Rachel Caunt of P.C.R. It is very beautiful.

Picture above of a haar game taken by Neil Insh. More of his pictures can be seen here.

Scree three now on sale

screemagazine — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 19:03:56 +0000

‘SCthREE’ is now on sale- our stockists in Edinburgh: Armchair Books (West Port) and Elvis Shakespeare (Leith Walk). You can also buy it online- please go to the ‘Procure’ page.

This issue features the words of:

Rodney Relax

Sandra Alland

Samantha Walton

Greg Thomas

Richie McCaffery

Ian Brand

Jim Ferguson

Lila Matsumoto

And visual work by:

Greg Thomas

Alec Cheer

Graphic Surgery

nick-e melville

And music by:

The Douglas Firs

Field Mouse

Traps and Cages

iliop

Cheer

tomthenoisemonger

The Family Simpson

To find out more about any of our contributors, please visit the ‘Contributor’ page on this website.

Scree three done!

screemagazine — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 18:15:18 +0000

SCREE three will be launched at the Edinburgh Zine & Small Press Fair at the Forest Cafe on Sunday August 7. Following this date it will be available at Armchair Books (West Port) and Elvis Shakespeare (Leith Walk).

Scree three in progress.

screemagazine — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 13:14:45 +0000

The theme of this issue is Construction. In light of the earthquake and subsequent events in Japan, the idea of construction is germane: the way in which we build civilisations in the image of permanence, investing our establishments (buildings, systems, beliefs) with a stubborn sense of invincibility. Yet can we ever live cowering? We construct edifices and name things in order to survive, hold parades and rituals -meaningfully or not- to live our days- often greedily and selfishly- in abeyance of a certain end.

Yet perhaps a more optimistic interpretation of Construction lies in the possibility of existing within systems which encourages arenas of commonality. Hannah Arendt writes, ‘To live together in this world means that a world of things is between those who have it in common, as a table is located between those who sit around it; the world, like every in-between, relates and separates men at the same time.’*

This magazine is a hopeful construction, which acknowledges words, pictures, and music as technologies, as textual,visual, and aural organisations of consciousness- and not consciousness itself. The magazine doesn’t want to take for granted the permanence of structures, but nonetheless hopes to promote thoughtful ‘structuring’ with words, images, and sound. Arendt again: ‘The reification which occurs in writing something down… is of course related to the thought which preceded it, but what actually makes the though a reality and fabricates things of thought is the same workmanship which, through the primordial instrument of human hands, builds the other durable things of the human artifice.’

The contribution list for this issue is shaping up nicely: Greg Thomas is doing the cover art, and inside contributors include Sandra Alland, Ian Brand, Rodney Relax, Richie McCaffery, Jim Ferguson, Posie Rider, nick-e melville, and many others. The issue will be coming out on May 10. Please let me know if you’d like to receive it- it will probably cost £2, but I will let you know in due course.

* all Arendt quotations come from her book The Human Condition.

Scree two launch. September 15

screemagazine — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 07:12:16 +0000

It’s time! After a summer’s hibernation, the second issue of Scree is ready for its coming out party. Everyone is invited to Old St. Paul on Wednesday September 15th for an evening of celebration with music performance, poetry reading, cake, and dancing. Doors are 7.30pm and it’s £5. Hope to see you there.

Scree gig! Wed. August 11th

screemagazine — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 10:16:04 +0000

To help with the printing costs of Scree Two, we’re having a benefit concert on Wednesday August 11th, 7.30pm at Henry’s Cellar Bar. It’s £5 at the door with all proceeds going to Scree. See this page for more information.

Scree two: Folk

screemagazine — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 09:45:16 +0000

Exciting: Fledgeling (Stuart Simpson) has designed the cover of the next Scree, due to be out in September.

Here is the link to Stu’s blog about it. Many thanks Stu.

Scree one: The Outside World

screemagazine — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 08:54:28 +0000

It’s been half a year now since Scree One was birthed. The first issue is now fully distributed, but if you’d like a copy, send a message and I will print-on-demand. Here is a review by Flapjack Sally of the issue.