After years of waiting, Notes has managed its first fun issue! From a sparkly baby on the cover to the skid-marks of Eve Hawksworth’s strange but wonderfully compelling ‘Lacquering’, issue 31 is filled with noise and nonsense, finally coming to rest in the intimate precision captured in Isobel Laidler’s ‘Early Late/Late Early’. At its centre, Jerry Cummins’ collage and poetry combination piles building upon building, syllable upon syllable, in a hybrid vision of London circa 2016.

We hope that this issue inspires discussion, creation, and perhaps even more whimsy…