The evolution of poetry from ancient times to the present.

J R Phillips is an angry poet. Much of his work can be viewed as an indictment of everything from pop culture to the... More > political realities of a media-dominated society.
Some of his more contentious issues include public funding of the arts and the blind allegiance to religious dogma. In this poet’s view, if people don’t like art why should they be forced to support it with their tax dollars? In this highly distressed economy government grants, college poetry classes and workshops should be shut down. “Let the cream rise to the surface” by it’s own merit and it’s inherent salability. And as for religion the only true sense of spirituality can only be found in the wonders of science
and a greater appreciation of the mathematical laws of the universe. "Only the stars know the pure poetry we deny. Only the stars and the rotating wheel we turn on. Only the stars and the mathematical moons and flowers" < Less

A California Odyssey

"O all the chimneys in the star-steepled night
… Come, Christmas dreams of evergreen air
And the little winter cottage... More > with the corner fire,
Ring a jingle-bell joy to all that’s left to love
In this war-weary world and be warm."


So begins a spiritual journey
through a world where no
god speaks or listens. In the
all-too familiar voice of the
poet-outsider, the lyrical poems
that follow represent an attempt
to cut through the harshness
of the modern-day world—the
cruelty and violence—by seeking
comfort and solace in the
reaffirmation of the healing
powers of love and nature.
Beginning with the winter white air
of Christmas and ending with
a verbal rendition of Bach’s
most famous Orchestral Suite we
are left with a feeling of
exhilaration as "our senses
are lit by a burning fire in
[our] ears." < Less

In the spirit of D.H. Lawrence’s “Look We Have Come Through” or George Meredith’s Post Victorian “Modern Love”,... More > J.R. Phillips takes us on a personal journey of growth and revelation recounting moments of sexual bliss, the heartbreak of loss and the acceptance of all life’s imperfections and emotional vagaries.

In short, this is an honest and self-revealing venture into one of the most compelling aspects of the human condition—the quest for romantic fulfillment.
Though relatively tiny in volume, its verse speaks a vibrant resonating force that echoes the lyrical grace of the Nineteenth Century Romantics alongside the harsh, abrasive reality of the modern day world. < Less

Celebration of love and the winter solstice. A wonderful gift for the Christmas seasons.

A chronicle of a relationship

A view of a dark side of life through the lens of language.

PAGANY -- A world of Pre-Christian mythology, where
spirits lurk in the physical world, where "once a cold darkness kept a... More > key/ to protect itself from pain and the overflow of strange incessant cravings".
Here, we witness and marvel at the lyrical beauty of a woman rising from a bath, the harsh awakening of a young woman's sexuality, the eerie strange eroticism of vampire lovers, and a fresh new translation of the French Symbolists, Baudelaire to Mallarme.
In this natural world unnatural behavior invariably leads to perversion and depravity.. Hence, we find a pedophile priest,, an adulterous father and a lesbian murderess. Subjects dealing with sodomy, pornography, oral sex, and public defecation are dealt with from a detached and unusual perspective. < Less

THE ANTI-POET POET
Nemo Bopp (aka James Phillips)


Nemo Bopp is an angry poet. Much of his work can be viewed as an... More > indictment of everything from pop culture to the political realities of a media-dominated society.
Some of his more contentious issues include public funding of the arts and the blind allegiance to religious dogma. In this poet’s view, if people don’t like art why should they be forced to support it with their tax dollars? In this highly distressed economy government grants, college poetry classes and workshops should be shut down. “Let the cream rise to the surface” by it’s own merit and it’s inherent salability. And as for religion the only true sense of spirituality can only be found in the wonders of science
and a greater appreciation of the mathematical laws of the universe. "Only the stars know the pure poetry we deny. Only the stars and the rotating wheel we turn on. Only the stars and the mathematical moons and flowers" < Less