In 2024, the Texture of Silence illustrations reached the finals of the Ditmar Awards (artworks).

Out now, Texture of Silence, an ardent and confronting illustrated collection of prose poetry on othering, climate change, mis/identity, loss, belonging, migration, hybridity, ancestry, clairvoyance, futurism, consternation, and hope.

Texture of Silence, from the euphonic Eugen Bacon, writer extraordinaire, and the somewhat Steve Simpson, inconstant writer and artist, is published by Independent Legions. 

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In Texture of Silence, Eugen Bacon and Steve Simpson step through the glass of a cartwheeling multiverse teeming with allomimetic, and often bilocated, creatures beset by exformation. Here are two conversationalists who ambush you with new and knife-edged lexicons that break free from generic forms. Texture of Silence broadcasts the vision of master conjurers who see through walls of time and language, dismantling as they do assumed realities. In this startling lyric and digital irreality, reality itself will need a second coat of Dulux paint. Step through, reader. —Dominique Hecq, award-winning author, poet and translator.