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captain beefheart on itunes. London 1974. guacamole and doritos fosters 20 min and then tube to shepherds bush for NY Eve bash no table reserved Read more.

Didi Menendez, the editor of miPOesias, did a portrait of me. I dig it. Based on a younger pic. Fun stuff. I am envious of her talent and energy. I… Read more.

the poem below was written last night at The Windmill pub in Brixton, South London. It is mostly a collage of the flyer listing all the indie bands that played… Read more.

crispy beef, egg fried rice, prawn crackers, seafood with bean paste. movie: Pure. Heineken on bed. Later: Brixton, South London Read more.

Godzenie has been revised. Revisited. rethought. Things taken and things added and things shuffled. Four sections: 1) Wonderland (Seoul, South Korea) 2) Block 7A (Zory, Poland) 3) Hotel Diament (Jastrzebie,… Read more.

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Now, I have a home base in London visiting Poland is a much more enjoyable event. Just found out Godzenie did not win one of those first book contests. S… Read more.

Back to katowice, Poland tomorrow. Hanging with my girlfriend and her family for Yule time. Bringing my notebook and a few pens and see what crops up. The hardest part… Read more.

I did a collaboration with the poet Brian Howe around five years ago. Some of it was published in Tony Tost’s Faascicle magazine. Well now Scantily Clad Press has published… Read more.

The Lucifer Poetics Group is going strong. An organic grouping of artists with a healthy dose of various innovative aesthetics. some serious energy pumping out of North Carolina. Fascinating work… Read more.

anatomically correct robotically actuated advanced formula durable, ultra-realistic flesh-like elastomeric gel articulated skeleton speaks, moves, looks, feels, smells real Read more.

is being radically reworked is two serial poems “The secret of why we first took to our feet” (mythopoetics, image-centred, wisdom tradition) “As you where” (google-sculpting, found texts, sound-centred, dense,… Read more.

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I am glued, hooked, and ready to squirt. A body of work, working bodies, lower haves and have nots and so on: lowerhalf Read more.

Thanks to Sean Bonney for pointing this out on his blog. Beautiful books!!! check it: Russian Avant Garde Books Read more.

Warning: pierce non-porous skin to prevent bursting Warning: memories are scened were hot bodies meet Read more.

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A Face of Certified Holes in the cleared mindcamp the elephant is always in the room fear less than clearon a flight to Belfastto bury the dead and couldn’t find… Read more.

Some more performance art. The amazing Cris Cheek’s decade-long collaboration(s) with Kirsten Lavers at Things not worth keeping Read more.

some great sound art and poetry from the Atlanta Poetry Group Read more.

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I only looked like this for one night :-) Read more.

the new manuscript started in poland and picked up more steam in London. Now I am 50 pages in. It is about the eye. A battle between the eye and… Read more.

so what!!! anyone live for the weekend? That’s no way to live. I want out. Read more.

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One of my favourite literature magazines. YES YES YES!!! Great readings and performances. CHeCK It and be moved: Text Sound Read more.

Prodigal Drift art reshufflesout of date subjectivityhello mother an ode to milk ovelteen on a wet Tuesday post prandial nose-dive in the minced stew 2nd train to London £26£240 for… Read more.

” When you leave the city and go out in the country you’re always tempted tothink, ‘This is the real America.’ ‘These are the real Americans.’ And theyhave ‘real’ jobs:… Read more.

Gum+Cigarettes in a Litter Free Zone a shoveling between whale bones moistens the frontiers corrosive hunkle-buckle sporadic blood whimper stairs like skulls refleshed with steel universal fun-loop sifting expectations sounds… Read more.

Quit asking questions about the wine on the counter and take the potato from your pocket, peel, dice, splice. Like in a film with real milk we can’t get the… Read more.

If you are wondering about the new and exciting British and Irish poetry, this is the journal to buy: 015 Veer Journal 2 – ‘veer off’ – featuring the work… Read more.

words overheard, misheard, and remixed from an an Openned Poetry reading featuring Sean Bonney Sean Bonney Remix A clean blade with magnetic wildwood scum. Wierded weird the final host of… Read more.

Some reworked poems from Godzenie in the new Streetcake magazine. Happy for my work to be in great company. Thank you Nikki and Trini. Read more.

34. found it 2 min ago. in my beard. hm . . . here we go Read more.

still playing with this technology. DIY. rough as all hell. gotta keep trying new things. Read more.

some more great thought thinking language becoming camel again loading up before turning into lion to tear apart and then back to that mystical gooey eyed chid (thank you Nietzsche)… Read more.

