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Author: Marcus Silcock
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New poems written while in Andalucia, Spain.
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Innovative British poetry from Tim Atkins and Jeff Hilson. Terrific. They make me believe poetry is alright again! a great reading in London as part of the Auld Enemies project by SJ Fowler.
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July 1998. “Nine Holes” Translated by Malcolm Sinclair. http://krzysztofjaworski.blogspot.co.uk/2014/07/dziewiec-dziur.html
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GENTLEMEN(POETRY, MUSIC, FILM COLLABORATION FOR UPTIGHT)DIRECTOR: Graeme MaguireASSISTANT DIRECTOR: Sarah MaguirePOETRY: Marcus SleaseSOUNDS: Annie Gardiner of Hysterical InjurySTARRING: Rick Hambleton, Natalie Brown, Mo, Jamie LindsayTHANKS TO: The Cube, Scubaboy Inc, Floating Harbour Studios, Geneva Stopcheck it out://player.vimeo.com/video/100253149 GENTLEMEN – Short Film from Graeme Maguire on Vimeo.
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hangin in old moorish streets of Grenada. Reading Lorca in NY while I am in Grenada. Bones on fire in 40 degree heat but can´t type worth a damn on ancient devices. Nuts with white wine on the lower east side of Grenada. 4.20am. This was glowing in the sky.
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“Too hip for the squares and too square for the hips is a category of oblivion which increasingly threatens any artist who dares to take his own way, regardless of mass public and journalistic approval. And how could it be otherwise in a supremely tribal civilization like ours, where even artists feel compelled to band…
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Awesome exhibit coming up in Warsaw Poland. The first big exhibit of the artist and poet Grzegorz Wroblewski in his home country after many many years of exile. Gonna check it out in August. You can see both conceptual and psychedelic paintings there. Gonna be historic! Opening day 6th August 18:00. Until 28th September 2014. Muzeum…
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FROM MY NOVEL IN PROGRESS THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF DON WHISKERS. THE COLLEGE DAYS OF SEARCHING FOR MYSTICAL TREASURES . . A RECORDING/READING OVER AT SOUNDCLOUD: https://soundcloud.com/marcus-slease/from-never-mind-the-beasts
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“There weren’t enough gumdrops in the shop to feed the dopamine and keep him to me. My blue-suited brother had gotten wise and hid our mother’s loot on his token visit home. So when the need jerked Andrew stupid, and he got rabbit in his blood, I said, How about you hold onto me and shoot…
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SJ Fowler organised it all. WOW! What a night!! And lots more poets reading on the night . . . check ’em out over at youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=om1Qq2Ekhhk&index=1&list=UUH-fLGyt8YZrtNctaU1OauQ
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Here is Philip Terry. An member back in the day of Oulipo. He puts Tim’s Atkin’s poems from Petrarch through a music box. It is very interesting. Tim Atkin’s Petrarch is available from Crater Press over here: http://www.craterpress.co.uk/ Crater 27: June 2014. Tim Atkins, Complete Petrarch. Atkins Collected Petrarch / Petrarch Collected Atkins. All of…
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Holly makes her own spin on Tim Atkin’s spin on Petrarch. Oh yeah! and many more readings over here:
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The awesome Jeff Hilson reading from Tim Atkin’s Petrarch:
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Crater 27: June 2014. Tim Atkins, Complete Petrarch.All of Petrarch translated / transfigured / transplanted by Tim Atkins – a hallucinogenic, euphoric striptease of a traductory odyssey. 550 odd pages of pure lyric gold. [Not letterpressed.] £16 + p&phttp://www.craterpress.co.uk/Lot’s of London poets reading from Tim Atkin’s Petrarch last Saturday. Terrific night!!! One of the best readings…
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Reminds me of the amazing plays of Kenneth Koch. But with a Tim Atkins twist. It doesn’t get any better than Tim Atkins!!! Amazing launch of his Petrarch at Rich Mix last Saturday. You can get the magnum opus (plays, poetry, outsider art and more) from Crater Press. Freakin brilliant. NY School Poetry meets British…
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by The Clash featuring the poet Allen Ginsberg (from the album Combat Rock, 1982)
