Thursday 19 December 2013

I am reading tonight as special guest at the Paris Lit Up Christmas Party.  Copies of my new chapbook, moral hazard and the chemical sweats, will be available for purchase.

Monday 16 December 2013

ma
am

Metros

The man from Bengal with the Liverpool
hat is sleeping in the metro;

the man from Alsace with the phthisic and Reeboks
is sleeping underneath the metro;

the man from Brazil with the single-glazed flat
is trying to sleep overlooking the metro;

the man from Manila with the wanderlust
oversleeps and has missed the metro;

the man from Versailles with the younger wife
sleeps at last and dreams of metros.

Thursday 12 December 2013

It comes
if you want it

but it comes
at a cost.

Belleville Park Pages

I have work in Page 13 of the Belleville Park Pages which will launch next Monday at Spoken Word (Au Chat Noir, 76 rue Jean-Pierre Timbaud, 75011 Paris).  Belleville Park Pages was chosen as Foyles' Magazine of the Month for September and November and is stocked in independent bookstores all over Europe and the US.  If you can't make it Monday then come along to the Paris Lit Up Christmas Party on the 19th and pick up a copy there.

Tuesday 10 December 2013

Monday 9 December 2013

Everyone is up to
something and half
of that something
seems to be selling;

but some are tearing
down the world
to make a world they can love

buy moral hazard

You can now buy copies of my new chapbook, moral hazard and the chemical sweats, from the corrupt press website.   And why not pick up a copy of my other corrupt book, Dog, cock, ape and viper while you're at it.  I'll love you twice and shan't break either of your legs.
janual  
conducif

Thursday 5 December 2013

moral hazard and the chemical sweats

I will be launching my new chapbook, moral hazard and the chemical sweats, tomorrow at the Battalion Gallery in Amsterdam.  There will be a Paris launch on the 19th December at Culture Rapide in Belleville. Both events are free but you are encouraged to buy a book or else I will break your legs.

Tuesday 3 December 2013

eduucate

Thursday 28 November 2013

Tuesday 26 November 2013

Monday 25 November 2013

Tuesday 19 November 2013

Talking and talking I come upon
the stubborn rock, the real, lunch

Monday 18 November 2013

été créée

Sunday 10 November 2013

a big man's
suggestsion

Sunday 3 November 2013

Out in the forest I opened my heart;
all of the things I had done were there
and I looked at it and felt no shame.

Thursday 17 October 2013

rageagain
stthelight

Review of DCAV

You can read a review of my collection, Dog, cock, ape and viper in the latest issue of The Journal where Ken Head wonders if my book is comprised of "powerful philosophical springboards, sub-bohemian noodlings, or both".

Only one way to find out.  Copies are available here.

Friday 11 October 2013

euclid elucid

Thursday 10 October 2013

sousmushroombois

down by the lake where once we swam
the sky slants brackish
& the low down owlish
merchant in me smiles

Tuesday 8 October 2013

her little teeth

Tuesday 24 September 2013

So this is it, and it is beautiful;

a big felt curtain
and colossal night

Wednesday 3 July 2013

Three o five and the man with a tracheotomy
farts around beside me with his scratchcards

Friday 21 June 2013

Et patati et patata;
pathetic, whatever

Tuesday 18 June 2013

pain au lait au chocolat au lait

Friday 14 June 2013

The country

If I moved to the country
I would hear more birds,
eat less ethnic food
and see fewer crazies
covered in piss and faeces in the metro

but I cannot move to the country,
fifty percent of the world is here
sucking on the petrochemical tit
and until that changes
my place is among them.

Thursday 13 June 2013

loft

A loft of zoloft is where I wake of late.  And yes, of course, I am always late.  Who isn't these days since the roof fell in?  It's a big interminable huddled mess.  It's a loft of zoloft all over again.

boy

I have grown accustomed to nothing save the sound of my own silence saving the whales from themselves.  And boy do they need saving.  You see they all think they are so smart but they are not.  They are not remotely smart, just remote.

now you're talking

now I know what you're
talking about talking
isn't really talking at all

Sunday 9 June 2013

Natural

A glass of wine
...........that tastes of fart

Thursday 6 June 2013

Monday 3 June 2013

blokeships

Tuesday 28 May 2013

(old) review from Poetry Wales

Swedish poet, Lars Palm (who will incidentally be reading in Paris tonight as part of the Poets Live series) has put a review of various corrupt press books up on his blog.  The review is from Poetry Wales and features me, Lars, Anamaria Crowe Serrano, George Vance and Dylan Harris.

