Poetry from chunks of alphabetised iPod song titles.
Wikis, collaborative music, and The Smaller Picture.
Small venue, 25th September, "John will be leaning on the bar afterwards". Tickets still available as of yesterday.
The fine line between random spam-filler and avant-garde jazz poetry. Including a published poet who generated his work from fragmented Google searches.
Anti-Valentines. "Penny Dreadfuls were usually sent anonymously to people one didn't like. Adding insult to injury, during the 19th century, the person receiving the mail was obligated to pay the postage."
"No Bees had better Government / More Fickleness, or less Content / They were not Slaves to Tyranny, / Nor ruled by wild Democracy; / But Kings, that could not wrong, because / Their Power was circumscrib'd by Laws."
"It is as if we have all been encouraged to believe that form is a kind of fascism, and that to acquire knowledge is to drive a jackboot into the face of those poor souls who are too incurious, dull-witted or idle to find out what poetry can be."
"The Poetry Archive is the world's premier online collection of recordings of poets reading their work." Including some startling wax cylinders.
Tendencies of modern lyrics, and poetic similarities. "There's no anchorage at all: no real 'I' or 'you'. But that emptiness resonates, I suppose. It's one-size-fits-all popular philosophy."
Martin Newell's weblog. "Yesterday, a Sunday, it rained softly all day and the roads and pavements haven't quite dried out. I enjoy this type of weather immensely. It forces my fellow countrymen to dress better."
Class tourism with a well-stuffed parachute, and how every single luxury and happiness costs money. It's presented a little more blandly and cleanly than the novel, with a merely quaint and cheerful Lambeth, but Richard E Grant is perfect as Comstock.
Yoos at All poetry
PoetryFoundation.org: Journals
mark strand. for mother's day. disquieting, indeed.
"First of all it's absurd to have dogs that speak....They're all poets....You can get away with a lot more if a dog is speaking in the poem. If the dog is talking, the dog can say anything, things that a human being might be embarrassed to say."
Philip Larkin | "The Old Fools" | poetry archive | plagiarist.com
The Cut-Up Method of Brion Gysin
::Digital & Contemporary Poetries::
insecurities.org - Random Goth poetry generator
Pandora's Collective