Curated lets us know about this:

“Popshot Magazine – a bi-annual British based arts publication that champions contemporary poetry and illustration – has recently launched ‘The Print Shop.’ The shop is an opportunity to bring beautiful and affordable illustration prints to the walls of visual art/illustration lovers around the world. After five issues of the magazine and having worked with over 100 illustrators, Popshot decided to take six of the finest illustrations from the past two years and turn them into beautiful, collectable art prints. Each illustration is Giclee printed, produced in limited edition runs of 150 and measures at a whopping 550mm x 675mm.”

See more over at Curated.

Magculture turns us onto ‘Popshot’, a new publication focusing on poetry and illustration. Popshot takes a simple idea and executes to maximum effect with some great design and excellent use of black space (a welcome change from white space).

Their founder Jacob Denno neatly described why he doesn’t think poetry is seen as outdated:

Why do you think that poetry has a stuffy image?
I think a massive amount of it is to do with design. A lot of poets have no interest in layout or aesthetics so it showcases the work in a pretty dry manner. Also, there’s an enormous amount of praise that circulates for poets from days gone by. People usually cite Keats and Auden and Frost as inspiration rather than the poets of today so to someone from the outside, poetry is still pretty much stuck in the 1940’s.

Take a look at spreads from the magazine after the leap.