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. Read more

fascinating report on BBC radio: Another History of English Poetry Read more

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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 have no idea when the serial will end) Read more

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 oneof those sports. I’m crap. Tantrum.The sexless life of childhood.Some of the valves are working… Read more

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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 sooner sooner rather than later with no mind or teeth!!! Read more

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

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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 Read more

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 liners. Questions include: In the other story why did the criminal use a pen-knifeto cut… Read more

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

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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 thingcut the slavonics sage in the robust word muckdiaristic sherbert dip inceptive tang in the… Read more

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 crossed the editor’s desk many times. What is Thee Beehive’s mission? This is a difficult… Read more

shaved off the beard. drinking single malt Glenfiddich. Read more

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 Barbara Guest week for me!!! And a bit of Savage Detectives for the tube. Read more

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 used studio crt monitor mac OS X and a new writing spot. I am eagar… Read more

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. Read the text but don’t answer the questions. Which image do you like the most?————————————————————————————————————Indivisible… Read more

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 York Writing after the New York School4) The Green Lake is Awake selected poems by… Read more

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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 (round about the 1970’s) check it out historic poets Read more

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

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 eliptical. Anielle Vogel. The erotics of small birds. A philosophy of blocks. Tribes of old… Read more

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 bring in the warmth. Fog headed and crawling among rocks.A rewiring is always on the… Read more

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 are visions in this mudpit totem mud and mythical speech a paradise of blemishes music… Read more

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 is my first mature manuscript. Wonderland needed some rethinking but the last section written last… Read more

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 in Poland are also radically reworked. However, the Polish sections still bear the seeds (and… Read more

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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 holiday or sick pay. Also have midterm break in two weeks which is a whole… Read more

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: Blind Date: An Anthology of Argentinian Poets by Lliana Heer Interview: Laura Severin with Valerie… Read more

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. Read more

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 the sore on left side of tongueignoring the morning dishesthinking about communitythinking about the continuous… Read more

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 mini poetry celebrityI don’t know what everyone elsehas to sayI haven’t said anythingI don’t know… Read more

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 America with so many soft surrealists and mags and blogmags popping up everyday. The Fence… Read more

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

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 want simplicity and perhaps like most (all?) writers I wonder about writing. Whether there is… Read more

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 know…. These are the words of Ophelia at the beginning of this short novel:… Read more

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 teach my tongue as a foreign language. Read more

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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. The manuscript is not quite finished. I mainly have to revise and add poems to… Read more

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

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, spot announcements, lanked out of here in 008 and 009, the biggest urban shopping in… Read more

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 Lebensraum for a race that considered itself superior to those that surrounded it in Central… Read more

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. Moving frames. Pictures and sounds. Hush puppies. My mind is not so disconnected from my… Read more

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 practice of awareness. Of being awake. There is a rhythm to traveling. Rhode Island Notebook… Read more

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 takes place in Alabama. I miss the south. New ms Placebo (so far): films and… Read more

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 feel absolutely lazy when I see all the projects she juggles. Mind boggling really! 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 at the venue. There are some observatory sentences and some overheard sentences from the folks in the pub. We stayed after hours and met the… 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, Poland) 4) Return to the City (Katowice, Poland) Some poems fit nicely from North Carolina days into Block 7A as well. Three individual poems to… 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 ____ press also seems to have gone quite a bit conservative with a few token innovative poetries. Perhaps I am wrong. Either way, some thoughts:… 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 of packing is choosing the right books. I am interested in exploring the poetics of place/travel. Alas I am bringing the following books to re-read… 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 the final version. Just published yesterday. it is a very strange little thing. A remix alright. Lots of found language and sounds. Swerves out of… 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 happening. Check out this sample of some of the work: LUCIFER POETICS 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, irony ) Alien Memory Machine is also taking a different direction after writing a David Lynch poem that’s perhaps the third section . . .… 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

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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 knees all kinds of physics at workin the air to trace the heat of fingers there is a kind, they say, a kind of heat,… 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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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 way back into my body. Words make us conscious. I wanna be less self-conscious. Both… 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 box room Seven Sisters not ideal pajamahoods: neighbor bangs broom against floorfor loud bed-fucks lets tell it and get screwed in the words squirts yr… 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: mechanic, country doctor, fireman, plumber. Then you start tolearn more. Maybe one of the country people you meet is old, with all their kidsgrown…and they… 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 grid this thick city lost my tongue with the west winds of England little pimps on the night skimps stretched beyond the return straightUP dunna… 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 sneezes out of our sleeves. Get outside with your fuel to burn something must break real soon. Blistered and barking up the wrong tree. Cat… 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 of over 60 leading poets available now Veer Publication 015 [ISSN: 1758-4140] The second in the occasional Veer journal series focusing on unconforming writing, veer… 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 the brain slop. We don’t know who, anyway, eclipsed, the final host. A soul net. Oh, pretty, petty, this police system of knowledge. Performed an… 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

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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) yes that is my favourite the child I am not a camel I am a child always Absent 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 the Lucifer Poetics Group. The feel of the journal in my hands makes me very very very happy. I feel very honored to have some… 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 a binder clip. Godzenie was written while I was in Korea and Poland and finished in London. Godzenie is a polish word which means to… 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 E8 3DL (http://www.cafeoto.co.uk) £4 entry. October 19: Keith Jebb + The Mind Shop (music: Armorel Weston, John Gibbens and David Miller) + Wanda Phipps +… 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 and Events on Saturday 25th. 1.00. ‘Playing with Words’: booklaunch & performances by David Toop,Ansuman Biswas, Brown Sierra & Nye Parry 1.30.Royal Holloway Poetic Practice:Anna… 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 October. Line up as it stands: Adrian ClarkeFrancesca LisetteWanda PhippsAnna TicehurstMichael ZandPLUS Mike Weller (video work)Allen Fisher (video interview, the first in a series) Coming… 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 publication of 10 new Notley poems. Curated by Carol Watts at Birkbeck Centre for Poetics, Edmund Hardy at “Intercapillary Space” and Steve Willey and Alex… 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 with sense data attachmentsyou can just reach it with a chopstick in a 2x2x2 cube say body tantrums, dandruff and tampons say pons pons and… Read more