" Cobbing operations, Westerberg Mine, Cape Asbestos Co.."
Sunday, June 03, 2012
Friday, April 20, 2012
After Pugh's three-year prison sentence for a failed high street nail - Weller drew Pugh into prison. Wrote him as inmate 136804 HMP Brixton.
A Voice Inside (Home'Baked Books by Michael John Weller, 2010).
Last blog entry February 2012; tables have turned in Weller's Space Opera tale. Pugh draws the writer-in-residence into prison. Writes him as Portland jail inmate.
A Voice Inside (Home'Baked Books by Michael John Weller, 2010).
Last blog entry February 2012; tables have turned in Weller's Space Opera tale. Pugh draws the writer-in-residence into prison. Writes him as Portland jail inmate.
Sunday, February 12, 2012
Mike Weller Poetry Feller, Posie Rider (Mossad Press*) (out of print)
Is Posie's title built around "A Minimus Postcode Poem" first read at Writers Forum (New Series) workshop and dedicated to Doug Jones?
If so, time it saw reprint. Has lines beginning and ending ---
"and the little electronic coloured lights go ▪▪▪▪
Phone Cards ▪▪▪▪ Mobile Phone & Accessories ▪▪▪▪
Repairs & Unlocking ▪▪▪▪ "
The poet's myEBook version has some of those so-crap-as-to-be-almost-pointless blurry cell-phone low rez YouTube images Weller pretentiously calls "videographs" just like this one here ---
*Mossad Press is an imprint of Sad Press Books
Is Posie's title built around "A Minimus Postcode Poem" first read at Writers Forum (New Series) workshop and dedicated to Doug Jones?
If so, time it saw reprint. Has lines beginning and ending ---
"and the little electronic coloured lights go ▪▪▪▪
Phone Cards ▪▪▪▪ Mobile Phone & Accessories ▪▪▪▪
Repairs & Unlocking ▪▪▪▪ "
The poet's myEBook version has some of those so-crap-as-to-be-almost-pointless blurry cell-phone low rez YouTube images Weller pretentiously calls "videographs" just like this one here ---
*Mossad Press is an imprint of Sad Press Books
Wednesday, February 08, 2012
Friday, January 27, 2012
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
political verse
Copy////pasted from Sean Bonney's September 27 2011 blade pitch @ poet's abandoned buildings for his Commons and Happiness (poems after Rimbaud) publications
It is impossible to fully grasp Rimbaud’s work, and especially Une Saison en Enfer, if you have not studied through and understood the whole of Marx’s Capital. And this is why no English speaking poet has ever understood Rimbaud. Poetry is stupid, but then again, stupidity is not the absence of intellectual ability but rather the scar of its mutilation.
Copy////pasted from Sean Bonney's September 27 2011 blade pitch @ poet's abandoned buildings for his Commons and Happiness (poems after Rimbaud) publications
Monday, January 02, 2012
Continuing ballad of The Someday Funnies
'The Someday Funnies' ballad veered into present writer's Beat generation Ballads blogged at this spot few times since printed bookwork publication a year ago. See here, here & here.
This ballad was written originally as poetic hommaġe to a 'lost' book of the 1970s. As legendary among sci-fi and comic fans as HP Lovecraft's 'lost' Necronomicon among fans of horror fantasy.
The Someday Funnies as book-myth became topic of study in an article by Bob Levin for an issue of American Comics Journal in 2009. (The Comics Journal considers comic-book and cartoon-strips as art and literary form through serious and scholarly analysis. There is nothing comparable UK where milieu writers have arguably veered to medium of radio and television. And comic-book artists still seem to be perceived as part of some creepy swivel-eyed male geekdom.)
My own understanding adapting beat generation ballads from blog to Veer bookwork at the time was that Levin's lavishly illustrated essay on The Someday Funnies in The Comics Journal was something of a revelation.
What I didn't know was Comics Journal had stimulated interest, not only in Michel Choquette and his lost comic book, but a will to finally publish the hidden horde of submissions which included a full page contribution from Mike Weller when he was living as alter-ego '70s underground cartoonist, Captain Stelling. Over the years Weller and his 20th century pulp experience has been fictionalized by present author as both historical object and personal subject in Mike's own visual bookwork Space Opera and entry opening decade 21st century worked as prose-fed Michael John home'baked Slow Fiction.
Like olden days when great beat generation US 45rpm singles couldn't make the British hit parade because Tin Pan Alley ruled the charts - The Someday Funnies has not yet hit radar UK - neither comics fandom nor liberal arts media.
And the tombstone of a book is causing a stir on the other side of the pond. Puffed and hyped-up in North America during fall 2011 - conflicting reviews of Choquette's book have since appeared at The Comics Journal website itself where one editor Tim Holder describes his own journal's response as a house divided. This is because original discoverer Bob Levin celebrates publication while Journal co-editor Dan Nadel's disses the book's arrival, backed up by several posts acquiescing with his critique in the comment thread. R. Fiore's later post at the Journal
provides a detailed, much wider critique of selection and content - followed by a long thread with several knowledgeable comments.
Choquette responds to reviews of his book by taking it out of a generic house of comics to wider blogosphere online @ Huffington Post.
Present author composed 'The Someday Funnies' ballad when believed lost. He wouldn't change one visual or written aspect now it's been found.
'The Someday Funnies' ballad veered into present writer's Beat generation Ballads blogged at this spot few times since printed bookwork publication a year ago. See here, here & here.
This ballad was written originally as poetic hommaġe to a 'lost' book of the 1970s. As legendary among sci-fi and comic fans as HP Lovecraft's 'lost' Necronomicon among fans of horror fantasy.
The Someday Funnies as book-myth became topic of study in an article by Bob Levin for an issue of American Comics Journal in 2009. (The Comics Journal considers comic-book and cartoon-strips as art and literary form through serious and scholarly analysis. There is nothing comparable UK where milieu writers have arguably veered to medium of radio and television. And comic-book artists still seem to be perceived as part of some creepy swivel-eyed male geekdom.)
My own understanding adapting beat generation ballads from blog to Veer bookwork at the time was that Levin's lavishly illustrated essay on The Someday Funnies in The Comics Journal was something of a revelation.
What I didn't know was Comics Journal had stimulated interest, not only in Michel Choquette and his lost comic book, but a will to finally publish the hidden horde of submissions which included a full page contribution from Mike Weller when he was living as alter-ego '70s underground cartoonist, Captain Stelling. Over the years Weller and his 20th century pulp experience has been fictionalized by present author as both historical object and personal subject in Mike's own visual bookwork Space Opera and entry opening decade 21st century worked as prose-fed Michael John home'baked Slow Fiction.
Like olden days when great beat generation US 45rpm singles couldn't make the British hit parade because Tin Pan Alley ruled the charts - The Someday Funnies has not yet hit radar UK - neither comics fandom nor liberal arts media.
And the tombstone of a book is causing a stir on the other side of the pond. Puffed and hyped-up in North America during fall 2011 - conflicting reviews of Choquette's book have since appeared at The Comics Journal website itself where one editor Tim Holder describes his own journal's response as a house divided. This is because original discoverer Bob Levin celebrates publication while Journal co-editor Dan Nadel's disses the book's arrival, backed up by several posts acquiescing with his critique in the comment thread. R. Fiore's later post at the Journal
provides a detailed, much wider critique of selection and content - followed by a long thread with several knowledgeable comments.
Choquette responds to reviews of his book by taking it out of a generic house of comics to wider blogosphere online @ Huffington Post.
Present author composed 'The Someday Funnies' ballad when believed lost. He wouldn't change one visual or written aspect now it's been found.
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