Never Mind the Beasts

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Hermit Kingdom (complete. renamed Wonderland. Revised and incorporated into Moving Pictures) Resident Alien (complete and renamed Alien Measures) Never Mind the Beasts (complete. partially abandoned. partially incorporated into Wonderland) Godzenie (99% complete) Moving Pictures (85% complete) Alien Memory Machine (I…

Waterloo (South London) Every night you do you puton a new costume I’d thinkyou’d really like the disciplineI’m trying to workthat out he mustbe quite gooddecide what levelyr at. Sauna. Completely.You’re not allowedany gals don’t gettoo close nowwe’re workingtogether it’s…

the stick of a blind human

anxiety does not equal passion

I am, and I know this is a cliche, happiest in the NOW!!! I am afraid of making some money and getting comfortable and turning into a middle class humpty dumpty. I want to go out with a bang. If…

Some interesting mags and readings coming from or energized by Naropa and her students: Monkey Puzzle In Stereo Press

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A performance at Nightlight, in Chapel Hill NC, as part of the 919 Noise showcase. Featuring Brian, Ashley, Wyatt, Wyatt, Ryan, Cameron, and Josh. The video was shot by Justine. Nightlight Performance

23rd Feb (English as a foreign language, intermediate, 15 students, Ealing and West London College) REPORTED SPEECH & DIRECT SPEECH The reading for today thieves attempt to steal diamonds from Millennium Dome caught by 200 police guns hidden in bin…

A nice interview with some discussion of soft and hard surrealism: interview with Johannes Göransson Some visceral poetry and essays: Action Magazine

captain beefheart Lick my Decals Off Baby single malt whiskey cheap quiche Bergman’s the seventh seal to end the evening

22. transmission ahead the lipsmack of my Estruscan face scrappy connections and pacehalf blind in my Napoleonic hat eating skin bits pastels lick the starched shirtoverseered feminine elbows into you sentient humanitysigned up for dirt skirt gotta keep this natural…

As Beehive Magazine ends its premiere week of publication, the tendency is to look forward rather than back. However, reflection is a necessary, and often difficult, process. During the past week, the question towards the point of Beehive Magazine has…

shaved off the beard. drinking single malt Glenfiddich.

The very passionate poet (and manager of the fabulous West End Lane Bookshop in London) Mr. Graham gave me a free bonus book yesterday: Seeking Air by Barbara Guest. Jacket’s current issue focuses on Barbara Guest. So next week is…

27 June 2004 moving moving moving This has been a week of moving prep. Tomorrow is the big moving day. My normal reading/writing schedule is way off track. So, hopefully monday I will have a new used powermac with new…

29. Syntax is sadistic and first rate grass hardens. I’m sick of proficient regrets and ach so I’m texting my way into a pre-emptive heaven which indeed is most modern.————————————————————————————————————What is heralded in the folkloric plomp of our text spume.…

awesome passionate chats with Steve Wiley (poet and co-organizer of Openned reading series) and Graham (manager of West End Lane Books). Picked up: 1) Seeking Air by Barbara Guest2) Loop by John Taggart3) Don’t ever get famous essays on New…

the storynbc report

you are going to die

young hot pics of Tom Pickard and Susan Musgrave and Bill Griffiths and Gillian Clarke and Bob Cobbing and Geraldine Monk and Wendy Mulford and many more reading at the amazing Morden Tower, Colpitts and other exciting historic northern venues…

An interesting sexy interview with Ron Silliman over at the best american poetry blog: Ron Silliman loses his virginity

Wonderland (South Korea) Rumi and the fire chicken, circle dancing, mosh pits, meat on a stick, baskets, gangnam escorts, window shopping for women, barber poles with a surprise inside, plastic eyes, a serial love poem. Block 7A (Poland) Zory gone…

It is very hard to imagine not existing. To imagine nothingness. Today is Jan 6th 2008. Two days of snow shut down London. Every time I roll up the blinds they roll back down. I’m looking for new ways to…

1. performing childhood is something elsewhere light is a lonesome hymntouching commits to memoryrhetorical proof in perpetual motionlove’s unbroken compositionapproaching the furthest roomso tonight the gaps are gracedsuffering and solacein the praxis of living to speak back to stones there…

12 more hours of revisions of first and last sections of Godzenie. Getting really close now . . . getting close to happy with this manuscript that has picked up bits and bobs from manuscripts in North Carolina. Think this…

The first section of Godzenie is called Wonderland. I have found a new way in. Revised completely. Four years ago I started working on Wonderland in Korea and now bears very little resemblance to that manuscript. The other sections written…

snow snow snow in London. Buses cannot handle it. College closed so no classes to teach today. Maybe tomorrow. Nice to have free time to write but mostly bad since I am a temp worker paid by the hour. No…

issue 15 of Free Verse: A Journal of Contemporary Poetry & Poetics: Poetry: Peter Riley, Mark Irwin, Maurice Manning, G.C. Waldrep, Julia Hansen, F. Daniel Rzicznek, Vona Groarke and Molly Bendall. Supplement I: Fascicle of Poems by Franz WrightSupplement II:…

