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Category Archives: Poetry
Towards an Interdimensional Poetics (Part One)
Being a Response to ‘The H.D Book’ of Robert Duncan, Amongst Other Things “Matter?? Where’s it coming from?” -Withnail and I, Bruce Robinson “La science, la nouvelle noblesse! Le progrès. Le monde marche! Pourquoi tournerait-il pas? C’est la vision des … Continue reading
Newly Discovered Poem of Fernando Pessoa’s Caeiro
I enjoy heaven because I don’t believe that it’s infinite. With me there is no beginning or end. I don’t believe in the infinite, I don’t believe in eternity. I believe space starts somewhere and ends somewhere And that this … Continue reading
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Tagged Alberto Caeiro, Fernando Pessoa, Michael Lee Rattigan, Newly Discovered Poem, poetry, Richard Zenith, The Fiend, translation
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Envisioning the Velvet Underground – Mark Wilson on Jeremy Reed’s ‘Black Russian’
Black Russian – Out-Takes from the Airmen’s Club 1978-79 Jeremy Reed (Waterloo Press, 2010) The poet Jeremy Reed is something of an anomaly. On the one hand he has deliberately fostered his own populist cult-of-personality by being an inimitable performing-artist … Continue reading
Nancy Meets the Mômo – Clayton Eshleman
Antonin Artaud (1896-1948) is one of the greatest examples in art of the imaginative retrieval of a life that was beyond repair. What he ultimately accomplished should bear a torch through the dark nights of all our souls. Between 1969 … Continue reading
Posted in Essays, Poetry
Tagged Antonin Artaud, Clayton Eshleman, Essay, Nancy Spiro, poetry, Sheela-na-gig
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Late Article by Pier Paolo Pasolini – “Is this a Military Coup D’Etat? I Know…”
[This prose journalism was written in Italy's "Corriere della Sera" (a major left-leaning newspaper) on 14th November 1974. Pasolini died just under a year later, on 2nd November 1975. The mystery as to the motives behind his murder, and those involved, … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Prose, Translations
Tagged Andrew O'Donnell, Pier Paolo Pasolini, poetry, Prose journalism, Prose poem, translation
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The Mirage of Poetic Evolution in Britain Since Eliot
by Paul Stubbs (article first published in 3:AM magazine, August 2009, re-printed here with minor amendments) When does poetry begin to capitulate? turn back in on itself? When it fails to assimilate the new, the foreign, when in the words … Continue reading
Niall McDevitt – “The One Rule is Never to Fall in Love”
In this secret world, caught between the confusions, my superiors have made me feel too self-important, underpaid but with theoretical blank cheque in the cosmos within the country within the city. In the circus of deception the audience faces the … Continue reading
Versions of Rimbaud’s “L’Orgie Parisienne” and “Le Dormeur du Val”
Translations from the French by Andrew O’Donnell The Orgy O cowards, here we are! Vomited out into the stations! The sun, with its burning lungs, turning arid along the streets where the night brims with barbarians. Here is the martyred … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew O'Donnell, Arthur Rimbaud, poetry, The Fiend
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Paul Perry – “Promise” and “On the Way To Three-Rock”
Promise You get off the train in another no-where town and are welcomed home. The wind leads you to a road and you start to walk. Where you came from is no where like this. A man is pushing a … Continue reading
Jurga Ivanauskaitë – “108 Moons”
translation from the Lithuanian by Ruta Suchodolskyte and Paul Perry. I live as if swinging on the tongue of a bell sometimes hating myself loudly sometimes loving myself quietly ~ 108 moons stiffen in a rosary falling stars stick in … Continue reading
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Tagged Jurga Ivanauskaitë, Lithuanian poetry, Paul Perry, poetry, Ruta Suchodolskyte, The Fiend, translation
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