Andrew Cyril Macdonald

Cities and their downfalls… Poetic cityscapes collected from what plagues contemporary urban milieus. Available of @c22press

Have a read of the full length books c22 has on offer! Portals into ecstasy and madness, the booms will leave you gasping for breath and begging for more—click the link to begin exploring titles now! C22press.wordpress.com/books

・ If … the seasons resolve like a merry-go-round in a station of the metro. Let me touch your hand before we say goodbye. ・ © GIF poetry by hiromi suzuki, 2015 via tumblr.com/hiromisuzukimi…

EASCAIR magazine, a Belfast-based publication which features work in both English and Irish, has reopened submissions for poetry, visual art and flash fiction for Volume Three. ✨Deadline: 4th August 2025 Read more: writing.ie/resources/easc… #WritingCommunity #visualartists

⚡️Cover Reveal⚡️ 20 poem-chapbook out on my own imprint, lippykookpoetry. Experimental poems: some dog some j some light s o m e Mid-Aug print ed. Would love blurbs/reviews. Pls DM me and I can send digital version. #poem #poetrycommunity #experimentalpoetry #smallpresspoetry

advance e-review copies available by DM erratumpress.com/hermeslang

"But assimilating literature and art to straightforwardly intellectual endeavors, turning them into knowledge-seeking discourses like the rest, fails to acknowledge that art is rarely compelling for its assertions."

From a cluttered desk: there are just a few handmade copies of Phoretics by @iab9208 left in stock. Get one while you can. Link, as always, below:

The ACADEMIC DIVISION remains open to submissions, specialising in short-form, #diamond #openaccess books which set out to rethink the existing settlement. erratumpress.com/academic-divis…

One of the many upsides of supervising a PhD on music cognition with ethnomusicological studies of post hardcore rock was discovering the Jesus Lizard, still going strong here youtu.be/_Zx-vUlFXEk?si…

Our not-so-esteemd eic, bookmaker, collagist, etc has a micro out with Ghost City Press. Give your eyes up to the feats of prestidigitation!

Anyone interested in #Surrealism - and particularly the writing of Leonora Carrington - might enjoy this extract! Expect strange family dynamics and mason jars with disturbing contents. Thanks to @TobiasvRyan and @MinorLits for excellent and invaluable curation of new works!🔆🙏

This week on &&& Tripleampersand, we share with you “Sinthome as a Subject” by Maks Valenčič, exploring how Lacanian psychoanalysis opens the way for thinking a subject that is no longer grounded in representation, narrative, or symbolic coherence. tripleampersand.org/sinthome-as-a-…

This feels very much like an internet-saturated book, so it made sense to offer it as a free PDF in addition to the paperback: youtu.be/d3G5uc0I21M?si…

Today's poem from Sam Aureli (@SamthePoet0731) was the first piece I accepted for issue 5. Snowy city days. Link below 👇

[…] Two compound eyes of mayfly identifying the polarization from the cloudy sky. Its gaze takes in a 360-degree view of the dark, empty room. Then the mayfly stares with three single eyes at him through the keyhole. ・

in case you missed it:

The Wise Owl, based in Chandigarh, published my poem Pitfalls on July 15, 2025. I'm posting it for you—warm thanks to Rachna Singh.

Check out the c22 open editions and get your fill of great experimental chapbooks all for free! C22press.wordpress.com/open-editions

Hey kids, you can get the new Joshua Martin poetry chapbook, punctuated avalanche and blow your mind wide open. Book orders ship today and free PDF online.

The latest Gargoyle Magazine (Issue #11) is packed with brilliant writing and I’m beyond thrilled to have five pieces in this issue! Read the whole gorgeous thing: gargoylemagazine.com/2025/07/online…