Death is coming

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The Death issue of Sluice magazine issue brings together voices exploring grief, transformation and what remains. I write for every issue (and for ever, and ever… AND EVER), this time with a meditation on the soul death at the heart of capitalist culture, via one of my favourite writers, Philip K Dick, in UR ALL (1/2) DEAD.

­The Death issue will launch at Aye-Aye Books @ Broadside 123 Allison Street, Glasgow, G42 8NE, 6-8 pm on Saturday 1st November 2025.

There’ll be a film screening introduced by Conor Walker, some extracts from the edition read by guest editor Sarah Wishart, alongside local writers performing work on death including Kate Taylor, Sara O’Brien and Lucie McLaughlin with others TBC. All proceeds from Sluice magazine sales at the launch will go to Aye-Aye Books as they move forward from whatever the hell happened at CCA.

Pre-order the magazine on the Sluice website.