Wayzgoose Magazine (2024)

04/06/2024

In a deckchair under the late afternoon sun, he sat lazily writing in a worn leather pocketbook. A pale blue linen shirt fit loosely over his torso, setting off the darker blue of his linen trousers. His deckchair stood a little off-centre on the balcony of La Porte Ouverte, one of the finer hotels that overlooked the River Loire before its destruction by a German bomber, which was to prematurely eject its load en-route to Tours at the onset of the war. This would not happen for half a decade yet; he had no notion of staying that long.

Click the link in our bio to read our great new creative writing piece by Matthew!

16/05/2024

‘Dan Whitlam has been posting videos on Instagram () since 2017, and on Spotify since 2021. His work consists of a unique blend of spoken-word poetry, coupled with musical accompaniment that renders his work emotionally touching. Now amassing around 137,000 followers on Instagram (as of March 2024), is his significant following a symptom of the democratisation of the arts through social media? And how is work so uniquely modern, yet steeped in a rich poetic tradition? Is Dan Whitlam the future of poetry?‘

Read our new brilliant culture article by Callum by clicking the link in the bio!

14/05/2024

‘On a first reading, ‘One Art’ begins ostensibly simplistic. How yes, indeed, it is easy to lose door keys and have an ‘hour badly spent’. But that’s ok — ‘their loss is no disaster’. And then, in its heartbreaking final stanza, we understand what the poem is really about.

When Elizabeth Bishop was 40, she was awarded a fellowship to travel South America; and it was during her travels in Brazil when she met Maria “Lota” Soares, a daughter from a prominent Rio de Janeiro family. Bishop was only supposed to stay for two weeks in Brazil. In the end, she stayed for 15 years. It was during this period Bishop wrote her third and most outwardly joyful volume of published work, Questions of Travel, in 1965. The work is markedly different from her previous collections, North and South and A Cold Spring, with the shedding of her insular, New England upbringing in favour of a more mature, more outward facing poetic. And whilst the theme of place remained (and indeed, would always remain), what it signified underwent significant alteration. That instead of it being somewhere one has been, rather, place became somewhere one arrives.‘

Follow the link in the bio to read more of this fascinating piece written by Vadim Goss!!

13/05/2024

“Gang warfare, the Mob, showgirls who sing suggestively to an audience of mobsters, politicians, and wise guys, shoot-outs and lock-ins. Most children’s films would try and distance themselves away from this crime-ridden world, even if it’s romantically portrayed in 1920’s glamour and gowns. Part of Bugsy’s magic is that it’s a film for children, starring children, yet why treat children like kids, give them a film that grows up with them. Children aren’t as afraid of playing in a grown-up space as we often believe, Bugsy accepts this and cuts out the middleman by making the kids the heroes without diluting their characters or stories.”

Today’s culture article is a tribute to Bugsy Malone - click the link in our bio to read Emilia’s perspective!

03/05/2024

‘Spring to me is the first time you tentatively hang your sheets on the washing line, a toasted hot cross bun slathered in salty butter, rain that glimmers as it refracts the pale sunlight, the first freshly cut lawn, a thawing of creaking winter bones.’

Click the link in our bio to listen to Jacko’s spring playlist, and explore his reflections behind each choice!

02/05/2024

Today’s poem is ‘Genesis’ by Imogen Harrison.

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30/04/2024

“The Last Dinner Party, in the months leading up to the release of their debut album, Prelude to Ecstasy, seemingly appeared from nowhere. Their hit song, Nothing Matters, suddenly reached 16th on the UK singles charts, while videos from their gigs proliferated on Tiktok. In consequence, everyone from Tiktok reviewers to respected music critics have attempted to account for their rapid rise to success, looking everywhere but at the music itself.”

Click the link in our bio to read the rest of Chloe Stien’s perspective piece!

Image credit: DORK

29/04/2024

“Solemnly, mysterious etch the brackets into which we are hemmed in the opening sears of the first movement. Violins buzz with the tremors of dust disturbed in the prelude of a tempest’s caprice, and call the calling of sombre fanfare. Thus the brass asserts itself above the tremolo in forceful simplicity, and therein the inscribed syllables of loft find their reciprocal: the nod of a bull before the altar’s slaughter. Forgive the Classicist his unimaginative vices, but there is something of Homeric grandeur in this sonic landscape.”

