tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-74056208279886439182024-03-05T05:57:03.900+00:00BIRD HEAD SON THE POETThe Diasporic Avant GardeMembershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03915999153307503538noreply@blogger.comBlogger58125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7405620827988643918.post-16026478465326575542012-12-06T15:41:00.001+00:002012-12-06T15:43:30.779+00:00New Website!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbaDN2_u7q2pAppJf8Kw4KeRgZ44cDSr2vNU8Hz7lwSr9i580R68XbPejM_IhJGtf2hTPidXssFckzbJAxoMu84kG9DMjqz-bzD2RsyAFjUSMw2B9TzQxRobBphzLw7VnGZPSV2wAtRJes/s1600/IMG.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbaDN2_u7q2pAppJf8Kw4KeRgZ44cDSr2vNU8Hz7lwSr9i580R68XbPejM_IhJGtf2hTPidXssFckzbJAxoMu84kG9DMjqz-bzD2RsyAFjUSMw2B9TzQxRobBphzLw7VnGZPSV2wAtRJes/s320/IMG.jpg" width="206" /></a>My dear friend Kemal Mulbocus would have been 40 next week, the 25th of November, instead he died at the beginning of summer, June 22 2007. I remember the day well, I was about to fly to Greece the next day for a gig, listening to Donny Hathaway and doing my ironing when I got the call. That's how this life is sometimes. Kem and I were close, brought together by a love of experimental literatures and Jazz, he was a promising author, with a somewhat eviscerating and cerebral style, concerned with the darker edges of life. In 1997 he published a collection of stories, 'The Spaces between screams', which is now incredibly rare. This is an excerpt from his unpublished novel, 'Tea for One' which he worked on for several years and which he had completed just prior to his passing.
O death, where is thy sting.<br />
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Chapter One, Tea for One<br />
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HE WIPES VOMIT FROM HIS BEARD, holds his head in his hands, drools over a steaming puddle between his legs. Spit falls like lead into a bitter soup. His own thoughts, only recently exiled, clamour, his efforts to quell them a failure. As he witnesses his internal juices, they are translucent, viscid, their motion perpetual, so his head spins, so his sick whispers a stolid tune, agitated by expulsion. A message is repetitive, he has heard it before.
He strains for clear air, his nostrils filled with dire scents, closes his eyes. Where cornucopias overflow with cool poisons; he contemplates slaking a thirst, it is enough to make him smile.
He looks to a closed door and hopes it is locked. He is anxious, such purges will bring a landlady running for her linen, her reputation, her broom for sweeping away miscreant lodgers. She might be counted on to drop to well-worn knees, to plead with her lord for sufferance. He can imagine her popping eyes, hear her bitter prayers and cannot help but laughter and fear of eviction at homespun hands. His proprietress, his ample flutterer, spinster posing as widow, implacable landlady, his Madame Maladroit; thin, bony lips painted a colour not unlike charity, chastity, wrists wrung at any prospect of iniquity, muttering of an end to society, raising a well dusted icon to ward him away. Shell be arriving, he thinks, right this instant.
