SNOBS
She: I am made to BLOW!
He: I am made to BLOW!
Chorus: We are all made to BLOW!
to blow . . .
30 October 2011
25 October 2011
comarade project
fun time . . .
collaborations . .. poetry comic with Tim Atkins . . .
lots of good stuff on the night . . .
a rapt audience . ..
collaborations . .. poetry comic with Tim Atkins . . .
lots of good stuff on the night . . .
a rapt audience . ..
off to Amsterdam
taking a 12 hour bus from London to Amsterdam. £30. Delayed summer holiday. Staying on a boat called the Gandalf. Free breakfast included. Never been to Amsterdam. Goin on the cheap. It was Amsterdam versus Bath. Tickets were the same price on the bus. Writing The Fertility Show. Will see what comes up with in Amsterdam. Maybe I am writing one big book split into smaller books.
24 October 2011
post punk visual poetry coasters
zimZalla object 011 will be Deuter Kelner, a set of post-punk visual poetry coasters by Grzegorz Wroblewski. Each coaster measures 9cm x 9cm. Available individually or as a complete set of six. Ideal for the dining room, scullery or mead hall. Out and available to buy on 1st November.
22 October 2011
Murat Nemet-Nejat!!! My tube readings!! Yippie!!
Recieved Murat Nemet-Nejat's The Spiritual Life of Replicants. Blade Runner. Skin jobs.
Also Seyhan Erozcelik's Rosestrikes and Coffee Grinds.
This is the real deal. This Turkish poetry needs wide wide circulation among poets and non-poets. Can't wait to dig in!!
Also some Ozdemir Asaf over here:
http://www.archipelago.org/vol6-2/asaf.htm
Also Seyhan Erozcelik's Rosestrikes and Coffee Grinds.
This is the real deal. This Turkish poetry needs wide wide circulation among poets and non-poets. Can't wait to dig in!!
Also some Ozdemir Asaf over here:
http://www.archipelago.org/vol6-2/asaf.htm
21 October 2011
16 October 2011
13 October 2011
Poetry Foundation dishonours the Chilean poet Raúl Zurita
A foundation for poetry???? NOPE!
A dishonour to the works of the great poets it houses in its dead museum.
As Frances Kruk puts it so well. The Multi million dollar building of the Poetry Foundation is:
an homage to the glass temples of skyscraping capitalism. All of these spaces are gated and intolerant to the disobedient, the dreamer, the dissenter, the whistle-blower. Imagination and dignity are curbed or even forbidden. Rather than taking what a person might be objecting to into serious consideration (in this case, the PF’s corporatism, its lack of principles, and its contempt for the arts it claims to be home to), external punitive measures are employed to control the “offenders”.
Raúl Zurita was the guest of honour at the Poetry Foundation when Stephanie Dunn was assaulted by the representatives of the Poetry Foundation (Chicago) and sent to jail for honouring the work of Chilean poet Raul Zurita.
The poetry foundation should be ashamed of their actions. Zurita expressed his support of the actions of these young poets and the Poetry Foundation honours his work by attempting to jail one of his supporters?????
What contradictions! Or not!
This in from Kent Johnson.
A substantial article (October 4th) on the Croatoan Poetic Cell action in La Tercera, one of Chile’s leading newspapers. The article is excellent, in fact, as summary of the event.
A dishonour to the works of the great poets it houses in its dead museum.
As Frances Kruk puts it so well. The Multi million dollar building of the Poetry Foundation is:
an homage to the glass temples of skyscraping capitalism. All of these spaces are gated and intolerant to the disobedient, the dreamer, the dissenter, the whistle-blower. Imagination and dignity are curbed or even forbidden. Rather than taking what a person might be objecting to into serious consideration (in this case, the PF’s corporatism, its lack of principles, and its contempt for the arts it claims to be home to), external punitive measures are employed to control the “offenders”.
Raúl Zurita was the guest of honour at the Poetry Foundation when Stephanie Dunn was assaulted by the representatives of the Poetry Foundation (Chicago) and sent to jail for honouring the work of Chilean poet Raul Zurita.
The poetry foundation should be ashamed of their actions. Zurita expressed his support of the actions of these young poets and the Poetry Foundation honours his work by attempting to jail one of his supporters?????
What contradictions! Or not!
This in from Kent Johnson.
A substantial article (October 4th) on the Croatoan Poetic Cell action in La Tercera, one of Chile’s leading newspapers. The article is excellent, in fact, as summary of the event.
