Category: Brendon Booth-Jones
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On Community
Read more: On Community1 This is my final essay as the Editor-in-Chief of Writer’s Block Magazine. Being a member of the editorial board for the last 18 months has been incredibly enriching. I’m moving on because I feel it’s time to pursue other creative projects—but Sona (who is also leaving) and I are both so excited to follow…
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Ambiguous Hush: An Ecocritical Reading of John Clare’s ‘The Nightingale’s Nest’
Read more: Ambiguous Hush: An Ecocritical Reading of John Clare’s ‘The Nightingale’s Nest’I recently stumbled onto a short YouTube clip of the philosopher, Slavoj Žižek, in which he said that although we humans emerged from nature and are a part of the biological phenomenon of the natural world, this fact does not mean that how we conceive of nature is necessarily accurate or objective. The way we…
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But What Does the Poem Mean?
Read more: But What Does the Poem Mean?With all that is going on in the world right now, I believe that poetry is more important than ever, and I have been lucky enough to read some incredibly powerful and necessary poems in the last few weeks. And yet poetry seems to be as misunderstood as it ever was. The first question that…
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Turning Touch into Art: Laura A Dima’s Finger Rub Rug
Read more: Turning Touch into Art: Laura A Dima’s Finger Rub RugOn an overcast Tuesday afternoon, surrounded by sleepy ambiguous warehouses and faded factories, I enter Laura A Dima’s studio, named ISO Amsterdam, on the outskirts of the city. Isolatorweg: the last stop on Metro Line 51. Here she shares a former factory floor with an array of creative professionals doing everything from product design, sculpture…
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A Strange Day in Bali
Read more: A Strange Day in Bali— For Uncle Pat We had neighboring rooms in the same sandy, humble homestay at Bingin Beach in Bali. The homestay was wedged alongside several other small guesthouses on the lower rung of a steep hill overlooking the bay. I met him one morning over breakfast. There was only one plastic table in the small…
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