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Rich Cross with Alec Dunn and Eric Yanke. 2025. This is a Message to Persons Unknown: The Story of Poison Girls. PM Press.
[PM Press (UK) | PM Press (US)]

Poison Girls
Persons Unknown: The Complete Recorded History
A seven-disc CD boxset of studio, live and demo recordings, with 96-page full colour booklet
[PM Press / Cooking Vinyl]

Most Recent Work...

Rich Cross with Alec Dunn and Eric Yanke. 2025. This is a Mesage to Persons Unknown: The Story of Poison Girls. Oakland, CA: PM Press. ISBN: 9798887441368 (paperback); 9798887441443 (hardcover); 9798887441375 (e-book).

DIY OR DIE

Rich Cross. 2024. 'Autonomy in the capital: the short life and sudden death of an anarchist punk centre in London, UK', in Jim Donaghey, Will Boisseau and Caroline Kaltefleiter (eds.), DIY OR DIE! Do-It-Yourself, Do-It-Together & Punk Anarchism, Active Distribution. ISBN: 9781914567377.

And All Around Was Darkness

Rich Cross. 2017. 'Fifteen shades of grey', in Greg Bull and Mike Dines (eds.), And All Around Was Darkness, Itchy Monkey Press, pp.218-227. ISBN 978-1-291-74025-7.

The Aesthetic of Our Anger

Rich Cross. 2016. '"Stop the City showed another possibility": Mobilisation and Movement in Anarcho-Punk', in Matt Worley and Mike Dines (eds.), The Aesthetic of Our Anger: Anarcho-Punk, Politics, Music - 1979-1984, Minor Compositions: Colchester / New York / Port Watson. ISBN 978-1-57027-318-6 [ Free eBook download | Print copy available to buy from Minor Compositions ]

Some of us Scream

Rich Cross. 2016. '"Why do you think that they are laughing?", in Greg Bull and Mike Dines (eds.), 'Some of Us Scream Some of Us Shout': Myths, Folklore and Epic Tales of the Anarcho, (Itchy Monkey Press) [ Buy from Active Distribution ]

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