a 52-page magazine of
words and images inspired by the city

... a love-letter to London, to the wet neon flicker of late-night pavements, electric with endless possibility, and the soft dishevelled beauty of the city’s dawn... to the overheard stories and unexplored histories, the facts and the fictions, the accidental poetry and fugitive art of graffiti-slashed suburban stations and rain-splashed shopfronts... the out-of-shot lives half-glimpsed from a train window, or from a phone number scrawled on the back of a Travelcard, dropped on the night-bus stairs...

THESE PAGES WERE LAST UPDATED IN MAY 2008

Smoke appears roughly every 4 months.
The current issue is #11, and costs £2.90. 

UPDATE ON ISSUE#12
As anyone who's read Issue#11 will know, #12 was supposed to be out in April. As anyone who's also read issues #1 to #10 will know, we're sometimes almost slappably optimistic, and I'm afraid the mayoral elections rather sapped us of inspiration, leaving us gazing blankly into the middle-distance, rather than at the computer screen. But - well, it's nearly done, and should be off to the printer's by the end of next week... though of course that only makes sense if you know when I'm writing this, and I think I've already told you enough.

excerpts from smoke#11

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