Beautiful Mess

By Mark Binmore

Beautiful Mess features a kaleidoscope of scenarios and locations, together with a highly diverse cast of characters, from glamorous movie stars to burnt out strippers, somnambulists to drag queens, from a lonely bee-keeper, who said, "I don't meet many people, I'm very busy with the hives, when's my cloud of bees coming home?" to the child growing into an adult, on the day they learned to swim, because, "I'm all grown up now." 

Originally published by Massive. 

25th Anniversary Edition by Fontana with new liner notes.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Mark Binmore
• Release date: Aug 15, 2023
• ISBN: 9798223560920

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Mark Binmore

BY THE SAME AUTHOR

Now Is Not The Time For Trumpets

A Life Of Parties

A ‘Sorta Fairytale

Take Down The Flags

Nemesis

Beautiful Deconstruction

Everything Could Be So Perfect

Sunsets Etc.

Sad Confetti

Shorts

Published by Fontana

First published in Great Britain by Massive 1998

Copyright ©Mark Binmore 1998

Forward ©Danny Tucker 2022

This edition ©2022

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All characters appearing in this work are fictitious. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead is purely coincidental.

It's about the excitement at the start of a magical love affair.

It's about being in love, everyone knows apart from the person you're in love with.

It's about a fear of the dark which can be conquered by somebody you love being there.

It's about the end of a possibility, the end of hope.

It's about dreaming.

It's about escape and flying.

It's about winning.

It's about an idealistic gay utopia, but looking back in hindsight it wasn't the utopia they all thought it would be.

It's about how cities come and go.

It's about my childhood.

It's about the end of a relationship.

It's about someone I know.

It's about people not believing each other.

It's about not being disappointed.

It's about being disappointed.

It's about how you can almost be there, without getting there.

It's about class, about rough boys getting a bit of posh.

It's about growing old, and that when you've reached a certain age you've survived this far, you're still alive.

It's about waiting for someone to tell you they love you.

It's about saying goodbye.

'Beautiful Mess was written between the years 1987/1997.  They are explorations and observations, they part document my ever changing attitudes.

I present to you, a twilight world of neon and the unknown, of secret dreams and deals, of contrasting morals and different codes where the young are the heroes and the losers are saints, where the ugly is beautiful and the beautiful more beautiful, in the gutter where gold is found, we are all just a beautiful mess.'  

Mark Binmore.

London 1998.

'When I glance back

I see the frozen landscapes that I have walked through

But it is a different view everyday

now all the great trees are gone

All the fires that were lit have been put out

it’s just the afterglow that shines somewhere inside of you'

Rediscovering Mess.

A beautiful, beautiful mess.

FOREWORD

by Danny Tucker.

'Dreams that we were searching for

They don't matter anymore'

Although internationally known as a novelist, Now Is Not The Time For Trumpets, Beautiful Deconstruction, Everything Could Be So Perfect, Sunsets Etc and Sad Confetti to name a few, Mark Binmore is less known for his prose, which features a kaleidoscope of scenarios and locations, together with a highly diverse cast of characters, from glamorous movie stars to burnt out strippers, somnambulists to drag queens, from a lonely bee-keeper, who said, 'I don't meet many people, I'm very busy with the hives, when's my cloud of bees coming home?' to the child growing into an adult, on the day they learned to swim, because, 'I’m all grown up now.'

'Whatever you say, whatever you know. Love may come and go, so take the things that life can give...'

That he has shared some of these characters through prose has enriched popular culture for many years; that he has also done so through poetry strikes some as surprising years since the publication of his first book. One reason