Got my copy of Minor American literary journal today in the post. Damn fine work and excellent production. Looks bloody fantastic. Strong connection with some poets in North Carolina and… Read more.

Spent over 30 hours for the last two weeks finishing my three year manuscript Godzenie. Other than perhaps some small changes it is finished. Just printed and bound it with… Read more.

SUNDAYS AT THE OTO “poetry and music with the post-avant crowd for your Sunday afternoon pleasure” Third Sunday of the month, 3-5 pm, Café Oto, 18-22 Ashwin Street, Dalston, London… Read more.

SMALL PUBLISHERS FAIR 2008 Conway Hall,Red Lion Square,London WC1R 4RL FRIDAY 24th and SATURDAY 25th OCTOBER Open 11am to 7pm, admission to bookfair and readings is free. Holborn tube. Readings… Read more.

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This is an amazing reading series. Must get someone to cover my EFL classes!!! The Next Openned night Tuesday 21st October These People will be reading at Openned on 21st… Read more.

Constellation: Alice Notley goes live today – a collaborative web event featuring 34 writers responding to individual Notley poems; video footage of Notley reading at Birkbeck last May; and the… Read more.

New Parade as Smog there is a series of predictable problemsdomains in flame all feasible desires of the soul costumeno nature plants the cars in stricken spume your supposed past… Read more.

Great show last Sunday at The Luninaire: http://www.theluminaire.co.uk/ German band called Get Well Soon. Check it: http://www.youwillgetwellsoon.com/ Read more.

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Private Devotion (with special thanks to Anselm Berrigan) a lanky man with custard was recalled to life it took both cities in their underwear without a spare taxi to take… Read more.

Stage and Scream Quit asking questions about the wine on the counter and take the potato from your pocket, peel, dice, splice. We are stuck between stage and scream. Like… Read more.

zra Pound | Late TateFriday, 3 October18.30 – 22.00Tate Britain, Millbank, SW1P 4RGadmission free http://www.ucl.ac.uk/pound/ To commemorate the 100th anniversary of Ezra Pound’s arrival in London in 1908, nine performers… Read more.

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SNOBBISH SNOBBISHLY SNOBBISHNESS SNOBBISM SNOBBY SNOBLING SNOBOCRACY SNO-CAT SNODSNOFF SNOG … SNOW LILY SNOW LINE SNOW MIST SNOW MOUSE, SNOW MUSHROOM SNOW ORCHID there is real. it is all real.… Read more.

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Poorly paid Laborers Break Up Ships for Salvage The deft seduction of art keeps us transfixed. There’s always some visual pleasure to engage us. A painter’s eye for color and… Read more.

check it: Contemporary Poetics Research Centre Read more.

i have been finding time to write from 4-5PM before teaching my evening classes. When I am supposed to be preparing for classes. Between the first and second half of… Read more.

a monster haunts uswith cut-resistant ballistic pads carefully cut and sewn with curves in mind bright yellow peppers in the morning courtyard old tyre caked against shed and cooling trouserson… Read more.

Alien fruits For magnesium light I lifted my pillow with gold teeth into the mythical moist night, co-mingled with minions and unpeeled onions, all my vigor squeezed into a single… Read more.

Recycled from Today identity is a serious personal issueself-imposed deadlinesit shuts on its own darlingi’m sure you’re gonna be somebody, soondo you understand what else there is?stop anti-aging, stop messing… Read more.

Andrew Duncan’s Origins of the undergroundTom Atkins FolkloreTom Atkins HoraceSoft Targets (featuring Brian Howe purchased from Bookarts Bookshop in East London)Maggie O’Sullivan’s Body of Work Mairead Byrne’s Talk Poetry spent… Read more.

I went to a fantastic reading yesterday afternoon. Sundays at the Oto (Japanese for sound) with TIM ATKINS, ISNAJ DUI + SOPHIE ROBINSON. Tim Atkins was absolutely nothing short of… Read more.

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Love the clean look and always excellent painting as cover of Jim Goar’s Past Simple. Check out my poem and short reading here: Auspicious Wanderings Thank you Jim Goar Read more.

In the techno-creep, broken glass, you knowwhat reason tormentsfallen face in the surfperpendicular foot on my memorywhat you sellingoh comeo, oh obsidiantoken sanity, it behooves you to impound yr authenticity,… Read more.

it’s happening Robert Sheppard Read more.

