New chapbook and the erbacce-press prize

Working towards a new chapbook to be published by Original Plus. Really excited about this. The poems stem from my residency at Liverpool Architecture and Design Trust (LADT) that ran from 2000-2003. More details to follow.

In other news, the prizewinners for the 2009 erbacce-press prize have been announced:

The winner is Puma Perl, a very popular choice with the judges.

Runners-up:

AD Winans
Sam Smith
Duane Locke

Puma will have a 128 page collection out in 2o10. A.D., Sam and Duane will have chapbooks forthcoming. Sam's is at press at the moment.

Many thanks to those who took part and maybe the erbacce-prize will become an annual event.

Two in Leaf Garden

Really pleased to have two poems up at Leaf Garden # 2. This newish journal is publishing some excellent writers and is finding a good style for itself. I'm pleased to be onboard. The issue is here.

Two in The Houston Literary Review

Pleased to have two poems in the June edition of The Houston Literary Review. The issue is here as a downloadable PDF.

Luciole Press

I sent some poems to the excellent Luciole Press site a few months back, and was pleased to find that they had been accepted for their Spring/Summer 09 issue. The poems are here.

Haiku Scotland # 20

Pleased to say that eight of my englyns, and a piece about this form extracted from my PhD thesis, appear in the latest issue of Haiku Scotland. More can be read about this great magazine here.

Twitter Poems

Taking inspiration from Joe Moran's Motorway Tweets, I have had a go at a few in the past few days. They are here but are pasted below also:

Watford Gap grass verge through coffee steam, reassurance of traffic noise, knowing we are an hour away - the beauty of the service station

M6 Stafford Services North twilight mirrored reflection a hint of neon cold walk through car-park for supplies and hot coffee

Callused Hands # 2

Pleased to have a poem published at the excellent new e-zine Callused Hands.

Try and help

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I bought a book - Peter Hughes's Blueroads

Michael Murphy RIP

Sad to hear the news of the passing of Michael Murphy. Condolences to Deryn and their two children. Obituary here and more here. Rest in Peace.

Poems published at Sunk Island Review

Extremely pleased to be published over at Sunk Island Review. The poems are here. Thanks to editor Michael Blackburn.

Twitter

Have bitten the bullet - http://www.twitter.com/dradny

Three poems up over at Gists and Piths

Pleased to have three poems published over at the excellent Gists and Piths. The poems are here.

Edge Hill University Poetry and Poetics Research Group

GOING PUBLIC ADVANCE NOTICE

This year is the tenth anniversary of the Edge Hill University Poetry and Poetics Research Group (PPRG). There are plans for a series of events to mark this occasion during autumn 2009.

There are three founder members still active in the group – Robert Sheppard, Cliff Yates and myself. Cliff has a book forthcoming from Salt, Frank Freeman’s Dancing School, which will be launched at the Rose Theatre on Wednesday 11th November. The support will come from other members of the PPRG.

There will be a series of ‘open meetings’ where members of the group will discuss their poetics. A former member of the group, Scott Thurston, will also hold an open meeting.

Robert Sheppard’s Pages will be featuring work from members past and present. There will also be a special edition of erbacce (eds. Alan Corkish and Andrew Taylor) featuring members and former members, alongside an interview with Robert Sheppard in his capacity as chairman of the group.

There will also be an event to mark the publication of Troubles Swapped for Something Fresh: Manifestos and Unmanifestos, ed. Rupert Loydell, (Salt) which features poetics by Robert Sheppard, Cliff Yates, Scott Thurston and myself alongside others such as Jackson Mac Low, Sheila E Murphy, Ira Lightman and Geoff Stevens.


Edge Hill Poetry and Poetics Research Group members past and present include: Robert Sheppard, Cliff Yates, Andrew Taylor, Scott Thurston, Neil Addison, Dee McMahon, Matt Fallaize, Daniele Pantano, Steve Van Hagen, Michael Egan, Colin Harris, Patricia Farrell, Angela Keaton and Alice Lenkiewicz.


Further details and dates, venues etc will be posted here and at Pages.

new erbacce-press review

Nice to see a review of a recent erbacce-press title by Wayne Mason at Full of Crow.

Stefan Brecht RIP

Sad to hear the news that Stefan Brecht has died. Read more here.

Willows Wept Review Spring 2009

Today I am as pleased as yesterday when I realised that editor Molly Gaudry had published one of my poems over at Willows Wept Review. I sent Molly some poems for submission to the Spring 2009 edition and am pleased to say that she has published three poems. The Spring 2009 edition is here.

Willows Wept Review

A poem has appeared in the Winter edition of the superb Willows Wept Review. The site is here and the poem here.

Calliope Nerve #18

I'm proud to have five poems in the forthcoming issue of Calliope Nerve. You can read more about the magazine here.

Current listening

Doves - Kingdom of Rust
Starsailor - All the Plans
Spiritualized - Pure Phase
Slowdive - I saw the Sun (unreleased)
The Durutti Column - Love in the Time of Recession
Neil Halstead - Oh! Mighty Engine

Poems at Full of Crow

Pleased to have two poems published at the recently established Full of Crow. This quality publication is edited by Lynn Alexander and Aleathia Drehmer. The site is here and the poems here and here.

