Writer's Block Magazine

Why writing poetry is better than going to the gym

June 4, 2015

by Isadora Goudsblom, Poetry, WB Column, Writing

Read on to the end for an additional exercise! You haven’t been to the loo yet (the loo, loo, if you know what I mean) and feel your stomach going up and down and making loud noises and you’re all clogged up inside and have to stop running after 5 minutes for fear of exploding.…

Books to Read To Help You Deal with Death, A Little Bit

June 1, 2015

by Books, Tessel Rijneveldshoek, WB Column

When I was a kid, I was terrified of death, which was slightly peculiar, as the topic of death was not an unfamiliar one in my family. My mother is a pastor and besides church services and weddings, she often leads funeral services, about which she shares stories often enough. On the other hand, that…

Passionately Curious: What the Hell Is… Evolution?

May 28, 2015

by Passionately Curious, Paul Hofma

What do you mean, “not that kind of evolution”? I am a scientist, and a fairly broadly educated one at that, and so I can have a tendency to forget that a lot of things I take for granted are, in reality, quite complicated for most of us. Like, you know, quantum mechanics. Or much…

A Letter to Barlaeus and Vossius

May 25, 2015

by Ilona Roesli, WB Column

28 April, 2015 Dear Casparus and Gerardus, I wish I could have been there with you, seventeenth-century’s chillings. Cursing every fucking Newtonian number with theological twaddle. Who would have thought your legacy to be the death of the polymath? In this sped-up system we call ideology, covered with a thick layer of dust, anti-heroes…

Bike Eulogy

May 21, 2015

by Phoebe Eccles, WB Column

To those of you who were born and bred in the land of Nether, I imagine that the bicycle appears as everyday an object as your kettle or thumb: a precious tool, but not one that inspires the poetry of the muses. However, to a humble Londoner like myself, (whose experiences of bikes before arriving…