New Release: John D Robinson ECHOES OF DIABLO (Concrete Meat Press, 2018)

Here’s a couple of poems from UK poet John D. Robinson’s latest collection of poetry: 

A DIABLO POEM

Tonight, I’m with my friend

Diablo,

Casillero del Diablo

‘Wine from the Devil’s Cellar’

it’s not often we meet

as he’s expensive

but when we meet it’s

always good, he never

let’s me down, he’s a true

and loyal friend

who knows of the muse

and often brings her

along:

tomorrow morning he’ll

be gone

to another place

and she’ll be in

the shadows

waiting for another

romance.

ORDINARY FOLKS

The apartment was small,

cramped, grim, unkempt

and a lingering staleness

dampened the air:

he was in his mid 50’s

and was dying of

alcoholism: his daughter

was in her early 20’s and

was making a living 

making home-made porno

movies in sleazy back-

street rooms with perverts,

drug dealers and other

desperados: she told me

that they were’ good

ordinary folk and didn’t

need no fucking help

from anybody’ as she 

pouted, flirted and smiled 

at me with dismissive

eyes: 

the old man

sat sipping brandy,

looking out of the window,

smoking a cigarette:

he didn’t say a word:

2 weeks later he was dead                                          

and his daughter scurried

to the city seeking her

fortune in the sex trade:

ordinary folks was what

they were.


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New Release: Karina Bush Brain Lace (BareBack Press, 2018) 70 pages

Karina Bush’s third book of poetry has recently been released. Here’s a blurb from the book:  

‘BRAIN LACE’ explodes into a landscape of consciousness and consequence, navigating the space where union meets decay. From “Sutra of the Computer Body”, which captures the transcendental elements of the unspoken in an email exchange, to “Cloud" I through X, a series of poems extracted from the dream state as the unconscious processes desire - ‘BRAIN LACE' slices this desire from the urgency of the flesh, dissects it, and, perhaps, destroys it. “This collection further cements Karina’s evolving voice in contemporary poetry… an unparalleled dynamic poetic output.” C Byck - 48th Street Press 

“Bush is a conjurer, a magician. She creates, via language, a presence both alien and familiar. A wise sibyl - feminine archetype.” Wayne F. Burke - author of A Lark Up The Nose Of Time.

Also find some visual poetry from the book here on Karina Bush’s website: https://vimeo.com/karinapoetess

Buy the book here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1926449231/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1534447100&sr=1-1