welcome to sucking mud...

sucking mud is a FREE, irregularly produced, independent artists’ pamphlet, available in both printed format and online.

> Launch issue out now! - February 2007

sucking mud is part-artists’ book and part-poetry pamphlet - which consists of contributed visual and written work by visual artists, poets and writers within and out with the Orkney Islands.

Designed to be quick and easy to produce and disseminate, sucking mud is is an artist run publication - it is printed in black and white and has a relatively short print run.

The aim of sucking mud is to compliment other publications by providing a small but distinct platform for artists, poets, writers and thinkers to publish new material.

From this website, you can view, download and print the current and back issues of sucking mud. You can also subscribe to the email newsletter version of the pamphlet - as well as finding out how to submit work to sucking mud.

> Read the latest issue of sucking mud online

The name 'sucking mud'?

'sucking mud' is a term taken from the New Hacker's Dictionary (or Jargon File as it is called online):

Extract:

sucking mud (Applied Data Research) adj.
Crashed or wedged. Usually said of a machine that provides some service to a network, such as a file server. This Dallas regionalism derives from the East Texas oilfield lament, "Shut 'er down, Ma, she's a-suckin' mud". Often used as a query. "We are going to reconfigure the network, are you ready to suck mud?"

> The New Hacker's Dictionary

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