Never Mind the Beasts

check out Scorpion Whip’s first track: Night Heist

A pinhole camera is a very simple camera with no lens and a single very small aperture. Simply explained, it is a light-proof box with a small hole in one side. Light from a scene passes through this single point…

listen to some great Americana here: Tony Tost’s America

“To recognize untruth as a condition of life: that, to be sure, means to resist customary value-sentiments in a dangerous fashion; and a philosophy which ventures to do so places itself, by that act alone, beyond good and evil.” —…

A terrific interview with Gabe Gudding. Really needed this fresh perspective!!! Gabe Gudding interview

“There is a black box inside the sun. / The wreck of an earlier universe / is recorded there. There is a black / door at the center of the sun. / Seven steps lead up to it.”— Joseph Donahue’s…

MEMO BOOK JAN 2006 my address is 813Dae Yang NiceGae SangGye YangIncheon Joe is a veteran of the gulf and cooks big plates of rice Shane has a ponytail and refuses a Korean look Tim meets us on the roof…

Mu (dream) So(window) I think I utter butterwhat exactly this is justwhat must bespokenI’m fed with multi-spoonswhat ghostsmy friend in our battlesfor the sunI I I I I I I iwill not paintdream brothersdream lovers

The dentist and I are eating our bulgogi and bean sprouts. Need visions. The small pickles and quick sushi. Korean bread baskets. When you come undone you come undone. You know you know jack shit. How far can we go?…

I am going to buy copies for the Soundeye festival in Cork. So if you are at Soundeye, you can buy the books direct from me if you wish. Link for ordering is to the right. Amazon.com is the easiest…

Polish literature in English

“An artist does not create the way he lives, he lives the way he creates.” — Jean Lescure

When I first arrived in South Korea I went into downtown Seoul with one of the Korean teachers named Vicky. Actually, it was literally the day after I arrived in Korea. I had just moved into my flat. I didn’t…

I lived in a tiny tiny room called a Goshiwon for 2.5 months. Just a bed. Couldn’t stretch my legs all the way. A bar above my head for clothes. A shower shared by 50 or so Koreans. Very very…

Tymoteusz Karpowicz (1921-2005) ABOUT Some poetry Witold Wirpsza (1918-1985): ABOUT Some poetry

BRYGADA KRYZYS

Bio Critical intoduction Some translated poems

R. Wojaczek (1945-1971) bio You Have to Fear the Rose I, Kafka

Bursa is becoming one of my favourite modern poets. Check out “Night of the long Knives” below. Translations seem quite good (always tricky of course). (1932-1957) All his short life he lived in Cracow. He made his debut in the…

Now that I am in London and Godzenie is about to be published I am on fire again. All is possible. There is so much to explore in Poland in terms of neglected interesting poetry. So many interesting poets in…

BruLion Magazine

Denmark Portal

Some poems translated from the Polish: From Mercury Project ten poems

1) The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg by Mark Twain 2) The Poetics of Space by Gaston Bachelard 3) Prop by Peter Jaeger 4) Proper Name and Other Stories by Bernadette Mayer 5) Quaquaversals by Geraldine Monk 6) The Land Between…

The situation is made more paradoxical if one recalls that the other option, in Poland at least, has coexisted (precariously marginalized) with the emerging powerhouse of parnassian poetry. Miron Bialoszewski’s “Pamietnik z powstania” (“A Memoir of the Uprising”), an account…

Postmodernism in Central and Eastern Europe

Video from avant-garde album PROJEKT1 (SoulCraft Rec.) Grzegorz Wroblewski-poems Bobi Peru-Music and production. Check it: Between directed by M. Klinger

from 2006: all you liked about treesthe light like slanted rainthe dark inside the bodywe’ve walked along this roadthe moon throws fevers across florescent cementpink rivers in your carpetthere is something special in your membranesa bench was a special possibilityI…

A nice short article by one of my favourite poets Linh Dinh about living a more simple life. My life philosophy exactly!!! I couldn’t agree more! Check it out: Slim DOWN

Interesting article about the institution of creative writing in universities. It’s spreading. Is it a good thing??? I am undecided, but for sure I have learned the most about writing and poetry outside of the university in artist and poetry…

This is the area I lived in for two years. I actually miss it sometimes. Although maybe better to visit for a month or so rather than live forever. I recommend visiting. It is not touristy. It has its own…

