April 2004. Writers have been the main players in the graffiti movement for more than thirty years, but they have now been overtaken on the left by an army of attention-seekers of a new kind. Their aim - making their mark to show they exist - hasn't changed, but how they do it has. And this is not just about changing fashions. In every town, on every set of traffic lights, on every facade and even on the ground are stencilled pictures, stickers, sometimes hand-painted ones, and screen-printed or photocopied posters. This book presents the works of fifty-three authors, from Barcelona to Rio, New York to Moscow and Rotterdam to Perth. It's not an encyclopaedia or a reference work, simply an idea of what's happening worldwide, an attempt to shine the spotlight on work that is poetic or political, funny and inspired.