Mind the Gaps

Phil Smith is a performance-maker, writer and researcher.He is the author of numerous books and plays. Withvisual artist and poet Helen Billinghurst, he is one half ofCrab & Bee, co-authoring Crab & Bee’s 'Matter Of Britain'(Peakrill Press) in 2025 and 'The Pattern' (Triarchy Press) in2020.With Tony Whitehead, Phil is co-author of the novelBonelines (2020), author of the neo-gothic novellas of 'TheSilversnake Project' (2023) and of 'Living In The MagicalMode' in 2022.He wrote 'Albion’s Eco-Eerie: Films And TV Of theHaunted Generations' in 2024 (Temporal Boundary Press)and his 'Albion’s Atomic-Weird' is due out in 2026.Since 1980 Phil has been company dramaturg for TNTTheatre (Munich) and is an Honorary Associate Researcherat University of Plymouth. He is currently researchingdiagrammatical performances with Helen Billinghurst, andtogether they are writing a book about these for Routledge forpublication in 2026.

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• The GapsWhat if? If That Nothing Is, Then What Is This?What If The Nothing Is A Something? Where Is If?TransactionsBut WaitIn which case, if that is true, where is The If?A Doubt Creeps InIs Hyper-empiricism The Answer?Dark CitiesHow did I get here?The Empty TempleA-causation Local GeneralitiesThe GhostCMB and The Occult OriginThe One Tear That Isn’t ThereThe Seal Trying To Make Non-Existence Meaningful A Body Returned Anti-transactionalCoincidences: Connections Without CausesBending Time: Cause And Effect Gap Politics There Is Never Any Conclusion