from the novel, Tea for One, by Kemal Mulbocus
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Membershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03915999153307503538noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7405620827988643918.post-69329737560604301982011-08-26T20:46:00.002+00:002011-08-26T20:47:32.422+00:00The new Spasm Band video for 'She is the sea'<iframe width="560" height="345" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/0TAZLG6E9Zw" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>Membershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03915999153307503538noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7405620827988643918.post-34682228055780260672011-07-12T22:06:00.002+00:002012-11-21T01:04:53.370+00:00Audio & Video Clips<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Its summer, which means that I'm touring Europe with the Spasm Band. We have a new album released this August, so as we get ready for that, here are a few recent clips from my recent performances with and without the Spasm Band. <br />
Firstly though, listen to an edit of the first release from the forthcoming album, this is 'Griot' a homage to all urban griots of past, present and future.<br />
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Membershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03915999153307503538noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7405620827988643918.post-49114023391875306402011-07-05T21:28:00.001+00:002011-07-05T21:28:35.077+00:00A brief excerpt from my reading at the launch of Magma's latest edition, The Troubador, London June 27<iframe width="560" height="349" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/uEGDhMaLO5g" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>Membershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03915999153307503538noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7405620827988643918.post-6596460308528520482011-05-05T11:17:00.002+00:002011-05-05T11:21:56.027+00:00Philly's Congo Prayer - a slideshowThis is a slide show I did for a poem from my forthcoming Rubber Orchestras collection. Its a tribute to Philly Joe Jones, John Coltrane and Eric Dolphy. <br><p><br /><br /><iframe width="425" height="349" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/oEfyNrAwbJQ" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>Membershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03915999153307503538noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7405620827988643918.post-74658802358202657812011-04-24T00:33:00.002+00:002011-04-24T00:36:08.619+00:00Interview in Shelf Unbound<div>Here's a recent interview I did for the US magazine Shelf Unbound in which I discuss influences, process and music.<big><br /><p> <img src="http://www.anthonyjoseph.co.uk/photos/shelf.jpg" /><br /></p><p></p></big></big></div><div>You can read the full interview </div><div><a target="_blank" href="http://www.epaperflip.com/aglaia/viewer.aspx?docid=0ee7018334d14e6ea2be8cba1e1eef65">here</a></div>Membershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03915999153307503538noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7405620827988643918.post-59201540040391173542011-04-24T00:24:00.008+00:002011-04-24T00:31:23.261+00:00Anthony Joseph at March's writLOUD - Anthony Joseph<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Here's a podcast of a reading I did recently for writLOUD, Rada, London.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><a href="http://www.writershub.co.uk/writloud-piece.php?pc=920">Anthony Joseph at March 2011 writLOUD</a></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">The poet treats the writLOUD audience to poetry from his new old and as yet unpublished collections - while discussing the provenance of his work.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#3333FF;"><br /></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000099;"><br /></span>Membershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03915999153307503538noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7405620827988643918.post-11254532130606307612011-01-20T02:37:00.002+00:002011-01-20T02:37:56.809+00:00Reading in Paris, Jan 30 2011<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXl8xcwlWaErXtc-MbbCBTlHO0lmfMWujNDNW4ms_3umxR0IBab41fcensj3fyCG-7MBCS8AECSjef4FHqwFov98lWT3ahMabeh4byZZYKkmjCdUcvtGdrPkSCvp3-KQYgzbNebSvp2m7p/s1600/164504_490292531282_732851282_6603487_2161119_n.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; 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font-family:'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;font-size:11px;"><h3 class="UIIntentionalStory_Message" ft="{"type":"msg"}" style=" color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-weight: normal; font-size:13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: -webkit-xxx-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:7;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 56px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(17, 17, 17); font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; "><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.571em; margin-left: 0px; ">Anthony Joseph’s opening poem is titled “Bosch’s Vision”, and begins:</p><blockquote style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0.786em; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.571em; margin-left: 0.786em; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); color: rgb(102, 102, 102); "><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.571em; margin-left: 0px; ">It started as I was leaving<span style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><br />…..</span>with a dim groan in the afternoon.</p></blockquote><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.571em; margin-left: 0px; ">What started? Where are we? The title, combined with these opening two lines, is unsettling. His is a wider canvas than Robinson’s, used to explore the personal and the universal. Like Hieronymus Bosch’s paintings, Joseph offers terrifying images of suffering and Hell, which he transposes to modern Europe and Trinidad. The phrase “a dim groan” gestures to later themes of a painful upbringing, the lamentation for a distant father, and his mother’s death, to which the section “The Tropic of Cancer” is devoted. His uncluttered opening sentence calls to mind Derek Walcott’s search for the line of poetry as a clear and most natural statement. There are other instances, as in “Conductors of his Mystery”, which ends: “He came back smelling of the sea.” On the other hand, the breath space in the second line of his opening poem offers the merest hint of Kamau Brathwaite’s Sycorax style. These elements suggest that Joseph has kept a close ear on contemporary Caribbean writing, and we should not be surprised to find echoes of other Caribbean poets throughout the collection. So, for example, in this poem he recalls Paul Keens-Douglas’s refrain “Tell me again” from his poem of the same title, which invokes, among other things, the mixed blessing of Trinidad’s oil.