Poems published at Thirteen Myna Birds

Two poems published at the excellent e-zine Thirteen Myna Birds.

Poem in Gloom Cupboard

Poem published in Gloom Cupboard (print) Details here

Willows Wept Review

I am proud to have a poem published in the Winter 2009 edition of the excellent Willows Wept Review . The poem is here.

Gutter Eloquence # 2

Proud as punch to be in fantastic companyover at # 2 of the fantastic Gutter Eloquence, edited by the talented Jack T Marlow. The poem is here.

Side of Grits #2

Really pleased to be in great company over at Side of Grits # 2.

Reading

I'm pleased to announce that I am reading as support to Chris McCabe at a reading at Edge Hill University's Rose Theatre on Thursday, 26th February. Time: 7.30 p.m. £3.50 all.

Three poems published at Counterexample Poetics

I'm pleased that three poems have been accepted and published at the newly established (and brilliant) Counterexample Poetics, edited by Felino Soriano.

new poem published in Octothorp # 1

From the brilliant Sunnyoutside Press comes Octothorpe # 1 and it has a poem in it from me amongst other Sunnyoutside authors.

Poem in the Pussy!

Proud as punch to be published in Misti Rainwater-Lites's superb Instant Pussy Disco. Again, I'm in superb company.

Otoliths # 12

Very pleased to have work in the fine Australian journal Otoliths # 12.

Poetry published

Very pleased to have been published in #15 of Neon Highway, The Thin Edge of the Staring and The Exhuberant Ashtray. I'm in great company.

Poetry Reading

Neon Highway Poetry Magazine

Edited by Alice Lenkiewicz

Presents

'CRUNCH'

A performance of poems, writings and musicwill take place at Tate Liverpool as part of the 5th Floor Project, International Festival Ideas Taking Space.

Poems, music and writings will be based around the Credit Crunch as well as the Wall Street Crash of 1929.

Come along and enjoy this experimental performance at Tate Liverpool on the Fourth Floor

Sunday 25th January 2009

4.30pm - 5.50pm.

Admission Free

Poets and Writers reading:

Alice Lenkiewicz (aka Jane Marsh, Editorial Assistant) and The Public Service Announcer, (Nigel Harrison)

Scott Thurston

Patricia Farrell

Andrew Taylor

Robert Sheppard

Matt Fallaize

Ailsa Cox

Artwork by Alice Lenkiewicz and Tim Allen
Music Composed by Duncan Stuart

Further information about Neon Highway:

http://www.geocities.com/poetshideout/Neon.html

Alice Lenkiewicz: Email: neonhighwaypoetry@yahoo.co.uk

More erbacce-press reviews

Two more reviews of erbacce-press chapbooks have appeared at Clockwise Cat. Here and here.

Interview and poem published at Epic Rites

Very proud to be published and interviewed at Epic Rites. I'm in great company.

Poem published at Muse Thing: The Calliope Nerve Weblog

Really pleased to have a poem, 'Like No Other', published over at Muse Thing: The Calliope Nerve Weblog and I look forward to more of my poems being published in their forthcoming print edition.

erbacce-press author Puma Perl chapbook review

Great review of Puma Perl's great chapbook at The Guild of Outside Writers. You can buy the book here.

Poem published at Shoots and Vines

Pleased to have a poem published at the excellent Shoots and Vines

Poem published at Eye on Mars

Very proud to be published at Eye on Mars, J.D. Nelson's fantastic new blog.

'Selected Poems' by Georg Trakl ed. and trans. by Daniele Pantano available now from erbacc-press

erbacce-press are proud to announce a new selected poems of Georg Trakl trans. by Daniele Pantano. Available here.

writing

Updated 2008 Music List

British Sea Power - Do you like Rock Music?
American Music Club – The Golden Age
July Skies – The Weather Clock
Bob Mould – District Circle
Bon Iver – For Emma, forever ago
Coldplay – Viva la Vida
Beck – Modern Guilt
Mogwai – The Hawk Is Howling
Brett Anderson – Wilderness
Fleet Foxes – Fleet Foxes
Ryan Adams and the Cardinals – Cardinology
Goldfrapp – Seventh Tree
M83 – Saturdays=Youth
Mercury Rev – Snowflake Midnight
MGMT - Kids

David McLean at erbacce-press

Buy this from us here. The wonderful David McLean's Pushing Lemmings. An erbacce-press paperback.

New poem published at THE

Very proud to be published at THE (Nov 25th 2009).

... how could I forget

Mercury Rev - Snowflake Midnight

new erbacce-press title by Jack Henry

erbacce-press is proud to announce the release of The Downtown Cafe by Jack Henry. Available here.

