Quantcast
Channel: pop cultural – Penned in the Margins
Browsing all 17 articles
Browse latest View live

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Things To Do Before You Leave Town

Attempt to tessellate everything you’ve never wanted and ever known. Cut the phone. Bleed the radiators. from ‘Things To Do Before You Leave Town’ Mono-browed cousins, clandestine paperboys, murderous...

View Article


Hyakuretsu Kyaku

DOWNLOAD (23.5MB PDF) The mercurial Ross Sutherland’s new sonnet sequence Hyakuretsu Kyaku playfully recasts the characters from cult video game Street Fighter 2 as “twelve heroes that span the breadth...

View Article


Emergency Window

My love, I feel like this print of Rothko. I am small and glassy and I want to impress you, even if it means murdering one of your work colleagues. You think if you stare long enough at your noodles...

View Article

Sunspots

The Sun is our neighbourhood star, igniting the imagination and setting the template for divinity. But in reality, it is crawling with sunspots of differing shapes, sizes, and power. Simon Barraclough...

View Article

The Story of No

In The Story of No Emma Hammond delivers an experimental lyric that is wild, weird and full of the errata of modern life. Her poems reappropriate the language of brands, pornography and instant...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Everything Crash (Special Edition)

A piano is thrown from the top of an East London tower block. A Goth is sick on the bus. Crises, curses and kisses punctuate this new book of poetry by Tim Wells. Written from the edges of the city,...

View Article

Everything Crash

A piano is thrown from the top of an East London tower block. A Goth is sick on the bus. Crises, curses and kisses punctuate this new book of poetry by Tim Wells. Written from the edges of the city,...

View Article

Futures: Poetry of the Greek Crisis

“the gouged marble, the graffiti scrawls, the statue standing like something outraged remind you, you who yearned to live beyond this, that hope marked you too.” from ‘This City’ by Adrianne...

View Article


Sunspots (paperback)

The Sun is our neighbourhood star, igniting the imagination and setting the template for divinity. But in reality, it is crawling with sunspots of differing shapes, sizes, and power. Simon Barraclough...

View Article


Cain

The year is 2016 and Luke Kennard finds himself estranged from his family, his publisher and his faith. With the help of his Community Psychiatric Nurse, who claims to be the living embodiment of Cain...

View Article

Cain

The year is 2016 and Luke Kennard finds himself estranged from his family, his publisher and his faith. With the help of his Community Psychiatric Nurse, who claims to be the living embodiment of Cain...

View Article

The Toll

An escaped lion roams the streets of Essex; a lonely pensioner holds a tower block fête; and the silent majority takes to the streets. Travel the unfashionable A-roads and commuter lines of England —...

View Article

Frankie Vah

Following the multi-award-winning What I Learned from Johnny Bevan, celebrated poet Luke Wright’s second verse play deals with loss, love and belief against a backdrop of beer-soaked music venues and...

View Article


WITCH

Rebecca Tamás reckons with blood and earth, mysticism and the devil, witch trials and the suffragettes, gender and sexuality. At turns lyrical, philosophical and obscene, WITCH evokes the intimate,...

View Article

Reckless Paper Birds

These exuberant poems welcome you into a psychedelic, parallel world of ‘vomit and blossom’ where Kate Bush mingles with a weeping Lady Gaga, a ‘fractal coast’ full of see-through things: water,...

View Article


Darling, It’s Me

Relationships are tested in a seaside hotel, a therapist diagnoses trust issues, and a ‘milk-wracked’ baby is breastfed in an artisan café. Delighting in anachronism, Alison Winch’s visceral and...

View Article

The Remains of Logan Dankworth

Logan Dankworth, columnist and Twitter warrior, grew up romanticising the political turmoil of the 1980s. Now, as the EU Referendum looms, he is determined to be in the fray of the biggest political...

View Article

Browsing all 17 articles
Browse latest View live