</p></span></span></span></span></h3><h3 class="UIIntentionalStory_Message" ft="{"type":"msg"}" style="font-size: 13px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-weight: normal; "><span class="UIStory_Message">Here's a new review of my recent 'Bird Head Son' collection by the Caribbean Review of Books, reviewed alongside my friend Roger Robinson's 'Suckle'.</span></h3><div><span class="UIStory_Message"><br /></span></div><div><span class="UIStory_Message">Read the whole review here :</span></div><div><span class="UIStory_Message"><br /></span></div><div><span class="UIStory_Message"><a href="http://caribbeanreviewofbooks.com/crb-archive/23-september-2010/homestyle/">http://caribbeanreviewofbooks.com/crb-archive/23-september-2010/homestyle/</a></span></div></span>Membershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03915999153307503538noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7405620827988643918.post-63434426179407318412010-08-14T06:15:00.003+00:002010-08-14T06:22:01.773+00:00Capybara - from Rubber Orchestras, the forthcoming colletion<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17px; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); "><b><p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Cochin; "><b><b>Capybara</b></p><p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Cochin; ">1.</p><p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Cochin; ">Cool and dead like long brown shoes</p><p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Cochin; ">in an Akasic coffin with Efua beads,</p><p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Cochin; ">rimmed like a nation of Baptist promises</p><p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Cochin; ">and desirable bells, sapphire skin, thin skin of night.</p><p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Cochin; "><br /></p><p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Cochin; ">Who hurried back to San Juan?</p><p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Cochin; ">Whose right side of hip belonged to pleasure?</p><p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Cochin; ">Who came <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span></p><p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); 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margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Cochin; display: inline !important; ">like hummingbirds</p></b><p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "></p><p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Cochin; min-height: 14px; "><b></b></p><b><p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Cochin; display: inline !important; ">in black pitch bush</p></b><p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Cochin; min-height: 14px; "><b></b></p><b><p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Cochin; display: inline !important; ">alone in the house of the Capybara?</p></b><p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "></p><p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Cochin; ">And Trinidad,</p><p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Cochin; ">pinpricked with departments</p><p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Cochin; ">at the ministry of light,</p><p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Cochin; ">push those waves of fizzing foam from your throat.</p><p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Cochin; ">Your sister, waiting in those Hindu hills.</p><p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Cochin; ">Her laugh, and see her airport uniform,</p><p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Cochin; ">nestled in the footfall of that nauseous heaven.</p><p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Cochin; ">Dust on the roof of time.</p><p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Cochin; "><br /></p><p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Cochin; ">2.</p><p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Cochin; ">Marie</p><p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Cochin; ">of the Palestine.</p><p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Cochin; ">Your subtle twitch, your very intention</p><p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Cochin; ">remained in the church.</p><p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Cochin; "></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Cochin">But your Deacon brews the turbulence</p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Cochin">of an ill fitting Jesus, </p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Cochin">and in Port of Spain</p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Cochin">the cold Capybara’s brain is lifted up and eaten </p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Cochin">Its eye still flash the flash eye </p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Cochin">and I fall in love.</p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Cochin"><br /></p><p></p><p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Cochin; ">Venetian red is the latitude</p><p style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Cochin; ">of these cruel trees.</b></p></b></span>Membershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03915999153307503538noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7405620827988643918.post-6703214446623385592010-07-26T19:12:00.002+00:002010-07-26T19:13:11.590+00:00Reading at Soho Theatre in May 2010<object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/9XHtYm_v3nA&hl=en_US&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/9XHtYm_v3nA&hl=en_US&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object>Membershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03915999153307503538noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7405620827988643918.post-85465752616356976332010-05-12T13:32:00.001+00:002010-05-12T13:34:04.745+00:00Blue Hues - A poem from 'Rubber Orchestras'<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Cochin"><b><i>This is another poem from my work-in-progress, forthcoming collection, Rubber Orchestras.