The Wire #486 August 2024 sport the mystery of poetry and

the mystery of poetry and the leaven of irony that transformed the “banal” into surprise and revealed its hidden and human face

the Band of Thebes and the Lesbian Sappho

10 interviews with selected contributors and jury’s comments on the winners

Die liebevollen Illustrationen von Alette Straathof zeigen junge und alte Menschen

including everything from housing developments to furniture and websites

The Wire #486 August 2024 sport the mystery of poetry andWire is an independent music magazine covering a wide range of global alternative, underground and experimental music. It celebrates and interrogates the most visionary and inspiring, subversive and radical, marginalised and undervalued musicians on the planet, past and present, in the realms of avant rock, electronic music, hiphop, new jazz, improvised music, modern composition, traditional musics and more. Passionate, intelligent and provocative,