Everybody has their own particular reading of the disturbances that took place across the UK in August last year. My own view is that what we witnessed was in fact a prison riot. I personally believe that the inmates of Prison Britain rose up against their warders in a orgy of anger and...
Felixstowe: Second c...
posted by Front Lip
Sleepless and burnt out at the age of twenty nine, Felixstowe is one of the romantic poets to whom history turned a blind eye. A peripheral figure, he ekes out a living as an office monkey while his erstwhile friends form part of the poetic jet-set, bent on cutting a drug-fuelled swathe...
Jason and the Vegana...
posted by Front Lip
I first met Jason (name changed to protect the identity of his girlfriend) four years ago. A nice guy, it seemed, a bit cocky but undeniably attentive in conversation and arguably generous with his time and support. He had been going out with my friend for three months and...
The Heaven Field ...
posted by Front Lip
St. Claire has given up the violence and the one night stands. He’s dropped out of sight, moved up the coast and embraced a life of quiet solitude. He’s learning how to be good again. Kaska lives in a village where the only growth industries are...
ENDOMA II
posted by Front Lip
ENDOMA is a science fiction world: a vast sealed dome with 4.5 million inhabitants. These poems - i d en it too (identity tattoo) and Ovella – are from the hypertext poetry collection, ‘ENDOMA: encommem’. See more here: www.endoma.net i d en it too I ...
Kitler Diaries > Emo...
posted by Front Lip
I placed a kitty snack in front of Kitler. I told her that I was going to leave the room for five minutes and if the snack was still there when I came back then she could have a week’s supply of kitty snacks. When I returned, there was no kitty snack, an absence accompanied by...
Felixstowe: First ch...
posted by Front Lip
Sleepless and burnt out at the age of twenty nine, Felixstowe is one of the romantic poets to whom history turned a blind eye. A peripheral figure, he ekes out a living as an office monkey while his erstwhile friends form part of the poetic jet-set, bent on cutting a drug-fuelled swathe...
Nina Nineham > Rights and Thongs
posted by Front Lip
I often wondered whether they took a spare pair along, you know, the knickers throwers at Tom Jones or Prince concerts. Never having been to a concert where such a thing has taken place, spit yes, but knickers no, I remain genuinely puzzled. It’s not the sort of thing women in my milieu did or do. But as if to fill such women with crippling liberal white middle-class guilt (even if many knickers throwers past and present are in fact black and working class), I would remind them of the recent legislative passion to ban second hand knickers from being sold in Africa and all this curious story entails. Starting in...