Blessed With Pain

/ Queen Mob / Misc
Metamodernism does not, then, propose any kind of utopian vision, although it does describe the climate in which a yearning for utopias, despite their futile nature, has come to the fore.

Where’s LaBeouf?

I Love Roses When They’re Past Their Best

/ Charles Whalley / Misc
Although a significant proportion are British, the poets in I Love Roses When They’re Past Their Best have little geographical commonality, and are unlikely to have come together before the internet; their home as poets is online.

‘Computer Chess’ and the reclaiming of history in film

/ Ruud Klomp / Media
In his widely acclaimed text on history in film, History on Film/Film on History, Robert A. Rosenstone championed the historical film as a way of ‘doing history’, and put forward the notion of the filmmaker as historian.

Metamodernist // Manifesto

/ Luke Turner / Misc
We recognise oscillation to be the natural order of the world.

Poets as First Responders