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Category Archives: Poems
Para todos los gatos negros
by Rethabile Masilo It has not been known for inns to bury their dead, even when death occurs inside the establishment; in the morning, after having brought people in by the wheel-barrow the night before, the owner shoos them all … Continue reading
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We Are Creating Real Poetry Fans…
Spring is here and it’s getting hot downstairs at the Chat Noir. Air-conditioning? No way! It’s not poetic enough. That’s why we decided to produce our own poetry fans. A very new way of reading poems and be cool. Cause … Continue reading
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Pat Cash is the featured poet this Monday 10th Dec
Ode to a One Night Stand you can’t blame your one night stand for being a one night stand but sometimes, when you’re really hungover, you can ’cause your one night stand is your anti-lover your anti-romanticism they ain’t gonna … Continue reading
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Report from 6th August
I opened with Oriah Mountain Dreamer’s The Invitation: It doesn’t interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart’s longing. It doesn’t interest … Continue reading
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bits of Monday 26th
Report by David. Eyelids like wet towelsWax melting on the skull vault;a purring razor. Shane reading from Word Legs: 30 Irish poets under 30Downloadable ebook for next to nothing here:http://wordlegs.com/30under30/ Always carry the disease with you – may you never … Continue reading
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Pity le pauvre Parisian
Sens d’humour excised at birth but schooled in ridicule. Langage distorting the mouth. Monkeys with Mick Jagger lips condemned to a permanent pout. With their enunciated phrases from Molière, their superior aristocratic scowls. – Who d’you think you are, Johnny … Continue reading
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1976
by David 1976 snooker balls crack in the heat. school afternoons Mrs Taylor has us lie down and sleep. the sky is too bright. it bleaches the chalky soil. in the summer holidays we paddle in the brook six feet … Continue reading
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Halitosis of the Soul
Thanks to Laure for recording my poem here
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Translation of Baudelaire's Le Poison
… that I read on May 2nd’s SpokenWord. Emmanuelle read the original in French and I read my own translation in English. Both texts below. It was a lot of fun playing with different words and phrasing. Wine decks the … Continue reading
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Alberto's boxer monologue
Dedicated to my boxers in Writers get Violent, who really beat the shit out of each other: To you the boxers, to whom the gong sounds always unexpectedly, to whom the stool slides out from under your ass, unexpectedly, like … Continue reading
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