Succour ran for five years and ten issues from 2004 to 2009. During this period it was the UK’s most exciting journal of new fiction, poetry and art – “a Granta for the Facebook generation” according to Time Out. Succour's editors in London, Manchester, Brighton, Exeter and Dublin were committed to seeking out and publishing the very best new writing and artwork. Find out more…
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What happened to Succour?
Succour ran for five years and ten issues from 2004 to 2009. In 2010 a group of writers who had appeared in Succour over the years were invited to take part in a new online project titled Genius or Not.
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The Banal is a collection of work that takes the everyday, the ordinary, the unlauded, the daily grind or even the outright boring and, in the modernist tradition, turns it into the subject of compelling literature and art.
Featured writers and artists are:
Prose: Duncan Brett, Kevin Brown, Gary Cansell, Abi Curtis, Cassandra Moss and Mark Staniforth
Poetry: Judy Brown, Isobel Dixon, Melissa Lee-Houghton, Christodoulos Makris, Shaunagh Darling Robertson, Ben Rogers, Lee Rourke, Maurice Scully, Cherry Smyth and Grace Wells
Prose poems: Annie Clarkson and John Clegg
Artwork: Derek Ogbourne and Martin Skauen