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by Zarina Zabrisky Buy the awesome chapbook from TREE KILLER INK here: http://www.epicrites.org/tree-killer-ink.html
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Dani Sandal’s freakin awesome tale 97%. Listening now and it is mighty mighty good!! The failures of pops. Jesus/God. Daughter/father. Pre-detox love. 3% unsure. “The secrets are still buried deep by bull’s ass. But we rocked out and flayed asphalt. Thin Lizzy. There is no band worth a nickel, my pop believes, who hasn’t had…
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BY GEORGES BATAILLE http://solarluxuriance.com/oop/pdfs/SL011.pdf
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Coming of age 3d glasses scary breast story over at Referential Magazine. Olive and Prue waiting lady like in church for their last picture show. Faye Dunaway. Textured and layered with word pleasures. The awesome Dani Sandal. Check it: http://referentialmagazine.org/dani-sandal/
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Got some surrealist/fabulist prose poems written in Poland 2008 and 2012 in the new issue of Likewise Folio . Check it out at :http://likewisefolio.org/poet/marcus-slease
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http://poetry.sangamhouse.org/2014/06/excerpts-from-kopenhaga-by-grzegorz-wroblewski/
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THREE KICK ASS POEMS BY NICHOLAS GRIDER OVER AT SHAMPOO. CUTE AS A TICK: http://www.shampoopoetry.com/ShampooTwentytwo/grider.html (art: Nicholas Grider)
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Chris Kraus’ I Love Dick is opening a space for me to exist in. To move around in. She says, “Reading delivers on the promise that sex raises but hardly ever can fulfill- getting larger cause you’re entering another person’s language, cadence, heart and mind.” And that’s when I feel most alive. Expansive writing. Expansive…
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It’s still hard and the world is a completely different place with loss of this size. We were so close growing up and then were reconnecting again after I left the U.S. and traveled the world for seven years in attempt to make new home. I’d made the circle. I was coming home. And I…
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Got some poems in the new issue of Ofi Press Magazine from Mexico City. Including one for my brother Aaron (“Piper Down”). Tomorrow he will have been gone for 2 years. It’s still hard!!! http://www.ofipress.com/sleasemarcus.htm
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Reading a poem that engages with Hrabal’s Too Loud A Solitude and Closely Watched Trains. Part of my manuscript Play Yr Kardz Right. Next month at THE HORSE HOSPITAL. 3rd JULY. COME ON OUT!! GREAT LINE UP!!
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https://soundcloud.com/marcus-slease/raph-hawkins-find-the-black
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Artist Pawel Kuczynski, who is based in Poland, creates thought-provoking art that will give you another way to view this world.
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“I began writing train poems on the London tube in 2008-2009. I sat there scribbling into notebooks as the train went from one stop to the next.” I’m talkin about train poems & my process for writing Rides on H_ngm_n magazine today: http://h-ngm-n.tumblr.com/post/86997117895/this-poem-this-monster-marcus-slease It is partly inspired by Ted Berrigan’s Train Rides (picture below). Rides is…
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Sarah Maguire. The co-creator of UPTIGHT. www.thisisuptight.com
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“We are two poets, Sarah Maguire (Bristol) and Marcus Slease (London) that to put it mildly are sick of traditional intellectual, stiff, PHD driven British poetry and feel obligated to do something …anything ….to make a change. “ CHECK OUT UPTIGHT! A NEW POETRY AND ARTS COMMUNITY BASED IN BRISTOL, UK AND LONDON, UK. OUR…
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A READING OF THE FABULOUS RUSSIAN ABSURDIST OBERIU POET ALEXANDER VVEDENSKY’S POEM “THE JOYFUL MAN FRANZ.” https://soundcloud.com/marcus-slease/the-joyful-man-franz-by-alexander-vvedensky “pussy riot are Vvedensky’s disciples and heirs. . His principle of bad rhythm is our own” — Pussy Riot (Nadezhda Tolokonnikova;s closing statement at their trial August 2012)
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RUSSIAN ABSURDISM MEETS RAW EROTICISM SEX POSITIVE PSYCHOANALYTIC FEMINISM ETC. ETC. ETC. ZARINA ZABRISKY ROCKS!!!
