Next Poetry Bites, With Luke Kennard, 21st July 2009

Luke Kennard is a writer who lectures at the University of Birmingham. His first collection of poetry The Solex Brothers was given an Eric Gregory Award in 2005 and his second, The Harbour Beyond the Movie, was shortlisted for the Forward Prize in 2007, making him the youngest writer ever to be nominated. His [...]

A message to you from Griff Rhys Jones

Griff Rhys Jones says:

?Support the good work here. Don?t let Salt fall. If the recession is going to take things down, let it be motor manufacturers, let it be bad banks, let it be chains of fast food restaurants. We can lose a few of them, but we don’t have [...]

Ivy Alvarez: author of the Dumbfoundry Blog

Ivy Alvarez

dumbfoundry : Poetry news, poetry blogs, poetry magazines, poetry journals, poetry sites, poetry links, etc. Ivy Alvarez (author of Mortal) is one of the original dumbfounders.

Ivy covers Rob A. Mackenzie and Andrew Philiip in upcoming blogs.

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Rob A. Mackenzie: De-Cabbage Yourself! Tour

Rob A. Mackenzie: The Opposite of Cabbage

The De-Cabbage Yourself Tour

Throughout this collection, opposites collide — reality and delusion, political activism and apathy, friend and enemy, life and death. Messiahs parachute themselves to disused northern fairgrounds, a woman diets until practically invisible, trained apes teach a colony of drunks how [...]

Just One Book — just over one week on

Sunday, May 31 2009

It’s been impossible to think. Just over a week ago we were facing oblivion, the backlist would have sold on, but the business as a going concern was all over. I was job hunting. Stress had left me deaf. We were about to lose our home and it [...]