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Ripped Backsides: Postcards From Beneath the Pavement
120 pages, Paperback
Published June 24, 2025
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About the author
Richard Cabut
9 books28 followersCurrent books.
Disorderly Magic and Other Disturbances (Far West Press).
Looking for a Kiss – extended edition (PC-Press)
Richard Cabut is author of the novels Looking for a Kiss (Sweat Drenched Press, 2020) and Dark Entries (Cold Lips Press, 2019), editor/-writer of the anthology Punk is Dead: Modernity Killed Every Night (Zer0 Books, October 2017), contributor to Ripped, Torn and Cut – Pop, Politics and Punks Fanzines From 1976 (Manchester University Press, 2018) and Growing Up With Punk (Nice Time, 2018).
His journalism has featured in the Guardian, the Daily Telegraph, NME (pen name Richard North), ZigZag, The Big Issue, Time Out, Offbeat magazine, the Independent, Artists & Illustrators magazine, thefirstpost, London Arts Board/Arts Council England, Siren magazine, etc.
His fiction has appeared in the books The Edgier Waters (Snowbooks, 2006) and Affinity (67 Press, 2015). He was a Pushcart Prize nominee 2016.
Richard’s plays have been performed at various theatres in London and nationwide, including the Arts Theatre, Covent Garden, London.
He published the fanzine Kick, and played bass for the punk band Brigandage (LP Pretty Funny Thing – Gung Ho Records, 1986).
Disorderly Magic and Other Disturbances (Far West Press).
Looking for a Kiss – extended edition (PC-Press)
Richard Cabut is author of the novels Looking for a Kiss (Sweat Drenched Press, 2020) and Dark Entries (Cold Lips Press, 2019), editor/-writer of the anthology Punk is Dead: Modernity Killed Every Night (Zer0 Books, October 2017), contributor to Ripped, Torn and Cut – Pop, Politics and Punks Fanzines From 1976 (Manchester University Press, 2018) and Growing Up With Punk (Nice Time, 2018).
His journalism has featured in the Guardian, the Daily Telegraph, NME (pen name Richard North), ZigZag, The Big Issue, Time Out, Offbeat magazine, the Independent, Artists & Illustrators magazine, thefirstpost, London Arts Board/Arts Council England, Siren magazine, etc.
His fiction has appeared in the books The Edgier Waters (Snowbooks, 2006) and Affinity (67 Press, 2015). He was a Pushcart Prize nominee 2016.
Richard’s plays have been performed at various theatres in London and nationwide, including the Arts Theatre, Covent Garden, London.
He published the fanzine Kick, and played bass for the punk band Brigandage (LP Pretty Funny Thing – Gung Ho Records, 1986).
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May 25, 2025
So pretentious…actually the most pretentious thing I have ever read… so pretentious, it may be self aware and an act of camp? Sex, parties, European and American cities, art, philosophy, all made into experimental poetry prose. Perhaps best read over time and not all in one sitting.
June 22, 2025
I enjoy a bit of psychogeography. Cut and paste methods always interest me too. Like the travelogue feel across time and space. Kind of horizontal splice of countercultral moods in global cities.
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