</i></b></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Cochin"><b><i><br /></i></b></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Cochin"><b><br /></b></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Cochin"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><b>Blue Hues</b></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Cochin; min-height: 14.0px"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"></span><br /></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Cochin; min-height: 14.0px"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"></span><br /></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Cochin"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">She said</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Cochin"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">blue, like a strange heel</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Cochin"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">steps out of bed</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Cochin"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">hunting with devilish technique</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Cochin"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">like trick bag in the white broad’s hand</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Cochin; min-height: 14.0px"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"></span><br /></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Cochin"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">The river forest hid a palace</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Cochin"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">recap of the blue slash and pocket</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Cochin"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">we walked, sliver of a deep, </span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Cochin"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">her confection was flame-red</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Cochin"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">like bursting inside</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Cochin; min-height: 14.0px"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"></span><br /></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Cochin"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">Exquisite, and parted her lips</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Cochin"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">cheek bones of her</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Cochin"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">beat back the black hustler</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Cochin"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">drag played the con for sure</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Cochin"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">like old crow whiskey</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Cochin"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">in the swedish bosom of her lullabye</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Cochin; min-height: 14.0px"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"></span><br /></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Cochin"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">her hairy thighs quivered</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Cochin"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">side of the bed</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Cochin"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">blue like fifteen echoes of winter</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Cochin"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">southbound to boulevards of dirty kickbacks</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Cochin"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">weeping like Bessie</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Cochin"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">Smith with her speckled head</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Cochin"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">she guaranteed a 50-50 split</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Cochin; min-height: 14.0px"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"></span><br /></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Cochin"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">There was a funk box in the rocking room</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Cochin"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">I was years well heeled</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Cochin"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">I played a tight con</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Cochin"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">in the hard eyed world of big time crooks</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Cochin"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">once, the half witch crushed blood in my rainstorm</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Cochin"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">and awfully in love</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Cochin"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">I wore a brokedick hat like a jitney driver</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Cochin"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">starving in a bargain for coins and Dutch head</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Cochin; min-height: 14.0px"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"></span><br /></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Cochin"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">with a broken shinbone</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Cochin"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">dope racket slick and mean</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Cochin"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">like some hurting thing</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Cochin"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">till the leather tong snapped </span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Cochin"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">and sealed the sweet miracle </span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Cochin"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">of her breath and hip</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Cochin"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">blue blowoff in the slum section</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Cochin"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">built upstairs </span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Cochin"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">of gorilla pussy and champagne.</span></p><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Cochin, serif;font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><br /></span></span></div>Membershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03915999153307503538noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7405620827988643918.post-3768358767579929142010-03-23T12:48:00.003+00:002010-03-23T12:54:05.292+00:00Poem for Franklin Rosemont<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px">This is another poem from my forthcoming <i>Rubber Orchestras </i>collection. This time, a poem written in tribute to the late Franklin Rosemont, leader of the Chicago Surrealist Group.