Watermelons, woodlands, and the way that city foxes look at you like you're a chicken wing in in the street after midnight.
Music
British Sea Power. Minor Threat. Nation Of Ulysses. Wu Tang Clan. PiL. Nick Drake. At The Drive-In. Can. Refused. Bad Brains.The Mars Volta. Gogol Bordello. The Teardrop Explodes. Guns N Roses. Wild Beasts. Black Flag. The Fall. MIA. Circulus. Fugazi. Tappa Zukie. Dizzee Rascal. The Slits. Suicide. Bert Jansch. Ol Dirty Bastard. Manic Street Preachers. Davey Graham. King Tubby. Weird War. The King Blues. Biffy Clyro. Buzzcocks. Pentangle. Lee 'Scratch' Perry. Incredible String Band. Jon Spencer Blues Explosion. Omar Rodriguez-Lopez.
Movies
Werner Herzog, Lindsey Anderson, Shane Meadows, Mike Leigh, Klaus Kinski.
Television
Gash.
Books
Knut Hamsun, Richard Brautigan, Jack London, Li Po, Bret Easton Ellis, Henry Miller, John Fante, Yukio Mishima, Jean Genet, Cormac MacCarthy, Mikhail Bulgakov, Henry David Thoreau, Dan Fante, George Mackay Brown, Charles Bukowksi, Jim Carroll, Pedro Juan Gutierrez, Jim Carroll, Roger Deakin, Halldor Laxness, Harold Norse, William S. Burroughs, Roald Dahl, Tony O'Neill, Adelle Stripe, Daniel Woodrell, Brendan Behan, John Rechy, Frank O'Hara, Daniel Woodrell, Willy Vlautin, Billy Childish, Julian Cope, Dennis Cooper, Halldor Laxness. And many more.
My new novel 'Richard' will be published by Picador in 2010.
As a journalist I've written for The Guardian, NME, Mojo, Bizarre, Caught By The River, The Quietus, Melody Maker, Kerrang!, 3AM Magazine, Q, Alternative Press (US), Arena, Shortlist, Time Out, Loose Lips Sink Ships, Playlouder.com, Careless Talk Costs Lives, Plan B , Record Collector and some others.
For information about my books, anthology appearances and regular writing updates please visit:
www.benmyersmanofletters.blogspot.com
And for a bit of fun: www.iaxl.blogspot.com
Some press quotes...
“There's no denying the abundant energy, passion and pleasingly warped imagination of Ben Myers” – The Guardian
“Something odd but irresistible that’s both poetry and prose…yet neither one nor the other.” – Time Out
“So self-aware you’d think he had spent ten years on a Tibetan mountain” – Rock Sound
Praise for The Brutalist poets (Ben Myers, Adelle Stripe, Tony O’Neill)
“This series of blank verse ruminations on the horrors of small town living are among the most open and direct poems in circulation today." - The Roundtable Review
"Remembering has rarely been so rewarding ..like postcards from places you’ve been to but long since forgotten"
- Shortlist magazine
"These are poems for the modern generation; they thrust the underbelly of Britain that we all try so desperately to ignore straight in our faces.” - Caught in the Crossfire
now available for pre-order, j. michael niotta's chapbook, "the devil's doin the same damn thing he's always done.'
noir, bars, women & cars - from vegas to dago, the brothels of germany to doha, kuwait: a wild & gritty collection of 17 cuts: pomes & prose, plus 3 excerpts from the novel, ‘the ants, thirsty,’ all from the former editor/columnist of 86…the man who put "hard fic" on the streets…the hardcore referee/translator/negotiator you’d hire when sitting bookended in a bar between nick tosches & chuck palahniuk.
"look, the stuff is good. quite good. straight up - like a good half-glass of whiskey." —dan fante, author of ‘mooch,’ ‘spitting off tall buildings,’ ‘kissed by a fat waitress,’ & ‘a gin pissing raw meat dual carburetor v-8 son of a bitch from los angeles.’
... starring Alan Moore, Steve Aylett, Josie Long, Stewart Lee, Jeff Vandermeer, DH Wilson, Mr Solo, Robin Ince, Leila Johnston, 7-Inch Stitch, Bill Ectric, Andrew O'Neill, Mitzi Szereto, Mo Ali etc.
The monster, a bellyful of anarchy by American poet Rob Plath, is available now from Epic Rites Press. Check out the creature's web-page at http://www.robertplath.com. Additional material available in the Third Epic Rites Journal at http://www.epicrites.net. Please show your support for this incredible author and his masterpiece, a bellyful of anarchy, by picking yourself up a copy today.
Chicks dig scars, everyone knows that, right? Meet Severence DeSnappio, a man who creates ‘fake’ injuries for desperate clients. He’ll get you a stab wound, shot gun blast, snowboarding injury - but a bite from a great white shark?
Set in Miami, Chicks Dig scars is a lyrical, Lynchian mix of dream logic and hard boiled detection.
Greetings from Brisbane, Australia. Just thought I'd drop by and say hi. I must say that your taste in music - and literature, for that matter- is impeccable. Which is most probably the reason I'm sending this.
hello untypical one! thanks for being a pal. Join us in celebrating the 30-year anniversary of Cut with this upcoming official book about The Slits - 'Typical Girls?' You can pre-order it at a great discount (from Amazon). Huzzah! love und romanze, zoe x
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