Lonely but confident...(?)

Hair painting n so on

Some other thoughts...

"Canadians nice? How is it possible when we have the same climate as the Russians?"
Do you smoke in packs?

a note from the sales floor

Overheard (or thought) in the sales room...

Q: "How many card details this week?"
A: "Can't you see? Once the diagrams and sketches – the sack is not far off!"

Certificate 18?

Some poems and films by poets with a few poets and Q and A on Tuesday Oct 6th at 6:15 pm at Curzon Renoir Cinema in London.


Including:

More For Less – Sonal Sachdeva

Martin and Alf have been living over the past few years as Freegans, living from the excessive waste generated by people & supermarkets. In a way they have chosen to go against the societal norm of having steady, paid jobs and yet survive well by not participating in the process of earning money and adding to the burden of existing over-consumption in western society, which creates far more throwaway waste than we can handle. Taking this stand leaves them more time to interact with members of the public. They have taken this to the next level by walking around London for 7 days with the strong conviction that by helping and serving people, and not worrying about where their next meal comes from, one truly begins to live.

Director Sonal Sachdeva will be talking about Martin and Alf, her anti-capitalist heroes, after the screening.


La Sonnambula – Marco Sanges and Alberto Bona

The heroes are Hitchcock, Rachmaninov, Bunuel and Dali.
The heroine is Madame de Pompadour.
Bellini's opera is unrelated.


The Man Who Met Himself – Ben Crowe

Ben Crowe left his job, bought a Super8 camera, and made this film, which was nominated for the Palme D’Or at Cannes 2005. A mysterious call, a photograph of a man, and a private detective compelled by the one case that finally got to him. On a stark but brilliant day in London, Austin Petersen takes a job from an anonymous client, a job he knows he should refuse. What happened to Stephen Maker? Did he fake his own death, or do doppelgangers really exist?

Bound – Ben Crowe (World Premiere)

During a train journey through the English countryside a passenger is wrapped in the everyday mystery off remembering: his childhood home, a loving family and the future that awaits. The film is a eulogy of sorts and was inspired by the spaces, shapes, smells, objects, colours, patterns and sounds of “home”: all are fragments of a journey from childhood to adulthood to a vision of old age. The film is a commingling of pasts, presents and futures within a loving family and a changing world. We are always plural and social; our stories already written in part by the mistakes and failures, aspirations and sacrifices of earlier generations. Ben Crowe chose the title to suggest that to be “bound” is not to be “captured”. The film also draws on Gaston Bachelard’s Poetics of Space and Rilke’s “The world is large, but in us it is as deep as the sea.”

Je Suis Ici – Ben Crowe & Preti Taneja

Je Suis Ici is inspired by being on holiday in the south of France and the slight mismatch between expectations and reality. Poet Sophie Mayer wrote a poem in response to the film which she will perform after the screening.

FOLLOWED BY:

Poetry performance from Sophie Mayer.

Sophie Mayer is a writer and educator. She studied and taught English literature and film studies at the universities of Cambridge and Toronto, and taken part in the poetry performance and publication scenes in both of those cities, as well as in London, where she now lives. Her Various Scalpels (Shearsman, 2009) is her first solo collection.

Poetry performance from Luke Heeley.

Luke Heeley won the Eric Gregory Award from Society of Authors in 2002, and has published in a number of magazines and e-zines, including The Wolf Obsessed with Pipework, Boomerang and The Poem (www.thepoem.co.uk). His work has also been included in Anthologies: Reactions 4 (pen&inc press) and Phoenix New Writing (Heaventree Press). His last work is London Trip-Tych, a film poem.

Poetry performance from John Stiles.

John Stiles is the author of the poetry collections, Scouts are Cancelled (Insomniac Press, 2002), and Creamsicle Stick Shivs (Insomniac Press, 2006), as well as the novels, The Insolent Boy (Insomniac Press, 2001) and Taking the Stairs, (Nightwood Editions, 2008). Featured on CBC's 'Q', Much Music, and TVO's 'Imprint', John has also written for The Globe and Mail and The Literary Review of Canada, amongst others. John and his poems are the subject of a documentary film, Scouts are Cancelled .

Q&A with the participating directors and poets.

Two poems from JAMES McKAY

JERUSALEM

The icy river tightens round your balls
in a Grantchester dawn
and ain't England lovely?

There is always tea.
There is always honey.

Daft bitch rolls her shoulders in the lawn
and her tits in the sun
and ain't England lovely?

Daft bitch in question died recently,
not the brightest of animals but she
certainly knew what she liked.

Old drunk friends watch the seagulls
and the sunset over the harbour.
In rooms above newsagents, young lovers
cook meals and are too in love to eat them.
Making haste to leave the forest,
you see the moon through trees,
you think it's the curry house
and ain't England lovely?

Even the rain.

Soft rain of the west, sharp rain of the north,
big fat rain of London BIG FAT FUCKING RAIN
the Superman's heart breaks over Russell Square,
my missing clothes, phone numbers, hair
all grieved for as the street pisses itself
down into the many mouths of the old brick
god of the drains
and ain't England lovely?