Peter Jaeger on 1 mp phone

great reading at Crossing the Line tonight in London. Near London Bridge. In the leather district. At “the leather exchange.” Cris Cheek and Peter Jaeger. Love the presence and work of Peter Jaeger. Some pics from 1.2 mp phone. This…

Sad to the see David Bromige has left us. An amazing poet. Generous and awe-inspiring!! A nice send off from the poet and publisher Ken Edwards here: David Bromige

video art from friend and Lucifer Poetics poet Brian Howe (and Ashley). Brian is the man coming out of the cabin in the picture heading of this blog :-) UP

Grzegorz Wroblewski

From the Polish poet Grzegorz Wroblewski: Jacek Podsiadlo (for many critics a typically ‘Polish New York School’ poet), is a ‘new generation’ poet but he uses the some poetic strategies like old poets before him but with new ‘ language…

Form an “O” with your mouth, raise your eyebrows and then back away slowly. Do not show teeth. Do not unhinge your mouth. Remain calm because loud noises, flailing your arms or quick movements such as running will cause other…

there there wake upmr smarty mr chocolatecum oh cum oh cumyou’re a fool to whistleat the flattened bums in Ealingsoap scum in the bathbubbles in the beerthere’s no way out of this twistertouch me as an animalwe’re makin our way…

This idea, overall, is quite close to how I experience poetry, culture, the 21st century: Nomadic Poetics

Jukebox tears. We never blamed it on the soil. We filled up. Flowers are coming bees are sucking pollen.The man in the Matrixx needed purpose. Purpose is more important than free will. I’m torn. Saint brother. Be well.

Hello talented writers, fans and friends, this is a quick email to let you know that Issue 5 of streetcake is now on the site! Please do give us a visit and have a read. We also have the biographies…

a mother and her daughter came to visit. It was a university campus. We went to a building called Cunning linguist. The mother pointed to a ski lift. We rode the ski lift and a sufi said welcome to BFI.…

Just accepted the offer to teach at METU/ODTU in Ankara. Will leave in September. New frontiers coming. Maybe one book per country. Almost finished with my London ms. Poland ms (Godzenie) will appear in print soon. Still finishing up Korea…

Google’s assault on writers’ copyright … Google and greed

last year in Ireland.

I am interested in exploring the relationship between poetry/place. In particular, the attempt to strip down language to a documentary poetics (or perhaps an observational poetics) and a radical subjectivity. I have attempted to explore my own subjectivity and its…

got good info from my friend Josh about METU in Turkey. He taught there for a few years. I met Josh in grad school 10 years ago. MA in English program at Western Washington University near Seattle. Now he is…

Friend and fellow poet Brian Howe’s Darkness Party Setting me right on this windy crazy London Monday!

Am I an anarchist trapped inside the body of a capitialist?

Spain is out. Never really felt in. Got job offer to teach at Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey. Maybe for one year and then return to the UK. I want a base. The UK could be my homebase.…

BlazeVOX 2k9 Late Spring 2009 Now online: BlazeVOX mag

do i use my intuition to justify my logic or my logic to justify my intuition?

so got a job offer to teach 9-14 year olds English in Murcia area of Spain. Near the coast. 1300 EUR a month. Awaiting possible interview with Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey. If I get the university gig…

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we were glad our skin had been broken the heads were cut from defenders 150 women of the castle over-whelmed by steaks of fire we were reduced to nature’s garb there is trouble in my bosomthe blind prophet had a…

a lonesome hymnin perpetual motion suffering and solacein the praxis of living a paradise of blemishes what we said was notwhat we wantedwhat was waitingforever, undiscovered this is a spacerace

from Mr. Spicer: “I died again and was reborn last night / That is the way with we mirror people / Forgive me, I am a child of the mirror and not a child of / the door. “

Some interesting readings on the blog and in the journal. Check it out: noo journal blog noo journal magazine

Unnecessary quotation marks

an ongoing project T H E D A I L Y F I L T H poets writing 1 poem a day for the month of April The Daily Filth

Acton Town (West London) to be seen rightto the shagged edge the action is leaving us craning for the corpsesthe college of good industrythe collage of what comeswhat may comma comasometimes densesometimes a new citynot a wry gamblesay say I’m…

