MARTEN, Helen; MOORE, Harriet; STUART, Matthew (eds)
Bricks from the Kiln #7

Guest edited by artist Helen Marten and literary agent Harriet Moore with Matthew Stuart, this volume of the journal considers what it means for a publication to be an allegorical container. A simple box in which to gather multiple things, an economical set of permutations — rational in one sense, yet defiantly flexible to move. Contributors were approached with an open invitation; some explored the multiplicities of containing or containers, while others filled the printed vessel with their own ongoing preoccupations. The following pages perform as envelope, bag, shell, net, fold, alarm, letter and instruction. There are holes to disappear within; smoke to knot and wind; shadows to unfold — a context that takes in and binds, finding new kinships from unforeseen proximities.

THE FIRE FLOWERS AND THE FLOWER LIGHTS UP –
Lucy Mercer
(spine)
WE SHALL GREET THE MOON AGAIN
Walter Price
(front cover)
BACK PAGES OF ALGIERS DIARIES 2018
Lydia Ourahmane
(inside front & inside back cover)
AN INTRODUCTION TO / NOTES ON / INSTRUCTION FOR THE FRONT NOVEL
Eliza Barry Callahan

SATURDAY MORNING
Kathryn Scanlan

KILLDEER
Jason Schwartz

ALARMS AND EXCURSIONS
Rosmarie Waldrop

"THE BATHROOM"
Najwa Barakat

ARMY ROLLS, A CIRCUMSCRIPTION
Roy Claire Potter

CONCHOMANIA
Felix Bernstein

O-POEM
Line-Gry Hørup

THIS MUSCLE
Cally Spooner

STERLING PARK IN THE DARK
Susan Howe

COCONUTTERY
Mathelinda Nabugodi

YOUR SELF CONFIDENT BABY
Aurelia Guo

BIOGRAPHY OF A NET: HOLDING A VOLUME
Daisy Hildyard

A GUIDE TO THE POETRY OF LI HO
Eliot Weinberger

WOMEN SMOKING
Charline von Heyl

INFRATHIN
Marcel Duchamp

THE MAZED WORLD
Rachael Allen
(bookmark insert)
UNTITLED
Helen Marten
(back cover)

Published by Bricks From the Kiln, 2025
Periodicals / Literature