Category Archives: Poetry

THE RUNIAD – Book 11

Extract from Book 11 in the Fortnightly Review here. As a work in progress Books 1-11 can be read for free as a Heyzine online book. On the Heyzine link there is a contents page – p 5. All the pages … Continue reading →

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All about the Stern Gang

At 38:27 that is my great uncle Felix (Pinhas Rosen) sitting two from the left from Shamir. Head of the Liberal party and Minister of Justice, he brought in proportional representation, which has been blamed for enabling extremist splinter groups … Continue reading →

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The RUNIAD – Book 10

Excerpt from Book 10 in the Fortnightly Review here. As a work in progress Books 1-10 can be read for free as a Heyzine online book. On the Heyzine link there is a contents page – p 5. All the pages are … Continue reading →

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TANGO

x I have to dance a tango with Joe. Commission I should not have taken on though Reduced to a flourish at the show. Joe can’t get the footwork. The red carpet Doesn’t help his pivot. No, Joe, no! Christ, … Continue reading →

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The Broken Vase

I have just published a new slide-show on Youtube here! The drawings in pencil on a black watercolour ground are inspired by a passage in The Runiad – the epic poem I am writing. Stay with me now. There is … Continue reading →

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The RUNIAD – Book 9

Excerpt from Book 9 in the Fortnightly Review here. The Runiad is a project I started in 2023 – an epic poem that will be 24 books long. As a work in progress it can be read for free as … Continue reading →

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Kazuko Shiraishi – “the Allen Ginsberg of Japan”

Kazuko Shiraishi has died aged 93. She was, to my mind, the most significant Japanese poet of her generation. She was a modernist, outsider poet who got her start in Katsue Kitazono’s avant-garde “VVOU” poetry group, which led Shiraishi to … Continue reading →

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Observations on the Caesura

Here are the conventional terms for metrical feet in poetry. a line with two feet is a dimeter; a line with three feet is a trimeter; a line with four feet is a tetrameter; a line with five feet is … Continue reading →

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Celebrating Edward Field. One hundred years old today!

Congratulations, Edward! CELEBRATING HIS ASS they try to block your dick with their little pills x for blood pressure, prostate, heart they figure you’re an old guy x so what’s the difference and just to stay alive x you go … Continue reading →

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ABSTRACTIONS

To accompany my COLLECTED LONGER POEMS – now published by Grey Suit Editions UK – I am releasing another Heyzine book. This is my collected ABSTRACTIONS Click on the link for a free online copy of this collection of my … Continue reading →

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