Win Harms first collection, In Harms Way on Barncott Press was published in 2013, and closely followed by October 22, also on Barncott Press. Proof being, that poetry saves lives. Her own path reading like Rimbaud’s, from flower arranger to runaway bride. Introduced to Cold Lips at our old Sylvia Plath Fan Club, by fellow poet, Ana Seferovic, and Nina Zivancevic – carrying the spirit … Continue reading COLD LIPS 05 x WIN HARMS
Nina Antonia has supported Cold Lips from our embryonic days on the stage of the Sylvia Plath Fan Club, above a late-strip club of Shoreditch. Wielded by the literary establishment as a ‘cult writer’, the Liverpool-born author found herself too working class to walk through the doors of the NME, and ended up with another angle, knowing the bands better than any of them ever … Continue reading COLD LIPS 05 x Nina Antonia
Dean Stalham is a wondrous character, less drifting through life, more knowing it’s a rich dream whilst it lasts. With an eye for art, that’s taken him to prison, and the Royal Court, Dean’s known to have shifted Art somewhat illegally, with three stays at her majesty’s service after hauling ÂŁ6 million’s worth of  four Andy Warhols, 13 Chagalls, 33 Dalis and two Cindy Shermans … Continue reading COLD LIPS 05 DEAN STALHAM
We first published the poetry of American writer Rob Plath in Cold Lips 04. Mentored by the American author and playwright Dan Fante, in his latter days, in Cold Lips 05, Plath kindly shared the last official interview with the writer best known for drinking in a stream of reality which picked the bottle up from his father, smashed it over the head of Bukowski, … Continue reading COLD LIPS 05 DAN FANTE’S LAST INTERVIEW by Rob Plath (and some more from Wrecking Ball’s Dave Windass)
Patrick Lyons is a rare poet. An entity in the form of the late Jock Scot, and Phil Dirtbox, with a bit of Phil Spector on a horse thrown in – he wheels from the bar to stage ranch, with a born in the USA voice echoing mystic experience. Pulling diamonds from the rough, an enthusiastic talent seeker, acolytes seek that rare frisson of legitimacy, … Continue reading COLD LIPS 05 PATRICK LYONS
Two of the best documenteurs of subculture were united on these two pages in the fifth edition of Cold Lips. Britain’s best street photographer, Derek Ridgers, who studied aside Freddie Mercury at Ealing Art School, before turning his lens on the faces beneath the mass ocean who create the waves, his extensive and highly important archive has recently been taken on by friend of Cold … Continue reading Cold Lips 05 TIM WELLS and DEREK RIDGERS
Cindy Fournier is a writer, artist and performer living in London. Known as Swiss Cindy to Cold Lips, she first performed with with us at the Cultural Traffic Art Fair, and again at Holloway’s Bomb Factory, and Fitzrovia’s The Social, her muse bounces angularly, from native Switzerland, through the rails of gothic expression, in a jagged resetting of London’s avant-garde. She’s one of the pleasant … Continue reading Cold Lips 05 Cindy Fournier
Cold Lips 05 was a short run print edition put together over a couple of nights, to bring together content which had been sifted through over the previous year. Only 50 copies were made, and were largely given away at gigs for the Vagrant Lovers, with Danielle De Picciotto, in Berlin, and a poetry night Kirsty Allison did in Prague. There was an intention to … Continue reading Cold Lips 05 Letter from the Editor
