Clod Magazine & Books

29/01/2025

The by-ways of Clod Magazine:
Barbour’s Lane, down town.

19/01/2025

News from the stock-room supervisor at “Clod Magazine & Books” is encouraging;
- with 32 copies of our early ‘treasury’ now in readers’ hands throughout the modern world, it means that we are down to a pitiful 19 available copies.
If you know someone who might benefit from a 600 page full-colour glossy A4 compendium of early Clod issues that weighs 2.465kg, please forward them this link.

THANK YOU!
- J.Hackson (co-editor, small bets placed)

https://theknockouts.bandcamp.com/merch/clod-vol-1-21-bumper-edition

16/01/2025

What many publishers won’t tell you is how useful a floor can be as part of the process that determines the best order for the pages of a new publication.

Here at one of the Clod office suites, pages are being laid flat and moved around by hand to complete the 2nd Clod “Adult Colouring Book”.

No release date yet, but it’ll be at the printers within the week!

13/01/2025

A (10 year) belated thanks to friend John, who created this mini-documentary about some aspects of your good and faithful servant “Clod Magazine”.

(lasts over 8 mins.)

Thank you Johnny!

12/01/2025

Magazines of interest that were around 63 years before Clod Magazine…

https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/francis-picabia-391-review/?fbclid=IwY2xjawHwdy9leHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHUVxaCW4ZqG_XdnB17Ng-vbM0mJo88Mf_Q_OopNdSYB0C8nhEuL8g2kbrA_aem_r6MRXFafm-4yTvARuZzgyQ

19 volumes of a Dada and Surrealist–associated journal published by Francis Picabia.

05/12/2024

Hi!
I have just been reflecting on my skill-set at “CLOD Magazine” and thought I’d share with you tonight! Yes!
J.Hackson (co-editor)

SKILLS:

Goal-levelling professional, well-versed in losing things, re-recruiting, untraining and sidling up to employees to quietly suggest exceptional services to the public and their misrepresentative institutions. Highly organised and soft-working with excellent planning and avoidance skills. No longer contracted by NHS England and disproven to have ever delivered an exemplary level (not my words) of service delivery to people met by chance whilst planning and implementing debunked strategies for developing over-proved healthcare management. Re-proven problem juggler and excellent communicator when it comes to yelling hard, with strong bread and butter skills, a superb understanding of data farming, performing metrics and company financials. Negotiating release and half-baking commercial property acquisitions from plodding to motionless service delivery. Nationally recognised for staff development, internationally recognised in photographic line-ups, leading to high performing sentence-shortening, sometimes on the winning team. Organised and dependable, in a manner of speaking, successful at managing multiple priorities, (one at a time thanks), with an attitude. Willingness to take off responsibilities to alter team and business development goals. Experienced businessed leader offering mediocre skills in mediocre sales, mediocre customer service, mediocre contract management, mediocre procurement, average team building with middling communication and sullied etiquette to redeliver long-extinguished targets. 🙂🙂🙂

22/11/2024

01/11/2024

01/11/2024

In a special dedication to Clive Gresswell, daughter Sophie Gresswell will be hosting a stall at the Luton Literature Local Authors and Illustrators Fair, showcasing the late Clive's work and talking about the new prize running in his memory.

Drop in, free entry:
Luton Central Library
Saturday 9 November
9.30am - 4.30pm

27/10/2024

Wednesday Writer. Photos - mainly just photos - from the excellent Small Publishers Fair in The Conway Hall this weekend.

(The book will be available online soon).

Something different this week. Normally, words don’t fail me. This week, all connected with the Small Publishers Fair – all who visited, came and said ‘hello’ and especially…

21/10/2024

THE PERPENDICULAR POETRY PRIZE

Poets with an absurdist or innovative streak may be interested in a new prize, set up in memory of Clive Gresswell...

16/10/2024

Nice use of ladders and a wooden stair terracing system, in this three tune clip of the late great Bo Diddley.

Here's a treat: Not one, but three performances by Mr. D on Hollywood A Go Go

10/10/2024

The Times Literary Supplement have thrown themselves into supporting this year’s Small Publishers Fair, which is smashing.

09/10/2024

The kitchen at the Corn Exchange cafe, Market Hill, Luton, 1944.

Photo courtesy of The Luton News.

06/10/2024

Being at a loss for words at the time, Clod Magazine issue 19 was a word-free edition, containing 50 pages of collages which utilised found and filthy scraps of street material. I collected them all.

Our stall at this year’s Small Publishers’ Fair at Conway Hall, gives Clod readers/viewers the chance to purchase the original page art work for that edition.

Following the 2009 exhibition of all 50 pages at “The Last Gallery” in Llangadog, 42 of these collages remain.

Come along and flick through them. They won’t be dear; definitely no more than £15 each, possibly a little less.
All wrapped in a protective sleeve, and stiffened by a bit of card.

Hope to see you there.

06/10/2024

Wednesday Writer. Bit of a diary piece. One slightly famous named dropped, towards the end. Clod Mag coming of age, even though by many measures, we're PAST IT.

https://wednesdaywriter221052756.wordpress.com/2024/10/06/writers-diary-small-press-fairs/