Shepherds Bush (West London) the biggest urban shopping blooms or bustsmay yr head not turn the other waymay your brain not be boxedmay the ass be asked before bumpingbefore being bruised on the soft seats of the undergroundmay you be…

nor dust thouknow wherethou artto be in this world oh hair let downoh wet head you cannot go swimming andlook after yourclothes let us chilllike childrenin great disorderand much disdainfor chores this thy didstin joy whilstthou wertliving

A personal perspective on Bob Cobbing

I am revising Godzenie. 1st proofs from Blazevox came the other day. it is coming together. I am getting happier and happier with it. I’m having fun again and feeling lighter. Peed with Sean Bonney behind a tree in Hyde…

new poem for Godzenie I’ll tell you about Godzenie the reconciling of marvelousmachines that stampour heads bricksfrom a blown-uppost-office flutteringletters a twistedmetal sculpture here’s the kick our tunefor the endless egg the hills that tracethe fall don’t everget famous bodiesbound…

Skype interview is next Friday. Got the date wrong. Take off my shirt now. Do some writing :-)

10 min until the interview . . . in good news MY MANUSCRIPT GODZENIE, WRITTEN WHILE LIVING AND WORKING IN THE INDUSTRIAL CAPTIAL OF POLAND, HAS BEEN ACCEPTED FOR PUBLICATION BY BLAZEVOX :-) YIP YIP!!!

Well, I am more sure now. Poetry and writing are number one. It is the one thing that can keep me whole, sane, mindful. Everything else falls away, eventually. What I mean by poetry is very broad however. I don’t…

Signals magazine

what do you think oh think in yr mini Viennathrough any window piss is raining from the skysons and daughters ninety times out of a hundred piss on the streets with knapsacks & immigrant mulletsit is easy to put a…

37. I was raisedunder the stands under theimmovablestars forever alienon my brownow this eyetwitch this pastelnight what is is

38. Everything has gone white blindingwhite there is notunnelthere is onlythis the brain weaves a strange kind of music and our bodiesseem unable to forgetthe memory of what it feels liketo be properly seen all I have said is truly…

Sounds Rite

Sent some poems from Alien Memory Machine over to The Beehive and they reshuffled them by some kind of algorithm or human hands? Must be read aloud to affect and make effects. There are patterns (of sound and chunking and…

Characteristics of teaching English in FE colleges The course is generally delivered by a very limited number of staff, including part-time and sometimes temporary staff. Staff in FE have heavy teaching loads, across all levels. A typical week for a…

Of Our Cranial Love for the Lion we were reading toward Bethlehem suffice it to say we were tired elephants we were reading toward Bethlehem we were reading toward Bethlehem with wet blankets looking for new insurrections suffice it to…

Revising manuscript Never Mind the Beasts. Quite a bit different than my current work. A lot of the poems were published in journals like Backwards City Review, Columbia Poetry Review, Conduit, Diagram, Effing Magazine, Forklift Ohio, Shampoo, Spork Magazine, Talisman…

II. Castle without King after the leaving I shaved my headmy words squared off I shaved my headin dialogueI found the pure joy of plumbers V. Hotel of Lost Light When hair covers the face like a tent of images.When…

From Who Sleeps with Who There is no deciding what breaks. My eyes take forever to adjust. The hard fish. A Bielsko Biala summer. Hand in hand. Immediate heartbreaking magical combinations of the fragmented. Be bolder Sisyphus. What are we…

Excellent video here. Fascinating interview and performance of concrete poetry: Bob Cobbing

Sir magazine

A great mix of bands playing in the back of a London black cab. Just listened to My Morning Jacket and Death Cab for Cutie. many many bands!!! Black Cab Sessions

From the North American section. This one takes found language from the serial Queer as Folk. Each poem takes its title from the main shooting location of the North American serial or horror film. Rough draft as always on this…

Moving Pictures has three sections: 1) Wonderland (A serial poem from South Korea) 2) London (poems written at or near tube stations since May 2008) 3) North America (poems moving through around with American serials and horror films) Alien Memory…

Waterloo (South London) Some of the valves are working harder. Than. They should.Hold yr horses. Perk up. He leansnearer toying with his clips. the sexless life of childhood I needto go and do something nerdy. Leaning intothe rancid. Sugarpackets square…

I want more intimacy. More play. More direct contact with in the flesh humans. The dishes are staring at me. I am sticky and need to shower.

fascinating report on BBC radio: Another History of English Poetry