“My own material existence I am reasonably assured of. I can imagine my friend at the other end of the line. But between us two there is an airy nowhere, inhabited by voices and nothing else[…]The vocal inhabitants of this strange region have an amazing vanishing quality[…] And sometimes…you hear the confused murmur of a hundred voices. You catch more expressions from private conversations than your nerves can transmit to the central office of your brain; and if you are imaginative, you may undergo, as I have, a feeling as if you had a hundred astral bodies that were guiltily listening at as many keyholes.”
“A Reporters Visit to the Boston Telephone Exchange”
Scientific American 1887, 106
joe[a]strangeregion.co.uk
VOCAL INHABITANTS
various contributors
edited by Joe Vaughan + Charlie Case
edition of 250
148 x 226mm, 116pp
cover design by Joe Vaughan
isbn 9781739784034
2025
eleven pounds
Vocal Inhabitants is a vibrant collection of new, experimental writing and visual art from writers and artists across the globe. The collection is interested in questions of degradation, liminality and companionship. But at its heart, it represents an exploration of that which is lost between speaker and receiver, the decay of thought between the mind and the page, the fraying of relationships between lovers and families and the generation of new, abstract ways of communicating. Though described as an anthology, Vocal Inhabitants is not part of a series, and does not represent an ongoing anthology project, but rather it is a single work created by many voices.