Blood at the Chelsea

is almost ready to hit the streets.... edited by Lara Konesky and Andrew Taylor featuring amongst others:
Puma Perl
Jack Henry
Cyndi Dawson
Alan Corkish
Lara Konesky
Scot Young
and
Craig Sernotti.

for sale SOON at www.erbacce-press.com
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erbacce # 20

erbacce # 20 is due in the next week or so, depending on the printer.
Alan has interviewed April Bratten (USA) who is our featured poet.
Also featured in this edition are:
Aleathia Drehmer (USA)
Mark Floyer (UK)
Kate Hinds (UK)
S. Jalal Mousavi (Iran)
Alec Newman (UK)
Anna Nowok (Germany)
and
Felino Soriano (USA)

A great issue I have to say.
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Current reading

Scott Thurston: Of Being Circular (Knives Forks and Spoons Press)
Richard Barrett: The Hard Shoulder (private publication)
Neil Casal: Ryan Adams and the Cardinals A View of Other Windows (Abrams Image)
Phil Taylor: The Black Strat A History of David Gilmour's Black Strat (the black strat.com)

"From Hepworth's Garden Out"

Very pleased to have received two contributor copies of this fantastic Shearsman anthology edited by Rupert Loydell. Other poets include Ursula Hurley, Robert Sheppard, Kelvin Corcoran and John Kinsella. The book is due out on April 15 and can be ordered here.

Manchester

Strange being near home but strangely feeling so far away. I guess that comes from seeing daylight too often...

on tour

places visited so far:
Huddersfield
Bradford
Brighton
Crawley
Southampton
Winnersh
Luton
Hounslow
East Grinstead
Gatwick
Hayes
Nottingham
Leicester
Edinburgh
Glasgow
Dundee
Teesside
Middlesborough

so, sorry for lack of updates

Durable Goods

Pleased as punch to appear alongside William Taylor Jr and Aleathia Drehmer in Durable Goods # 11. Thanks to AD.

erbacce # 19

erbacce # 19 is out. Featured poet is the fantastic Lara Konesky. Other poets in the issue are: Fiona Curran, Gloriane, John A Grochalski, Jack Ohms, Ian C Smith, Esther De Vries and AD Winans.
Single copies £3.50 Four issue subscription £10.00 post paid. See www.erbacce.com for details.

Poems published

Two poems published at the wonderful Journal of Heroin Love Songs. Some great poets there so I'm in excellent company. Link here. Thanks Jack.

Away

Currently away in Sussex

A further test

A cold day yesterday. Took this on the beach. Currently working on poems for a future issue of Durable Goods

Photos

Search Flickr for "New Folder" and "dradny" and photos from the aforementioned walk are posted there.

Cliff, are we set for a walk soon?

January snow

Walked around Liverpool in a flaneurial mode with New Folder on Saturday. It was great being in the city again with Billy. We go back a way to when we both worked at Liverpool Architecture and Design Trust (LADT). We had the pleasure of walking the city then and when we get the chance we meet up and flaneur. Part of these walks were part of my PhD research and ended up in my thesis.
I have to say that the city has changed greatly. We met at Tate Liverpool and I dried out after getting caught in horizontal sleet. We walked along the new waterfront to the Cruise Liner terminal and Princes Dock. We circled back took shelter in Liverpool Parish Church. Yep, rain again. Navigating the business district spotting new (to us) Liver Birds on buildings. For some reason I felt drawn to Mathew Street and no, I'm not really a Beatles fan, but Cavern Walks is a place I've not seen for a while. It was interesting seeing the tourists in action. From Mathew Street we cut through Button Street past the old Probe Records building, now a Ted Baker shop, and onto Whitechapel. Cutting through the School Lane section of Liverpool One shopping area, we paused for tea in the revamped Bluecoat Arts Centre. The city has changed. Mostly for the better...
It was a great day even the weather held.

December Test

Just a test
Skin

Great Works

Pleased to be in the November issue of Great Works a journal I have been an avid reader of for years. In good company here, with appearances from amongst others, Tony Cullen, Cliff Yates and Mike Egan. All good. My poems are here, the site is here. Thanks to Peter.

Robert Sheppard at Source, Ormskirk celebrating the end of a month of celebrations of "Going Public" 10 years of Poetry and Poetics at Edge Hill

Music of 2009

It's been another (suprisingly) good year for music for me, anyway. In no particular order (aside from the first in the list) this is my list of albums/singles/tracks/downloads/whatever of 2009

Jay Z and Bridget Kelly - New York State of Mind (Live on Jools Holland's Later, BBC TV)
Fuck Buttons - Tarot Sport (ATP Recordings album)
A Camp - Colonia (Reveal Records album)
Manic Street Preachers - Journal of Plague Lovers (Sony album)
Tim Friese Greene - 10 Sketches for Piano (LTM Recordings album)
James Blackshaw - The Glass Bead Game (Young God Records album)
Sonic Youth - The Eternal (Matador Records album)
Moby - Wait for Me (Little Idiot album)
Epic 45 - In all the Empty Houses (Make Mine Music EP)
Prefab Sprout - Let's Change the World with Music (Kitchenware album)
The XX - XX (Young Turks album)
The Antlers - Hospice (French Kiss album)
Brett Anderson - Slow Attack (Drowned in Sound album)
Saint Etienne - Sound of Water (Sony/Heavenly Reissue album)
Portal - Options (Make Mine Music EP and free download)
This list is subject to change at this late hour...

Back

in the North West for a few weeks. Time to catch up with mail, submissions for erbacce, Puma Perl's forthcoming erbacce-press full length collection, writing poems, uploading photos of my travels to Flickr , working with talent that is Lara Konesky on the forthcoming erbacce-press chapbook anthology Blood at the Chelsea, resting, going back from the North West to London to see my sister and niece, sleeping, not sneezing, drinking, friends, trying to rescue my old knackered laptop and all the data still on the hard drive, compiling my music of the year list, all the usual stuff that comes with Christmas. Merry Christmas or Happy Holidays to all who read this
Andrew

Review of The Metaphysics of a Vegetarian Supper

Thanks to Lara for the review.

The Metaphysics of a Vegetarian Supper

Pleased to announce that my new e-chapbook has been released by the brilliant Differentia Press. Many many thanks to Felino Soriano for his hard work and sterling editing.
The book is here to download.