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SAW EUGENE OSTASHEVSKY YESTERDAY AT SERPENTINE GALLERY IN LONDON. PIRATES AND PARROTS. BEST READING IN LONG TIME!! RUSSIAN/AMERICAN ABSURDISM!! TERRIFIC!
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What do we mean by liberation? Spirituality and race gender class and nation.
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BIG BALLS OF HAPPY ENERGY AND DEVASTATOR BEER. SPANISH FORK UTAH. DOCKLANDS EAST LONDON. UVF CHILDHOOD. PORTADOWN. EXPANDING UNIVERSE. NOTHINGNESS.
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Eileen Myles reading in Vilnius. Terrific! Expansive and open and generous. Her confidence is contagious. I think she opens up the space and all the people in that space. So many poetry readings feel closed and sometimes suffocating. We need more open spaces (in body, mind, and spirit). We need more expansive poetry and art.…
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SOME OF MY POEMS FROM MANUSCRIPT TRAIN RIDES. POEMS WRITTEN GOING FORWARDS AND BACKWARDS ON TRAINS IN THE U.K. INSPIRED IN PART BY TED BERRIGAN’S TRAIN RIDES. CHECK IT OUT IN THE NEW H_NGM_N ISSUE 16. http://www.h-ngm-n.com/h_ngm_n-sixteen/marcus-slease.html
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NEW POEM THINKING ABOUT HRABAL AND TIME LIVING IN POLAND. WRITTEN WED 7TH MAY 2014.
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“Take 9-11. That means something in the United States. The “world changed” after 9-11. Well, do a slight thought experiment. Suppose that on 9-11 the planes had bombed the White House, suppose they’d killed the president, established a military dictatorship, quickly killed thousands, tortured tens of thousands more, set up a major international terror center…
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MY POEM SCHOOL OF FISH IS OVER AT SPORK. YIPPPIEEE . . . http://sporkpress.com/
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Texas Senate Bill 5 (or Texas SB 5), created on June 11, 2013 and discussed during the First Special Session of the Eighty-third Texas Legislature, is a list of measures that add and update abortion regulations in Texas. The controversial bill includes a mandate that a doctor who performs abortions have admitting privileges at a nearby hospital,…
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NEW POEMS IN WHICH ISSUE 5. A HEALTHY SPRINGING FROM OTHERWISE OVERALL STALE BRITISH POETRY (OR STALE MAGAZINES AND PRESSES OF BRITISH POETRY) GOT A POEM ABOUT STRING AND THE UNIVERSE AND MORMON MISSION MEMORIES OF TYING COMPANION TO BED POST TO PREVENT ACCIDENTAL INTERFERING WITH BODY LUST SENSATIONS ETC. CHECK IT OUT HERE. THANK…
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POETRY: MARCUS SLEASE MUSIC/SOUND: FIELD RECORDINGS OF CANARY WHARF, 4 TRACKS OF RANDOM TRACKS SELECTED VIA CHANCE METHODS JOHN CAGE STYLE
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Mighty good poems over at Blood Lotus. It’s Amy King. It’s not hipster irony. I am right there too!!! Stacia M. Fleegal on Amy King: “Experts are servants / to those in power who return things to ‘normal.’ Riot on.” could be Amy King’s ars poetica. Other writers might question notions of normalcy, but King…
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Erkembode (DAVID KELLY-MANCAUX) has created a saintly scroll of my poems (a minimalist version of Kerouac’s On the Road). Erkembode created the poetry scroll while working the gift shop at the British Museum. He said the till was going crazy spewing out poems instead of numbers for receipts. These poems are conversational vernacular poems. A…
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Belief and Technique for Modern Prose (Jack Kerouac) Scribbled secret notebooks, and wild typewritten pages, for yr own joy Submissive to everything, open, listening Try never get drunk outside yr own house Be in love with yr life Something that you feel will find its own form Be crazy dumbsaint of the mind Blow as…
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KARAMAN, TURKEY. 2010 https://soundcloud.com/marcus-slease/half-way-house
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except from my novella in progress THE NEW VISION. Inspired by William Burroughs, Jack Kerouac, Eileen Myles, Feminism, psychedelic revolutions, Mormon youth, Utah and much more