Music of 2008

My favourite music of 2008 in no particular order:

British Sea Power - Do you like Rock Music?
American Music Club – The Golden Age
July Skies – The Weather Clock
Bob Mould – District Circle
Bon Iver – For Emma, forever ago
Coldplay – Viva la Vida
Beck – Modern Guilt
Mogwai – The Hawk Is Howling
Brett Anderson – Wilderness
Fleet Foxes – Fleet Foxes
Ryan Adams and the Cardinals – Cardinology
Goldfrapp – Seventh Tree

May be added to should something else come up on the rails...

Opium Poetry

Really pleased to see a poem published at Opium Poetry.

Zack Wilson Interview

erbacce-press writer Zack Wilson is interviewed at the great Epic Rites site.

David Oprava erbacce-press title

is now in stock at the very wonderful Beat the Dust bookshop. Support the supporters of the small press. Also available from erbacce-press.

erbacce-press 2009 poetry competition

The 2009 erbacce-press poetry competition has been announced. FREE to enter, the prize is a publishing contract with the prestigious small press, erbacce-press.
www.erbacce-press.com
Pass on.

Five poems

Five poems published on-line at Private International Review of Photographs and Texts. I'm in good company.

erbacce # 15

erbacce # 15 is out now.
Featured poet:
Judy Kendall
also featuring:
Neil Addison
Raymond K Avery
Shimanta Bhattacharyya
Duncan Broe
Gregory Gilbert Gumbs
Alan Morrison
Misti Rainwater-Lites
Gordon Scapens

www.erbacce.com

Eviscerator Heaven

Two poems appear in #4 of Eviscerator Heaven link for free download here. Great issue I must say.

Two Poems at The Journal of Heroin Love Songs

Proud to be published at Journal of Heroin Love Songs

Jack Henry to be published by erbacce-press

Pleased to announce that Jack Henry is the latest poet to join the erbacce-press stable. Welcome aboard Jack.

'Dancing on Thin Ice' review

A review by David McLean of George Anderson's erbacce-press chapbook Dancing on Thin Ice apppears here

new review of 'And the Weary are at Rest'

A review of my latest book 'And the Weary are at Rest' (Sunnyoutside, 2008) appears on the Pick of the Spindle site here

erbacce press Liverpool Poets 08 Launch

Liverpool 08 Poets Launch Event

A big big thank you to all those who came along to listen to the poets who read at the erbacce-press launch of Liverpool Poets 08. The launch, at the Everyman Bistro in Liverpool, was well attended and it was a pleasure to hear some of the poets who grace the pages of the anthology. Special thanks to those who travelled from afar and to Jacqui Dunne for introducing the poets in the second half.
Thanks to all concerned.

erbacce press presents Liverpool Poets 08 Anthology

erbacce press is proud to announce the launch of its first perfect bound collection:
Liverpool Poets 08
including such notable Liverpool Poets as

Robert Sheppard
Scott Thurston
Cath Nichols
Ursula Hurley
and many many more

The launch will be taking place on Wednesday 10th September 2008 at the Everyman Theatre Bistro 3rd Room. Start time 8.00 p.m.

Admission is free.
Poets will be reading and the book will be for sale.

Many thanks to the people who have enabled this book to be published. We had to reprint the whole first run as we had a bogus plagiarism incident.

You know who you are.

Poem in The Journal

I'm pleased to see that a poem appears in #23 of The Journal edited by Sam Smith, alongside a review I've done of the Sirens poetry anthology.
Link

Review

A nice review of my latest publication from Sunnyoutside appears at the wonderful What to Wear during an Orange Alert?

Interview

New interview over at Out of the Cupboard. Review of 'And the Weary are at Rest.

Instant Pussy # 2

So pround that my poems ‘Rhiz Bar Poem’, ‘Comfort and Joy’, ‘Monde Hop!’, ‘Foreign Static’ and ‘Ten Years Ago the Passport was Issued’ have been published in Instant Pussy # 2.
Link here

Jukebox

I'm proud to have three poems in Jukebox edited by Misti Rainwater-Lites and published by Catalyst Press.
Available here as a download and print

And the Weary are at Rest

My new chapbook And the Weary are at Rest published by the fantastic press, Sunnyoutside, is available to pre-order at their website.
http://www.sunnyoutside.com/releases/030/o.html
The street date is 12th June 2008

Poetry Reading

Skelmersdale Writers
Present
Poetry at the Engine Rooms
Westgate, Skelmersdale, Lancashire
Tuesday 17th June 2008
Guest Poet:

ANDREW TAYLOR

plus open mic session
Free Admission all welcome.

for more information contact Carol 01695 728320
or James at Engine Rooms 01695 731016

Google maps here

Gloom Cupboard # 37

A poem 'Chocolate Soup' is published at Gloom Cupboard # 37.
http://www.gloomcupboard.com/
four poems are also in the third print edition of Gloom Cupboard.