Wayzgoose is back and to kick off the week we have a fantastic culture piece written by following his trip to Gateshead’s to see Bruckner’s Symphony No. 9.

13/03/2024

‘The events of May ’68 in Paris have been romanticised and permanently written into the national French consciousness. From memories of Marie Antoinette to the cultural and sexual upheaval of May 1968, rebellion has become an intrinsically French tradition. ’68, however, shatters the image of fruitless protest that many so often use to slate our European neighbours. May ’68 isn’t something that hums along in the evening news; it is something that has inspired an explosion in films, art, fashion and literature. The anti-structuralist rebels were fatally sanguine; they treasured the art that was born in tumult. This reflected a longing for a dream world and a rejection of the messiness of the real world. There was a rush of existentialism; law was no longer relevant. And so the students took to the streets. Soon the structures would be dismantled and slightly later, the walls would blossom with scrawled slogans like ‘Althusser is useless.’’

Click the link our bio to read Zoe’s brilliant new culture piece.

12/03/2024

“As with most plays, hang finds its ‘crescendo moment’ near enough to the end of the play. But where most theatre productions will raise volume, visible emotion, and physical action, Dunlop’s direction delivers a cold and clinical finale. Three, having contemplated for the man in question the ex*****ons of beheading, firing squad, and lethal injection, settles distressingly comfortably on the monosyllables, ‘I want him hung.’ We are told that this will be carried out by an ‘anonymous expert ex*****on team’: it is lines like these that playwright Debbie Tucker Green executes so knowingly in her bouts of black comedy. “

You can read the rest of Ed Bayliss’ brilliant review of ‘hang’, a play by Debbie Tucker Green, via the link in our bio.

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07/03/2024

‘In inverting the traditional subjugation of the female body, Cronenberg’s influence on subverting the location of pain in cinema through a feminine transformation pervades an assortment of arthouse and mainstream horror.’

Click through link in our bio to read the rest of Maisie’s brilliant exploration of body-horror film!

06/03/2024

“If you’re unsure of how to use ‘the herd instinct’ in a sentence, the Cambridge Dictionary gives the example of ‘In large crowds, such as at a football match, the herd instinct often kicks in.’ Cliché is the language of the herd and, for better or for worse, football is a herd sport (playing it, watching it, talking about it). The worst moments of following football are bound up with the herd (mid-morning drunkenness, beating-up the French or anyone for that matter), but so too are the positive ones. In the subjugation of self to the crowd, in the Dionysian loss of identity, you become a part of an intoxicatingly cohesive, classless whole, which doesn’t care who you are but rather who you support. “

This morning’s article is a Perspective feature by Cosmo Adair. Follow the link in our bio to read the insightful and amusing ‘The War Against [Football] Cliche’.

📸 - The Sun

05/03/2024

Click the link our bio to read Esme’s new poem!!

04/03/2024

‘In recent years, two films about classical music conductors have been released, featuring two different means of telling stories about the way creativity and eroticism interact. Beyond this, they share a score that heavily features the symphonies of Gustav Mahler, a man who married a woman half his age. Mahler was tormented by poor health which gave him a morbid fascination with his own mortality and how to transcend it. What he sought to do was reach into the future by writing music, like the great symphonic composers before him. Leonard Bernstein, the protagonist of the recent biopic Maestro, gave his image and performances to posterity by embracing live recording in both music and television.’

Click the link in our bio to read James Young’s review and more from our talented Wayzgoose writers!

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04/03/2024

‘In recent years, two films about classical music conductors have been released, featuring two different means of telling stories about the way creativity and eroticism interact. Beyond this, they share a score that heavily features the symphonies of Gustav Mahler, a man who married a woman half his age. Mahler was tormented by poor health which gave him a morbid fascination with his own mortality and how to transcend it. What he sought to do was reach into the future by writing music, like the great symphonic composers before him. Leonard Bernstein, the protagonist of the recent biopic Maestro, gave his image and performances to posterity by embracing live recording in both music and television.’

Click the link in our bio to read James Young’s review and more from our talented Wayzgoose writers!