Monday 27 May 2013

Wherever I look I see a wall;
my neighbour's wall, a garage wall,
the neighbor's neighbors' garage wall.
lost in creosote; lost in space
between the space between
the first thought's underpinning

Tuesday 7 May 2013

tripe

as tripe congealed
makes its own box

I live perennially
in my me

Friday 3 May 2013

to replicate interminable utopias
dripfed
capful

Thursday 2 May 2013

Thursday

The buildings were grey
and the sky was gray

and I lay in the park
and cost the world nothing

New work up online

New work of mine features in the most recent issue of the Indian literary magazine, The Enchanting Verses. Many thanks to editor-in-chief, Sonnet Mondal and guest editor, Brentley Frazer.  

Tuesday 23 April 2013

burnt tarmac

Wednesday 17 April 2013

UAD launch review

A review of last week's reading for the launch of issue 14 of the Paris-based literary magazine, Upstairs at Duroc, is now up online.  Readers on the night were Ian Monk, Christophe Lamiot Enos, Margo Berdeshevsky and myself.  To buy a copy of the magazine contact them here.

Thursday 11 April 2013

Poem

I once took a trip to a site of natural beauty
and cultural importance

I stayed four nights and on my return
I wrote a marvelous poem
that described the site
its natural beauty
and its cultural importance
and ended with an unexpected
twist

the flight cost three hundred and twenty eight euros
the hotel six hundred and thirty

the poem was thirty-two lines long
and was worthless

Tuesday 9 April 2013

Recordings up, reading tomorrow

Review, photos and recordings of the recent Poets Live event at Le Bal are now online at the Paris Lit Up website.  And since it never rains but it pours these days I will be taking part in another reading tomorrow to celebrate the launch of issue 14 of the Paris-based literary journal, Upstairs at Duroc.

Monday 8 April 2013

"Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism.  It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out."
Vaclav Havel

Thursday 4 April 2013

a fist of red stripe

Tuesday 26 March 2013

...until the marrow
..............................with its glimmering
....................slick

Tuesday 19 March 2013

s(i)miles

i like life, it's lifelike

Monday 18 March 2013

Easter 2013

So this is Venice, and that was the Holocene.

Saturday 9 March 2013

Poetry reading Friday March 22nd

I will be reading my poetry along with two other fantastic poets, Pansy Maurer-Alvarez and Kerry Featherstone as part of the Printemps des Poètes.  The reading will take place on Friday 22nd March at 20:30 at Le Bal (6 Impasse de la Défense, 75018 Paris).  More details including biographies of the three readers can be found here: http://poets-live.com/

Thursday 21 February 2013

soup

she warms
her fingers on the bowl

and the steam
from the soup
warms her face as well

Tuesday 19 February 2013

"Throughout my life, especially as I have grown older and perhaps saner than I was, I have become more and more convinced that the one good enterprise we are all charged with, the one really vital adventure that living offers us, is to learn to unpick the fabric of the false worldview we have been given and so to become wilder and more true to ourselves and to the world as it really is, and not as our parents and teachers and self-appointed leaders would have it seem.  To become ungovernable, as it were."
                                                                                                                                 John Burnside
a weekend of white
and flavorless food
cauliflower
and honey
comb tripe
Looking at the still life I am not looking at the still life

Monday 18 February 2013

amaranth, a crock of shite
I stand in the sun
with the sun on my face;
invisible, a monolith,
a poet.

Thursday 14 February 2013

Wednesday 13 February 2013

pencil clip

Tuesday 12 February 2013

Click here to listen to me reading one of my poems accompanied and mixed by Bruce Sherfield.

Bruce is the frontman of The Sophia Lorenians who will be launching their new album on February 26th at the Nouveau Casino.

Tuesday 5 February 2013

hake and macadam

Friday 1 February 2013

Printemps des Poètes

As part of the Printemps des Poètes I will be reading at Le Bal (6 Impasse de la Défense, 75018 Paris) on Friday March 22nd at 20:30.

More details to follow but in the meantime do stop by the gallery to see their current exhibition of Antoine d'Agata's photos.

Tuesday 22 January 2013

diction, salsify

Monday 21 January 2013

There's always someone somewhere isn't there;
you know what I mean, someone somewhere waiting

Friday 18 January 2013

moral hazard and the chemical sweats

Thursday 17 January 2013

vanishing
profligate

Tuesday 15 January 2013

your treacle, a trifle, a spotted dick

Monday 14 January 2013

for.ego
Ulmus rubra, the slippery elm
half-woke trembling in the underdogs' millenium.
So this is the dusk is it, its
bits and pieces, its conundra;
rafts of starlings tilt and bank
slanting January black.