IN MY DREAMS I SEE VOLCANOES
Really enjoyed this collaborative dancefilmpoem commissioned by The Barbican last month. More info, including an interview with director Lexi Kiddo, here.
The Cold Tap Sings
the p-word
Tag: Film
November 18, 2016
NO IDEAS BUT IN THINGS
RESTRICTED: SOME LANGUAGE
December 5, 2013
TOP 5 BREAK-UP POEMS
Top 5 Break-up Poems
Last night I watched
High Fidelity again
and the lead bloke
is still a prize knob
but anyhow here’s
a list of my top five
break-up poems :
1. ‘I can write the saddest verses’ by Pablo Neruda
2. ‘Stag’s Leap’ by Sharon Olds
3. ‘Epiphany’ by Ted Hughes
4. ‘Sleeping Keys’ by Jean Sprackland
5. ‘One Art’ by Elizabeth Bishop
August 12, 2013
BULLY FOR THEM
Nobody should experience anything they don’t need to, if they don’t need poetry bully for them. I like the movies too. And after all, only Whitman and Crane and Williams, of the American poets, are better than the movies.
Frank O’Hara, ‘Personism: A Manifesto’, in Selected Poems (Carcanet)
July 13, 2013
REALLY WANTED TO GET A LITTLE TIGER
TONY
You are without a doubt the biggest, most pretentious bullshit thrower I know. Like to see what kind of business you’d do.CHARLIE
Look who’s talking. ‘Pretentious bullshit’. Who’s the guy with William Blake and the tigers, eh?
from Mean Streets (1973)
