Long Nonfiction Poems
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Long nonfiction poems. 300 words or more, most recently published poems first.
Cloven_Zonkle
Poem Published
12th Jul 2022 6:58pm
12th Jul 2022 6:58pm
I said
#science
#fiction
#nonfiction
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Mr Karswell
Mr Karswell
Poem Published
6th Jul 2022 2:10pm
6th Jul 2022 2:10pm
My Culture Fix - 06/07/22
The book I'm reading
A Certain Hunger by Chelsea G Summers, a debut by a Victorian literature PhD about a New York restaurant critic and "female psychopath", a psychological phenomenon which she discusses in the first-person narrative, stylised as a sort of prison diary. She's a cannibalistic serial killer, in her early 50s. The book, therefore, is comparable to both American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis and Hannibal by Thomas Harris, though in my opinion more interesting/funnier than the former and less pulpy than the latter.
The book I wish I had written
Breakfast at...
A Certain Hunger by Chelsea G Summers, a debut by a Victorian literature PhD about a New York restaurant critic and "female psychopath", a psychological phenomenon which she discusses in the first-person narrative, stylised as a sort of prison diary. She's a cannibalistic serial killer, in her early 50s. The book, therefore, is comparable to both American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis and Hannibal by Thomas Harris, though in my opinion more interesting/funnier than the former and less pulpy than the latter.
The book I wish I had written
Breakfast at...
#books
#PopCulture
#culture #nonfiction
#culture #nonfiction
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Mr Karswell
Mr Karswell
Poem Published
30th Jun 2022 11:55pm
30th Jun 2022 11:55pm
Murder, Motive, and Memory: A Little Essay on Agatha Christie
The best encapsulation of detective novelist and “Queen of Crime” Agatha Christie’s appeal came, I think, from the poet Stevie Smith, in a review she wrote of Christie’s late novel, 1967’s Endless Night: “I mostly read Agatha Christie this year (and every year). I wish I could write more about what she does for one in the way of lifting the weight, and so on."
I myself read Agatha Christie as a child and am still very fond of her. I like reading her work in paperback form, as published by Fontana with those beautiful and eccentric covers. I return to Christie whenever I need...
I myself read Agatha Christie as a child and am still very fond of her. I like reading her work in paperback form, as published by Fontana with those beautiful and eccentric covers. I return to Christie whenever I need...
#murder
#books
#historical #nonfiction
#historical #nonfiction
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Indie
Miss Indie
Miss Indie
Poem Published
6th Jun 2022 3:31am
6th Jun 2022 3:31am
My Culture Fix
My favourite author and book
My favourite author right now is Becky Chambers. She writes very character centric sci fi that I love.
My favourite book at the moment is The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern. It's a wonderfully imaginative adventure.
The book I'm reading
The Violent Century by Lavie Tidhar. I've read it before and will probably read it again.
The book I wish I had written
None really. Not yet.
The book I couldn't finish
A Thousand Spendid Suns. I'd just left a difficult relationship and it was too emotionally...
My favourite author right now is Becky Chambers. She writes very character centric sci fi that I love.
My favourite book at the moment is The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern. It's a wonderfully imaginative adventure.
The book I'm reading
The Violent Century by Lavie Tidhar. I've read it before and will probably read it again.
The book I wish I had written
None really. Not yet.
The book I couldn't finish
A Thousand Spendid Suns. I'd just left a difficult relationship and it was too emotionally...
#confessional
#myself
#nonfiction
107 reads
1 Comment
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Mr Karswell
Mr Karswell
Poem Published
5th Jun 2022 4:33am
5th Jun 2022 4:33am
My Culture Fix
My favourite author and book
Flannery O'Connor is my favourite author, by far. There are too many books to name a single favourite or even a list of favourites, but an obvious one for me is O'Connor's The Violent Bear It Away, a Southern Gothic (though I think that she hated the term) novel about the raising of a Christian prophet. Another obvious one is the Bible, King James edition. I love English literature, and it's not just the Bible, it's the Bible of the language that I'm writing in now.
My tastes tend to run to the Gothic, so a lot of my favourites tend to be either...
Flannery O'Connor is my favourite author, by far. There are too many books to name a single favourite or even a list of favourites, but an obvious one for me is O'Connor's The Violent Bear It Away, a Southern Gothic (though I think that she hated the term) novel about the raising of a Christian prophet. Another obvious one is the Bible, King James edition. I love English literature, and it's not just the Bible, it's the Bible of the language that I'm writing in now.
My tastes tend to run to the Gothic, so a lot of my favourites tend to be either...
#nonfiction
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Mr Karswell
Mr Karswell
Poem Published
3rd May 2022 10:58pm
3rd May 2022 10:58pm
What a Woman Means to Me
an essay
I wanted to write out my thoughts and feelings on the subject of the late American crime writer Patricia Highsmith in the context of what she and her work means to me in an essay because prose is a more analytical medium than poetry, which is more concerned I think with wit and beauty. I have written a poem on the subject, which you can find in my recent bibliography under the title “A Toxic Woman”, and thought about writing another. But to exorcise this demon I need to understand it, so to speak. Which isn’t to say that I want this essay to be dark or depressing at...
