Great Poems #6 — The most obvious and straightforward way a poem engages with its audience is through the carefully orchestrated positioning of words and phrases, but there can also be other less conventional and more surprising methods; a handful of which are a joy to encounter. …

Contemporary poetry — I always think of her as (the) (an) unborn. Who knew. (?) Because the truth is, if you want things to work out for you in New York, then you need to choose your bitch bastard truthful face and then just (fucking) stick with it; and stick with it, bigtime, (got it?)…

Author Q&A: Jakob Zaaiman — Interviewed by Ben Human From what I’ve read about you, you work on your own artistic pursuits more or less full-time on Mondays through Thursdays, recovering over the ‘weekend’. And you live in London. Are you independently wealthy or do you make a passable living from your art? I can’t believe that London is affordable to anyone but investment bankers or trust fund kids.

Marion Crane and her madness — I came to Psycho very late in the day. It had been around for decades, and all my arty friends had seen it as teenagers. It was one of those you ‘have-to-have-seen’ cultural events that gave me the vague feeling other people knew something I didn’t. And as this was…

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Great poems #5 — (‘Nirvana’ reproduced in full at the end.) If you travel hopefully, and interestedly, and observantly, and look out of the window — many people can’t be bothered (phones, sleep, earbuds, etc) — you will, sooner rather than later, get to see glimpses — snapshots — of other people’s lives, and…

A contemporary poem — So like Burt Lancaster In ‘The Swimmer’, I somehow expected to have to swim walk the long five miles back home - on my own - in the rain or in the sunshiny rain, and then to have to face up to a boarded up and abandoned and probably uninhabitable building…

Brief studies by Jakob Zaaiman — Harold Pinter/William Friedkin: The Birthday Party (1957/1968) Masterpieces of modern/contemporary art #14jakob-zaaiman.medium.com Jeff Koons: Seated Ballerina (2017) Masterpieces of modern/contemporary art #13jakob-zaaiman.medium.com Wojciech Bruszewski: Yyaa (1973) Masterpieces of modern/contemporary art #12jakob-zaaiman.medium.com Lil’ Markie: Diary of an Unborn Child Masterpieces of modern/contemporary art #11jakob-zaaiman.medium.com

Masterpieces of modern/contemporary art #14 — Synopsis: Two men arrive out of nowhere to a rundown terraced house in Worthing, near Brighton, seeking retribution. They’ve probably got their facts wrong, and are likely picking on the wrong man, but in the world in which they move, there’s no one to care, and no one to put…