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  • Genre: Comedy / Emo / Punk

    Location Belfast, IE

    Profile Views: 20295

    Last Login: 3/2/2013

    Member Since 4/15/2007

    Website generationheart.blogspot.com

    Type of Label Major

  • Bio

    The ..2007 Ulster performance poetry champion.., All-Ireland runner-up and semi-finalist of ..Radio 4's Poetry Slam.. and moderator of ..www.nipoets.com... ..Published.. in a number of top writing magazines including ..Fire.., ..Fuselit.., Black Mountain Review, and ..Citizen 32.., and has been featured on BBCNI and Radio 4... Has supported top writers such as Stewart Home and John Cooper Clarke, and performed along side the likes of Lemm Sissay and Nick Toczek. Has organised numerous poetry events in Belfast including Skint But Articulate and The Future GCSE Poetry Syllabus, and is co-organiser of Make Yourself Heard. His work can be read online at the ..Southbank.. ..Poetry Library.... .. EULOGY FOR CHRIS MILES .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. Praise for Gerard McKeown:.. .. “His talented performances are lively and loved , the poetry that comes wrapped in this guy is the ideal gift for someone you love.Shockingly there is more to come!" .... John G.Hall.. Poet & Publisher ..Editor of Citizen32.. Author of 'The Drowning Fish'.. .. “The laconic and anarchic meet and chat about the wieght of the world. Live and on the page Gerard McKeown bravados and amazes in eaquall measure. A culture shabby mix of William Burroughs,The Fonz and Tony Hancock we will feel the wieght of his world for some time to come.”.. .. Performance Poet - Chloe Poems.. .. "Gerard McKeown has the subtlest Ultonian ability to satirise from the gravest of atrocity to the most ludicrous of stupidity, and will leave you right in between, in stitches. 'Beautiful Goth' (Lizard Men) has to be heard.".. .. Paul Casey – Obheal Open Mic, Cork.. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ...... ..Myspace Editor.... ..Pimp MySpace.. ....
  • Members

    Gerard McKeown (Words and Vocals), Peace to da Streets (rapping), Homeboi Simes (sycophancy), Cunthooks (spoons), Fuckatrust (Washboard), Violent Bob (violence), My Girlfriend who looks like Rachel Bilson who plays summer in The OC (my muse and her sweetness). .. Your Bathroom - An Apology .. .. .. .. ..
  • Influences

    John Berryman, Tom Leonard, Dylan Thomas, Stewart Home, Chloe Poems, Morrissey (Sinead and Stephen), Shaun Ryder, Eminem, Yeats, Heaney, John Cooper Clarke, Rimbaud, Aisle 16, Hannah Silva, 50 Cent. ..The Beautiful Goth .. .. .. .. ..
  • Sounds Like

    a nice man. Here's an interview with me by fellow poet Marcus Keeley. In it I discuss my work and life. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..

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