HOUSING HAUNTED HOUSING / Oscar Mardell

Housing Haunted Housing (2020), a collection of poems by Oscar Mardell. In his own words: The story of a utopian/modernist project gradually falling into decline and ruin - or at least, obscurity and disregard.

 

first edition publication date: June, 2020 (50 copies only)

second edition publication date: June 27th, 2020 (100 copies only)

isbn: 978-0-9957480-5-7

36 pages printed on recycled paper

10.8 cm x 18 cm x 2mm

designed and hand bound by lucy j wilkinson

You can find a review of the publication here by Matthew Turner at 3AM Magazine:

https://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/housing-haunted-housing/

 

Other writings/publications by Oscar Mardell:

• 'Chocolate Concrete', The Inquisitive Eater
• 'The Horns of Jericho', 3:AM Magazine
• 'Not Neufchâtel', The Inquisitive Eater
• 'What the Sirens Taught Us: An Elegy for Mermaidens', PopMatters
• 'Cathedrals of Sewage', Misery Tourism
• 'CHOWDER', The Inquisitive Eater
• ''Alive and Sane': an Interview with Alex Niven', 3:AM Magazine
• '(Un)Settlers: on Earth Tongue's 'Floating Being' NZ Tour', Queen Mob's Teahouse
• 'Keep Yer Big Apple', 3:AM Magazine
• 'Glitch', 3:AM Magazine
• 'Style Wars: The Conquest of Gaul', 3:AM Magazine
• 'presently', RIC Journal
• 'AfroGoths', 3:AM Magazine
• 'Goodbye, Beautiful: Iris Origo's A Chill in the Air and War in Val d’Orcia', War, Literature, and the Arts
• 'Love Bites: Fiction Inspired by Pete Shelley and Buzzcocks', 3:AM Magazine
• 'The Bargain Basement', RIC Journal
• 'The Most Beautiful Petrol Station in the World', Terse Journal
• 'Ein Feste Burg', RIC Journal
• 'Loudhe Sing Cuccoo: Folk Horror and Water Shall Refuse Them', 3:AM Magazine
• 'You Still Can't Win', 3:AM Magazine
• 'Sage of Discord; or, Melville at 200', 3:AM Magazine
• 'First as Tragedy, Then as Tragedy: On Christian Petzold's 'Transit'', Terse Journal
• 'Walter Kempowski's Final Novel Finally Gets an English Translation', RIC Journal
• 'Goth-ish: 3 Covers by Marilyn Manson', March Vladness
• 'Sixteen Again', Queen Mob's Teahouse
• 'Etymology and Extracts', Terror House
• 'A Real Phoney: Wartime London in Henry Green’s 'Caught'', The Literary London Journal
• 'Greener Pastures', War, Literature, and the Arts
• 'Walter Kempowski's 'All for Nothing': An Unlikely Comedy Set in the Collapse of the Third Reich', 3:AM Magazine
• 'The Limits of Suspense: Anna Segher's 'The Seventh Cross'', DIAGRAM
• 'On Yukio Mishima’s 'Star' Being Made Available For The First Time In English', 3:AM Magazine