Do not read this if you need the toilet, if you are meeting someone in 3 minutes or your mind is consumed with thoughts of tomorrows sandwiches or yesterdays episode of Grand Designs. If youve just eaten, then perhaps consider undoing a top button or nding a looser tting garment. So take a moment.Make yourself a cup of tea or nd a suitable biscuit. Attempting to read poetry quickly and without full attention or patience is futile. ![]() But in the interests of the following pages not ying straight over your head, it seems like a good idea - especially when it comes to poetry.įirstly, this magazine does not benet from being skim read. It would be a rather empty magazine without you.ĤIt is appreciated that instructing people on how to read a maga-zine is possibly one of the more ridiculous concepts thats been invented in recent years. So you can take your big old television screen and hurl it into the toilet bowl - ordinary is the new extraordinary.įinally, a walloping thank you to every poet and illustrator who helped ll the pages of this issue with their time and creativity. We look at the laborious life of a washing up brush, happily accept the detachment from the chocolate biscuit and marvel at a woman called Barbara. So, in this issue we commemorate the mug, examine the effect of wearing sunglasses and sympathise with the car mechanic. In fact in a few of the poems, wonder nds the strength to swing to the other side, beautifully highlighted in I Could Murder Martin on page 26. However, please dont make a dash for the toilet bowl in anticipation of a sickening onslaught of how brilliant the 60W bulb is. Each poem chosen for this collection of pages shares this one thing in common - the recognition of those smaller things that can tend to quietly pass us by. ![]() Upon closer observation, everything that nestles on this odd little planet hosts the ability to be fascinating if truly given the time to observe it. The metaphorical equivalent of spending a whole day ironing your undercrackers and euphorically enjoying every minute of it. And thats what this issue is all about - the wonder of the ordinary. So blinded are we, by television screens bigger than our houses, houses bigger than our wildest dreams and wildest dreams bigger than our heads, that those smaller details can go un-noticed. ![]() In a world lled with complex distraction and the avid appreciation of lling time, sometimes its easy to overlook the most ordinary objects and happenings. PopshotPOETRY + ILLUSTRATION MAGAZINE THE WONDER OF THE ORDINARY
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