</p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><br /></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><b>Poem for Franklin Rosemont</b></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><br /></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px">beyond words</p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px">or destinations<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">visual and multiplying </span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">intricate and persistent</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">they found a faraway place</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">in paris</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">its potential splendour</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">hid sequels and contrary sex</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">in the early hours of 1960</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"></span><br /></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">proclivities</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">of struggle and synthesis</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">within the most complete utopia</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">of fire and speed</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">dream letters</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">were drowned </span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">in invisible stars</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">silent suburbs of jazz and primitive hell</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">were spontaneously glimpsed</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">in rigid cities</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">in which these souvenirs </span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">were read </span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">at the chicago public library</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">shuddering </span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>loosley</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">in method and name</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">on the avenue between Greene and Zion</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"></span><br /></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">intergalactic radio </span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">sent a message </span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">unifying voice</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">like a violin </span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">during the anxious months of miracles</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">and triple time</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">proto-hip like every second syllable, free floating</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">like a giggle to the subversive current</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">of eden’s swift sea</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">by prime energy of libido</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">by degrees of fear</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">darker skin and the fragment of shadow</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">lucid and unique</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">as paradox to paradox</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">as serious as blue silk</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"></span><br /></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">These are the definitions of the palace of signs</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">these are the masks with which</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">I hitchhiked across the wonderland</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">and travelled by radio</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">to resemble that mask</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">eccentric and boundless</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">in the image of you.</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"></span><br /></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">Belladonna in the South seas</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">further </span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">past stairs and doorways past </span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>afro-american ruins</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">bamboo by the dozen among those denizens of marvellous film</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">dead</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">yet actually distant</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">and exhilarating</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">like dissident blues swung from the zydeco</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">in the brutal suburbs of Pharaoh Sanders</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">emerging</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">from light</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">into some literary response</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"></span><br /></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"></span><br /></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"></span><br /></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><br /></p>Membershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03915999153307503538noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7405620827988643918.post-938078767422867202010-03-21T19:54:00.001+00:002010-03-21T19:56:48.706+00:00Black Brown and Beige : Surrealist Writings from Africa and the Diaspora<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1Q0jRQrHqEKFngZ3wzYXEIjlbGskB5cG9rMEkQ81hgavROc1KAjpHJ1tWyzgR2hPAV6H4QurQTL_sEGoCYqg0RosnvsaEAlOREl2UAMhBLgm9ymdQzANNQ0mLP1cZ9xZ2ZIi_5pfr_8Qa/s1600-h/9780292719972.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 212px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1Q0jRQrHqEKFngZ3wzYXEIjlbGskB5cG9rMEkQ81hgavROc1KAjpHJ1tWyzgR2hPAV6H4QurQTL_sEGoCYqg0RosnvsaEAlOREl2UAMhBLgm9ymdQzANNQ0mLP1cZ9xZ2ZIi_5pfr_8Qa/s320/9780292719972.