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In the new year there is an (Abridged 0 – 52:) Contagion… so I thought we’d give you a bit of a heads up. We’re in the midst of an Abridged Pestilence trilogy, not of … Read More

Wormwood, the first of our Pestilence trilogy, has just been published. You can grab a copy at the Golden Thread Gallery, Void Gallery, Galway Arts Centre and the Verbal Arts Centre, Derry this week and … Read More

We’ve been planning a couple of new exhibitions both North and South of the border, We’ll have news about their whys and wherefores when the time comes.  Abridged is a poetry magazine. Abridged is also … Read More

So we’re in the midst of designing the Abridged Wormwood issue. It never gets less terrifying. I think if it didn’t it would be a sign that it was time to stop. I don’t just … Read More

Just a short note to say as we figure 1979 conceptually never really stops we’ll keep this website going with the rationales behind forthcoming Abridged issues, exhibitions and the usual bits and pieces. Currently we’re … Read More

We were reading an article on mid 18th Century arts societies in England yesterday in regard to their role in creating the first group ‘exhibitions’ and to their relationship with their audiences. What’s an audience? … Read More

As Derry, Northern Ireland, which Abridged calls home has been hit by even more torrential summer rain than usual it got me thinking that one of the (admittedly minor)  reasons we had a theme called … Read More

The new Abridged submission call is almost upon us. It’s always a good time to explain the whys and wherefores of Abridged and the context from whence it ahem issues. I remember one balmy evening … Read More

A small excerpt and a few quotes from the 0-1979 essay… …Despite the physics-based explanation for smoke shapes after an explosion, many saw Satan’s face in the smoke after Flight 175 crashed into one of … Read More

If you’re brought up an Irish Catholic and attempt what used to be called ‘art’ but now seems diluted to ‘creativity’ it’s probably inevitable that a religious element creeps in somewhere even if you no … Read More