30 October 2009

Another revision

Garbary 11
(Elblag, Poland 28th August 2009
)

the tactile
is whipped
into the other
eye and I'm a
bunk bunking
on tip toes
jeepers
creepers
in this patch
of northern Poland
red stars
dot the graveyard
and if everybody knew
what they want
there would be
no government
people people
this is a riot
the measure of love
is to love without
measure
I'm suspended
in the ethical
in this palace
of baby gods
oh baby I'm
going to give
you a mystery
in this wormy spermy
canal after that final
yes the point comes
trotting after

Louise Rosengreen (DANISH POET)

Some good work in English translation forthcoming in the new journal Cleaves. Check out her blog:


Louise Rosengreen

Grzegorz Wroblewski's Projekt 1

check it:

Projekt 1

29 October 2009

another quick revision

Unheimlichkeit ( the breaking of ground)

it takes four horses
to overcome
14 pounds
of limp flesh

& what is crossed
is found again

in modern Utah
a cowboy came
to me shucking
corn and shrugging
with his wads of
paper from the Lamma
welfare shelter
and I was chewing
Now & Laters
while my grandmother
Jean was dissolving
into Northern
Irish gravy oh lottery
to the grand
land of dreams of
hidden
Star Wars figures
forgotten on light bulbs
this is a faint signal
from Portadown
to Milton Keynes to
Las Vegas
agog with crackes and shells
alive alive piecing together
extra bits is that you
in front of me in a rocket ship
with Neil Diamond
blasting we're coming
to America
today today but I'm in Elblag
Poland among Teutonic
bones and the shadow of a nun
in her spires I've dreamed
of horses I've dreamed of lands
I've never seen

such a variety of houses & fortresses
which fish make from their own liquor
& saliva these details take precedence
over a panorama

26 October 2009

Nikki Dudley's new novel

London poet, writer, and all around great gal . . . check out some sample chapters from her new novel here:


Ellipsis Blog

23 October 2009

Amy De'Ath

super super . . . . the one and only Amy De'Ath has a poetics blog . . . .

check it:

Amy De'Ath

New Project

Putting together a few Polish poets for the Polish section:

CLEAVES

photo blog from Turkey

La Playaseca

16 October 2009

Unheimlichkeit ( the breaking of ground)

such a variety of houses and fortresses which fish make from their own liquor
& saliva these details take precedence over a panorama
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four horses to
overcome 14 pounds
of limp flesh

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this is whale watching
on the blinding
islands
with sliding
waters what is
crossed
is found again

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last night a Utah
cowboy
came to me
among the red
rocks and offered us
some land
and shortly after I
was back in Milton
Keynes England
with a rocket ship
in the mall & Neil
Diamond
blasting
we're coming to America
today I'm in Elblag
Poland among Teutonic
bones and
the shadow of a nun
in her spires
the Wulkan pub
where another new life
was sprung
among the clicking
of sharp heels
I've dreamed
of horses I've dreamed
of lands I've never seen

15 October 2009

Trickhouse

Terrific arts magazine. Combining/mixing various art forms: video, ambient music, visual art, poetry etc.

check it:

TRICKHOUSE

14 October 2009

domino night with Roger

video

Sophie Robinson

Some invigorating poems in progress over at Sophie Robinson's blog. Goad yr loins:

Sophie Robinson

5 October 2009

Joseph Ceravolo

One of my favourite poets of all time. Second generation NY School.


Joseph Ceravolo

second revision

Trendy Club
(Elblag, Poland)


I'm the oops slits
in yon skirt
all creatures
unite
practice smoking
in the sheet
of metal
with puppet
lips here
on ice
with itchy
dreams
dispersed
in the creamy
touch this
stranger shacking
on the greasy
table on the
loud hum
of testicles
we ride
the brambled
motions
I'm not
your
stoic mistress

4 October 2009

The Almighty Kerouac

first draft of "Trendy Club"

Trendy Club
Elblag, Poland)


in the El
Bano
there is
a sheet
of metal
where girls
can practise
smoking
puppet masters
muscles &
boobs
oh
broken
faces
I want
to be
touched
I'm not
your
stoic mistress