01/03/2024

‘I saw the first signs of spring one week, snow drops had opened. In the quite of the early morning, glowing sky, and the river running strong with February rain, I walked past them on the banks- had they opened earlier? Had I not noticed? Some glimmer of hope and joy sparked inside of me, not that I wasn’t joyous before I saw them, but in that way your heart skips when you notice some small details of the beauty of the world. A Moldovan legend recalls a battle between Lady Spring and Winter Witch; Lady Spring pricked her finger and the snow beneath it melted and created a gentle snowdrop flower. This announced her reign over the world. People don’t plant snow drops in the way a rose garden is cultivated and shown off for the brightest colours, this is an unexpected and unprepared beauty. There are, of course, other flowers that bloom in winter but these are sturdy, and shrub like and dull the senses as we huddle down the path turning our face from wind and rain. These white drops form out of the scruff of a woodland floor and on road sides, they placed themselves into my sight at exactly the time they felt like it, prompted by some unknown feeling in the air that it was time for an introduction to spring. ‘

Click the link in our bio to read Ida’s new perspective piece!!

28/02/2024

‘Mongolia. This was a place like no other. A land of extremes where normality does not exist. Being here was like time travelling to the wild west. Travelling to a different universe where life is completely alien.’

Click the link in our bio to read the rest of Tom Russell’s piece about his experience in Mongolia, and more from our talented Wayzgoose writers!

27/02/2024

Today’s poem is ‘Great Western Rail’ by Esme Bell!

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26/02/2024

‘Even so, the cheapest seats I could find saw us sitting at, laughably, the furthest point from the stage. You could not have picked a worse seat. The electricity of the entire evening nevertheless assured that not a single person in the arena left without being moved in some way. Kahan himself, in one of his many quippy comments between songs, outlined his aim for the evening: that if anybody left the concert with a smile on their face, he had not done his job properly. This was undoubtedly met with laughter, and as I looked around me it was definitely difficult to find a frowning one. In fact, Noah Kahan fans, of which I proudly call myself an avid one, are very lovely people. The atmosphere of love, empathy and charged emotion shared between ten thousand people, gently swaying to the slower more gut-wrenching songs, or dancing manically — arms around one another or holding hands — to the faster-paced songs, can be attributed to the kind of people who listen to Noah Kahan’s music. I have been to my fair share of concerts where the fans have felt on-par with rowdy football fans, and so I understand first-hand how an atmosphere in a venue as well as the attitude of the audience can affect the impression of the music.’

Follow the link in the bio to read more of Maggie Baring’s scintillating review of Noah Kahan performing live.

Photo Credits: The Times

23/02/2024

Today’s poem is ‘Pear’ by Vadim Goss.

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21/02/2024

Today’s poetry is by Daniel Ali.
You can read ‘for Her’ and many more of our other featured poems via the link in our bio.

20/02/2024

‘In 1953, ‘Ol’ Blue Eyes’ was not in a dissimilar emotional state to Picasso. In a career slump and deserted by his wife Ava Gardner, Frank Sinatra, attempted su***de in his bath. From this period of melancholy came what I and many believe to be Sinatra’s masterwork, “In the Wee Small Hours.” On the album cover, he leans against a street lamp in the gloom; he could almost exist among the forlorn and downtrodden characters of Picasso’s Blue period. “In the Wee Small Hours” is arguably the first concept album of all time. The development of the long-form vinyl prompted artists to consider the LP’s potential as a new format less restricted by timings - an opportunity for a cohesive artistic statement beyond just singles. So Frank began his remarkable run at Capitol with this brooding album of takes from the American songbook contemplating themes of lonesomeness, lost love and late-night ruminations’

Follow the link in the bio to read more of this insightful piece by Jack Fry, focussed on art ruminating on the colour blue.

15/02/2024

‘Above all else, All of Us Strangers is an acutely honest film. Unashamedly and forthrightly, the lens isn’t afraid to dig through the rubble of lost childhoods and reclaim something of intense value. With a cast of just four, whose faces seem always to fill the screen in extreme close ups, it perhaps can’t help but be sincere. Andrew Haigh’s film, however, lifts the lid on the traditional trauma-confrontation film and takes us on welcome diversions we didn’t know were accessible. The director focuses on the remarkably abstract and obscure way in which mental turmoil affects memory. ’

Follow the link in the bio to read more of Edward Bayliss’ review of ‘All of Us Strangers’!!