Some great reading this morning. Alistair Noon’s Swamp Area hit me in all the right places. Cranking it up now. Thank you Alistair and Intercapillary Editions.

cutting thick slabs of Polish Christmas hameating prawn cocktail crispshanging laundryprinting official transcript requeststrying to ignore the dust moteslooking at the cover of Roberto Bolano’s The Savage Detectivesthinking of watching The Wiretrying not to think about evening ESOL classwondering about…

i’m cleaning up this blogthere is too much stuffperhaps it is also time to shave my headget it nice and simplea simple headgorgeousmarvelousa new head tripcommunity community communitywhat do we mean?the banking communitythe poetry communitybank on The Canonbank on yon…

so much writing out there. In the good book they say to sort the wheat from the not-wheat. texts are multiplying at increasing rates. I have heard the distinction between innovative and mainstream no longer holds sway. At least in…

next month my alien card for the United States of America will expire. my travel document expires along with it.

there is a lot of noise out there. cultural production and self promotion and so on. Sometimes I want to be somebody but when I put a foot forward I feel like going below the lines again. In shortas alwaysI…

One of my favourite presses is having a book launch this Friday. Looks like a very interesting book. Here is the announcement: Paul Griffiths: LET ME TELL YOUSo: now I come to speak. At last. I will tell you all…

I changed my big coat for a rain jacket. The rain jacket is slim and fits nicely on my upper body. It is a bit warmer in London. Consequently this makes me feel lighter. I am happy feeling simple. I…

Tales to Tell

Golden Handcuffs Review

It turns out Placebo is actually part of Alien Memory Machine. It is not a new manuscript. Spent 7 hours revising Alien Memory Machine. Line breaks, forms, rearranging lines and poems in the manuscript and adding Placebo to the manuscript.…

Found some interesting reviews and musings online by this British poet (who lives and teaches in China): Martin Stannard 1 Martin Stannard 2

on their way to Smithfield’s market, -2, stuck shepherds, on the green, 5 minutiafrom the common land, cats will lick u raw, bottle cutting stuck lips, some really nice people, newly installed clicking spiders T junction the spiritual, diverse outposts,…

Gaza and the Ghetto In September 1939, Nazi Germany invaded Poland in what it termed initially a “defensive war”. The invasion was in part justified by the Nazi desire to reunify what it considered historic German territory and to claim…

the sun came out today in London. The blue skies smelt like North Carolina. I went looking for wooden porches but found red brick houses. Liverpool made it to the next stage. I have been thinking about frames. Interchangeable frames.…

I have almost finished reading Gabe Gudding’s Rhode Island Notebook. Gabe’s book has opened up possibilities. Specifically place and history, including personal history. It is an expansive book with lots of boxes within boxes. A journey of consciousness and the…

Sent off some of the section “Return to the city” to literary mags last night. They were revised. Took the rough drafts off the blog. I dreamed of North Carolina last night after watching True Blood all day. True Blood…

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

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 feel absolutely lazy when I see all the projects she…

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 at the venue. There are some observatory sentences and some…

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

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, Poland) 4) Return to the City (Katowice, Poland) Some poems…

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 ____ press also seems to have gone quite a bit…

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 of packing is choosing the right books. I am interested…

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 the final version. Just published yesterday. it is a very…

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 happening. Check out this sample of some of the work:…

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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, irony ) Alien Memory Machine is also taking a different…

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

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

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

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 knees all kinds of physics at workin the air to…

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

some great sound art and poetry from the Atlanta Poetry Group

I only looked like this for one night :-)

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 the ear. i want to be. Try to language my…

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

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

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 box room Seven Sisters not ideal pajamahoods: neighbor bangs broom…

” 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: mechanic, country doctor, fireman, plumber. Then you start tolearn 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 grid this thick city lost my tongue with the west…

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 sneezes out of our sleeves. Get outside with your fuel…

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 of over 60 leading poets available now Veer Publication 015…

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 the brain slop. We don’t know who, anyway, eclipsed, the…

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

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

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

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) yes that is my favourite the child I am not…

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 the Lucifer Poetics Group. The feel of the journal in…

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 a binder clip. Godzenie was written while I was in…

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 E8 3DL (http://www.cafeoto.co.uk) £4 entry. October 19: Keith Jebb +…

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 and Events on Saturday 25th. 1.00. ‘Playing with Words’: booklaunch…

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 October. Line up as it stands: Adrian ClarkeFrancesca LisetteWanda PhippsAnna…

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 publication of 10 new Notley poems. Curated by Carol Watts…

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 with sense data attachmentsyou can just reach it with a…

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