Poetry and Skin Cream and Temporary Residence

Both my latest chapbooks, Poetry and Skin Cream and Temporary Residence are now available to purchase using paypal at the www. erbacce-press. com website:
http://www. erbacce-press. com/#/andrewtaylor/4529214131
Thanks.

erbacce # 13

erbacce # 13 is out
Featured poet:
Misti Rainwater-Lites
and:
Joanna M Weston
Jenny Adamthwaite
Linda L Bielowski
Clarinda Harriss
Daniel Wilcox
Karl Koweski
Kate Noakes
Alessio Zanelli

Copies to subscribers and contributors in the post any day now

erbacce to-date

Poets published to-date:

L. Ward Abel
idowu Addison
Daniel Adey
Madeline Artenberg
Christopher Barnes
Linda Beninghoff
Jim Bennett
Luis Cuauhtemoc Berriozabal
Arriola Shimanta Bhattacharyya
Linda L. Bielowski
Brian Blackwell
Peter Bowen
Iain Britton
Sonja Broderick
Pat Brodie
John Brooke
Paula Brown
Greg Buddery
Mike Burch
Graham Burchell
David Burns
Zachary C Bush
Idris Caffrey
David Callin
Moxy Casimir
Yu-Han Chao
Paul Curtis
Paul Davidson
Deidra Suwanee Dees
Colleen Totz Diamond
Bill Drennan
Dmytro Drozdovsky
Jacqueline Dunne
Kalium Edwards
Sarah Edwards
M G Egan
Melanie Faith
Matt Fallaize
Mark Farrell
Carol Fenlon
Lee Firth
Adam Fish
Thomas Fortenberry
Jesse Freeman
Matthew Friday
Tamara Fulcher
D. Garcia-Wahl
Christopher T. George
Ursula T. Gibson
Karl Gielinck
Dermot Glennon
Tyler Gnass
Taylor Graham
Nell Grey
Geraldine Green
Arun Gaur
Ida Haghtalab
Jan Oscar Hansen
Clarinda Harriss
Yvette Hawkins
Michael Healey
Jean Hull Herman
Ron Hudson
Roger B. Humes
Jennifer Hunt
Ursula Hurley
Carlos Felipe Hurtado
Hannah Inglis
Fabio Izzo
birgitta jonsdottir
Sheema Kalbasi
Khalid Khan
Angela Keaton
Jonathan Kelley
Helen Kitson
Solana d’Lamant
Luisa Lamounier
Wolf Lawson
Le Pham Le
Ric Lee
Sharmagne Leland-St. John
Frances LeMoine
Josef Lesser
Yan Li
Bei Ling
Duane Locke
Ellaraine Lockie
Darlene Logan
Caitlin Louise
Rupert M Loydell
Lorette C. Luzajic
Richie Mais
Chris Major
Al Markowitz
Jervis Martin
david mclean
Sean McGahey
Dee McMahon
David Menzies
Les Merton
Corey Mesler
George Messo
Stephen C Middleton
Alex Migliore
Farida Mihoub
Suchoon Mo
Majid Mohiuddin
Michael Jose Morales
douglas william mowbray
James Murphy
Mathias Nelson
Ashok Niyogi
Brendan O’Neill
Mario Petrucci
Rob Plath
Gabriele Quartero
Misti Rainwater-Lites
Marrissa Ranello
Lucia Rikaki
Dee Rimbaud
Lori Romero
Kurt Rostek
Jim Rowley
Minal Joel Sarosh
Iftekhar Sayeed
Iris N. Schwartz
Gordon Scapens
Andrew Shelley
alex willie singerman
K. V. Skene
Noel Sloboda
Amanda Smith
Sam Smith
Harvey Stanbrough
J. J. Steinfeld
Geoff Stevens
Gerry Stewart
Lynn Strongin
Ray Succre
Eugen Suman
Mario Susko
Ingrid Showalter Swift
Paul Tanner
William Taylor Jr
Thinly Tharchen
John Thomson
David Thornbrugh
George Thurman
Scott Thurston
David Trame
Paul Tristram
Ashley Welch
Harry R. Wilkens
A.D. Winans
Richard Wink
Corrine De Winter
Aaron Williamson
Tyler Joseph Wiseman
Emily Wright
Saima Yacoob
Bill Yarrow
Alessio Zanelli
Nick Zegarac
Paula M. Zimlicki

Clockwise Cat # 8

Two poems are up at the excellent Clockwise Cat blog, issue 8.
http://www.clockwisecat.blogspot.com/

Gloom Cupboard/erbacce Special Issue

Gloom Cupboard/erbacce Special Issue
The wonderful poetry blog Gloom Cupboard has been born as a print zine. A special launch issue, combined with erbacce is about to hit the streets. Poets and writers who are appearing:

Gloom Cupboard:

David McLean
John Dorsey
Stephen Hines
Anthony Liccione
Joseph Goosey
Adam 'Bucho' Rodenberger
Joe Roche
Greg Oguss
Cat
Aleathia Drehmer
Misti Rainwater-Lites
Andrew Taylor
Karl Koweski
Christopher Major
David LaBounty
Flash Clark
Richard Thomas Nesberg
Andrew Lander
James Warnes
Juliana Vargas

erbacce:

