Literature
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Three Poems Featured In Issue 11 Of Sundog Lit Journal
Very happy and excited to have three of my poems published in Sundog Lit – go read them here!
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Johnny Bender Launch Party Chameleon Arts Cafe Nottingham Friday 24th June 2016
I had a fantastic night hosting/compering/interviewing/rabble-rousing/drunkard stewarding/evoking voodoo/performing poetry at the launch party for the publication of the amazing Dean Lilleyman’s second novel, ‘The Gospel According To Johnny Bender’. It was a magical night, a celebration of the eternal culture of Making Stuff, a ritual anointing of Our Johnny, a blood-vow of love and support…
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Hand Job Zine Launch Party Saturday 16th April 2016 – In Pictures
Had a fantastic time hosting and performing at Hand Job Zine’s launch party for issue 10 last night. Congratulations to Jim and Sophie from Hand Job for organising a wonderful night of entertainment, and also to everyone who came down, performed or partied or both. The zine looks absolutely amazing and is packed with some…
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Free-Write Poem With Picture #3
Today’s her birthday and we are arcs of light in the afterdark pharmacy, playing paper, scissors, stone with the Ativan machine. Our one religion of breaking and entering. Her reflection in blue-grain tinsel through the moon-tomb windowpane is a Renaissance painting of classic, anaesthetic proportions. Lowering the sulphur and the hovering lanterns of illuminated barbiturates,…
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F. D.
Ilya Glazunov (Russian, b. 1930), Portrait of Dostoevsky, Paris, 1968. Pastel on paper, 92 x 68 cm.
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“Imagist Socialist Poetry and Artistic Reality”
Really thought-provoking piece on the power of the poetic image here I agree with so much of this – “Poetic images convert natural language, enlarge its borders and provide new possibilities of expression.” Article by Turkish poet SERKAN ENGIN – do go have a peek over at the ‘Margutte’ site
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Free-Write Poem With Picture #2
If she keeps notsaying the thing is that as good as sayingit, she wandered. Hands, fluent in silence. The awning kept an awful countenance, contemptuous above the concrete. Broken bricks in forlorn walls toothed the street-mouth, little sore-dust asphalt sharks that dart beneath the tenements. And who amongst us was betrothed to the truth, she…
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Free-Write Poem With Picture
Beneath her feet, the city gossips, tarmac tongues whispering the hymn of her returning. Every sodden yard of hard-mooned kerbstone unfurls to her insoles, black locale knows the girl & her swell cobalt mind so well: the hackneyed princess of slagheaps and monolithic mole-hills of one-mil syringes. Doom-town stare of a million methadone-dawns. – Miggy…
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Magazine Launch Tonight at Chameleon Arts Cafe
I’ll be performing (and compering) the HandJob magazine launch at Chameleon arts café tonight – really looking forward to this as have a lot of time for the wonderful Jim and Sophie – and also the night has an array of wonderful performers/writers lined up! Should be a cracking night! and just £3 on the…
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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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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’…
MIGGY ANGEL 