Mods and Goths Meet Sohemians Uptown
London-based 3:AM readers might be interested in these events for November. The Sohemians continue their programme of varied W1-themed talks upstairs at the Wheatsheaf (25 Rathbone Place, W1T) with veteran music journalist and Mod Paolo Hewitt on the history of the London orphan (7.30pm on November 9), while Violent London author Clive Bloom talks Gothic […]
3:AM Asia: Zipangu Fest
The inaugural Zipangu festival of Japanese cinema (which actually began late last month at the Barbican with a double bill of Big Tits Zombie and RoboGeisha, above) takes place in venues across London later this month. Related: ‘The Trope of ‘Revenge’ in J-cinema’ by Stewart Home
Three Poems
I have a secret, I say.
The boat’s hull tips with the weight
and release of each step’s next shift.
As he turns, I catch it: the tell-tale
lift, brow raised sky-ward,
arms stretched,
slackening sails…
I have a secret. I try to tell him.
He whispers back to the window,
an icy pane that keeps his breath
like misted shroud
on distant mountains…
By Emma Bartholomew.