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5451178038731072034" /></a><br /><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><h3 class="UIIntentionalStory_Message" ft="{"type":"msg"}" style="font-size: 13px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-weight: normal; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; "><span class="UIStory_Message">I have 2 prose poems included in this landmark anthology, which was probably the late great Franklin Rosemont's final testament. Its an incredible collection of surrealist writings from the Caribbean and the entire African Diaspora. Essential reading if ever there was. </span></h3><div><br /></div></span></div><div><br /></div>Membershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03915999153307503538noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7405620827988643918.post-53629857400382673032010-03-11T02:36:00.002+00:002010-03-11T02:38:03.439+00:00Caribbean Erotic Anthology<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 11px; white-space: pre-wrap; "><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/411fkC3x8sL._SS500_.jpg" /><br /><p> I have some work included in this new anthology of Erotic Caribbean writing. Many years in the making. My contribution is called 'The RealTime Trajectory of Explicit Love'. <br /><p> A wide-ranging anthology of poetry, short fiction, and critical essays designed to generate thought about what is still a conflicted area of Caribbean literature and culture, this revealing, in-depth examination explores the many facets of the erotic in contemporary Caribbean literature—from desire; the psychology of abusive relationships; the role of fantasy; and issues of infidelity, lust, rape, self-respect, self-love, and child-birth. This anthology also discusses the Caribbean frameworks of sexuality as a cultural construct, from the role of machismo, homophobia, and Protestant-fundamentalist sexual ideologies as specific forms of denial and hostility to the open expression of sexual desire. The essays then extend the book’s scope beyond literature and consider the impact of the erotic upon other aspects of Caribbean life, ranging from song lyrics to the general issues of female empowerment in Caribbean societies. Featuring the work of well-known writers such as Nalo Hopkins, Colin Channer, Kwame Dawes and the work of many fresh new talents such as Obediah Michael Smith, Christian Campbell, and Tiphanie Yanique, this anthology aims to create a new framework in which the full spectrum of the erotic in Caribbean literature and life can be freely explored.<br /><p> Buy it from Peepal Tree :<a href="http://www.peepaltreepress.com/single_book_display.asp?isbn=9781845230890"> http://www.peepaltreepress.com/single_book_display.asp?isbn=9781845230890</a></span>Membershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03915999153307503538noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7405620827988643918.post-28837778052864299132010-03-05T17:34:00.004+00:002010-03-05T17:43:23.570+00:00Work included in two new anthologies<div style="text-align: left;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51yW3Eu-VVL._SS500_.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 500px; height: 500px;" src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51yW3Eu-VVL._SS500_.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41FDh2ZYKaL._SS500_.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 500px; height: 500px;" src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41FDh2ZYKaL._SS500_.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family:'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;font-size:-webkit-xxx-large;"><h3 class="UIIntentionalStory_Message" ft="{"type":"msg"}" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-weight: normal; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; font-size:13px;"><span class="UIStory_Message">I was fortunate enough to be in included in the new anthology of contemporary British Poetry 'Identity Parade' (Bloodaxe) as well as in 'Red' the new anthology from Peepal Tree, both published this month.</span></h3></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family:'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;font-size:11px;"><div><br /></div></span>Membershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03915999153307503538noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7405620827988643918.post-71852227192906187292010-01-17T13:13:00.003+00:002010-01-17T13:45:02.553+00:00"Riff for Morton" from "Rubber Orchestras"<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-jRfsz9MadSGjcSOs1LRUtfo4S2K_0wv77IJW3gz6isQtBl3aOS5f1v1GJ42TqAvi5ITUFLljvs8OQ0I2Mu8QKdCO0J2tKlQ0hpuodLVmedktfSNZTeaTcF0ogbEBVd9q2nRFE7s-cDRb/s1600-h/337px-TeenagedJellyRollMorton.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 180px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-jRfsz9MadSGjcSOs1LRUtfo4S2K_0wv77IJW3gz6isQtBl3aOS5f1v1GJ42TqAvi5ITUFLljvs8OQ0I2Mu8QKdCO0J2tKlQ0hpuodLVmedktfSNZTeaTcF0ogbEBVd9q2nRFE7s-cDRb/s320/337px-TeenagedJellyRollMorton.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5427704250558013970" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrQHvX04UeW7yZyiKiDeKav7psOXIFAfnK26l9GkO9w-Bepht-XZsKHBLYf-1kwxxGTbrth_JJY-X5hjuVuW-Q1yHn8u0w3AsuixTBDi92f4mWrHksblz4DgODFSTJhsuYtWOFjQbqEJiA/s1600-h/337px-TeenagedJellyRollMorton.jpg"></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0l1Fjt15vlSX_JcjUM8kfpKEgvXlKb37S0HRBoRd5TDX24QeKsnKnLGe2GIRGXfpC3srQUpsBnGpRct-sAy2geiItJ_AtIcch-4ADbeCsk02DWtdtaW2qEcIL6mEZnI8FJemh9IENHFvn/s1600-h/337px-TeenagedJellyRollMorton.jpg"></a><br /><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><i>This is the a poem from a new collection I'm working on, Rubber Orchestras. The collection will feature 100 poems, and will be published in early 2011 if all goes to plan. More soon.</i></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><i><br /></i></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><i><br /></i></span></b></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><b>Riff for Morton</b></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"></span><br /></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">Damper down</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>both phallic and acquainted </span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">with African blues.</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>The hips suggest</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>good jazz )(i.e.sex)</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"></span><br /></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">Anita, 1900.</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">the african fiction of whiteness is absolute.