NLP: The in-between Edition; new poetry from Michael Kearns and Howie Good; Nicola Moir in interview with Claudia Massie
In this month’s edition NLP welcomes two poets from the US, legendary artist-activist Michael Kearns, and poet & college professor Howie Good. Michael is also (famously) an actor and his work for NLP expresses his stagework through a triptych of poems; in a wider sense the Kearns triptych is a political piece that examines the … Read more
The Universe Edition: Carsaig: new poetry from Alice Willington; Beach: photography from Natalie Muallem; Neophyte: a new short story from Kathleen Rocksavage
According to Buzz, the character in Kathleen Rocksavage’s new short story for NLP, each person “inhabits a universe that most resembles a celestial book that writes its own stories”. In her second short collection of poetry for NLP, prize-winning poet Alice Willington continues to explore this solitary and imperfect sphere – as the poet reveals, … Read more
The subversion edition: Chinese art part II; The Keystone part III & IV; Yin Eye; Mac & Wills
With the ‘disappearance’ of Chinese artist Ai Weiwei now headline news, NLP thought it timely to revisit Allan Harkness’ in-depth appraisal of Zhou Chunya and his fellow Chengdu artists, who, grappling “the thought of Chinese painting faced with the end of modernity”, produce a “a genuinely critical art, a restless art, one openly enquiring … Read more
Steven Severin on Cocteau: the interview; Emily Wolahan: new poetry; Berlusconi gets bitten: pontifications & protest.
To paraphrase Ruth Gordon, octogenarian star of seminal 1973 film Harold & Maude, and with exactly the same sentiment, New Linear Perspectives greets the dawn of a new March with a breath of fire – HUH! This edition sees NLP editor Andrew F Giles travel to the central European city of Bratislava to interview co-founder … Read more
New poetry; Chengdu painters; Gegen die Wand
With a slew of submissions over the past couple of weeks, and a projected micropoetry night in Edinburgh next month, NLP has been happily busy. This post brings together film, art and poetry from far-flung corners of the planet to fit our focus on the global here in Scotland. Our film critic Katy Karpfinger takes … Read more
New poetry; Patti Smith; Israeli dance
For our first post of 2011, NLP delves into the interstices of culture to deliver an eclectic array of new writing and review. Editor-at-large Zoë Green watched rock legend Patti Smith in an in-depth interview with Geoff Dyer. This event was also observed by our lucky competition winner, Will Peach. Read Zoë’s review of this Intelligence Squared … Read more
Patti Smith Competition
2011 is a big year for NLP. With a slew of talks and readings across Scotland in the summer months to coincide with our first ‘hard copy’ magazine, we are starting the year with a bang by running a competition to win tickets to see Patti Smith in London. Patti Smith will be talking about … Read more
Art and Africa
The iPad is proving to be a genuine contender in the arsenal of the serious artist, as vouched for by the likes of David Hockney. In the Arts section, Edinburgh based artist Ross Macgregor examines the history of the medium and the possibilities it offers in his very own iPad Review. The words are illustrated … Read more
Spiders and Silicon
Pat Neil returns to the travel section with The Spider on the Differential, the much anticipated sequel to ‘Spain in Cold Storage’, as she delves further into the experience of sixties Spain. Donkeys, differentials and (almost) dead clients… Meanwhile, the latest in-depth arts interview sees Nicola Moir quiz hot Australian art duo The Silicon Artists … Read more
Interview: Dave Turbitt
Continuing the Interview series, we speak exclusively to Dave Turbitt, illustrator of acclaimed new graphic novel Dougie’s War. This comic, written by novelist and biographer Rodge Glass, is the first to focus on the psychological aftermath of the current wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. It is, in the words of comics legend Pat Mills, creator … Read more