I wanted to write out my thoughts and feelings on the subject of the late American crime writer Patricia Highsmith in the context of what she and her work means to me in an essay because prose is a more analytical medium than poetry, which is more concerned I think with wit and beauty. I have written a poem on the subject, which you can find in my recent bibliography under the title “A Toxic Woman”, and thought about writing another. But to exorcise this demon I need to understand it, so to speak. Which isn’t to say that I want this essay to be dark or depressing at...
#violence
#fiction
#nonfiction
169 reads
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randyjohnson
Poem Published
25th Feb 2022 9:06pm
25th Feb 2022 9:06pm
Home Sweet Home
I have been living on my property forty-five years today. I moved here on February 25, 1977. When I moved on my property, I was only five years old and Elvis Presley was still alive. If I live for another five years, I will have lived on this property for half a century.
My forty-fifth anniversary of living on this property has landed on a Friday and as it turned out, the day when I moved here in 1977 was on Friday as well. After living here for that long, I consider this place to be both important and special.
It's amazing how much the price of land increases over the...
My forty-fifth anniversary of living on this property has landed on a Friday and as it turned out, the day when I moved here in 1977 was on Friday as well. After living here for that long, I consider this place to be both important and special.
It's amazing how much the price of land increases over the...
#family
#home
#anniversary
#memories
#nonfiction
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randyjohnson
Poem Published
29th Jan 2022 9:27pm
29th Jan 2022 9:27pm
The Consequences Of Committing Crimes
Certain people underestimate the police. They believe that they can get away with committing crimes. But prisons are filled with people who thought they could get away with crimes. They were mistaken and if you think you can get away with a crime, you most likely are too.
Yes, sometimes crimes go unsolved but for the most part, they don't. Let me give you an example. This is a true story. After 27 years of marriage, a woman and her husband were getting a divorce. She earned $100,000 per year. Her attorney told her that because she earned more than her husband, she would have to...
Yes, sometimes crimes go unsolved but for the most part, they don't. Let me give you an example. This is a true story. After 27 years of marriage, a woman and her husband were getting a divorce. She earned $100,000 per year. Her attorney told her that because she earned more than her husband, she would have to...
#prison
#nonfiction
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randyjohnson
Poem Published
15th Jan 2022 11:23pm
15th Jan 2022 11:23pm
Sanford and Steptoe and Son
It has been fifty years since Sanford and Son was first broadcast on TV. It ran for six seasons and 136 episodes. The very first episode aired on January 14, 1972. It's hard to believe that it has been five decades since that sitcom was first broadcast.
What certain people may not know is that Sanford and Son was based on a British sitcom called Steptoe and Son. Fred Sanford was based on Albert Steptoe and Lamont Sanford was based on Harold Steptoe. But Fred and Lamont Sanford were portrayed by black actors. Albert and Harold Steptoe were portrayed by white actors.
Some...
What certain people may not know is that Sanford and Son was based on a British sitcom called Steptoe and Son. Fred Sanford was based on Albert Steptoe and Lamont Sanford was based on Harold Steptoe. But Fred and Lamont Sanford were portrayed by black actors. Albert and Harold Steptoe were portrayed by white actors.
Some...
#anniversary
#Britain
#nonfiction
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randyjohnson
Poem Published
4th Jan 2022 1:00pm
4th Jan 2022 1:00pm
Peter Davison's 40th Anniversary As The Doctor
I began watching the classic Doctor Who TV show in early 1984. I was only twelve years old at the time. The first episodes that I watched were Tom Baker episodes. I've always been a huge fan of the classic Doctor Who, but I'm certainly not a fan of the new Doctor Who.
It was forty years ago today when part one of Peter Davison's first Doctor Who episode aired. It aired on January 4, 1982. His first episode is titled "Castrovalva". At the time, Davison was the youngest actor to play the role of The Doctor. He was only thirty when he was chosen for the role in 1981. He was the fifth...
It was forty years ago today when part one of Peter Davison's first Doctor Who episode aired. It aired on January 4, 1982. His first episode is titled "Castrovalva". At the time, Davison was the youngest actor to play the role of The Doctor. He was only thirty when he was chosen for the role in 1981. He was the fifth...
#anniversary
#Britain
#nonfiction
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Fallen_Angel_194
Angel.
Angel.
Poem Published
22nd Oct 2021 6:25am
22nd Oct 2021 6:25am
Ugly
I think that I have written this letter a thousand and one different times, each time even more afraid what would come shooting out of my fingertips. But I think I know what I must say now, even though I do not want to. I think that I have always hated us both, innards and skin. I think that when mom was supposed to be teaching us to love ourselves she did the opposite, but none of that has ever been her fault. Not all of it. I think sometimes that I try to sugar coat the hate that I shove down our throats with nicotine induced blackouts, so that way it won't hurt as much going down as it...
#hate
#SelfHarm
#confessional
#SelfReflection
#nonfiction
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Koulouri
Poem Published
28th Sep 2021 2:38pm
28th Sep 2021 2:38pm
Dear Diary
I’m always thinking, of everyone. Yet I think of no one. I think, how would this person feel about this? But then I also think, this is funny, and then I say it. And people get mad. And I don’t mean to offend anyone. But I always seem to make someone upset. And I hate it. I don’t want people to hate me, but sometimes I do. Sometimes I want people to hate me. People would probably be like “oh you should see someone cause you seem depressed and stufffff” but sometimes you just need someone to hate you. I think. Sometimes I need someone to be mad at me. Because sometimes being mad at yourself...
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