A.D. Winans
L. Ward Abel
James Morris
Alessio Zanelli
Judy Kendall
Kenneth P Gurney
Paul J Robinson
Ben Barton
David McLean
Aleathia Drehmer
Ray Succre
Catherine Hawcroft
Pestlett
Zachary C Bush

Further details soon here and from Gloom Cupboard

erbacce # 12

erbacce 12
featuring
WILLIAM TAYLOR JR
Luis Cuacuhtemoc Berriozabal
Zachary C Bush
Luisa Lamounier
Gabriele Quartero
Ray Succre
Rob Plath
Moxy Casimir
Fabio Izzo
Eugen Suman
Matthew Friday
JJ Steinfeld

Available now visit www.erbacce.com for further details
£2.00 inc P&P
$5.00 inc P&P

Gloom Cupboard # 19

I have a poem up at Gloom Cupboard, #19. Here.

erbacce # 12

erbacce #12 is out now featuring:
WILLIAM TAYLOR JR
Luis Cuauhtemoc Berriozabal
Zachary C Bush
Luisa Lamounier
Gabriele Quartero
Ray Succre
Rob Plath
Moxy Casimir
Fabio Izzo
Eugen Suman
Matthew Friday
JJ Steinfeld

decomP

I'm proud to have a poem in the wonderful decomP February 2008 issue.
Here.

Gloom Cupboard # 17

Alongside Jospeh Scorselo, David Mclean, Karl Koweski and Amanda Boschetto, I have a poem up at Gloom Cupboard # 17. Here.

Ditch

Three poems at Ditch.
A Canadian site that features an international section.
Link.

Debris Magazine # 3 Winter 2008

The excellent Debris magazine has kindly published 'A Kind of Blue Untitled # 3' link here.

Gloom Cupboard # 14

Two poems appear at the wonderful Gloom Cupboard # 14, alongside work by Rob Plath and Stephen Hines.
http://www.gloomcupboard.blogspot.com/

Origami Condom # 4

I have two poems published in the forthcoming edition, # 4, of the excellent Origami Condom.
www.origamicondom.org

Music of 2007

In no order:
Radiohead - In Rainbows
Adele - Hometown Glory
M83 - Digital Shades Vol I
Nico - The Frozen Borderline
Rilo Kiley - Under the Blacklight
PJ Harvey - White Chalk
L.Pierre - Dip
Epic45 - May your Heart be the Map
Trembling Blue Stars - The Last Holy Writer
Thirteen Senses - Contact

Poems at Type A B +

Alongside the very wonderful Misti Rainwater-Lites, David McLean and Sean B Chance, I have had 5 poems published on this excellent site.
http://http://www.typeabpositive.com/Poemsie.html

A Hunger for Mourning by David McLean

erbacce Press are proud to announce the release of A Hunger for Mourning by David McLean.

McLean says "This is a chapbook with 52 poems written recently. None had been accepted for publication at the time. Some have since. They are about the night, sex, death, substance abuse, borderlines and crossing them, and the grave that awaits us full of fathers and nothing."

Two reviews:

David McLean is no slouch when it comes to putting words onto the page - if you've witnessed his prodigious output on his myspace page it will come as no surprise that the 40 or so poems in a hunger for mourning were all written within the space of two or three weeks. So don't buy this book if you're looking for polished gems cut and honed to perfection, what you get here is not so much a collection as a slice of the life of the muse of David McLean - and what a powerful muse it is! It's a worm of the dragon kind, though he keeps his wings folded, compulsively snouting through the undergrowth and the detritus layers of the soil looking for bitter roots to chew and bones to blacken, and just occasionally looking up with a curiously boy-like twinkle in his eyes. So relentless is this beast that sometimes the poet seems to tire of the effort of controlling it - here and there a poem tapers off or succumbs to flippancy, and some words become repetitive and rob his vision of some of it's potency - but mostly he maintains a determinedly persistent course. (You may need a dictionary for some of his words, by the way, I did!) His themes are consistent, his humour dry and his vision dark, and poems often seem to morph one into the other. It might all become too familiar if it were not for the poet's able wordcraft and that incredibly strong sense of his muse writhing it's way through it all. There is some fine poetry here, but I have no doubt the poet would be stunned if anyone were to make too many claims for what is, after all, just the poems that he happened to write in those particular two or three weeks in a year of apparently non-stop writing. What excites most is the prospect of meeting that muse again six months down the line, I have no doubt I will recognise it - or will I? The real reason you should get yourself a copy of a hunger for mourning is not to pick out any one treasure, but to marvel at the living entity that is the ongoing poetic progeny of David McLean.

by Ceris Dien

I'm in labor as I write this review, which shows how much I love David McLean's poetry. David's poems philosophize with spits and snarls. The poems are well-crafted without being bone dry and boring. In short, David's poetry contains meaty, juicy lines, lines you can sink your teeth into. Although A Hunger For Mourning is available as a download, I recommend buying an actual copy of the book so you will have something tangible and solid in your hands that you can return to again and again. And David needs money for Swedish beer. It isn't as cheap as you might think.

by Misti Rainwater-Lites

ISBN: 978-0-9555-7545-7

40 pages

Otoliths[from the editor]

