miscellany

Jazzanova “Of All The Things” EPK Snippet (via...

Sun, 05 Oct 2008 08:49:07 +0100

Jazzanova “Of All The Things” EPK Snippet (via JazzClassics)

Tetsuo says the album is out on Verve on October 24th. It’s no secret that I’m a big Jazzanova fan. What I’m hearing so far is an evolution of the sound I’ve admired for years, and perhaps a movement away from some of the sonic elements I was most enamoured with, but I’m all ears…

This Is Not an Elegy, Catherine Pierce

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 18:59:06 +0100

This Is Not an Elegy, Catherine Pierce:

“At sixteen, I was illegal and brilliant,
my fingernails chewed to half-moons.
I took off my clothes in a late March
field. I had secret car wrecks,
secret hysteria. I opened my mouth
to swallow stars.”

I can currently be found overdosing on fine poems. It’s all to do with the fact that I have to write around 30 new poems in the next month or so. Yep.

DIAGRAM :: Monica Berlin

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 18:52:00 +0100

DIAGRAM :: Monica Berlin:

“What I meant about N was, I hope to know him in other times. He remembers to hold the door open for others. He rises from his chair when his wife enters. He collects broken things and fixes them. He makes soup from bones.”

Diagram– fast becoming my online literary journal of choice. An RSS feed wouldn’t hurt though, would it?

It’s broken (beat) and it’s animated. Nicely. How...

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 17:49:29 +0100

It’s broken (beat) and it’s animated. Nicely. How could I not love it? Via nutriot

Ta, much...

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 03:50:59 +0100

http://lazarusdodge.wordpress.com/

http://nicholasbate.typepad.com

http://carolineanne.tumblr.com

Thanks for the mentions and follows, guys…

Thamesmead, Riverside School, 76-78 - a set on Flickr

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 03:13:05 +0100

Thamesmead, Riverside School, 76-78 - a set on Flickr: Stunning collection of images captured by a teacher at Riverside School. These were taken in the years just after my birth– just before my time, but close enough for me to be able to feel an affinity…

"Rick Moody writes every day, but what about? How to keep the projects going and finish one on Friday..."

Sun, 28 Sep 2008 19:25:13 +0100

“Rick Moody writes every day, but what about? How to keep the projects going and finish one on Friday and start on something, deep, slow, serious, worthy, fabulous, the very next day? This is called genius. Good writers have a plan.”

- Word After Word » What I Learned from Teaching Writing This Week

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Sun, 28 Sep 2008 10:16:12 +0100

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kop (via moaan) Long time no image. Writing like a demon at the...

Mon, 22 Sep 2008 21:45:00 +0100

kop (via moaan)

Long time no image. Writing like a demon at the moment. New pieces out of my ears. On the odd occasions when I get to poke my head out of the door, I’m back to my Pentax ME Super. Lots of rolls to develop. Looking forward to them. Anyone wanna buy me a film/negative scanner as a pre-Christmas gift?

“If you want to write, if you want to create, you must be the most sublime fool that God ever turned...

Sun, 21 Sep 2008 13:45:21 +0100

“If you want to write, if you want to create, you must be the most sublime fool that God ever turned out and sent rambling. You must write every single day of your life. You must read dreadful dumb books and glorious books, and let them wrestle in beautiful fights inside your head, vulgar one moment, brilliant the next. You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads. I wish you a wrestling match with your Creative Muse that will last a lifetime. I wish craziness and foolishness and madness upon you. May you live with hysteria, and out of it make fine stories — science fiction or otherwise. Which finally means, may you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world.”

- Ray Bradbury.

"Two things: First, from Yusef Komunyakaa: ‘Don’t write what you know. Write what you’re..."

Sun, 21 Sep 2008 13:37:16 +0100

“Two things: First, from Yusef Komunyakaa: ‘Don’t write what you know. Write what you’re willing to discover.’ Second, from a tall blonde woman: ‘Get over yourself. You’re not so special.’”

- Two pieces of advice from Adam Sol

every other day

Mon, 15 Sep 2008 11:01:05 +0100

every other day

"I like to be listening to music as I write, though it’s not a requirement. I’ll start with anything:..."

Sat, 13 Sep 2008 09:29:33 +0100

“I like to be listening to music as I write, though it’s not a requirement. I’ll start with anything: a snippet of overheard conversation, a particularly resonant lyric, an image from my surroundings or memory, a line from a book I’m reading. I assume that if I write something down it will lead to something else.”

- MountainWord » Blog Archive » BOOK REVIEW: ‘After West’ by James Harms

Constellations, by Susan Settlemyre Williams

Sat, 13 Sep 2008 01:26:53 +0100

Back-lit, the shot-up window blizzards out
like a freeze-frame of first light hurtling
to make the universe.
Beautiful as the fireworks a bullet
might set off in the brain, so the instant
of dying is the instant of suns
bursting open. Beautiful as, in some lights,
your scan may be beautiful, dark and starred
with bright particles. Even my migraine
pyrotechnics, the dancing light etched
on my retina through a sleepless night
while I tossed and pictured you, pale
and silenced in the radiology room—glitter
triggered again by the shattered glass
at the church where I have gone
tonight to light candles for your body
slowly being eaten by its stars.
My eyes burn and blur in the dazzle
of so much breaking apart.

http://thediagram.com/3_3/williams.html

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Fri, 12 Sep 2008 20:26:29 +0100

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"I don’t understand how the body can be burnt into nothing, this little plume I let go."

Fri, 12 Sep 2008 19:09:24 +0100

“I don’t understand how the body can be burnt
into nothing, this little plume I let go.”

- DIAGRAM :: Susan Settlemyre Williams

Read this poem. Feel free to thank me for bringing it to your attention when you’re done.

Reginald Shepherd's Blog

Thu, 11 Sep 2008 21:44:41 +0100

Reginald Shepherd's Blog: Oliver De La Paz writes that Reginald Shepherd has passed. Sad day.

"Whenever I get the slightest inclination to actually fill out an application (or for that matter,..."

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 22:34:54 +0100

““Whenever I get the slightest inclination to actually fill out an application (or for that matter, send out a journal submission), I drop whatever else I’m doing and honor the impulse. Even if I’m at work. Even if I’m on deadline. You always have to prioritize the poetry, because no one will do it for you. …””

- Work-in-Progress: Put the Stamps on the Envelopes

5 Ways to Battle Creative Blocks - FreelanceSwitch

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 12:36:00 +0100

5 Ways to Battle Creative Blocks - FreelanceSwitch:

“Before you can break a creative block, you need to be consciously aware of why they happen. Here are some of the reasons that I found, below.
- Stress.
- Health.
- Financial concerns.
- Preoccupation with non-work related issues.
- Lack of knowledge of a topic, or concern that you don’t know enough.
- Unclear on what you really want to say
- Directionless: no plan for a specific piece of work.”

Amen, and hallelujah.

Books Actually produces some of my favourite notebooks. Just a...

Mon, 08 Sep 2008 09:04:30 +0100

Books Actually produces some of my favourite notebooks. Just a damn shame that I can only ever get them when I’m in Singapore. Note to self: check in and see if they fulfill international orders yet…

The Tea Bush (via hellobooksactually)