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Working-class mag 🌿 Literature, art and photography. Issue 6 out now!
Tradition and Revolution.
Editor @tommyfredsissons

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GRASS ISSUE 6: THE BODY ISSUE
Now available to pre-order. Link in bio. Out this May 🌿

Editor @tommyfredsissons
Cover designed by @jakebuck
Magazine interior design by @mearawithe

“In Britain in 2026, debates about the body are far from abstract. The National Health Service faces mounting pressure from cuts, outsourcing, and creeping privatisation. Food banks are part of everyday life for hundreds of thousands […] Long-documented health inequalities are widening, life expectancy varies dramatically by postcode, and for many working-class people stress and mental health problems are intensified by both work and lack of work. […]
GRASS has never coupled its issues with fixed themes before. But as I was reading through the submissions for this edition, a common thread emerged: the body being tested, policed, medicated, exhausted and pushed beyond what it is able to endure.”

Read the full foreword by editor @tommyfredsissons now on the GRASS website.

This issue features work from Bobby Parker (@bobzparker ), Candle Hirst (@candlehirst ), Carlene Metcalf (@carlerow ), Chris Packet (@chris__packet ), Edwin R Stevens (@hotcheddar ), Elleanna Chapman (@elleannac ), Jamie Holman (@jamie_holman_studio ), John Bolloten (@johnbolloten ), Lal Hardy (@lalhardy ), mars k margetson (@mkmrgtsn ), Rob Bremner (@robbremner_photographer ) Tommy Sissons (@tommyfredsissons ), and Daisy Howarth (@howarthdaisy ). taken in England by @englishgrass

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FIELD OF VIEW #1: TOMMY SISSONS @tommyfredsissons 🌿
Film: @j_spindler_
Music: @sleepsang
Title graphics: @sebkoseda taken in Hilly Fields by @englishgrass

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FIELD OF VIEW #4 - Eugéne Noble @eugeneboynoble 🌿
Film by @j_spindler_
Music by @sleepsang
Title graphics by @sebkoseda taken in Hilly Fields by @englishgrass

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FIELD OF VIEW #22 - Adam Jones 🌿
“What I do has always felt like a bit of a risk. But I enjoy that risk.”

We spoke to @adamjones.studio about the time warp in rural Wales after Thatcher, the financial risk of going full time as a designer, and the process of “begging, borrowing and stealing” vintage materials to make them his own.

Film by @j_spindler_
Interviewer: @tommyfredsissons Music by @sleepsang Title graphics by @sebkoseda

#fieldofview #fieldfridays taken in Greenwich Park by @englishgrass

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WAVE FOUR 💫

Very much looking forward to our fourth wave of artists & publishers taking part in the CØMPAKT MINI-MARKET> SMALL PRESS

We welcome>

@leomi_sadler @famiconexpress creator of DIY zines and comics since 2005 about applying for jobs, twisted power-dynamics, kissing & anthropomorphic construction machines. Expect cruelty/humiliation/funny.

@englishgrass from @tommyfredsissons dedicated to working-class literature, art & photography. Expect working-class/tradition/revolution.

@bunnybissoux an artist, illustrator and writer with a studio in Birmingham, entangled with obsessive fanaticism and imagined narratives. Expect eclectic/nostalgic/queer.

#minimarket #smallpress #zine #magazine #paper taken in Nottingham, United Kingdom by @englishgrass

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FIELD OF VIEW #21 - Joelle Taylor 🌿
“If you think about all the great books, were they ones that told you what the answer was, or are they ones that kind of haunt you because you slowly begin to realise what the answer is? And that is pure activism.”

We spoke to @jtaylortrash about writing from a place of risk, how haunting a reader can become an act of activism, and the Art Deco cinema at the edge of the Lancashire Moors that inspired her next book.

Film by @rrddll
Edits by @j_spindler_
Interviewer: @tommyfredsissons Music by @sleepsang Title graphics by @sebkoseda taken in Shoreditch Park by @englishgrass

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Some selections from an ongoing series inspired by the design and language of ‘COAL NOT DOLE’, the slogan of the 1984-85 miners’ strike 🌿
By GRASS editor, @tommyfredsissons taken in England by @englishgrass

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FIELD OF VIEW #20 - James Massiah 🌿
“I like to think of it as writing that moves you, to make you move. And it’s just as much about sex and the body and dancing and fun and passion and hedonism.”

We spoke to @jamesmassiah about party poetry, documenting the changing socialscape of London, and the places that mean the most to him.

Film by @rrddll
Editing @j_spindler_
Interviewer: @tommyfredsissons Music by @sleepsang Title graphics by @sebkoseda taken in Shoreditch Park by @englishgrass

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FIELD OF VIEW #19 - Ella Frears 🌿

“The way that I could control the telling of this thing in a way that gave me agency over that experience, even at 10, 11, 12 years old, felt very powerful. […] And I think that was the first writing l ever did.”

We spoke to @ellafrears about taking agency over the telling of adverse experiences, the self/not self, and moments of odd intimacy with strangers.

Film by @rrddll
Editing by @j_spindler_
Interviewer: @tommyfredsissons Music by @sleepsang Title graphics by @sebkoseda

#fieldofview #independentpublishing taken in Shoreditch Park by @englishgrass

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FIELD OF VIEW #18 – Brenock O’Connor 🌿
“There’s the music industry, then there’s the music world. If the music industry doesn’t find profit in it, it won’t give it the time of day - that doesn’t mean the scene can’t give it the time of day”.

We spoke to @brenockoconnor about highs and lows, curating a community that cares for each other and where he goes to feel most grounded.

Film by @j_spindler_
Interviewer: @tommyfredsissons Music by @sleepsang Title graphics by @sebkoseda taken in Brockwell Park by @englishgrass

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We finally have @englishgrass on our shelves ! A magazine about working-class literature, art and photography. taken in Athenaeum Boekhandel & Nieuwscentrum by @englishgrass

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FIELD OF VIEW #17 – Matt Turner of Luxury Apartments 🌿
“The kitchen taught me a lot about making music. When you break it down, building a dish isn’t that different from building a song”

We spoke to @luxuryapartmentsband about impostor syndrome, cooking, and the accident genius of The Shaggs.

Film by @j_spindler_
Interviewer: @tommyfredsissons Music by @sleepsang Title graphics by @sebkoseda by @englishgrass

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