Issue seven of Otoliths has just gone live. It's as eclectic as ever, but that means there's something there for everybody. Lined up in this issue are Sheila E. Murphy, Nico Vassilakis, Anny Ballardini, Vernon Frazer, Matina L. Stamatakis, Geof Huth, Matt Hetherington, derek beaulieu, Andrew Taylor, Nigel Long, Marko Niemi, Michael Steven, Anne Heide, Mark Prejsnar, Márton Koppány, Jim Leftwich, Catherine Daly, Bill Drennan, Julian Jason Haladyn, Alexander Jorgensen, Jeff Harrison, Paul Siegell, Robert Gauldie, Martin Edmond, Raymond Farr, John M. Bennett, John M. Bennett & Friends, Andrew Topel & John M. Bennett, Andrew Topel, Mark Cunningham, Jeff Crouch, Randall Brock, Eileen R. Tabios, Jordan Stempleman, Daniel f. Bradley, Lars Palm, harry k stammer, Karri Kokko, Katrinka Moore, Tom Hibbard, dan raphael & David-Baptiste Chirot. It's what Hieronymous Bosch dreamt about, a Garden of Earthly Delights.

Out Now

Two new publications by Andrew Taylor

Temporary Residence [ISBN: 978-0-9555-7543-3]
collects poems and a piece of poetics from a residency at The Loft Space Gallery in Liverpool in early 2007. It is available as a PDF download and as a chapbook from Lulu and a chapbook from erbacce Press. 20 pages. To buy direct from Lulu click here. To contact erbacce Press click here.

also available

Poetry and Skin Cream [2nd edition] [ISBN:978-0-9555-7540-2]

with a poem omitted from the first edition. Available on-line at Lulu and direct from erbacce Press in the UK. Retailers to be announced. 26 pages. To buy direct from Lulu click here. To contact erbacce Press click here.

Coming soon...

A reprint of my 2004 chapbook Poetry and Skin Cream and a new collection, Temporary Residence are to be published by erbacce Press. The new artwork was designed by James at eyefever. eyefever.co.uk

Poetry reading at Edge Hill University

Cornelius & Jones presents
Erin Mouré
Thursday 25th October 7.30pmTickets £3.50 all
Erín Mouré is one of Canada's most eminent and respected poets. Winner of the Governor General's Award for Furious and the Pat Lowther Memorial Award for Domestic Fuel, Mouré has published twelve books of poetry, including A Frame of the Book and Little Theatres (shortlisted for the Governor General's Award, the Griffin Prize and winner of the AM Klein prize).

She also has five books of poetry in translation, including Sheep's Vigil by a Fervent Person, short listed for the 2002 Griffin Poetry Prize and the 2002 City of Toronto Book Prize. Her latest book of poetry, O Cadoiro, appeared in April from House of Anansi in Canada.
Edge Hill’s Poetry and Poetics Group will also be launching its first CD.

This event will take place in Studio 4 of the Performing Arts Centre.

The Edge Hill Poetry and Poetics group members are:
Robert Sheppard, Andrew Taylor, Cliff Yates, Dee McMahon, Alice Lenkiewicz, Matt Fallaize and Angela Keaton.

erbacce Press

erbacce Press has recently published its first chapbook.
'Bum Rap' by Alan Corkish ISBN: 978-0-9555754-1-9.
Forthcoming titles:
'Lace-circled Darkness' by Lynn Strongin
'Temporary Residence' by Andrew Taylor
and a reissue of 'Poetry and Skin Cream' by Andrew Taylor.
More details to follow.

Poetry in Liverpool

An interesting site with links to past and present Liverpool poets and useful information regarding the Liverpool poetry scene has come to my attention. Check it out.

