The unique British composer John White died this January. My response to his memorial concert can be found in the Fortnightly Review here.
“…He told me that he was interested in musical accidents, and you couldn’t really get a better accident than when the trombones came in two bars early in the second act of Swan Lake…”
Marian is marketing Grey Suit Editions and just presented my Collected Longer Poems to the Bodleian Library in Oxford.
Grey Suit Editions UK has a completely updated website, now that we have been joined by Marian Eastwood as our marketing director.
Now it is easy to find our list of printed books with their ISBNs and our trade distributor as well as our video site and other related sites.
Grey Suit started out as a video magazine in the 1990s and under the related sites heading can be found thirteen hours of video featuring poets, performance artists, experimental film-makers and musicians.
Move your mouse along the text, and where the arrow turns into a hand you have found a link.
Today I lay down in the street (outside Pret). Haven’t lain down in the street since performance art events in the 70s. Must say it felt very good!
Young people are realising that protest is a bonding. It energises. Nippers are having fun waving flags and chanting. As the Gaza demonstrations get bigger and bigger, a whole new generation, more than one generation, of activists is being brought to life. The lion of the people has awoken at last. Bystanders are cheering, lots of vehicles are hooting their encouragement. This bodes well for the future.
We seem to have entered into a time of lean years. I feel that the horrors of our time cannot be ignored.
Seeking to deal with my anxiety in art, I created several slide-show videos using drawings I made with my eyes shut. The first of these was a short video sketch called WAR
Then (also with my eyes shut – as with all slideshow videos on this post) I made another video called LOVE, INDUSTRY and WAR
This was led to another called APHRODITE AND ARES
Both these videos found poetic expression in The Runiad book 1 – which deals with the relationship between Venus and her husband Vulcan and her affair with Mars (to use the Latin names).
I also created a video called SAMSON – SUICIDE TERRORIST
This dealt with the story of Samson and his destruction of Gaza. This finds poetic expression in Book 2 of the Runiad. Here is a link to the Heyzine online book of this work in progress THE RUNIAD
Click on the smaller images to see a better resolution view.
So pleased that my journal has just hit 70,000 views!
Thank you to all my viewers. Your looking at what I post here provides significant encouragement. Onwards and upwards!
Anthony
Extracts from Books 5 and 6 of my epic poem can now be found in The Fortnightly Review here
There is a link at the end of that post to previous extracts (from books 1-4) that The Fortnightly has posted.
There is a link in the post’s introduction to the Complete Heyzine flipbook version of Books 1-6 – which can also be accessed here. Actually it is better to use this link, as the poem is constantly being worked on, altered, improved, and this links to the latest version of the whole.
On the Heyzine page, I suggest turning off the sound and enlarging the text. Pages can be turned by clicking on the arrow at the foot of the page to the right, while clicking to the left turns the pages the other way.
See also Heyzine flipbooks
Is this the speech of the decade, at the very least, as Matthew Hoh addresses the UNSC?
“The permanent member veto must be abolished.”
Thank you, Mischa Twitchin, for inviting me to contribute to this fascinating publication.
This Grey Suit publication will be launched in May 2024.
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