Issue #4 – Force/Fourth – The Poor Print

Issue #4 – Force/Fourth

A pdf of the print edition of Issue #4 – ‘Fource/Fourth’, in celebration of the new Star Wars film – can be downloaded here: Issue #4 – Force Fourth.

Culture, Prose

by Jacob Warn As I levitated bread to my mouth this morning, it was to my horror that I peered into the dropped-jaw-orifices of my breakfast companions. Porridge dripped off the teeth of one; sausage skin coated another’s; sanguine tomato ketchup slathered around the interior of Peter Gent’s. I had just professed love for my […]

Comment, Prose

The Taxonomy of Team Building

by Peter Gent One of the great benefits of playing massively multiplayer online role playing games, commonly known as MMOs or MMORPGs, is learning about teamwork. My first MMO was World of Warcraft, which I played on my roommate’s account while he was at work. My Night Elf, named Mat, was a tall, muscular rogue […]

Culture, Prose

The Fourth Hour

by Elizabeth Stell & George Prew Four o’clock. Halfway through the afternoon, halfway between lunch and supper, it is undeniably time for the greatest and most British of pleasures. This important ritual revives your attention, eroded by three hours of constant reading or writing and allows for a justifiable fifteen minutes, and a cup of […]

Comment, Diary, Prose

Slow Travel: Into the Holy Land

by Tobias Thornes Travelling slowly into the Holy Land, I tread a path taken by countless millions of pilgrims before me, congregating here from every direction. A peculiar power dwells in this small corner of the world, on the Fertile Crescent where human civilisation first found its genesis. A force draws people here – some […]

Comment, Prose

Sadder than Fiction: The Battle for Hoth and Paris

by Giorgio Scherrer The battle of Hoth in Star Wars Episode V was just being lost when I casually checked my Twitter account and discovered that this was not an ordinary evening. It was movie night in the JCR, the second film of the evening, and it was 13th November. From about 10pm – when […]

Prose

‘Please don’t all write about Star Wars!’ – Where Science and Science Fiction Blend

by Fran Donnellan ‘Please don’t all write about Star Wars!’ came the directive from The Poor Print Editors. But it turns out that scientists have been ignoring such an order since 1977, no doubt making many a journal editor consider joining the Dark Side. With the forthcoming release of the next installment of the Star […]

Culture, Prose

τε ῥυθμὸς καὶ ἁρμονία – Lucy Rose and a Love Letter to the Past

by Aidan Chivers “…Lay away, silent corner Side by side, we follow our minds Walk it on, then we trip On the line, wait we are not fine Wait, you are not mine…” Lights are flashing, the air is buzzing, the smoke is dancing. Lucy Rose, as charming, modest and talented as ever, reaches out […]