A new manifesto from Unquiet Desperation

The Manifesto
The counterculture is shattered. A movement that once screamed against the torpor of our time-fettered society is in shards, each fragment reflecting only the petty needs of its adherents. Whether an acolyte of one of the kaleidoscope of self-obsessed musical and literary subcultures, an obsessive over some futile political cause or worse a soul lost to those games and worlds existing only in the circuits of counting machines, we are the heirs of those with grander visions, and their shades regard us with scorn. Those dwellers of high halls that profit from our continued acceptance of the worksheep ethic are pleased: a splintered counterculture leaves them unchallenged, no voice against us squandering our days to gild their cages further. Any hint of resistance and they spew out songs from tame alternative bands, songs that speak of loneliness and shuttered rebellion. Pacification accomplished; nothing deadens like corporate nihilism. It is clear: the counterculture is broken, and it is broken because it is corrupted. Our only chance of liberty is to mend it and to do that we must look back, and heed the lessons of our wild free forebears. First the Transcendentalists of the nineteenth century and then the Beats of the fifties rejected the constraints of their times and took another, more perilous path: not only did they enter the wilderness, seeking existence away from the distractions of society, but they also sought knowledge. Their exploration was inner as well as outer. Unfortunately the Fall would come before the Beats attained enlightenment: they were swept up in the chaos of the sixties. Counterculture decayed, sliding from a flame-eyed band of literary ascetics, men and women that knew the road to true understanding was hard and long, into a hydra-headed youth movement, seeking escape and instant answers, its music already infected by the corporate world it professed to reject. If we are to forge a new counterculture we must reject this slide into factionalism, and follow the example of Thoreau and Emerson, of Ginsberg, Kerouac and Burroughs. We must reject the illusory choices our society forces on us, and strike out on our own quest to experience existence in its rawest, purest form. It will not be easy. The life of the outlaw artist, the outlaw writer disturbs loved ones and invites assault from right and left: honesty infuriates both sides of the political divide. Despite this, our first steps should not be without hope. We are forewarned that the drug-fixated and cultish short-cuts of the sixties lead only to dead ends, and know that though solitude is occasionally necessary Thoreau was never alone for too long in Walden, and even the archetypal outlaw writer, Burroughs, felt drawn to those of like mind. Indeed, this is the lesson to take from the Transcendentalists and the Beats: though comprised of individuals on their own paths to enlightenment, they came together and collaborated to telling effect on their generations and those after. We must be the same: though we draw apart from the petty lives of our peers, it will not be lonely. We will find those like us, and in the end will travel the road together. Looking beyond the shards, we see something deeper, something higher, something enduring. The spirit of creativity still smoulders in the cities and the suburbs, and our recapturing of the spirit of those glorious pioneers will set it alight. We will form the nucleus of a reborn counterculture, no longer shattered, and stand as a beacon to those seeking escape from their groundhog lives. A new movement is forming: can we afford to stand aside? Of course not. We must be at its centre, driving it with the wisdom we will gain. The knowledge we reveal will enlighten the world.
Signed
Unquiet Desperation

Unquiet Desperation 1.16

I have placed copies of Unquiet Desperation 1.16, which is free, in the following places:
Liverpool Central Library
William Brown Street
Liverpool
[on the 2nd floor Literature section]
the egg Cafe
2nd Floor16 - 18 Newington
Liverpool
L1 4ED
and
Probe Records
9 Slater Street
Liverpool
L1 4BW

http://www.unquietdesperation.co.uk/
www.myspace.com/unquietdesperation

erbacce # 10

erbacce 10 is at the printers and will hopefully be back with us on the 28th July 2007 for distribution to subscribers and contributors.
The poets in 10 are:

Ursula Hurley

Christopher Barnes

David McClean

Lynn Strongin

Greg Buddery

Noel Sloboda

Emily Wright

Karl Gielinck

Khalid Khan

Paul Tanner

Sam Smith

Nell Grey

As usual, copies will be for sale at £2 from:

News from Nowhere

96 Bold Street

Liverpool

L1 4HY

and

Linghams Booksellers

9 Banks Road

West Kirby

Wirral

Ch48 0QX

for submissions and subscription details:

www.erbacce.com

erbacce is edited by Alan Corkish and Andrew Taylor.

the erbacce office is located at:

5 Farrell Close

Melling

Liverpool

L31 1BU

UK.

erbacce is an independent publication.

We receive no funding.

Proudly independent since May Day 2004.

Zygote in my Coffee

A recent poem from my residency at the Loft Space in Liverpool called 'Analgesic' has been published in Zygote in my Coffee # 89. Visit the site here.

Poems published at the Bold Street Blog

I have had some poems published on a great new blog about a street in Liverpool called Bold Street. The blog, The Bold Street Project is well worth a visit as will the exhibition forthcoming at FACT in Liverpool. More poems will be posted on the blog soon.
Visit the Bold Street flickr too.

When the City Speaks: The City is the Stage …

Concept

Artists will become the flaneur - city walkers for the day - using the urban space as a stage and the psycho-geographic setting to create art derived and inspired by it.

Context

To create artefacts of what has been seen, found and experienced and memorised on the day of the walk. The situation will be an impromptu one, so the work made on the day will formed from the urban exploration.

Objective

The focus will be the city as a hybrid culture and the artists are to examine its sub-cultures, such as the graffiti artists, tattoo artists, city icons and whatever is considered as an underground scene and the banal and everyday things that often go unnoticed and more. It will be an exploration of the visual language and symbolism in the city space.
OutcomeThe cultural examinations by each artist will then be represented through a chosen mode of expression and media on sections of paper to convey their experiences. This could be through text, painting, drawing, collage, photography, etc..

Programme

This programme will run in three city, starting with Liverpool (UK) in June 2007 moving to London (UK) and then Paris (France).Liverpool, June 2007.London, July 2007.Paris, August 2007.

If you are interested in participating email Jo Derbyshire at aprilskies1204@aol.com.
For further information on this project go to either:www.joderbyshire.co.uk or www.transvoyeur.co.uk.

Poems

Poems
The following poems were first published in Incite in 2000. I thought it was about time they appeared again.