A passage quoting Zurita, quickly translated, says the following (original Spanish passage below)
“On being asked about the action honoring CADA, Zurita confirmed, from the United States: ‘I felt a profound tenderness on witnessing these young people, because I knew it was sign of a much deeper struggle, that of poetry against the powers of a shameful order.’”
"Al ser consultado por la acción a favor del CADA, Zurita aseguró desde Estados Unidos: “Sentí una profunda ternura al ver a estos chicos, porque supe que era el signo de una lucha mucho más profunda, de la poesía contra los poderes de un orden avergonzante”.
"Al ser consultado por la acción a favor del CADA, Zurita aseguró desde Estados Unidos: “Sentí una profunda ternura al ver a estos chicos, porque supe que era el signo de una lucha mucho más profunda, de la poesía contra los poderes de un orden avergonzante”.
10 October 2011
9 October 2011
ACK! ACK! ACK! SHAME ON THE POETRY FOUNDATION (USA)
A couple days ago, at the arraignment hearing in Chicago for Stephanie Dunn, the poet and artist arrested at behest of Poetry Foundation a few weeks back for a performance-based protest at the PF Wine and Cheese Gala, an official representative of the Poetry Foundation called on the judge to send Dunn to Cook County Penitentiary until her trial nine days from now. The judge was about to do this (he said as much to the defendant), but a public defender who is otherwise unrelated to the case intervened and convinced the judge to let Dunn go until her trial date-- on condition that a guilty plea be entered. The terrified Stephanie agreed.
Three days after Raul Zurita's reading at the Poetry Foundation, where six or seven activists of the Croatoan Poetic Cell peacefully hung banners (one of them praising Zurita and his old activist group CADA) and passed out leaflets calling for the charges against Dunn to be dropped (the cops were also called by the PF on these poets--they scampered away), the Chicago Police Department carried out a raid during a musical event on the warehouse where most of the members of the Croatoan Poetic Cell live. Property was confiscated and three people detained. Minutes after the police left, a car parked outside, belonging to a friend of those involved, burst into flames. I state the bizarre sequence of these events without making any claim of connections between them, for I have no solid proof. But that is the anecdotal record.
A statement by members of the Croatoan Poetic Cell will be released in the next days, I understand. It is time for poets to stand publicly against this outrageous overreaction by the Poetry Foundation against young writers and artists guilty of nothing except peaceful, conceptual acts of poetic insurgency-- of which there is, to be sure, a long and venerable tradition in our field.
-- Kent
8 October 2011
new publication: The Comarade Project
The Comarade Project. Collaborations between U.K. poets. My Collaboration is with one of my favourite all time poets: Tim Atkins. It's a poetry comic.
Available now. Here is the announcement:
Delighted to announce the latest limited edition chapbook from The Red Ceilings Press...Maintenant: the Camarade project featuring Tom Jenks & Chris McCabe; Patrick Coyle & Holly Pester; Sam Riviere & Jack Underwood; Sandeep Parmar & James Byrne; James Wilkes & Ghazal Mosadeq; Emily Critchley & Tamarin Norwood; Sean Bonney & Jeff Hilson; Marcus Slease & Tim Atkins. With an introduction by Steven Fowler. £5 inc P&P (UK)
get it
hot hot hot here:
The Comarade Project
Available now. Here is the announcement:
Delighted to announce the latest limited edition chapbook from The Red Ceilings Press...Maintenant: the Camarade project featuring Tom Jenks & Chris McCabe; Patrick Coyle & Holly Pester; Sam Riviere & Jack Underwood; Sandeep Parmar & James Byrne; James Wilkes & Ghazal Mosadeq; Emily Critchley & Tamarin Norwood; Sean Bonney & Jeff Hilson; Marcus Slease & Tim Atkins. With an introduction by Steven Fowler. £5 inc P&P (UK)
get it
hot hot hot here:
The Comarade Project
7 October 2011
I am hundred times more a pale apple dream
I am One Hundred Times More A Pale Apple Dream
(dear Ted and Clark, Hello)
my belly
I mean love
This Time We Are Both
a toad in the hole
my flake my flake and my furrow
(dear Ted and Clark, Hello)
my belly
I mean love
This Time We Are Both
a toad in the hole
my flake my flake and my furrow
6 October 2011
from Fractured Burps (in Progress)
I am One Hundred Times More A Pale Apple Dream
breathing thru a wet sheet
dry gooseberry white
pasta grapes on the nipples
banging around my hands
my belly I mean love
coco cola and the Mormons
santa awash in the seafront
drips of beans with white cheese
a wave in this faraway town
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