Come hither





















YouTube video without moving image (without any image at all if near subliminal flash discounted. How many youtube video blanks are there?). Against hithered black, digital photograph of Walter de la Mare's old house Beckenham/Penge juxtaposed.

Songs Our Teachers Learn Us sequence.

Barricade!

reprinted as chapbook - updated as 'free-to-view' ebook

virtual destroydon (a newer localism)

Friday, November 19, 2010, 08:00

Coulsdon 'in mourning' as Cane Hill hospital is destroyed by fire

By joanna till and ross lidbetter joanna.till@essnmedia.co.uk

... derelict Cane Hill hospital has been virtually destroyed by a blaze that ripped through the site...mystery surrounds the cause of the fire at the former mental asylum, but police are not treating it as suspicious at this stage... extent of the damage was being assessed this week, but the Fire Brigade estimates around 80 per cent of the administration building was damaged...iconic clocktower has been completely destroyed after it crashed through into the roof...

psychogeography of rubble (an older localism)

the new localism

the mouths of poets

Among fans contributing drawings and articles to "The Arbiter" was Sam Stelling. Another fan was novelist MJ Weller who'd written 'The Doomed Boy' - first in a quartet of books featuring quadrophrenic cockney character, Mike Weller.

- Michael John Weller, "(His) Story Of English Superheroes", Slow Fiction: twenty-three tales 2001-2010 (Home'Baked Books, 2010)

return of character (2) to television






'Island of Dreams' from Space Opera, Michael J. Weller, (Visual Associations, 1997)

Cleaves on television

















Beowulf Cartoon, MJ Weller (Writers Forum, 2004)


Cleaves international poetry journal is introducing new poetic psychogeographies - a new map of the Beowulf world. This is not only innovation from Cleaves. Platform developer Harry J. Godwin is using machine coding as instrument for innovatory customized textual projection.

Very different from old-fashioned scrolling or 'free-to-use' automated software templates used on blogs like this. In some ways 'scroll down' and 'off-the-shelf' software for screen reading of poetry counters print-based 'towards design in poetry' innovations of British Poetry Revival generation when transferred to online practice.

Excitement at cleaves three viewing veteran Romanian modernist Nora Iuga (Eleonorei Almosnino) click away from new generation Greek modernist Krystalli Glyniadakis click away from London's Miraculous Continuum. Indeed.

& ragnhildur jóhanns does it better

'& Holly Pester Does It Better' reprinted again October. It's a home'baked book in progress - revising text whilst still learning about work of both new and older modernist female poets, some with gorgeously difficult-to-pronounce names that make utterance like "...& Hjalmar Gullborg (1898-1961) does it better..."

Hjalmar Gullborg was a male Swedish poet who gained entry into text through trojan horse of unfamiliar guttural slur. Who knows what uttered name may appear in further amendments of title simply by sounded intonation, timbre, pitch, key or duration.

Steven Fowler introduces newer European and Scandinavian poets to London performative scene. Jeff Hilson spurred educative quest direction older and splendid Bernadette Mayer. Bernadette Mayer in August text but not original July printing. Smacked hand, Mr Weller.

Veer Books doing hard copy version of 'beat generation ballads' soon - substance of which originally appeared as sandpit play postings here at Mike Weller's egnepping google blogspot.

Veer request one or two back cover puffs. Puffs on recent Veer titles appear to détourne mainstream promotional paperback puffs. They are meant to be subvoicive puffs aren't they?

Don't turn tv on ...

Television coded as television for Google blogcast. Erasure (html strike through) does not always appear in connected blogs, nor red font. There may be difference watching X Factor on Saturday night British ITV1/or ITV Player during following week compared with watching clips from X Factor on youtube inserted as blogcast. One is TV. t'other be television.

Frankie, Marilyn, Wilfred and Yves explain television so much better at old posting here.

eg recent television: -

bit of attitude + poetics of hilson surnamesake from (place is the space Malvern, Worcestershire, UK)



absolutely born to be a pop star...give it up for...

television: is vimeo posher youtube?

Dorothea Lasky from joshuamarie on Vimeo.

television



television makes poems in teenglish come up 2
cheers, Steven!

television vs the future of socialism



Plan reprinting Home'Baked edition S Club 7 versus the Anticapitalists. Very limited 'artists book' cover (left) is not new tho costly to reproduce when first published. Technology ten years on enabled availability cheap chapbook with colour-cover. Can also be rekindled ebook. Title free-to-view.



