Dispel

The Past and its Friends / Previous Issues

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The adventure of editing a self-published micropublication is shadowed by a number of writers whose lives imprint an irregular rhythm to the actual production. Here's a list of the first eight issues of Dispel:


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Issue №1 - Cranks.

Shaded by sadness, how some are living through destruction and decomposition. {Re-issued in October 2020}


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Issue №2 - Architecture.

A collaboration with Sarah Gelbard.


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Issue №3 - DRMC: Poetry & Photography.

A collaboration with Danni-Rae Mistaken-Chief.


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Issue №4 - Questions?

Few people are truely free to answer questions. Interviews with Mike Rivest, Alyssa Cooper, Amanda Schoppel, Lorena Ziraldo, and Mitsuku.


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Issue №5 - Umi Café.

A look back at the open stage that ran for six years (2008–2014) at Umi Café in Ottawa.


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Issue №6 - "Pimento".

A collaboration with BA Nemo.


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Issue №7 - Love Doesn’t Live Here Anymore.

A hate letter to a city, to its erasures, to its stutters.


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Issue №8 - Motels.

A collaboration with The Dead of Night. A limited mini-zine print edition was released in May 2017.