(towards modern lovers)

“we have been administered a kind of political sedative –
we get marriage and the military and then we go home and cook dinner, forever.”

.
.
.
.
.______________in nerve’s fluoresce in
.______________drive forefronts embodiment vocal
.______________& eyeing !negation!
._____________________________‘gainst sublimates of systemic harm
._____________________________/ sucking common for its fixity / borders
.______________us impossible
._____________________ ___ever ejecting ‘the new apolitical correlate’;
.____________________ ____to externalise incoherence as mobile pyres for
.__________________ ______rational we
._________________________________sinthomatic declare redundant; or our
._________________________________breath held in exhale unattainable
._____________________ routemast fumes to wash up, perception
._____________________ to seek / call out liberal in specific:
._______ topographic element nauseating by glass, flyposting
._______ ‘social conservatism’: “[echoes] the problems of
._______________ modernity” “frantic nostalgia for [faux lapsed] comforts”–
._______________________________________________ where, obliged,
._______________________________________________ we figure love respectively
._____________________ __ erotics singing themselves away
.____________________ ___ from brush strokes prior to direct action ,

._______ to clasp palms to roast nectar / collar held, might
._______ induce the restful before dereliction
.___________________________________ carving ‘tecture f’ light more
.___________________________________ expose the separatist corp ‘gay-friendly’
.___________________________________ vainly failed to erase, act ii
._________________________ ______ .________________________perquisites
._____________________an arrow in the side of equality
._____________________asks to start by
._________________________ _______ exposing our
._____________________physical indeterminancy
.________________________________________outside 14th floor tower bldg se1 7nx;
.________________________________________22 old queen st sw1h 9hp
._____________________& reconsider our potentials, our circulation

26/07/11
10/01/12

DEPT #5

Department #5 is out now (A4. 44 pages. £2.50. Eight Poets); it includes part I of my untitled 'polemic for loudhailer' (newspaper banality, police tactics, Whitman in hackney, from liberty plaza to november 30th, "had eyes dazzled the shimmering track of tear gas"). there's a snippet in the below post. some of part II appearing shortly elsewhere.

from a work in progress

________________________morning: fictitious modernity in london, the papers
________________________daily a series of violences to individual thinking only
________________________of arranged selves / a false tone-sociality
________________________to be conquered by columba livia
________________________late phase reification of the physical , for sport
________________________see liberty plaza post-economic or hackney our
________________________independent state , music rectified in the possible
________________________to clutch & sustain whilst
__________________________________________ andrew lansley hung
__________________________________________ no longer preventative.

____________________ in london / saturated symbolic our
______cutthroat affect dispels meaningless ideals
______of daybreak , echoes the specificity
______your handsomer motion we half mask to allure it
______resisting our supposed violations mayor bloomberg
______bestows, his bullhorn disrupts to aggravate /
____________________to deveil him to the 99 percent
______to the gloss’d violence of manhatten ahistorical
____________________how we adore in & by it,
____________________unknown unknowns
___________________________________to amorphic architecturals
___________________________________economic fault lines spewing //
____________________debt ceiling charred former
____________________fortunes littering sidewalk alike the
____________________handcuffs to lush unwashed revolutionary / troy
____________________davis / the 99 percent.

________________________________________meanwhile evening
____________________the victoria line idiocy breeds through newsprint dullening
____________________eyes pairs sore each sorrow gilded spectacular, darling
_______________________________ please recycle its dustjacket sensual
_______________________________ I would like to stroke your hurricane limbs.