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performing childhood is something else where light is a lonesome hymntouching commits to memory rhetorical proof in perpetual motion and love’s unbroken compositionapproaching the furthest moon salvation is among the… Read more.

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first week in new flat in west London. paid the deposit. Just hooked up wireless internet a few hours ago. I start a new job on Monday teaching part time… Read more.

Some interesting use of short poetry and photography from Dylan Harris. Check out ALL HANDS Read more.

reloaded os x on my mac. simplified. writing again. doing remixes of readings i’ve attended so far in London. I don’t remember their words and my words. Words. whose words?????… Read more.

Scott Thurston (Openned Reading, London, The Foundery, July 17th 2008) “take cover from my artificial intelligence” “we cannot justify our deserts” “shapeless static boundaries” “our current past-life on a disused… Read more.

Nate Tarn (Swedenborg House London June 17th 2008) “how to keep in favour with the sky in another pieced together country”‘the eardrum inbeasted to savour even more so, now”“my father… Read more.

Lee Harwood London 17th June 2008 “theory of colours and walking skeletons” “the usual desire for the glue monster”“in small rooms we sat around the fire”“I know what you are… Read more.

My brother is awake. At first he couldn’t speak and he put his hand on his heart and pointed to my mum. now he is using words . . .… Read more.

my little brother Spencer was in a very bad car crash three days ago in utah. he is in a coma. brain swollen. collapsed lung. machines. I can’t really focus… Read more.

It is really happening. or seems to. My first feed for over three years occurred last night in east london at the Foundery: Sascha Akhtar Sean Bonney Frances Kruk Scott… Read more.

A lot of tube time. Over three hours. I’ve seen some of the same people but we are not supposed to look at each other. When I blow my nose… Read more.

I must attend this event next year!!! report by Alison Read more.

Prodigal Drift Lapid maze-fault: something calls my name, tomotoe on the table I wish you could pick me up operaticallyhot/cold with critical speculation. I’ve met gravityat every turn and in… Read more.

COFFEE HALL sex drop and damp dreamsin coffee hallbefore a Mormonbaptism there was silent chatter and I was borderline skit zowhile star wars figures melted on the light bulb This… Read more.

My friend and fellow poet Virgil Renfroe gave me this link to a very interesting poetry and sound art website. The soundstuff is really really interesting. Check it out: Dean… Read more.

got a big room for the month of August. Half a foot on the ground. So my third move in London coming up in two weeks. Then in September I… Read more.

so maybe my feet will come back. maybe i can work in marketing for this language school and then create a mental space for my writing. I think other writers… Read more.

went to brick lane in london yesterday. it is an amazing place. my favourite place in london so far. lots of interesting galleries. it is where the new shit happens.… Read more.

It is pouring rain in London right now. Typical English weather i guess. I live in a Turkish neighborhood. I got my haircut the other day at a Turkish barber… Read more.

Portadown cum round againsex drop and damp dreamsin council housingsilent chatter borderline skit zofigures melting on lightbulbs I’m painting a portrait with the pelvis as a disappearing point and masturbation… Read more.

So I moved into a new flat in North London (near Manor House) last monday. Lost money by moving out of the other flat before the end of the month… Read more.

so leave in a few hours for a plane back to London. Belfast was great. Fantastic indie rock clubs. The area around Queens University is really nice. Cool vintage clothing… Read more.

scene speak: NewportPagnell: green green greenand old village pubs, countryfood: Yorkshire pudding and roastand carrots: loved and lostand loved it all maybe not, although, I don’t think so, my lapsedtravel… Read more.

The Goose at The Goose across from Wood Green Station£1.50 a pint, Slovakians and Bulgerians and Polish and North Londoners and a man in the corner climbing a ladderof tongues… Read more.

what does it mean to sell out? it entails something about authenticity which is a big bag of bones. but being authentic is always a question in motion. like individuality… Read more.

in new room. old place. a few cool bulgarians. now my mum is in belfast. flying back to belfast tomorrow. it is crazy globe trotting. come back to london in… Read more.

I traveled from Milton Keynes to London all last week. After one busy extremely stressful week I have a job and a place to live. I will take the train… Read more.

birds everywhere. at least twelve new songs. clock ticking. slugs nestled into mud puddles. Lush, in short. i have applied to a mad amount of jobs, it is the system,… Read more.