Perfumed Head by Steve Beard (1998)

SUBSEQUENT TO HIS acclaimed contribution to the best-selling Disco 2000 anthology, Steve Beard's commissioned text for the New Writing Series is the first novella length work to advance the concerns of 'chemical fiction' by re-engaging with the classical themes of modernism. As the long-standing literary critic for i-D magazine, Steve Beard has been in the advance party of monitoring the latest developments in radical writing. Now, with Perfumed Head, he proves himself to be a writer whose intellectually intoxicating and emotionally disturbing prose comprises a stunning literary achievement, and whose manipulation of writing itself reflects the ambiguity of story-telling in an age of mass information.

Printed offset in an edition of 1,500.

Perfumed Head has 92 pages, 210 x 150mm

ISBN 1 870699 30 0

Price £9.95