The heart-stopping issue (top) of excellent Dublin-based literary confessional magazine, Guts, won ‘Cover of the Year’ at the Stack Magazine Awards in London Last night.
The cover by Mick Minogue features a Marigold-clad hand clutching a Jeyes clothed organ. A savage indictment against doing the washing up.
At the bash were top from left: Paddy Dunne, Steve McCarthy, Roisin Agnew (editor), Mick Minogue and Steve O’Connor (videographer).
Fair play, in fairness.
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Fair play Mick, awful shame the content, bar one or two pieces, just didn’t live up to the promise on the cover.
More gutting needed in the next issue.
Guts Magazine is so middle class lefty whitest Irish with a Twitter account.
Its not a magazine, its a crowd funded vanity project……
Good illustration. Rubbish writing . Bland, boring, contrived . ( Rob Doyle the exception)
“Bland, boring, contrived”
True… I couldn’t help but cringe all the way through Roisin’s piece. The book/mag was sold on the idea of the experiences of doing illicit drugs. Róisin’s was on prescription drugs that she was prescribed and how a spliff allegedly sent her into some trippy dream state (that was the gist of it) and there was some disorientation….. it had the edge of a rolled up fleece blanket…. as predicted, which is unfortunate.
A civil servant would have served up more original fare .
Tough crowd. To be fair to them, at least they are trying something new – the design is brilliant, and while the writing is patchy, it’s good to see new printed titles in Dublin.