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STARTED A NEW NOVEL OR NOVELLA TODAY. IT’S CALLED THE NEW VISION. UTAH OF THE 90’S. BASED ON A TRUE STORY. HA. AND NOT. FEELIN THE PULL . . OF SOMETHING . . SMALL EXCERPT OF FIRST 20 PAGES HERE: There was no lake below us anymore. It was all dry lakes and bottle rockets…
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in his ongoing video art work of “speaking portraits,” poet/artist George Quasha puts an impossible, but unavoidable, question before poets of all kinds and in many places: what is poetry? In response poets let us in on their private space of poetry definition. This intimate view of speaking faces, each filling the screen, shows how…
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Ewa is making chapbooks for my Victorian toilet bowl reading with Richard Barrett this Tuesday. Drawings by David Kelly-Mancaux. The Chapbook is called IT POPS. Ewa made a chapbook a few years ago with nail varnish for the cover called Balloons. I think there is a theme. http://www.artslav.com/
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http://www.youtube.com/attribution_link?a=FdhKs7FeHrU&u=/watch?v=pn9CdLKBDVE&feature=share Jack Kerouac and Cat Power. What a combo!
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(scraps from this weeks notebook) The giant city awake in the first warm breath of springtime. 5 days till 40th birthday. Moving into part time insomnia. Money worries. I have enough now but what about next month? The month after? What about the summer? * * * THE PAST- a new movie * * *…
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Most wars are class wars. Send all the sons and daughters of American congress people and then maybe they will think a bit about putting greed before human life!! Dani Sandal’s Anti-War poem kicks ass. As Genesis says Each war contains within it the seeds of a fresh war Sodden plums and purple hearts. Finger…
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cd2qDTBBwpw
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Fantastic interview with Grzegorz Wroblewski by Gilbert Wesley Purdy over here: http://www.eclectica.org/v18n2/purdy_wroblewski_interview.html Grzegorz is currently in a plane flying to New York for his American tour. Go see him if you are on the East Coast of the U.S. A rarity for sure!! (painting by Grzegorz Wroblewski: Muzeum 1 Kolyska Cindy) Grzegorz Wroblewski and Piotr Gwiazda…
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MALANCHOLIAGuitar: Amir Hadziahmentovic Text/voice: Grzegorz Wroblewski Drawings: My Life with Ann by Grzegorz Wroblewskihttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKjlYwjnhf8 (drawing: Grzrgorz Wroblewski’s My Life With Ann)
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SUPER SUPER HAPPY!! IT IS A GOOD SATURDAY IN EAST LONDON. GOT MY COPY OF ATLAS REVIEW 3. AMONG ABSOLUTELY AMAZING COMPANY. BEST MAG I HAVE SEEN IN A LONG LONG TIME!!! SO MANY GREAT ARTISTS AND POETS!! THANK YOU ATLAS REVIEW. YOU WILL BE MY TUBE READING FOR THE NEXT WEEK OR TWO. AND…
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Eating a magic Scone last night with David Kelly-Mancaux in London before poetry reading. The poetry reading was a word pharmacy at Hardy Tree Gallery. It was very interesting. http://hardytreegallery.com/
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Footsie Index #5 Richard BarrettMarcus SleaseRichard will be launching his new book ‘Free’ which is published by Blart Books. Tuesday 15th April 2014 STARTS @ 7PM Footsie Index #5 is at Artslav http://www.artslav.com/ Artslav is a restored Victorian public toilet located under the centre of Kennington Cross just by The Doghouse Pub. 180 Kennington LaneLondonSE11 4UZ Get there…
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If you are in NY, check out Kopenhaga. Grzegorz Wroblewki and Piotr Gwiazda: http://harriman.columbia.edu/event/poetry-reading-grzegorz-wr%C3%B3blewski
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powerful story in Raleigh Review. Dani Sandal’s “WHAT REMAINS” http://www.raleighreview.org/flash_fiction.html Nails age. Memory fades. The power of fuck remains. The longevity of the fuck. The word. The life energy! Skulls crack like eggs.
