23 September 2014

š! #18 'Poetry' is out now!

š! #18 'Poetry' was released on September 22nd, 2014! The newest issue of our flagship anthology comes printed on even better paper than usual and feels better than ever!

It presents you a wide range of international poetry comics. Some of the contributions are visual adaptations of existing poems, others are collaborative efforts between poets and comic artists, but mostly they genuinely are poems as comics or comics as poems. How this looks (or reads) you can now see yourself!



Cover: Dāvis Ozols (Latvia) 

Contributors: Anete Melece / Inga Gaile, Anna Vaivare / Semyon Khanin, Dāvis Ozols / Ingmāra Balode, Ingrīda Pičukāne / Sergej Timofejev, Klāvs Loris / Anna Foma, Lote Vilma Vītiņa / Kārlis Vērdiņš, Mārtiņš Zutis / Arvis Viguls, Rūta Briede / Jānis Rokpelnis from Latvia, and Alexander Rothman (USA), Andrej Štular (Slovenia), Dunja Janković (Croatia), Evie Cahir (Australia), Julie Doucet (Canada), König Lü.Q. (Switzerland), L.L. de Mars (France), Mari Ahokoivu (Finland), Nicolas Zouliamis (Belgium), Patrick Kyle (Canada), Sam Alden (USA), Theo Ellsworth (USA), Tiina Lehikoinen (Finland) and Tommi Musturi (Finland).

Specs: English, handy A6 format, 164 pages, full-color, perfect bound, Munken Polar 300g, Munken Lynx Rough 120g.

Support: Latvian State Culture Capital Foundation

Get it:  Order it for $14 from our webshop (international shipping costs included) or get yourself a kuš! subscription.

Have a look inside:


Theo Ellsworth

Lote Vilma Vītiņa / Kārlis Vērdiņš



Tiina Lehikoinen


Dunja Janković

Rūta Briede / Jānis Rokpelnis

More preview pics you can also see on facebook!  To see the whole poetry comics you should order the book from our webshop (or by clicking the orange button below), or wait until it's available at a bookshop near you. In case you're interested in a wholesale deal, contact sales at kushmens@gmail.com.


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