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|  | | 242 Mirror Poems and Reflections
A collection of 121 mirror poems and 121 reflections on a wide range of subjects by Marc Latham. The collection contains work written over three years, and is Marc's second collection.
span style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; ">'242' is Dr. Marc Latham's second poetry collection, after the first one was published by Chipmunka in 2009. The first collection contained poems written by Marc from his youth to the creation of the Folding Mirror form, while this book focuses on the FM form recognised by Lewis Turco in his definitive 'The Book of Forms: A Handbook of Poetics, Including Odd and Invented Forms'. /span>
span style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; ">Caroline Gill, an award | |  | | Bipolarity and ADHD to Folding Mirrors
Poetry of the mind searching for meaning, from raw rock music related youthful questioning to middle-age observations on everything about life within a highly structured new form.
The early poems in this collection were inspired by rock lyrics rather than poetry, with songs proclaiming the twisted effects of bipolarity, schizophrenia, paranoia, alienation and just downright depression by the likes of Guns N’ Roses, Nirvana, Metallica, Rose Tattoo, Megadeth and Suicidal Tendencies mixed with the trash escapism of Faster Pussycat and Motley Crue.
I spent my mental weeks in grungy Seattle, so I tried to escape to LA on the weekends. My wild role models could have helped kill me, but they may also have kept me alive by giving me something to live for.
| |  | | Greenygrey's Rambles: How to Remember North America
The travels of a vegetarian werewolf around North America, as it creates memorable acronyms to help remember the different states and regions.
With winter settling into the northern hemisphere do you yearn to travel and escape to exotic and wonderful locations.
This book was created out of such desires, with the literary nonsense fantasy travelling helping my mind escape from the reality of dark cold nights through the epic and touching adventures of the Greenygrey.
Over time, the Greenygrey's Rambles started to take shape, and the idea of creating memorable acronyms and meanings to distinguish the different North American regions took shape, and the Greenygrey's adventures became more meaningful.
By the mi | |  | | The Guns N' Roses Worker Traveller
Most people travel to work. Some travel for work.
Worker-travellers worked to travel.
As well as being the memoir of a rock fan who’d been inspired to travel by Kerouac and found recent confirmation through the songs of Guns N’ Roses, this book is also the first account as far as the author knows of the 1980s worker-traveller communities in Europe and the Middle-East.
In 1987, a few months before I left home to hobo around Europe, Guns N’ Roses released Appetite for Destruction. The band and album seemed a complete fit with my mind, beliefs, personality, life and ambitions: the songs told a tale of travelling to a new life; nostalgia for better times and the search for more; partying excess; alienation from society; getting into trouble and paranoia.
The band seemed like the 1980s version of Jack Kerouac’s beats, who had inspired my travel ambitions with stories about their frenetic trips across the states to California in the 1950s. | |  | | Werewolf of Oz: Fantasy Travel by Google Maps
A werewolf Halfling travels Oz (Australia) to a Wizard of Oz theme, with stories created out of real places viewed on Google Maps.
Aussie folk such as Bon Scott (AC/DC singer), Elle McPherson (model), Angry Anderson (Rose Tattoo singer) and Cathy Freeman (athlete) join it on the Ozyssey; while the good witch part is given to mildly monotheistic musician, Moby, and instead of bad witches trying to scupper the quest it is monotonous monotheists.
span style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; ">The Werewolf of Oz is over 40,000 words long; including more than eighty individual humorous poems that help propel the pace on the epic Ozyssey. The chapters are split between standalone episodes and extended stories./span>
span style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; "> The longest story; a rock music themed time-travel through Kerang-Kerrang; is over 4000 words long. The book follows a Wizard of Oz theme, with courage, brain and heart replaced by body (Elle |
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