Tripticks Janis Cooke Newman as it came to be

as it came to be known

In these pages we also meet a Blemya

Harry Clifton’s essay ‘The Physical World of Seamus Heaney’

John Barnie was born and raised in Abergavenny

Tripticks Janis Cooke Newman as it came to beFirst published in 1972, Ann Quins fourth and final novel was a radical break from the introspective style she had developed in Three and Passages: a declaration of independence from all expectations. Brashly experimental, ribald, and hilarious, Tripticks maps new territories for the novel aspiring to a form of pop art via the drawings of the artist Carol Annand and anticipating the genre busting work of Kathy Acker through collage and gory satire.