Comfort and Joy

Wearing Sunflowers
or Tendre Poison
cab it to the Strand
create a stir with
what you wear
and the wake of
essence trailing by
Into The Star watch
the crowds part at
the bar as you weave a magic spell
'half a lager and scotch
and coke please'
take the
corner table and watch
as the noise dies down
Rub your foot onto my
instep as you peek
into your shopping bags
showing me the label
of crisp white cotton knickers
The space left as you
go to powder your nose
fills with the stares of
envious men wearing tracksuits and expensive
catalogue club jewellery
Wearing the tight MozzerT-shirt to bed as the sun
begins to set the bed seems
small as the Sunflowers
turn in and the poison begins
to seep out of my body

Late
The steely early winter
wind stirs up the litter,
as I wait outside Central
Station watching the paper
sellers packing up.
I'm off to the Everyman
and you've agreed to comewith me and still I wait, the
station concourse empty nowand still I wait.

One and a half hours later
you turn up out of breath,
stammering apologies about
looking after your brother's kids, I whisper it's fine and it is.

In the Bistro's Third Room
after the performance, people
are trying to get me to stayout drinking, but I've a last train
to catch and you offer to drive me.
After a few pints of Guinness,we're in your Mum's battered
green 'P' reg Cortina and I'm slowly shaking my head in pure
disbelief that YOU are driving ME.

*
A revelation in jeans shuffling
into the lecture theatre late 'Seen
her?' I whisper to my mate 'Yeah
tasty', if there is such a thing
as being able to be knocked down with a feather, that would've been the time to topple me.

*
Unable to sleep on Toddy's brother's sofa that night, despite
whiskey and Joy Division,the last words I uttered to you that night were 'I'll ring you
tomorrow to check you get home OK'
as the slightest swirls of snow were beginning to fall.


Wordsworth and Bukowski

'Adny, you're tooyoung to really have
suffered', she said.'He's older than he
looks, you know.'I laugh inwardly as
the discussion
turns from, Wordsworth to Bukowski.
'I mean, look
at those teeth. Too
straight and clean
for somebodywho has suffered.'

I can't get away
from the fact that Bukowski says
more to
me than Wordsworth.
'I'm not sayingthat Wordsworth
didn't write anything
good, I'm just saying that Bukowski was alive the same time as me.'
Alan says, 'But Wordsworth wrote some amazing stuff - what about The Prelude?'
Pam agrees and I drink my coffee
and think about the fact that I am
being scrutinised
about my work
and that Wordsworth
and Buk are being
mentioned in the same breath.


Head in the Clouds

Wish for my trousers
to be undone while you
stare casually across the room, fringe sitting coyly
across those eyes.

Cast yourself in the role
of dream giver, come to my way of thinking
as the summer gives way
to autumn.
Travel with me down
the Bold Street of old,
where innocence mixed
with apprehension caused
a cocktail of despair.

Meander over with intent
in your eyes, stop and breathe
with the purpose that you crave.
Draw me deep inside feel the
depth of feeling and embrace it.


No Need To Talk

The lights on the horizon
sparkle like fairy lights.
The tide is drawing nearer
as the night air turns colder.

Here they roll down
towards the tiny hotel
where strangers are
made welcome.

Gathering sticks along the shore as the gulls
swoop low. The promise
of whiskey driving us along.
Thriving on the chance
to explain myself away,
you patiently sit, legs intrademark 501s.

Full circle. Ten years on we sit no need to talk.
It's enough to watchyou through the rising coffee cup steam.

Aranyi(for JS and CG)

Spring is in the air and there's a spring in your step.
Guilt about new found happiness dissipates
as I assure you that it's what I need to hear.

Steaming pots of tea and there's a hush settling over the table.
As you embark on a journey of half-missed chances,
how about it being written in the stars?
The city centre grinds on and there's a definite glow about you, regardless
of the clouds laying heavy with rain.
*
Bask in the new found rays of light, taste the first flush of love and embrace it,
allow it to mask the debris that litters our lives. Find yourselves arm in arm.
Discover calm in the plans that you make, delight in the ordinary,
the cereal packet on the table the toast half-eaten at 7 a.m.
Caress all that is to come, scan the future's vista and floorboard it.


(c) Andrew Taylor 2000

Poetics published at Otoliths.

The excellent Otoliths website has kindly published the poetics from my recent residency at The Loft Space Gallery in Liverpool. Click here.

erbacce # 9

The following poets appear in erbacce # 9. The magazine will be sent to subscribers and contributors upon delivery from the printers. Thank you.

Mario Susko

Sharmagne Leland-St John

Colleen Totz Diamond

alex willie singerman

Linda Benninghoff

Lorette C Luzajic

Harry R Wilkens

Jan Oscar Hansen

Brian Blackwell

Jonathan Kelley

James Murphy

Caitlin Louise

David Callin

Paul Tannin

Adam Fish

MG Egan

Lee Firth

Daniel Adey

Peter Bowen

david mclean

Jennifer Hunt

A.D. Winans

John Thomson

Hannah Inglis

Geraldine Green

George Thurman

Douglas Mowbray

Poem published.

'...as they scatter the birds' has been published at the excellent Silenced Press. Visit their website to view.