23/09/11

press free press @ curzon soho, 3rd Oct

Openned Press launch 'the commons' - 21st Sept

poem written ahead of Brighton pride / community pride

____________of sky frame
_____________________ secure contractive in private def.
____________hung into its relation:
_______________________________faux total equates to fracture / loss to
_______________________________desire generalized normative
_______________________________by historical / conscious
__________________________________________________ to minimal our ;
________________now ‘fun’ mirage retails us & politic out,
____________________________ tag hung buys equality / in
________________parade’s spacing __ [supremacy partial
____________________________ as ‘allocate’ over ‘claim’


______________________________________________________I
_______________________dreamt the market couldn’t comprehend
_______________________this
____________________________________& cried sickness to noise
_______________________of each I can now love.
__________________________lips vault percept standardised, the
__________________________margin we copulate & opens emphatic
__________________________to desire’s scatter / beau resignified:
__________________________sprouts in refuge zones from paradigms,
__________________________from condition

Hi Zero #six / Better Than Language Brighton Launch

after John O'Reilly at Tibor de Nagy

_______________________________________from rubble
___________________________________ _____________invase to-sert focal
_______________________________________outlines brace ,
___________________________________________________bodies of wash
___________________________________________________construct autonomous
_______________________________________scissor fret toward sky, in
_______________________________________detourné / order
_______________________________________claim room to eroticise we
_______________________________________beneath the scape / ocean traverse
_______________________________________for rise emergent
__________________________ __________________________to relic
_______________________________________statuesque / fresh figured

22/06/11

Better Than Language:

an announcement from Chris Goode:

BETTER THAN LANGUAGE:
An anthology of new modernist poetries
edited and introduced by Chris Goode

Better Than Language brings together the work of thirteen young poets engaging with the broadest conceivable range of late modernist modes and strategies. Sometimes difficult but always enticing, the restlessly smart poems collected here offer a wide-open invitation to adventurous readers.

The poets represented are: SARAH KELLY | JONNY LIRON | FRANCESCA LISETTE | JOE LUNA | NAT RAHA | LINUS SLUG | JOSH STANLEY | TIMOTHY THORNTON | ANNA TICEHURST | JONTY TIPLADY | MIKE WALLACE-HADRILL | TOMAS WEBER | and STEVE WILLEY

Paperback 234x156mm: 253pp
Publication date: 25 July 2011
ISBN: 978-0-9563706-1-7

Launch events: 

Thursday 28th July:
Stoke Newington International Airport
London N16 7NJ
7.30pm
£5, or free entry with book purchase (£10 on the night)

Monday 8th August:
Hi Zero
Brighton
details to follow - http://hizeroreadings.tumblr.com/

for more information & pre-orders, see http://www.ganzfeldpress.com/

various news

so, news

The Paper Nautilus Issue #1 is very much out now, featuring work by Alice Notley, Posie Rider & myself. Available in fine blue card, nicely sized, and a mere £3.50. My work featured includes 'Flotation, symphonette' and 'Quarter' - a longish poem written between September and April. With thanks to the editors.

Also, The Second Annual Sussex Poetry Festival happens tomorrow & Saturday (1&2nd July) in Brighton, at the Nightingale Theatre (the one by the train station). Full details of readers & activities on the official website.

The number 52 Blue Bus makes its outing on Tuesday 12th July, featuring readings from Paul Buck, Nic Scott & I. Its stop is The Lamb, 94 Lamb Conduit's Street, WC1, scheduled for 7.30pm sharp. Will be reading new work, including a chunk of mute exterior intimate.

James Wilkes is spearheading a project of medicinal plant poems, connected to the Urban Physic Garden at 100 Union Street, Southwark. Featuring something around 100 poems, it'll include a reading at the garden on the evening of Friday 22nd July, and an anthology. More details forthcoming, plus even more exciting July activity. Hooray.

_________________________ _)))) concerning dissidence:

_____ our / hoarse vital bartering a
_____ means-ends exclusion
______________________ exalting it poor & tiring equus
_____ its gentleman at wagon
_____ _________ ________armed w/ weaponry outlawed victorian.
_____ _________ ________the news
________________________))))_ _ according to corp:
________________we are the face civic vulgarity, employed beyond
________________morality’s declaration, obtrusive
_________________________________________ to the selling of the state
________________already twelve months of happiness