Exciting new twenty-something poets I've seen and heard last five years were teenagers when S Club first appeared on television. May have considered them Monkee-like UK manufactured group from years of millennial adolescence. There are perhaps newer poet-n-tials (just about to start creative writing uni courses) who may actually have been ardent 7-year-old S Club 7 fans.

In performance S Club 7 vs the Anticapitalists intended two-voicer. Sean Bonney and Jeff Hilson did blinding reading with text Writers Forum workshop back in the day.

If S Club 7 present day appears dated (or worse, heads up for late '90ies nostalgia) - read "s" in S Club as abstract factor "x". As X-factored pop idols of near future led nowheres by unreality television light entertainment during crises of broadcasting late capitalism.

& holly woodlawn does it better

A Misremembered Lyric



Song

& denise levertov (1923-1998) & denise riley
does it better

& Holly Pester Does It Better, Michael J. Weller (Home'Baked Books, 2010)




Each day I take ...

DEEPER GEOGRAPHY OF RUBBLE RECONSTRUCTED

RE-READING BODE 'N' BACK 'CAMBRIDGE GROVE' SIGN



... while the foreground looked pleasantly industrial ...

& gertrude stein (1874-1946) does it better

now available from Home'Baked Books by Michael John Weller ...

Playful name-calling score sounded in process and amendment

Third and final chapbook in performative "feminized" trilogy also comprising visual score Redell Olsen's Sharp Exhalations & companion textual Andrea Brady Poetry Lady

place movement sign

BRIGHTON

Concern of older practitioners that 'pure' poetry and art may be infected by the virus of rogue advertisement or embedded product placement was simply treated by younger practitioners as disregard. Ignore junk-slime pop-ups on MySpace. (The Making of Slow Fiction, Home'Baked Books by Michael John Weller, 2010).

"closure is a fiction"

Great quote on Beckwina's blog Revelation Nation. Met three pressfreepressers - Karen Sandhu, Ryan Ormonde & Becky Cremin at first Café 1001 Openned Table last Saturday, June 5th.

A poster sign for event was required and Press Free Press performance text-scroll was loaned by Karen & Ryan with offer of stretching extended taped paper assemblage whilst I hand-lettered sign with colour felt tips.

Sejal Chad is another member of the ensemble. First poets to remind me of a comic book poet team - just my fiction.

Why did old postering skills return so fast & furious? All I could remember that afternoon was Bob Cobbing telling me phonemes were part of consciousness as his father was a commercial signwriter.

Press Free Press also reveal booked poetry doesn't have to be read on every occasion. Why not hang text over a settee & mould paper into utterance fragmenté.

Fics from the sticks began as Space Opera, became Slow Science Fictions, developed into twenty-three titled Slow Fiction. May end up something else in electronic formats.

Like pre-twittered micro-jackanories cut n' pasted from early myspace fic-blogosphere entry.

Wednesday, March 14, 2007

3World in 4Time
Current mood: bouncy
Category: Writing and Poetry

Gates's 'Cartoon Kid' tag came from drawing graffiti in high-risk locations. The upper blocks of Sinkmoor were covered in colourful and obscene squiggles. Like his father, Gates was the artistic type.

from "Addingcombe Calling Inspector Pannifer" - Slow Science Fictions no.3
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sneering at 1980s nostalgia

... affiliating myself to generation of Jamming & Youth Kick poets as well as cartooning like crazy for Chainsaw punkzine.
(The Making of Slow Fiction, Home'Baked Books by Michael John Weller, 2010).

A black and white edition of Michael's Collected Chainsaw Cartoons was published April 1996 to celebrate 30 years of the ALP (Association of Little Presses) 1966-1996 - printed on cream card and good quality paper by Bob Cobbing's New River Project.

When Charlie Chainsaw, editor of original UK Chainsaw fanzine saw edition he suggested further mix with repros of original zine's colour covers. A colour climax edition was produced.

Close viewing of May 1996 edition reveals colour covers glued to inside b & w pages (reproduction quality lower than original New River Project printing).

Charlie spray-glued finished colour zine together - ruining his lovely bathroom. The definitive 'home' baked' book I believe.

Copies available during Openned Table's summer of Saturday poetry fun at Café One Thousand and One. See Openned Zine#2 here or Openned page here.