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Issue 97: Cover Art

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The cover for Litro no.97 features author portraits of three of the writer featured in the August 2010 issue: Louise Stern, Clare Wigfall and Jackson Martin. Louise is a prizewinning winner who opens the issue with her contribution, ‘Rio’; Clare wrote ‘The Party’s Just Getting Started’ (page 29 – print issue) and was the recipient of the 2008 National Short Story Award; and we are pleased to feature an extract from a novel by Jackson, a promising new writer, this month as well.

The photographer for the cover was Jon Cartwright (www.joncartwright.com) and it shot on location at The Dalston Boys Club, London – highly appropriate for our East London-themed issue.

They say, ‘Scratch a liberal, you’ll find a fascist’.
But scratch a fascist, you’ll find a communist;
scratch a communist, you’ll find an anarchist;
scratch an anarchist, you’ll find a feudalist;
scratch a feudalist, you’ll find a Roman Republican;
scratch a Roman Republican, you’ll find a democrat,
though he will be incredibly tiny.

Richard Tyrone-Jones is a London-based poet and performer. He hosts and co-organises Utter! in Camden and Dalston. He can be contacted at www.myspace.com/richardtyronejones