</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">arcade saloons and dance halls</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">gambling down like evil or false notes</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">blue notes of white magic</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"></span><br /></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">Jelly roll morton</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>at the cadillac cafe </span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">pimp or piano drunk and sick </span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">on the bricktops of vancouver</span></p><p></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"></span><br /></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">Ragtime Billy</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>from Chicago</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">a clarinetist at the Regent </span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">1923</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">went southwest with the wrath of poseidon</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">gambling down</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">in terrific storms which broke down</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">the pensacola kid</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">at the Paradise gardens</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">with the first three notes of Dead Man Blues </span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>and The Pearls</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"></span><br /></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">yes he left mamanita, yes he left </span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">yes he let his beard grow</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">spat blood in the broom closet</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px">yes he let his beard grow</p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><br /></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px">there were many diamonds<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">she left many diamonds</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">cash on cadillac cars</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>duke ellington</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">had swing bands</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">basie and calloway</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">had a cluster of tricks</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">which in fact were as spikes at kingpin sessions</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">and in the exact rooms of the kidworth hotel</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">where days passed like clinic cards</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">Morton left the sepia spot and took his body to the jungle inn</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">on 126 North West</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"></span><br /></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">Red Peppers and the attack of alibi, restless priests</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">listening to Pops Mabel</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">at the church of intercourse</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">Jelly you rascal</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">you minstrel</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">you lover</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">you bone meat of the creole caribbean</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">- vicious semen, Jelly</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">bake ‘em brown and break a banjo across their backs</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">jelly you blues talker</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>1930</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">the worried blues and the voodoo of your laughter</span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">stepping lean in stove pipes </span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">with the prestige of your father</span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><br /></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>to the very end.</span></p><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Helvetica, serif;font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-size:12px;"><br /></span></span></div>Membershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03915999153307503538noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7405620827988643918.post-75919644034572048282009-11-02T13:03:00.001+00:002009-11-02T13:26:56.059+00:00NEWS: 'BIRD HEAD SON'S READING TOUR OF GERMANY/AUSTRIA 2009<img src=http://www.anthonyjoseph.co.uk/coverimages/bhs-book-thumb.jpg><br><p><br /><br />From November 16 to 23 I will be embarking on a short German spoken word tour reading from my new 'Bird Head Son' collection. I will be mainly reading at universities, with a date in Austria on Nov 23. The last German tour, in 2007 was an incredible experience, so I'm really looking forward to this one.<br><P><br />The dates are :<br><br /><br />Nov 16 - - JENA - Rosensale, University of Jena - 20.00 <br><br />Nov 17 - SIEGEN - Kultur Cafe, University of Siegen - 18.00<br><br />Nov 18 - BOCHUM - GBCF 04/514 University of Bochum - 16.00<br><br />Nov 19 - DORTMUND - Sonnendeck, University of Dortmund - 19.00<br><br />Nov 20 - MAINZ - University of Mainz - 12.00<BR><br />Nov 23 - VIENNA - University of Vienna - 19.00<BR><br /><br />For more info on the book see http://www.saltpublishing.com/books/smp/9781844714353.htmMembershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03915999153307503538noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7405620827988643918.post-44865304333521522982009-07-14T22:59:00.001+00:002009-07-14T23:03:02.554+00:00News Views and Reviews<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 11px; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Yes, I know, its been an incredibly long time since I updated this site. Fact is, I've been busy. Been on the road with the Spasm Band in Europe, touring relentlessly. Its been hectic, moving from place to plane, eating weird shit and drinking copious amount of Martiniquan rum but also performing some heavy shows with the guys. This leg of the tour goes on till Aug 9 when we fly in from Reunion Island to play the Big Chill. There are more gigs in September, October, then in November : I tour Germany promoting my Bird Head Son book. In terms of writing, I am working on 2 major texts. Firstly, my PHD project, a fictional biog of lord kitchener (not the English guy, the calypsonian), finally managing to get a rhythm going, getting through 1000 words a day, in 80 days I'll have a novel, well, at least a novel lenght thing. Wish me luck. Secondly, a new collection I'm hoping will get published next year, its an abstract, experimental work-100 poems based on a surrealistic technique I think I might have invented. Its a secret. But the book will be called 'Rubber Orchestras' (Ted Joans describing Bob Kaufman's work). Its a strangely haunting work that will either be deeply profound (concerning the slippages and dark spaces of language) or deeply odd. Either way, I'm enjoying the process of discovery. I've finished teaching for the summer : a great group of Birkbeck folks, amazing to see the transformation from beginner to writer by the end of the 22 week course. They even put together a booklet of their work as an end of course gift to me. Good stuff. Teaching resumes in September when I will be teaching a new Life Writing course. I designed the syllabus, looking forward to it. So, to make up for the lost time, here's a vid from a recent New Morning, Paris performance.