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The first Nowt Press anthology collected and updated some older editions from this site, but also some of the material from the Nowt Press pre-history as a pamphleteer. It was a one hundred page ebook entitled ‘Beginning again in the middle’, here … Continue reading →

Nowt 13 is another excellent piece of thoughtful polemic from Lawrence Upton.

Pirbright is a poem by Tina Bass.

Nowt 11 is a new text by Simon Ford and Robert Galeta. ‘Allegories of Capital’ is a timely and angry piece, which briefly examines historical allegory in order to cast a pessimistic glance at our current crises.

Here is Nowt 10, another piece by Lawrence Upton, entitled Obedience.

Nowt 09 began as a catalogue essay by Steve Hanson for the Dromology exhibition at South Square gallery, Bradford. It then became a Nowt edition. This piece will re-appear shortly in the first Nowt Press anthology, but the availability period … Continue reading →

Here is Nowt 08, by Lawrence Upton.

Nowt 07 is a revival of the tragic genre in the age of the abject. This has been initiated as a proposal by Hhassall, Llavery and Rraves. The latter also inhabits the text – to a greater or lesser degree – … Continue reading →

Nowt 06, I mistrust my understanding, is another text from Lawrence Upton. Upton’s lack of interest in ponderous abstraction – although it is also always very far from simplistic or naïve proposal-wise – is an indication of both confidence and … Continue reading →

Nowt o5 was a sustained, potent set of meditations on the twenty-first century by J.D. Taylor. His book Negative Capitalism – Cynicism in the Neoliberal Era is due to be published shortly by Zero Books. This piece will re-appear shortly in … Continue reading →