Fuck off. I’m not your granddad. These young people, they’re only young. Not my fault. Fuck this. Time away. Excuse me, you poisoned my dog. You put poisoned meat out. But the British police won’t do anything about it. Fucking shitbags. I’ve not seen my nephew for years. Are you worried? You look pale. I’m … Continue reading »
Author Archives: notsopoetry
Daydream
Sometimes I wish I had learnt to drive, especially on days like these, days where I notice the stasis of the life I have created. But I could use my bicycle I suppose, although it’s too slow for what I need, and I am too tired to pedal. My legs don’t hold me up like … Continue reading »
One Justified Nepalese Education
Across the ‘developing’ world, one tactic all agree on is the importance of universal education for the alleviation of poverty. In Nepal, after the recent construction of two new schools under the Nepal-India Economic Cooperation Programme, Ambassador Prasad declared that these projects would help Nepali people in their strides towards peace and prosperity. But … Continue reading »
The Arts Cuts are Censorship, Welfare Cuts are Class War
Image: Bob and Roberta Smith The rhetoric this government are using to convince people the arts cuts are needed is that there are more important things right now to be worried about and giving money to than the arts. Continue reading »
Three Facts About Peace
18% of British soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan had PTSD and more die from suicide than combat. A reported 36,000 people have been killed in Syria since March 2011. The UN website is undergoing maintenance and is currently unavailable. Please check back in a short while. By Sam O’Hana Photograph by HsienLoong Lim Continue reading »
As(s)piration Nation, a response
Photograph: Nastasia Alberti I aspire to see a world where there is a true choice for all. Not a false choice between working in shit job A or shit job B, not a choice that feeds into a bogus declaration of how a country should feel. I don’t aspire to be a home owner – … Continue reading »
Happy Place
Sunlight spreads like honey On the sweeping dunes. And I a child in summer’s clothing, Know not of mournful tunes. A rush uphill through sand and sky Hear the sea’s voracious cry For human limbs. And I near the ocean clearing Where hearts desires take their form Cloudless throngs Dreams Once forlorn I clutch at … Continue reading »
This is What Happens When You Cut The Arts
In the middle of ‘austerity’ what do people want to stand in front of? A government who slashes public services and the arts – as if they aren’t interlinked – is a government who does not understand the importance of the culture. David Cameron can stand in as many One Direction videos as he … Continue reading »
Enlarged to Show Detail
What do you know of oats, America? Yesterday, you were just a coin in the hands of some seafarer. Continue reading »
Tell-Tale Heart
Short film adaptation of Edgar Allen Poe’s story. Directed by Keifer Taylor and Christina Sukar, written by Darya Yaitskaya, cinematography by Leila Sohawon. Continue reading »
See a Jay
Did you see a jay? Continue reading »
Concessions
CONCESSIONS It’s hard to hear when the apathy is deafening. Ears wide shut you coast the backstreets oblivious, as cracked as the pavement and as inert as the concrete of the passe urban jungle you travel as an insect. And you are an insect: because the shoe is always on the biggest foot ready to … Continue reading »
Bathtime
A Bathtub where water covers toes where Skin holds back – weaves and presses on wondering whims, limbs, connecting, touching ripples through eyes of innocence quenching the taste of experience. Submerged in liquid past water browns, society masks swamps out of knowledge. Dripping taps & the water’s cold aged, and yet we fail to … Continue reading »
L.A TIMES
Californya 96 is a collaborative effort between two brothers: one contributing music and the other his hi8 (camcorder VHS to you and I) film footage of their family holiday to California in 1996. Cameos by Keith Sweat, Doc Brown’s DeLorean DMC-12, and Californya 96’s legendary little sister. Continue reading »
I read books for sex…
When I look back on my choice of fiction I have always been turned off from literature that did not leave me a little hot under the collar. However, the sex involved in the books I read tends to be a slow burn of surmounting tension that climaxes just before anyone has to use … Continue reading »
A Historical Argument for Subjectivity in Journalism
Judging only from the current state of journalism, it would seem that blogs and the Internet have introduced a new challenge to the longstanding, steadfast tradition of objective journalism – where the writer is not an individual, but merely a catalyst through which the story flows, unmarred, from pure fact to written word. It … Continue reading »
