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TWiN▼LONDON (spoken word poetry collective) ▼ Michael Horovitz ▼ TODAY ! at ▼ The Poetry Café ▼ in Covent Garden▼ 8:30pm, Thursday, 11th June ▼ SURVIVOR's POETRY with Heartssong, Razz and Dave Russell. Posted at 4:12 PM Jun 11, 2009 view more
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Hi. I met Lord Gawain Douglas - Oscar Wilde's lover's greatnephew last week. Do read my latest blog entry. I have a photo with the Lord to upload soon. He wants a copy of my PANJANDRUM OF QUONDAM and expressed great interest in my poetry, having read my reviews and some of my work.
Going Down Swinging is now calling for submissions of poetry, short fiction and non-fiction, flash, comic and graphic art, for our 29th issue (Nov/Dec 09) - submissions close 31st May 2009. www.goingdownswinging.org.au/submissions for guidelines and details. Spread the word. Love, GDS
Raise your glass, y'all: it's the birthday of Jack Kerouac!
His 30 essentials of spontaneous prose:
1. Scribbled secret notebooks, and wild typewritten pages, for yr own joy
2. Submissive to everything, open, listening
3. Try never get drunk outside yr own house
4. Be in love with yr life
5. Something that you feel will find its own form
6. Be crazy dumbsaint of the mind
7. Blow as deep as you want to blow
8. Write what you want bottomless from bottom of the mind
9. The unspeakable visions of the individual
10. No time for poetry but exactly what is
11. Visionary tics shivering in the chest
12. In tranced fixation dreaming upon object before you
13. Remove literary, grammatical and syntactical inhibition
14. Like Proust be an old teahead of time
15. Telling the true story of the world in interior monolog
16. The jewel center of interest is the eye within the eye
17. Write in recollection and amazement for yourself
18. Work from pithy middle eye out, swimming in language sea
19. Accept loss forever
20. Believe in the holy contour of life
21. Struggle to sketch the flow that already exists intact in mind
22. Don't think of words when you stop but to see picture better
23. Keep track of every day the date emblazoned in yr morning
24. No fear or shame in the dignity of yr experience, language & knowledge
25. Write for the world to read and see yr exact pictures of it
26. Bookmovie is the movie in words, the visual American form
27. In praise of Character in the Bleak inhuman Loneliness
28. Composing wild, undisciplined, pure, coming in from under, crazier the better
29. You're a Genius all the time
30. Writer-Director of Earthly movies Sponsored & Angeled in Heaven
Featuring Fyfe Dangerfield (from Guillemots), Gannets posit an alternative jazz history in which 30's swing developed straight into a combined form of the free jazz and fusion movements, without any of the intervening decades.
'Gannets' Fyfe Dangerfield - keyboards + electronics Alex J Ward - clarinet Christopher Cundy - bass clarinet Dominic Lash - double bass Steve Noble - drums
