New In: Power to the People

Power to the People is a "home-made, cut & paste, Old Skool arty-farty free poetry fanzine" by Mishi Morath, a Dulwich Hamlet supporter. Apparently Mishi saw a link to the All To Nah post on this blog and was inspired to produce his first poetry zine. Nice one!

The zine contains loads of poems about football, the police, war and everything between. 

New in: Loads of zines! (Video Special)

We have received some big donations from some very kind people recently. We don't really have time to write a blog post about every single one of the zines that we get in these bundles, but we thought it'd be nice to feature them in a quicker way!

Here's some of the zines that we received a couple of weeks ago. Mainly music stuff from the 90s. They'll all be on the shelves within the week, so if there's any that take your fancy, come down to Nexus and have a look!

Thanks Michelle for sending these in!

New In: Feeling Alone #1: A zine about being an inpatient with BPD

"This is a black and white zine I wrote and drew all about my experiences as an inpatient on a psychiatric ward. I suffer from Borderline Personality Disorder which can lead to severe depressive lows. In the zine I describe what the hospital was like, how it was meeting other inpatients, what the nurses were like, how I felt, and what it was like coming home. I decorated the zine and added my own little drawings on most pages :) I used anxiety, depression and post-traumatic stress questionnaires as my background paper.

A5 sized zine with 16 pages in total including a paper cover, all held together with a staple."

https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/humanbeanzines

New In: Feeling Alone #2: One Year On

"This is a black and white zine I wrote and drew about the year following my inpatient experience (which I wrote about in Feeling Alone #1). I wanted to talk about what I've been doing to try to recover from BPD and this includes therapy but it also includes things like roller derby and learning to drive. I decorated the zine and added my own little drawings.

A5 sized zine with 16 pages in total including a paper cover, all held together with a staple."

https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/humanbeanzines

New in: Best Pressed's Zine About Zines

Our friend Stef Bradley, who's zine 'Today' is already in the collection at the library, has recently set up her own zine distro called 'Best Pressed'. As well as selling zines at gigs and other exciting events, Stef recently led a zine making workshop in Liverpool. To help participants, she created a 'Zine About Zines', containing helpful instructions on how to make a zine yourself.

The zine features a useful illustrated 'What is a zine' and 'How to make a zine' sections, a comic about making zines and an interview with Young Explorer (us, when we're not doing zine library things!). We have a few of these at the library in a range of snazzy colours.

http://todayzine.wordpress.com/