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About Me

Unquiet Desperation is an underground litzine distributed free in fortunate locations around the world. It goes out once a month, and contains poetry, prose, art, photography, feedback and opinion.

Within you'll never find stuff that's overpolished: what we love is raw, and it's honest; it contains heart and it contains truth.

Truth? that's the stuff which, when this tale of sound and fury we stumble through has quietened for a moment, flares back to the front of our minds with the chill of bitter clarity... Consider those worthless things we do every day to distract ourselves, to stop ourselves dwelling on what in the end we know we must face; those shadows that dog our every step, that we wrestle only for them to dissolve before us... they are truth.

Pieces from back issues are available via our MySpace blog: for the sake of your sanity check them out and leave your thoughts. If, however, you crave a print copy of a back issue or the present issue, message us and we'll do our best tohit you up with a fix...

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Poets, writers, artists, rebels, philosophers, hermits, ascetics, visionaries... the list of who we'd like to meet goes on andon. If you're interested in art or writing or life, get in touch or ask to be our friend... though doing both is better.

We'd especially like to hear from you if you wisely see no option but to submit work for inclusion in future issues ofUnquiet Desperation, or if you'd like to join UD's street team... then you can use our mag as a bolt of soul-bright lightningto illuminate the wasteland town you call home. To take either of these paths to righteousness, message us.

Also, as we've said above, if you'd like a print copy of Unquiet Desperation to call your very own, you can message usabout that too.

My Blog

Unquiet Desperation 2.4: editorial.

The age of reason is failing. The light that was lit in the Renaissance, that burned through the Enlightenment and that still shone even in the darkest moments of the twentieth century is finally gutt...
Posted by on Sun, 07 Dec 2008 10:20:00 GMT

Unquiet Desperation 2.4: now available online.

The new issue of Unquiet Desperation, UD2.4, is now available online:Download UD2.4It's another rip-roaring, thundering issue, with Richard Dawkins on the cover and these delights inside:Places Enough...
Posted by on Tue, 25 Nov 2008 13:17:00 GMT

Unquiet Desperation 2.3: now available online.

That's right kids, you watched and you've waited, you've wailed and mourned... but you need fear no longer. UD2.3 is finally available! To lend meaning to your dreary life, go straight to our site and...
Posted by on Fri, 17 Oct 2008 21:33:00 GMT

Unquiet Desperation 1.20: Editorial

is not permanence that gives life meaning and hope. It is that it passes. Examining our time, do we give most of our hearts to that which is solid, and faithful? No: it is that which is transitory, th...
Posted by on Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:24:00 GMT

Unquiet Desperation 1.20: It Wasn’t Supposed To Come Down Hard, But It Did by James Nemeth

poetry reading/new york rican café, east 3rd street,the village/9:30 p.m&&&& pressed for time&&.28th street IRTI’ve got my bag full of poems for everyone in attendance/head down toward the platf...
Posted by on Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:21:00 GMT

Unquiet Desperation 1.20: Flat Cola Bottles by Sean O’Callaghan

We used to get 5p back for emptyBottles out the back of me grandma Boyle’s. At the side ofthe coal house there’d always be about four to six empty stoutbottles; that was a cert,and you&rsq...
Posted by on Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:20:00 GMT

Unquiet Desperation 1.20: Hammer & Keyboard by Rob Plath

i sit on the old couch near the drafty fucking windows i can feel death beneath my cuticles as i type on the laptop tonight i look over & a hammer is on the bare desk i left it there afte...
Posted by on Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:18:00 GMT

Unquiet Desperation 1.20: Christbones by Brent Saner

it’s hard to block out harpies banshees sirens calling me to shipwreck and wendigo smiles go from symmetrical ear-to-ear gasping rasping raping ravenous insults because i wear dirty laundry in a...
Posted by on Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:17:00 GMT

Unquiet Desperation 1.20: Some Strange Being With A Face Like My Own...

...by Luis Cuauhtemoc BerriozabalI was way past hungry.I knew I had no money.I ordered the simplestthing on the menu,spaghetti and meatballs.I gave them my name andmy telephone number. Ipromised I wou...
Posted by on Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:14:00 GMT

Unquiet Desperation 1.20: French Phrases by Matt Pecina

We laid in bed and I stared at the ceiling three feet away.Andgoddamnitthequestionalways..."What are you thinking about?"You know you are not allowed to be somewhere else while in someone’s bed....
Posted by on Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:13:00 GMT