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Out N About
Just a quick heads up – I will be performing a full set for the wonderful DIY poets tomorrow night (thursday 13th August) down at The Maze on Mansfield road. Only £3 on the door – and you also get to hear the live music of the amazing mr. ford and mr. gibbs as well. Be great…
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Remembering Leo Vroman 1915-2014
Today, 10th April 2015, in the Dutch city of Gouda, the life and achievements of poet Leo Vroman are being celebrated. The 10th of April would have been Leo’s 100th birthday. For those that do not know, Leo Vroman was a poet, artist, scientist, and owner of one of the more incredible biographies in literature. Leo passed away…
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“Keep looking, they’d say. Keep on looking.”
Sometimes it’s the photography that stays with me. I don’t so much remember the narrative as the perspective. The shifting arrangements, the composition. An album of stills more a haunted wunderkammer. So, if I’m asked what the movie was about, all I have are a handful of photographs. Recently, I have been thinking about the…
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“Please, show me what to do with all this light.”
I have five prose mongrel shard effigies up over at Queen Mob’s Teahouse. They are pieces from a current, longer manuscript I recently finished. Go read’em here xx
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‘Rapture’ (or a photograph by Christer Strömholm, or my return to blogging, etc)
It’s almost two years since my book, Grime Kerbstone Psalms was published. In that time I have completed the writing of another two full collections of poetry, as well as amassed a horde of neglected fragments, false-starts, half-dawns, orphan-paragraphs and exiled verses, etc. I am, for the first time in over fifteen years, not writing. I am…
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Right Now
I’m watching a Brazilian film called “Rat Fever” (A Febre do Rato) by Cláudio Assis. It’s a black and white film with beautiful photography and features a vociferous street poet called Zizo. Remember when we were like Zizo? Big mouth poets, rabble rousers, creative and cretinous? Whatever happened to us? If everyone else is an ’emerging’…
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PHOTOGRAPH – BY DAVID LEVEQUE *** You hear a voice. You close your eyes. You see a house. It is a day made for sleepwalking, stuffing obsolete coins into broken slot-machines, and the nights are made of hands. You close your eyes further still. You hear more voices. You keep your eyes closed for a couple of years. This…
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STREET STORY – BY GABI BEN AVRAHAM *** This blog was four years old in July. This morning I moved every single post into the trash. I found this photograph online today. I like to stare at photographs and chew on the fact that I will never write a poem as dense with silhouette and shadow as this…
Miggy Angel
8 responses to “Miggy Angel”
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Hi Miggy,
We hope you are well and enjoying the festive period!
We just wanted to let you know that we, AddictiveDaughter, have chosen to nominate you for THE REALITY BLOG AWARD because we think your site’s ace… we’re loving your work!
Please check out the the award section on the link below for details!
http://addictivedaughter.wordpress.com/share-and-be-inspired/
Much love, Joey and Persia xx-
Hiya Joey!
hope you well mate. Thanks for the nomination, much appreciated, bit snowed under at mo, will check it out proper when I get a mo!
Have a great chrimbo
Miggy x
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Hey there, thank you for following The Black Lion Journal! Have you considered contacting Spit Journal? They’re a San Diego based poetry journal, new, and growing fast in popularity. I’m sure they would love to hear about your poetry and local events. Here’s their link. Hopefully the comment doesn’t end up as spam… –> http://www.spitjournal.com. And if you’re interested in featuring an interview/guest post about poetry and/or about writing or art, feel free to contact us at The Black Lion Journal! We would love to hear from you.
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Hi there Elsie and many thanks for contacting me. I would definitely be interested in contributing something to Black Lion and shall contact you by email, if that’s ok?
All the best and thanks again
Miggy
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That would be great! I’ll be looking forward to your email! TBL email: theblacklionjournal [at] gmail [dot] com. 🙂
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Hi Miggy, I like your poem `Arcadia´ – would you mind if I put it in my blog Frank T. Zumbachs Mysterious World? And if so, could you send me a copy of the text to franktzumbach@hotmail.com? Thanks, Frank
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Many thanks Frank – this is great – I love your site! and it’d be a great thing for me to be featured there. Shall email you the poem – all the best my friend and thanks once again – Miggy
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Hey Miggy
Really enjoyed my 2 performances at The Guitar Bar and at Sobar. Please inform me you will find any events that you will be hosting so I can be hot on the trail.
cheers,
T.C Cartwright
MIGGY ANGEL 
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