Welcome to GR Online, a series of short-form articles that take aim at the moving target of contemporary culture as it’s whisked along the guide rails of innovations in digital media, globalisation and late-stage capitalism.
Baba
A friend suggests a psychologist, but my grandmother was a house witch, her mother the thirteenth child of the thirteenth...
upstart crowe
I was reading Shakespeare on my phone & then this rose started blooming in front of me as...
Moonshot
in the tenth set he sent the tennis ball on an interstellar galaxy quest, a sudden outburst which seemingly served no...
The trouble with eternity
I had a dream about the afterlife: I died quite unexpectedly Although it is, of course, to be expected, And I materialised...
Moon man
After Elizabeth Venn He circles the room five times, refusing to believe he’s resistible. I tell myself I won’t tilt for his...
Aca-lyte
Che Guevara is white and wearing a shirt with his face on it, mansplaining Derrida or Adorno a hat like your...
how to launch a poem
i) recall democracy is pretty numbers & orange clusters, strategically bold and critically wet, intemperate type-c photographs; ii) advance stagger:...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology
I disappoint myself each day that I remember my work password I take it that seriously that I base my key on the...
Habitat
It was early. I recognised my fate in the bathroom mirror. Behind which he slept deep into the morning...
Exemplary
The superego’s unvarying verdict: you have failed, you deserve it, get over it! Stay in your own psychotic micro-enclave, opining about enactment...
Fraser Gehrig after a dirty bump
Under floodlight he is beautiful a jacked and tanned bench presser who in preparation small stepped on buffalo grass to hear the...
For my ex (an unforgiving poem)
Trust me when I wished you an eventful summer by which I meant processing yourself like a tardy Microsoft update You will...
