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Tuesday, April 28
New concrete poem from Chris Major
by
Charles Christian
on Tue 28 Apr 2009 08:53 AM BST
As the fallout from the police violence at the recent G20 conference in London continues, Chris Major sends in the following comment...
Saturday, April 18
A double act of misunderstood love
by
Charles Christian
on Sat 18 Apr 2009 11:00 AM BST
This is a double act, starting with a short prose poem Angel by IS&T editor Charles Christian and followed by Unravelling, a response written by East Anglian poet Beverly Ellis. There is also a soundfile containing a recording of these two poems being read.
Angel of the morning Later that morning she brought me satsumas and a mug of sweet green tea that smelled of toasted rice. The slogan on her mug read I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered while the one on mine said I am not a number, I am a free man. She asked me when we’d meet again and I replied “soon”. At the time I said it, I meant it. But we never did make that second date. I am a free man and I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Unravelling Stuffing the other arm down the sleeve of his jacket, he brushes the back of his hand slowly across my cheek, kisses me: once, twice, leans his forehead against mine for several seconds. I’ll call you, he says, lips resting on my eyelid. Then he’s standing in the doorway, one shoelace trailing... Monday, April 13
So you've got a book deal - now the work really begins
by
Charles Christian
on Mon 13 Apr 2009 09:43 PM BST
There's a popular view among wannabe authors (whether of poetry or prose) that once you'v got a book deal, that's it, you are home & dry and can just sit back and start work on your follow-up opus. In your dreams. The reality of publishing today means that once you've got a book deal, you will have to do most of the running to publicise it – readings, signings (if you are lucky) and everything else. As a g-r-e-a-t example of just how innovative promotions can be, here's a YouTube clip Anne Brooke (a regular IS&T contributor) put together to promote her crime novel Maloney's Law.
Saturday, April 11
New Billy Collins animation
by
Charles Christian
on Sat 11 Apr 2009 09:46 PM BST
It's the weekend – and a public holiday across much of Europe – so here's another Billy Collins animation. In this one Collins reads his poem Walking Across the Atlantic with animation by Mike Stolz of Manic.
Thursday, April 9
Chris Major is angry
by
Charles Christian
on Thu 09 Apr 2009 11:30 AM BST
For those of you out of the loop... Ian Tomlinson was a 47-year-old newspaper seller who, on his way home from work last week, became caught up in the G20 demonstrations in the City of London – and collapsed and died of a heart attack. So far, so sad but now eye-witnesses and video footage has emerged to reveal that 10 minutes before his fatal collapse, he was the victim of an unprovoked attack by the police who beat him with truncheons and threw him onto the ground. Regular IS&T concrete poets Chris Major adds his comment...
 Sunday, April 5
Two new podcasts by Helen Pletts
by
Charles Christian
on Sun 05 Apr 2009 08:10 PM BST
We're pleased to announce that we've got two new poems + accompanying podcasts by on of IS&T's staunchest supports Helen Pletts...
The man who left this face on me The man who left this face on me; this grey (no, i’m not impatient waiting for the bus, the bus will come) but the man who left this face on me is gone. Don’t try to change the course of Cuban history By sending exploding cigars, an agent with a pen-syringe, approaching underworld figures to carry out a killing, placing high explosives under the speaker’s podium, recruiting an old classmate to shoot someone dead in the street in broad daylight, enlisting a former lover as an assassin armed with poison pills, buying Caribbean molluscs with a view to planting explosives in the largest shell, preparing a skin disease infected diving suit, making bacterial poisons to be placed in a handkerchief or in a cup of tea or coffee, rigging up a radio station with noxious gas, using snipers, blowing up an airliner. * Helen Pletts is a regular IS&T contributor. She was born in the UK but now lives in Prague in the Czech Republic, where she teaches creative writing. You are welcome to visit www.stem-of-quietly-disarrayed-fertility.com  2 AttachmentsSaturday, March 28
Jack Kerouac reads some haiku
by
Charles Christian
on Sat 28 Mar 2009 05:23 PM GMT
Here's a treat from the archives, a recording of Jack Kerouac reading some of his haiku with a background accompaniment of jazz riffs. It all sounds a little corny now but back then (the recording must be late 1950s) this was the epitome of being part of the cool Beat Generation scene. It's also an early example of what we'd now call performance poetry – and it's a valiant attempt to add a little extra to a reading of haiku, which otherwise tend to end way before an audience has got into them.
Wednesday, March 25
New concrete poetry by Chris Major
by
Charles Christian
on Wed 25 Mar 2009 08:41 PM GMT
With the new Peter Postlethwaite movie The Age of Stupid currently portraying an apocalyptic representation of what could happen to Planet Earth in just 50 years time if climate control is not kept in check now, IS&T's resident concrete poet Chris Major is looking at the fate of Polar Bears...
 Saturday, March 21
Aeroplanes - a new animation of a poem by Rebecca Goss
by
Charles Christian
on Sat 21 Mar 2009 10:21 AM GMT
We've another excellent animation for you – this time the poem is Aeroplanes and is by Rebecca Goss. The poem was made into a short film for Liverpool's Poetry in the City Festival 2008. Aeroplanes was a prizewinning poem in The Bridport Prize 2000, with judge George Szirtes described it as having "intelligence, poignancy and sharpness of perception".
* To find out more about Rebecca Goss and read a selection of her poems visit www.poetrypf.co.uk/rebeccagosspage.html * To find out more about the animator Ealeya visit www.eekfilms.com and www.youtube.com/user/ealeya Wednesday, March 4
A new Billy Collins animation
by
Charles Christian
on Wed 04 Mar 2009 09:23 AM GMT
Our latest Billy Collins animation is of his poem Man in Space with animation by Acumensch, juxtaposing images from the movies Citizen Kane, Catwomen of the Moon, Star Trek TNG: Angel One and Aeon Flux. |
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