Will has written an introduction to this week’s 22nd birthday edition of the Big Issue. Do buy a copy:
“These accounts by Big Issue sellers of their favourite places do not read like conventional descriptions of ‘attractions’; they are the considered opinions of people who know a place bottom up – who’ve experienced it from the perspective of the pavement and cardboard-box-bash; who’ve filtered it through the harsh realisation that to be here, now, is all they have.
“This is the queered topography of people who for most of the time are simply not perceived by the great mass of moving in time-and-money motion, and for that reason they have a poignancy and evocativeness of their own.