_____________________________________we, undesirable entirely–
_______________________ presently historic to survival’s ideal:
_______________________ hellenic strike giving purpose to transport / the
_______________________ beautiful language of our time in loudhalers
_______________________ before the bonfire the
_________________________ _____________ _corpse of the state
_______________________ / vibration is newculture & my throat hurts insolent
_______________________ in all attempts to find joy it is the new revolutionary
_______________________ weapon driving the MET out of our heads the
_______________________ paralysis of neo-liberalism
________________________ ___________ ________inflation will not
_______________________ be a threat comrades: thatcherism
_______________________________________________ __ a synonym
_______________________ for erosion & failure to find work;
________________________________________each day’s new offensive

11/05/11

nine lines after A.N. & T.R.

china clutch
_______ __toward clarity, weigh on lip & 

curves dispersal to 2nd & third scent exo
_______________________________ relieves adenosine in
draw, desire sate, activity pressing you for speech
yet morning slow serene us & you
tip legitimate
__________ / det.|productive|:
__________________ambient to denizen
_________________________________comf in the sprawl lived
__________________cognate by, that
_____________________________._arms us as danger (gladly) we or
__________________I (or we) long the fracture; envelope by create
__________________enter fleck sand starts to build
_________________________________________ claiming presence from the daily

sonnet

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.

london letting the neck-breath / splitten

_______________________________w/ drawn light. answers

________________________greensprung, reminiscent in riches

________________________entirely ours in the cusp:

______________________________ give it to balmy, or

_____________________________________________adrenal by synapse

________________________towards public / unused for the discipline absent

_____________________________________________________________ or inaccess

____________lamp nurse in seaward

_____________________________ ambient to curve capital it’s

____________edge raising our closeness as percept

________________________________________ corneal, how no day will stilt;

____________apologies cleanse in fracture, worn

_______________________________________outward from pivot glimmer

____________to venture:

________________________relinquish sepulchral

________________________“that love may

___________________________________ live" past braver & depreciate our I’s sparsely ;

___________________________________ era particular / embracing the waking haze:

___________________________________ spin intonation from its feed, dare

___________________________________ to exhaust, to bring hours’ bliss

_________ housing
_________ ______equals art smears__ E9: yards
_________ between decades minimised need you
______________________________________ glance singular the
_________ barbed fence catch 60s plastic
_____________________ ___________ to seal you from potential
_____________________ ___________ damages they thrive
_________ _______________________ local / afford the damp
_________ _______________________ cut high-density.
_________ overcast permanent
_________ this postal code cognition
_________ domesticated: graffiti
__________________________ erasure prior to even opportune
__________________________ only echo of radios or youths
__________________________ in self-parody
_____________________________________regurgitate
__________________________ / an inscript dialect
__________________________ throats empty w/ trade names
________________ _________________________________ & popular tunes
__________________________ the brickwork sublimates:
____________ these source comfs will feed flesh / photoreceptors, impacted
____________ as piecemeal topography the chief
_______________________________________constructors curate
_______________________________________the future-pejorative
____________ to recode the human-spatial
____________ the sense-impart to resident: hi-individual ‘you
____________ may discharge your wearied
____________ thoughts by skyview,’ in
_______________________________nouveau / streetlit monolith
_______________________________/ higher you needn’t
_______________________________prole out resolutions your
_______________________________television source enough
_______________________________alls will is blue / sky.

“Something ... toward the lie ... body, placing ... conceptual fetter” was nutshell, whirls hedonistic as circular thought, focal at its tip. These were some uncoverings between utopian gasps although to claim something transferable perhaps was a little far, short crop fluctuated status leading to our realization & embarking away from presuppositions we’d held, although... no, not more provocative to those who’d borne & nurtured. You’d think sitting shoal’d be the collective erasure of all the potential bullshit that springs reactionary – that’d possibly be enacting naivety under the joyous engendering rays we enthalpicly drew into the furthering. I detract – the departure critically stepped : fertility : reconfigured to be constructive, fear was at the piano recomposing Schoenberg, dischord required to unset & to fear alternate was also stepping / outmoding. Then perception, indoctrinated in situ; volatility towards all constants (_________ _______) we slowly sheered with every potential clasp, fluidity as standardization.