Eventually: When sweat drips/ It drips a milky salt/ Down your back
Eventually. When sweat drips It drips a milky salt Down your back, flickering Down your back, condensing On skin. Waiting for a tongue To flick out, lick it up, mould You into shade. Light miming Through the window. A face looks Through the window, eyes gleam As the sweat falls down your back. Eyes watch … Continue reading »
I am a metaphor
I am a metaphor I am a metaphor for swirling swollen seas in darkness then I come bold triumphant like a gale howling down the straits I run on inky trails utopian I see the sudden flash of dawn withdrawing from horizon lines beyond where longditude and I apply our petty mortal laws but I … Continue reading »
Untitled
Brain pulsing, blood pumping, the world humming through a pane of glass, single glazing (fucking freezing) thinking: how many others are lying like a foetus trapped in a darkness hearts beating, lungs excreting, engulfed by an irrational thought? By Rosie Spence Photo by HsienLoong Lim Continue reading »
The shortly pressed grass, sponged and moulded…
The shortly pressed grass, sponged and moulded, rather caressed the heavily jazz soothed souls that lay across the green. Some sat, a child stumbled holding the oversized tartan umbrella. The sun warmed the air as the sell of coffee and the hiss of the symbol surrounded the seven. A baby sat greedily and satisfied upon … Continue reading »
Note Talking: Video Interview with film maker Alex Mallis
During my glorious month in New York, I attended the Northside Film Festival in Brooklyn. One of the stand out films was ‘The Last Colourful Note’, in which the audience are taken on a colourful and playful journey back to childhood Continue reading »
Curse These Metal Hands
[Curse These Metal Hands] Remove the fastenings of the ether and slide Be without the constant containment provided by the host Continue reading »
love song
when one day my cheeks sag by my jowls and thin whisps of hair frame my pitted brow Continue reading »
In Baguio City, however, the air is always hot (Part One)
In Baguio City, however, the air is always hot. Steamed trapped on the inside of windows, foggy glass. Continue reading »
The Dinner Bell
It’s true that breaking the peace works. Continue reading »
Nice Tools: a short scene of victory
The New York Department of Environmental Protection were digging up the street in front of my building; doing something to the water line for days on end, and late into the evening. Continue reading »
From Simone to Xtina: Everyone’s got a Vagenda
The Vagenda, an anonymous online magazine, has come a long way from two skint girls getting pissed and reading women’s magazines. Continue reading »
Havoc at the Moebius
You wake up in your bedroom. It is empty. It looks as though you’ve been robbed because all your possessions are gone. Continue reading »
Pop Culture and Politics: an interview with Eric Yahnker
Eric Yahnker’s work merges high and low, pop culture and mythic legend to create amazingly detailed pencil drawn satire. Continue reading »
Jacques Audiard: It’s a Man’s World
Following The Beat That My Heart Skipped (2005) and A Prophet (2009) was never going to be easy and a common introduction thus far to Rust and Bone is that it’s unlike Jacques Audiard’s previous films. Continue reading »
Forgotten Faces I
Only dead people get put in the little box of photographs Continue reading »
Cell #1
And it seemed like his hair was in place/ But my moaning didn’t allow him to stay Continue reading »
Edward Hopper’s Windows
Edward Hopper’s windows give a sense of the impact of loneliness even when part of a community. Continue reading »
The Topography of Experience
This article attempts to examine the contrasting yet concurrent ways Britain and German have attempted to deal with their historical traditions. Continue reading »
Bible For Kids: Cain and Abel
The next in the series of ‘Bible for Kids’- The Bible, rewritten in easy to understand story form. Featuring horrifying illustrations and unconvinced commentary. What happens when Cain meets Abel? We give you the official and not so official version… THE BIBLE SAYETH: Life was hard for Adam and Eve outside the garden, as God … Continue reading »
The Paradox of Motherhood
“Man’s love is of his life a thing apart / ‘Tis woman’s whole existence”. / It was in Don Juan that Lord Byron reminded me how one often finds them self portraying and perceiving woman as the dependent creature. Continue reading »
INTERVIEW: Ugly Duckling Presse
Ugly Duckling Presse, like every good independent publishers, have their own creation myth. Starting out in 1993 as a cut-and-paste ‘zine the press has since grown into a fully oiled up cultural printing machine. They delve into the fringes of the written word to find the most innovative and interesting poetry, works in translation, essays … Continue reading »
The Titanic Memory
Weeping Tom