Photo credits: All of Us Strangers (2024)

14/02/2024

Todays poem is for Valentines Day by Eve. A refreshing take, delving into the depths of solitude and connection through the experience of Manus and Mano, each enclosed in their own world but linked through shared emotions.

Click the link in our bio to read the full poem!

13/02/2024

“Saltburn is less an ‘eat the rich’ film and more an ‘eat out the rich’ film (notice the fixation on bodily fluids, so far as to be assigned to each character with the same casual purpose as any other idiosyncrasy; Venetia and blood, Farleigh and spit, Felix and spend). Its commentary on the middle class - particularly the upper-middle class - and its relationship to the extraordinarily wealthy is present, but takes a backseat. Saltburn is fundamentally an interrogation of our relationship with our own desire and how destructive that desire can be. It’s why we empathise with Oliver. It’s why we connect as much as we cringe. The film has to be queasy and uncomfortable; it has to freak you out and grip you in order to show you how impossibly carnivorous, locust, and insane that desire can be.”

As Saltburn continues to dominate talk amongst the film industry, Robin Reinders writes a brilliant review that may invite a new perspective on the film. Click the link in our bio to read the full article.

12/02/2024

Today’s poem is by Spotify artist & poet Ludwig Hemel (Artist name IXMES), who is living and studying in Israel currently.

The poem ‘Sand’ was written for Wayzgoose, and ‘The holy land, holy land’ is a verse of his unreleased song.

Click the link in our bio to read more poetry by our talented Wayzgoose writers!

09/02/2024

“Tattoos drawn on with eyeliner borrowed from the girlfriend in the Coppola-style Marie Antoinette costume. A fitted white t-shirt. Greased hair that looks like an effortless “F you, world” to what other people would call showering before work, but really took 45 minutes and a fine-tooth comb to perfect. Carmen “Carmy” Berzattos were en masse last Halloween. “Yes Chef!” has become a dog-whistle amongst those who want to signal to others that they too have watched the hit, Grammy- winning TV show, The Bear. Yet, this phenomenon is not down to one TV show, this is a legacy finally taking hold. Chefs are cool thanks to Anthony Bourdain.”

Click the link in our bio to read Emilia’s fabulously entertaining and insightful article “Compliments to the Chef”.

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08/02/2024

Today’s post is ‘Log Na Coille, somewhere west of Lourdes’ by E. R Fletcher.

Click the link in our bio to read more poetry by our talented Wayzgoose writers!

Image credit: PJW Photography

07/02/2024

‘I sleep better when I’ve had something to drink. Apparently, that’s impossible—at least, my brother likes to say so. Everytime I come downstairs on a Saturday morning, having had a few drinks before and after supper, and I say, ‘God, I slept well last night,’ he squints a little before telling me, ‘That’s impossible, scientifically.’ Those five forbidding, unbalanced syllables, with their maliciously rushed ‘ti-fic’ and the slick arrogance of the concluding ‘ly’, exist for the sole purpose of disproving the intimations of my own body. I hate them.

I’m sure that scientifically, it’s true; I reckon that technically, it might even correct. No doubt that fictional character, adored by Pollsters and Populists alike, the ‘Man on the Street’ (Who is he? Tell me!) has been rigorously monitored and tested and that was what the results said. So I’m not going to sit here, tapping away, arguing against the scientifically correct. Instead, I want to question how on earth we’ve allowed ourselves to return to some barbarically puritanical mindset in which our own personal experience of what makes us happy, what makes us tick (given that, of course, it’s in moderation: don’t do crack, etc.) means precious little.’

Follow the link in the bio to read more of Cosmo Adair’s passionate polemic against the use of the word ’scientifically’ , bans on smoking, and, most importantly, bossiness.

06/02/2024

How (not) to Have S*x: Coming of Age In The Era of S*xual Liberation.

Remember when this was you? the film whispers. There’s the post-exam, early wake-up calls because you had booked the cheapest flight for your girls’ trip, which inevitably was a 6:00 am Ryanair flight from Stansted. The frantic, hourly texts from your mum to check that your plane hadn’t, in fact, fallen out of the sky mid trip. The crinkle crisps and bottles of vodka that you could convince yourself would work as breakfast, lunch, and dinner for the next four days.

Our new brilliant review by Anna is available to read through the link in our bio!

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