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Pink Sands was co-founded and is run by Artists Roxy Topia and Paddy Gould. We are based in Birkenhead, UK.
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There’s Always Things Falling Out The Sky
by Sammy Playford
with artwork by Roxy Topia & Paddy Gould
£10
UK postage free
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A5. 52pp, perfect bound, full colour on recycled paper in vegetable inks. Second Printing.
A hallucinatory poem set in artwork that is part children’s book, part psychedelic headspace. There’s Always Things Falling Out The Sky is Sammy Playford’s ritualistic conversation with Bigfoot, Faeries and aliens in the Bristol woods near her home. A serious investment in magic and self-worth, the poem wields protection magic and unpicks the deleterious effects of selling your labour to live.
Sammy works full-time for a delivery company, a job she feels at best ambivalent towards, and at worst just hates.So she listens to podcasts to escape, and roots for the Cryptids as they seem to evade all attempts at capture.
We all know that sensation of expanding inside our heads. Thoughts wrapping around voices from podcasts like vines and trees deep in the woods. Thoughts and words about unexplained occurrences float side by side with ideas and theories on the ethical borders of our bodies and our rights to ourselves.
“There’s this spectral fur all round me like embracing the ghost of a dry cleaned wookie costume & we both sigh & my nostrils sting a little with sulphur rotting egg smell but I probably reek too we hold each other”
A poem for the Paranormals.
UK postage free
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A5. 52pp, perfect bound, full colour on recycled paper in vegetable inks. Second Printing.
A hallucinatory poem set in artwork that is part children’s book, part psychedelic headspace. There’s Always Things Falling Out The Sky is Sammy Playford’s ritualistic conversation with Bigfoot, Faeries and aliens in the Bristol woods near her home. A serious investment in magic and self-worth, the poem wields protection magic and unpicks the deleterious effects of selling your labour to live.
Sammy works full-time for a delivery company, a job she feels at best ambivalent towards, and at worst just hates.So she listens to podcasts to escape, and roots for the Cryptids as they seem to evade all attempts at capture.
We all know that sensation of expanding inside our heads. Thoughts wrapping around voices from podcasts like vines and trees deep in the woods. Thoughts and words about unexplained occurrences float side by side with ideas and theories on the ethical borders of our bodies and our rights to ourselves.
“There’s this spectral fur all round me like embracing the ghost of a dry cleaned wookie costume & we both sigh & my nostrils sting a little with sulphur rotting egg smell but I probably reek too we hold each other”
A poem for the Paranormals.
The Clenched Fist
by George Lionel Barker
£6
UK postage free
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A5. 44pp, perfect bound, full colour.
In his first pamphlet of poems George’s terror lies close to the surface, but his tenderness does too. This is a world of sincere astonishment folded into defensive ridicule. His straightforward statements of fact are a placid membrane over his silent screams.
22 poems in a psychedelic design.
Designed by Pink Sands Studio
UK postage free
*(For International orders please contact us via email, do not order here. Info at top of page)
A5. 44pp, perfect bound, full colour.
In his first pamphlet of poems George’s terror lies close to the surface, but his tenderness does too. This is a world of sincere astonishment folded into defensive ridicule. His straightforward statements of fact are a placid membrane over his silent screams.
22 poems in a psychedelic design.
Designed by Pink Sands Studio
Helen Blake
£6.50
UK postage free
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A5. 28pp, full colour.
‘Haptic, overtly handmade and never pre-planned', Helen’s paintings are beguilingly patterned but resolutely material.
Containing colour reproductions and an interview discussing the environment surrounding Helen’s work; how painting can slow your heartbeat and self-sufficiency as a painter.
Designed by Mike Carney www.mikesstudio.co.uk Helen Blake is the latest in Pink Sand’s Pattern Interview series.
UK postage free
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A5. 28pp, full colour.
‘Haptic, overtly handmade and never pre-planned', Helen’s paintings are beguilingly patterned but resolutely material.
Containing colour reproductions and an interview discussing the environment surrounding Helen’s work; how painting can slow your heartbeat and self-sufficiency as a painter.
Designed by Mike Carney www.mikesstudio.co.uk Helen Blake is the latest in Pink Sand’s Pattern Interview series.
A3 Print
Roxy Topia and Paddy Gould 
£15
UK postage free
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Gloss black on 300gsm white matte board.
Heart Throbs.
by Roxy Topia and Paddy Gould
£7.50
UK postage free
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A5. 32pp. full colour.
Includes A3 poster ‘Cosmic Courtney’ and a Heart Throbs pin badge.
Heart Throbs takes you on a journey through a selected history of our oddball idols and pop cultural objects of affection. Full colour glossy zine, with a variety of digital collages and us in conversation. For us these memories are part haunting nostalgia, part absurd hilarity.
Join us on our Weekend at Yearnies. xx.
Stories
George Lionel Barker
£5.50
UK postage free
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20pp full colour.
Four stories by George Lionel Barker on some of the lovely little difficulties that come with living inside the contemporary social pact.
Violence and politics at work drinks, being on the wrong end of medical priorities, difficult nakedness in a car park and trouble with HR.
Designed by Pink sands.
Just dogs that live longer.
Stephen Forge.
UK postage free
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A5. 28pp. full colour.
The second in our pattern interview series, this interview between Pink Sands Studio and Stephen Forge talks about component based design, truth to materials and getting what you get.
Designed by Mike Carney www.mikesstudio.co.uk
RUOK?
George Lionel Barker & Paddy Gould
£6.50
UK postage free
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A5. 36pp. full colour. 2nd print edition.
New cover and reorganised interior.
R U OK? Contains poems borne out of what might as well of been a WhatsApp men’s support group by and for George Lionel Barker and Paddy Gould.
Designed by Pink Sands Studio.
UK postage free
*(For International orders please contact us via email, do not order here. Info at top of page)
A5. 36pp. full colour. 2nd print edition.
New cover and reorganised interior.
R U OK? Contains poems borne out of what might as well of been a WhatsApp men’s support group by and for George Lionel Barker and Paddy Gould.
Designed by Pink Sands Studio.