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BY RUSS WOODS AT BLACK CAKE RECORDINGS. A NIFTY AUDIO SITE FOR POETRY. DIG: http://blackcakerecords.bandcamp.com/track/the-birthday-cake-i-made-you
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BY JACK SPICER. BACK IN PRINT.AND GORGEOUS OF COURSE! I LOVE POOR CLAUDIA. SO HAPPY TO HAVE MY BOOK WITH THIS TERRIFIC PUBLISHER. ONE OF MY ABSOLUTE FAVS http://www.poorclaudia.org/books/the-holy-grail/
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America (after Ginsberg) America I am putting my pursy lips to the wheel America go to bed dream new dream America none of this means anything America I’ve got your booty in my laundry bag America my potatoes are puffy, cloudy, sexy America I have a queer head a queer shoulder a queer toe a…
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If you are in the U.S. and near these cities (NY, MA, RI) then try to catch Grzegorz Wroblewski and Piotr Gwiazda (translator) on their American book tour!!! Grzegorz Wróblewski and Piotr Gwiazda, poet and translator of KOPENHAGA — Friday, April 4, Columbia University, East Central European Center and Department of Slavic Languages, 4 p.m.,…
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FROM YUGEN ISSUE 4 PETER ORLOVSKY’S “SECOND POEM” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZstJLgAhy8
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a reading of Mu (dream) So (Window) on soundcloud. Seoul, South Korea 2006: https://soundcloud.com/marcus-slease/mu-dream-so-window
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GRZEGORZ WROBLEWSKI HAS A NEW PENN SOUND PAGE. YIPPIE!!! Mp3s of readings from London: Torriano reading series and Enemies project reading at Rich Mix. Also a reading I did of Grzegorz’s poetry set to some basic music I whipped together. Check it out: http://www.writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Wroblewski.php Painting: Grzegorz Wróblewski The Post-Literate (R)Evolution
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THE POEMS OF ALFRED STARR HAMILTON. An American surrealist. A nice discussion here on the internet radio: http://www.kcrw.com/media-player/mediaPlayer2.html?type=audio&id=bw140123alfred_starr_hamilto
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I like Shane Christmass. Sunday Morning reads: I’M NOT FAMILIAR WITH ALLAN GINSBURGH BUT HE LOOKS LIKE HE SMOKES A LOT OF WEED. & PUBIC HAIR A TANGLE $$$$$$$. over at Housefire: http://housefirebooks.com/deux-two-poems-by-shane-christmass/
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CHECK OUT KRZYSZTOF JAWORSKI. TERRIFIC POEMS OVER HERE. TRANSLATED BY BANJAMIN PALOFF http://bettermagazine.org/004/krzysztofjaworski.html Krzysztof Jaworski was born in Kielce, Poland, in 1966, and has written over a dozen books, including Irksome Pleasures: Collected Poems 1988–2008 and, most recently, To the Marrow, an avant-garde novel about his experience with cancer. He remains one of the most provocative poets in Poland…
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The title is Schylek. A poem from Grzegorz’s first poetry collection Ciamkowatosc zycia (from 1992). Written in Warsaw in the beginning of 80’s punk period. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9x5iUrUaBxc
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Grzegorz Wroblewski reading from his book Kopenhaga and Piotr Gwiazda reading his English translations. London. Torriano Reading Series. 9th Feb 2014.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axWyV2Ja3UE&feature=youtu.be
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As part of the Enemies project (www.weareenemies.com) Wrogowie celebrated contemporary Polish poetry in collaboration with British poetry on February 8th 2014 at the Rich mix arts centre in London. Six pairs of poets premiered original collaborative works specifically for this event. Supported by the Polish Institute and SSEES. Me and Grzegorz presented our ongoing nomadic…
