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'What constitutes a journey? Is a journey necessarily physical, something that takes us from point A to point B on a map? Or is what makes something a ‘journey’ really more of an internal process, a thing that changes shape and wriggles around as it finds its form inside us? Furthermore, can a journey follow just one of these thought-streams, or are both physical and non-physical elements needed for true journeying? Simple enough questions on the surface of things but, as the contributors to this bumper issue of SWAMP (our 32nd!) have proved, not so simple when you start to pull them apart.' (Introduction)