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Tuesday, August 21, 2018

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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Saturday, August 18, 2018

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