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poetry “is in the margins, the fray, and the common places too. Some poets may attempt to harness and use the “PoBiz” for personal or professional gain, but it is at their own expense that they fail to grasp that poetry’s power extends far beyond one’s career or notions of fame. Poetry has the potential…
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“What terrifies me in Denmark (the land of Bohr and Kierkegaard, a caring tolerate state, with a high standard of living, etc)? What terrifies me is homo sapiens. Also in Wilanów and other wholly innocent corners of the Earth. What terrifies me is homo sapiens.” (Grzegorz Wroblewski) Nice review of Grzegorz Wroblewski’s Kopenhaga in Three Percent (University…
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Wrogowie – Feb sat 8th at the Rich Mix, London Wrogowie: February Sat 8th at the Rich Mix Arts Centre: 7pm doors. Free entry. http://www.richmix.org.uk/whats-on/event/wrogowie-the-enemies-project-polish-poetry/ http://www.polishculture.org.uk/literature/events/news/article/wrogowie-the-enemies-project-2244.html Marcus Slease & Grzegorz Wróblewski Joanna Rzadowska & Francesca Lisette Ula Chowaniec & Amy Cutler Piotr Gwiazda & SJ Fowler Adam Zdrodowski & Philip Terry + Laura Elliott & Angus…
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Grzegorz Wroblewski and Amir (on guitar). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pk1Pr0AROI
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Got this in the mail today!!! Big Table issue 1. The Complete contents of the suppressed Winter 1959 Chicago Review. Jack Kerouac, Edward Dahlberg, William S. Burroughs And an old newspaper article. Bearding the Beats. Kenneth Tynan, The Observer. Sunday Nov 1st 1959.
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http://tieryas.wordpress.com/2014/01/29/tieryas-mini-reviews-spanish-fork-by-marcus-slease/ A NICE MINI REVIEW OF SPANISH FORK CHAPBOOK. THANK YOU TIERYAS!!!
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Paintings by Grzegorz Wroblewski. Poems of Grzegorz Wroblewski translated by Agnieszka Pokojska and Adam Zdrodowski. Reading: Marcus Slease. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSv6LAHI0gY
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http://krzysztofjaworski.blogspot.dk/2014/01/piesci-wladzy.html
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A few more observations, haiku, extremely short stories, by Mike Topp who lives and works in a large, Eastern metropolis. Grzegorz Wroblewski’s Kopenhaga and Mike Topp’s poetry have quiet a lot in common. They are both from the Milky Way for one! I think their poetry would get along really well together!! http://www.scn.org/realpoetik/topp-mike-htm-99.htm
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Grzegorz Wroblewki was part of the bruLion group. He is a punk rock poet. And a warm warm hearted human being too!!! Cracovian bruLion (noteBook) in the history of Polish literature of the end of the 20th made its name as one of the most important voices of the young generation. The group connected with…
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Some poems of Grzegorz Wroblewski in the Brooklyn Rail. Translated by Piotr Gwiazda. They are from Grzegorz’s collection Dwie kobiety nad Atlantykiem – from 2011 http://intranslation.brooklynrail.org/polish/poetry-by-grzegorz-wroblewski Piotr Gwiazda’s translations of Wróblewski’s poetry have appeared in AGNI Online, Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, The Nation, and Seneca Review. Gwiazda’s translation of Wróblewski’s book of prose poems Kopenhaga…
Never Mind the Beasts 