<br /><p><br /><br /><object width='425' height='344'><param name='movie' value='http://mondomix.com/players/video/pvideo.swf?IN_ID=5220&IN_SIZE=big&IN_LANGUAGE=fr&IN_ARTURL=&IN_PAUSE=1'><param name='allowFullScreen' value='true' /><allow-access-from domain='all'><param name='allowScriptAccess' value='always'><embed src='http://mondomix.com/players/video/pvideo.swf?IN_ID=5220&IN_SIZE=big&IN_LANGUAGE=fr&IN_ARTURL=&IN_PAUSE=1' allowFullScreen='true' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' width='425' height='344' allowscriptaccess='always' ></embed></object><br><font size='1' color ='#000000'>Découvrez <a href='http://mondomix.com'>Découvrez Mondomix.com, le magazine des Musiques et Cultures dans le Monde</a>!</font><br /><br /><br /><br /><p> And here's a new review of the Bird Head Son album from Cyclic Defrost<br /><p><img src="http://www.anthonyjoseph.co.uk/coverimages/spasm-cover-thumb.jpg" /><br /> The first thing that hits you is the funk, the throbbing urban grooves, taut, almost militant 70’s funk that drifts into the stirring power of spiritual and free jazz, even Afrobeat or bizarrely enough Calypso music. And then we meet Anthony Joseph. He is a poet. But you wouldn’t know it. He comes across like a New Orleans preacher, loud, proud, rousing, over the sweat and the sin of the music. His delivery is somewhere between Martin Luther King Jnr and Jimi Hendrix, these incredibly vivid spiritual street stories that build and swell with the music. Make no mistake he’s not thumbing earnestly through a dog eared excercise book, he’ll wail and sing, writhe and live the music. These are songs, not poetry put to music, where the music can just flow on instrumentally for long periods before Joseph will pop up with his unique wordplays. Jospeh is Trinidadian, based England, he even lectures in creative writing there, though it’s his super cool 7 piece band with horns, hand drums, wah guitar, organs and shakers that really takes this out of the classroom. They’ve really transcended the spoken word medium here, creating the kind of obscure rare groove record that crate diggers would go mad for if it was made thirty five years ago, like it sounds like it should have. Bob Baker Fish</span>Membershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03915999153307503538noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7405620827988643918.post-84008735843234252232009-03-17T01:52:00.004+00:002009-03-17T01:55:47.389+00:00SPATIAL AKAOn Tuesday March 10 2009 I performed at the Barbican Center, London with Jerry Dammers' Spatial AKA, here are a couple backstage pics.<br /><br /><img style="width: 378px; height: 503px;" src="http://c3.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/7/l_cdbb082cbf1d46829c9251c2f9d2d106.jpg" /><br />Francine Luce, Anthony Joseph & Space Ape<br /><br /><img style="width: 380px; height: 283px;" src="http://c1.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/21/l_932bbfd2613d4afebad5a11f1bd8c110.jpg" /><br />Anthony Joseph & Jerry Dammers<br /><br /><img style="width: 379px; height: 503px;" src="http://c3.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/49/l_207d25926fea42f78313c25c6ca7536e.jpg" /><br />Space is the place...Membershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03915999153307503538noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7405620827988643918.post-60845486375062469092009-02-10T10:18:00.002+00:002009-02-10T10:23:39.230+00:00NEW SPASM BAND BLOGA new blog has just been set up to deal specifically with my work with the Spasm Band.Things were getting a bit crowded on my birdheadson blog so I will us that one for literary work and this for music<span style="text-decoration: underline;"><br /></span><a href="http://spasmband.blogspot.com/">spasmband.blogspot.com</a><br />We will post music,archive material, photos, videos,interviews, a city by city blog of the Bird Head Son tour, plus other random things as they occur along the road. We will also be offering rare and unreleased Spasm Band recordings for the fans. Enjoy, and do leave comments so we can keep in touch.<br /><br />Bright Moments,<br />AnthonyMembershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03915999153307503538noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7405620827988643918.post-27148237811686091102009-01-31T02:13:00.001+00:002009-01-31T02:14:15.919+00:00The workThis January/Feb sees the joint release of my new album and book, both entitled Bird Head Son. At the moment I am on tour with the Spasm band throughout Europe and beyond in support of the album which was released in France in January. It will be simulteanously released with the new book in the UK on Feb 7. <br> Info on the UK album launch is included below.<br>Once again, thanks for all the support from fans, supporters and colleagues for making this all a reality. See the textology section of thie site for more info and excerpts and myspace.com/adjoseph for music samples and tour info, plus some eager graphics. New Time Shuffle!<br /><br><p><br /><br /><img src=http://www.anthonyjoseph.co.uk/coverimages/9781844714353.jpg><br><b>Bird Head Son - the book</b> published by Salt Publishing Feb 7.<br><p><br /><img src=http://www.anthonyjoseph.co.uk/coverimages/spasm-cover-3.jpg> <br><b>Bird Head Son - the album</b>, released Jan 20 in Europe, Feb 7 in the UK.<br><br /><p>Album Launch gig & Party at Cargo: <br><br /><img src=http://www.anthonyjoseph.co.uk/photos/CAR079E2.jpg><br><p>Kartel are offering a special deal on this show. For purchasing tickets you also get the chance to pre-order the new album ‘BIRD HEAD SON’, for the very special price of only £5! (normal price £9.99 in store)<br /><br /><br><p><br />Order your tickets from : <br /><a href="http://karteltickets.trinitystreetdirect.com/litetickets/ticketselection.asp?type=6" target="_blank"><br />Kartel Box Office/Shop</a><br><p>Bird Head Son the album is released on the 9th February 2009, along with the book of the same name.<br> For more info on the album and the Bird Head Son Tour see <a href="http://www.myspace.com/adjoseph" target="_blank">www.myspace.com/adjoseph</a>Membershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03915999153307503538noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7405620827988643918.post-23038897022812761482009-01-30T01:32:00.003+00:002009-01-30T01:34:49.901+00:00Beyone the linear narrativeHave a look at this new blog set up by Goldsmiths's Pinter center for their 'beyond the linear narrative' project. I'm one of 2 Phd students involved in the project.<br /><br />http://thepintercentre.blogspot.com/Membershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03915999153307503538noreply@blogger.com0