Playerist Poetry Magazine

Playerist Poetry Magazine (ISSN 2048-2515) was an annual journal of poetics and graphic arts based in London (UK).

Playerist was founded in 2011 by writer, composer and publisher Martin Slidel, and ran until 2018.

Ethos
Front cover of the first edition of Playerist Poetry Magazine (2011, UK)

Playerist featured "a range of emergent and established writers and artists" [1] from London, the UK, and worldwide, as a platform for new work. 'Names' included photographer Ellen Nolan, Ivor Novello Award winner Catherine Howe, singer Christine Collister, actor Amy McAllister and international Jazz vocalist Barb Jungr. For its second edition, the late actor Margaret Nolan (who further contributed artwork and verse to the project [2]) was interviewed about her experience as model for Robert Brownjohn's Goldfinger film title sequence.[3] The interview is often quoted in articles about Nolan, and it also concludes the New York Times obituary. [4]

Playerist was a black and white A5 pamphlet on 100g satin paper with an annual run of 200 copies. It is on catalogue at The Saison Poetry Library, South Bank Centre (London, UK), listed as a poetry magazine. Prints were distributed at a range of city venues. As a performance collective, Playerist staged several arts and music events, usually at Covent Garden's Poetry Society, [5] many of which were filmed for the Rockyoumentally YouTube Channel [6] (Director: Alexander McLean). Its launch event in 2011 was at The Seven Dials Club, also in Covent Garden (London). Playerist has a 5-star rating on WorldCat. It followed set themes from its inception in 2011 through to its final edition in 2018. Brighton-based (East Sussex, UK) multi-media artist Yassin Zelestine contributed commissioned works for each issue.

The 2014 edition on the theme of 'Mistakes' [7] ironically contained a typo resulting in its first run being remaindered, and followed by an amended print.

Themes
YearThemeCover
2011'Loss'No cover image
2012'Artifice'Cover image by Margaret Nolan
2013'Comedy'Cover image by graffiti artist Hutch
2014'Mistakes'No cover image
2015'Food'Cover image by graphic artist Mario Herran
2016'Love'No cover image
2017'Music'No cover image (text art by Martin Slidel)
2018'Deep'No cover image

Short films

Alexander Mclean filmed and produced a series of promotional videos of various Playerist events held at The Poetry Society’s Poetry Café in Covent Garden, London (UK). An exception was ‘The Playerist Gathering’, staged at a Victorian townhouse in North London. These also featured art installations curated by Slidel who formerly curated a group show at Brighton's Start Gallery. The two Playerist installations (for separate dates) constituted printed line drawings by Mario Herran and Chetan Prajapati.

YearTitleProductionDirector
2014'Playerist Comedy Night at Poetry Café'RockyoumentallyAlexander Mclean
2014'The Playerist Gathering'RockyoumentallyAlexander Mclean
2015'Martin Slidel – Playerist Poets Live at Poetry Café'RockyoumentallyAlexander Mclean
2015'Playerist Poetry Live At Poetry Café London'RockyoumentallyAlexander Mclean

References
  1. "Poetry Café: Playerist Comedy Night – October 17 – What's on London". 1 October 2013.
  2. "Front cover of Playerist Poetry Magazine". 2012.
  3. "Margaret Nolan – Playerist Interview". 2012.
  4. "Margaret Nolan, 'Goldfinger' Actress, Dies at 76 – New York Times". 12 October 2020.
  5. "Poetry Café: Playerist Comedy Night – October 17 – What's on London". 1 October 2013.
  6. Rockyoumentally (28 April 2015). "Playerist Poetry Live At Poetry Cafe London" – via YouTube.
  7. "Front cover of Playerist Poetry Magazine". 2014.
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