Sound
Uncommon Errors, Quiet Faces in the Screaming Crowd
Trebuchet talks to SiKth’s Mikey (Mikee) Goodman on creating visions in sound. (read more)
poetry
News
Adam, ‘Ad ‘Em: Science Asks What Makes Poetry Work
What gives poetry its aesthetic appeal? (read more)
Society
Requiem4Grenfell – Images and Verse
Scenes of community, hope, defiance and care from the wreckage of Grenfell (read more)
Society
Where is the Duende? Frack Language, Frack Self
When we frack language, we tear apart the core of self (read more)
Society
Words, Phrases and Sentences: The Connective Tissue of Humanity
Poets strive to map the beauty and terror of existence. You have never been alone. (read more)
Society
Have An Imaginative Christmas
Famine, War, Greed. We can fix this. Just add a more rigorous imagination. (read more)
Art
Blasted Feminism: Group X, Wyndham Lewis, and Women
Not one to court populist acclaim, Wyndham Lewis looked upon feminism with a mixture of admiration and scorn (read more)
Society
We Are Infinite Song: Consolations of the Soul
As 2016 enters its final phase, remember: we are as much infinite song as we are earthen flesh (read more)
Art
Wyndham Lewis, Grayson Perry, David Baddiel and Masculinity
With power comes reponsibility, as Wyndham Lewis (and Spiderman) knew well. Art is power, not voyeurism. (read more)
Society
Mantra for Fulfilled Living: Battling distraction, addiction and domination
Be weak, for strength in a violent world is an ignoble tool (read more)
Features
When All is Dark, Have Faith in Night
By a poetic descent into the underworld, one is confronted with truths that only can be revealed in darkness. (read more)
Society
Of Short Cinema and Semiotics: PoetryFilm
PoetryFilm: image, text and sound techniques in very experimental forms (read more)
Events
Tonight! Punk, Poetry, Politics: Mike Doughty, Hoxton Underbelly
Mike Doughty hits the stage at the Underbelly, Hoxton, tonight. (read more)
Society
The Carnival of Consumerism and its Tawdry Trinkets
How sensation replaces experience in the Late Capitalist Empire (read more)
Society
Powerlessness, Anxiety and the Political Tides: A Coping Strategy
We build a structure of false consciousness… that we, often, mistake for our convictions, and tragically mistake this dismal dwelling for the whole of existence. (read more)
Society
Small of Stature, Great of Nature
The diminutive are spurned, scorned, defamed and relegated to the margins. (read more)
Society
Does the Devil Have the Best Tunes?
Passion at every level, from personal trauma, hit and run thrill and love, to the way the world is moving: its cruelty, its pains and pleasures. (read more)
Society
Language games across the checkmate of infinity
These are not really poems, that’s why I put the word poem in inverted commas in the title. (read more)
Art
Every myth is a memory, formed through complex layers of tellings through time.
OE: Orpheus and Euridice: For the next half an hour music and poetry weaved in and out of each other in a richly discursive mesh of words and sounds, sometimes obscuring and at other times refining each other. (read more)
Society
Scott Laudati : Hawaiian Shirts in the Electric Chair [Poetry]
Between the suburbs and the city, and all that they stand for in Laudati’s oeuvre, there is the ever-present fear not of age itself, but of fading away rather than burning out (read more)
Art
Tom De Freston : The Charnel House [Book]
One of the major successes of de Freston’s imagery lies in the fantastically delicate positioning of the horrible and the harrowing with the everyday (read more)
Events
The Spit of Me [Theatre]
The Spit of Me is poet and performer Dzifa Benson’s personal quest to explore the story DNA has to tell us about identity. (read more)
Art
Tsunami Coast : Poetography
Sri Lanka, 2014 – poem and images by Julio Etchart (read more)
Society
Veracity of Soul and Materialist Reductionism
a person who believes they have no soul is as dangerous to our besieged planet, in their own way, as one who is out to save the soul of others (read more)
Society
Imagination in a Soulless Age
Often a collapse, a breakdown, a depression—some sort of unsolvable crisis is required before the soul’s message is heard.
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Events
Seamus Heaney Tribute : London Irish Centre
The Irish community in London gathers to celebrate the life and work of the great man. (read more)
Art
Lydia Lunch Part 2: Allies, Enemies and Joe Rogan.
If you ever stick around after one of my shows the amount of hugging that goes on is insane. I’m Mother fucking India! (read more)
Art
Con-artist. I have respect for that (Lydia Lunch)
I do feel that it is a calling, to be a mouthpiece for some individuals that just feel they’re screaming and no sound is coming out. (read more)
Society
Of Grief and Hope
Climate chaos. Dying oceans. The degradation of U.S. corporate/militarist empire and the concomitant collapse of the global, neoliberal order. Our child will be born into a world where there will be a paradigm shift — or there will come mass tragedy. (read more)
Society
After the Flood
In the presence of death and in the aftermath of great storms, we apprehend how vainly we cling to the illusion of certainty and permanence. (read more)