Clod Magazine & Books

01/06/2026

Our closing view. As in 'the closing of our exhibition.'

We're going to show films, including Dan Mudford's excellent doc of The Knockouts from a few years ago.

This Wednesday, the 3rd June 2026.

Closing a chapter of See-Pages exhibition at the Hat Factory's Long Gallery and Clod Magazines 40th anniversary, we want to thank the people who have joined, visited and took part.. To celebrate the legacy of the Luton's literary monolith that is CLOD Magazine and all its outliers we are bringing yo...

18/05/2026

There’ll be more switching of pages later this week at the Clod Magazine “See-Pages” exhibition!
7 new ones to be discreetly merge into the 23 already on show.
Open until 5th June.
Closing film event on Wednesday 3rd June.

@ The Hat Factory ‘Long Gallery’, Bute Street, Luton.

10/05/2026

02/05/2026

We at Clod Magazine are pleased to say that there are now 23 framed pages of our magazine on show in the Hat Factory’s “Long Gallery”. An exhibition created by The Culture Trust.

Pages have been enlarged to A1 size, and in full colour, as scans of the previously unseen original art work.

It’s a free show that can be viewed during Hat Factory opening hours.

“Seepages” by Clod Magazine & Books.

30/04/2026

While the exhibition continues (and expands, and changes!) the Clod people are available to offer their take on things like “the pursuit of success” and “the not-pursuit of success”.

Tickets are free and available, so get along on Friday at 6.00pm if it appeals.

It’ll be fun and informal, with a slide-show, musical interlude and pre-amble tunes. 🙂

27/04/2026

This Friday, we simple writers of Clod Magazine will be presenting a reasonable yet exhilarating synopsis of our philosophies, if you can call them that, and our working methods, if you can call them that. It’s show + tell time guys!
Nb. Powerpoint will be used during this presentation, in case there are any intolerance issues.
It’s free, so GRAB SOME SEATS! See you there, we hope!
Bye.

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Meet CLOD: Oh How To Do Magazines Now! Meet the makers of Clod Magazine Join us at Hat Works for a special evening with the writers and makers of Clod Magazine, the long-running Luton-based independent publication currently featured in the exhibition “See-Pages”. Approaching their 40th anniversa...

09/04/2026

Hello all. Clod exhibition on its way, rolling in town centre, some time between April 20th ish until early June ish.

There will also be workshops.

Luton Literature
Luton Libraries
Luton Haiku

12/02/2026

Today’s ‘trip down memory lane’ graphic comes courtesy of my Pritt Stik and some old newspaper. It originally appeared in Clod Magazine Issue 32. I’ll leave off floating it on Linked-In, at least until I am convinced that it won’t be well received on that particular “bread & circus” arena of crap. Thank you dear readers.

05/01/2026

Whilst on reconnaissance, one of the Clod team picked up 2 cans.
Clod beer from Prague.
Life is full of these sort of fine things!
Cheers fans!
We’re looking forward to another year of connecting with you indirectly!

Best regards,
from Luton town centre
(CLOD Magazine)

28/11/2025

Clod Magazine Administrative Centre currently housed in boxes + bags in a pile on floor, soon to be homed in a long and thin hall that has a working rad in it + artificial and natural light 🙂