Orchard, viaduct, factory, caravan park and lay-by:
it's not all beer and strawberries, you know,
but there's mostly enough of it about.

---

HELIOGABALUS
(from the Latin of Aelius Lampridius)

When entertaining, he gave prizes
written on the spoons: one would say
ten camels or ten flies, another ten pounds of gold
or lead, ten ostriches, ten eggs: a true tombola.
Maximum vulnerability to fate.

Hosting games he showed the same invention:
ten bears for one, ten dormice for another,
ten lettuces, ten pounds of gold;

The fashion for randomness set by him
we still see today.

But he really called performers to the draw, offering
dead dogs for fees, a pound of beef, or a hundred pieces
of gold, a thousand of silver, a hundred of copper;
you get the general idea.

Which things pleased the people so much
they afterwards congratulated themselves
on having such an emperor.

JAMES McKAY started reading poetry out loud 10 years ago in living rooms, pubs and warehouses in Newcastle upon Tyne. Now inhabiting the outer reaches of east London, he performs his own material at poetry nights and festivals across the UK, and also does good business with large scale readings of classic texts (most recently the book of Job) to literary groups and rather different kinds of festivals. FOLLOW ON, the album he released in 2007 with art-rock band The Morris Quinlan Experience continues to make friends and influence people, notably Radio 2's Bob Harris.

http://www.myspace.com/makepoetryhistory
http://www.myspace.com/morrisquinlan

Weirdos, Delinquents and Utter! Nutters

Last night attended I Utter! Weirdness; there were a whole heap of people sitting in chairs at odd angles, through the room. Some were scribbling away at diagrams and some taking pics of the poets and it was a confrontational night, in sneaky glances, 'I've-got-a-better-come-back-scratched-down-in-me-pant-pockets-than-you" kind o way. The highlight for me was Jason King who puts out the Delinquent Magazine. He was on about hairs hairs marching one by one into the back garden then this other feller James Mackay read this 17 century biblical piece which said the world was decendent from ancient Hitites except for the German(e) who are essentially Philistines. I was having a right ol chuckle for no other reason other than everyone was either this or that and it was very convincing even the various potions and ointments which were used at the time to treat gout and so on and met a guy on the 25 bus with my friend Nick from Bethnal Green and the guy looked a little like James Hetfield from Mettalica and the guy said I've only seen them once and I said how was that and he said great the VIP section, I said how did you manage that and he said well I just walked in... which was all right then, wasn't it. Weird, tho.

Relit Award Longlists

2009 ReLit Longlists

POETRY
More to Keep Us Warm, Jacob Scheier (ECW)
The Invisibility Exhibit, Sachiko Murakami (Talon)
What It Feels Like for a Girl, Jennica Harper (Anvil)
Water Strider, Karen Hofmann (Frontenac)
Sentenced to Light, Fred Wah (Talon)
The Delicate Line, Robert Colman (Exile)
Butcher’s Block, Deanna Fong (Pistol Press)
Fear Not, Maurice Mierau (Turnstone)
We Will be Fish, JP King (Pistol Press)
Bush Camp, Marvin Francis (Turnstone)
Augustine in Carthage, Alessandro Porco (ECW)
Troubled, RM Vaughan (Coach House)
The Velocity of Escape, Jim Johnstone (Guernica)
The Sentinel, AF Moritz (Anansi)
The Laundromat Essay, Kyle Buckley (Coach House)
Little Hunger, Philip Kevin Paul (Nightwood)
All our Grandfathers are Ghosts, Pasha Malla (Snare)
Into the Drowned World, Ryan Kamstra (Insomniac)
Dead Cars in Managua, Stuart Ross (DC Books)
Penny Dreadful, Shannon Stewart (Signal)
What Stirs, Margaret Christakos (Coach House)
Noble Gas, Penny Black, David O’Meara (Brick)
Feral Domicile, Boyd Warren Chubbs (Breakwater)
The Sway of Otherwise, David Helwig (Oberon)
You, Gary Hyland (Hagios)
Mongrel Love, Judith Krause (Hagios)
Ragtime for Beginners, Moberley Luger (Killick)
Love of Mirrors, Gary Hyland (Coteau)
Precordial Thump, Zoe Whittall (Exile)
One Crow Sorrow, Lisa Martin-DeMoor (Brindle & Glass)
Night Work, Randall Maggs (Brick)
The North End Poems, Michael Knox (ECW)
The Watchmaker’s Table, Brian Bartlett (Goose Lane)
This is a Small Northern Town, Rosanna Deerchild (The Muses ‘ Company)
Sky Atlas, Alan R. Wilson (Fitzhenry & Whiteside)
Breathe Now, Phlip Arima (BuschekBooks)
The Debaucher, Jason Camlot (Insomniac)
Taking Shape, Edward Carson (Porcupine’s Quill)
The Red Element, Catherine Graham (Insomniac)
Sublingual, Bill Bissett (Talon)
Autopsy of a Turvy World, Sheri-D Wilson (Frontenac)
36 Cornelian Avenue, Christopher Wiseman (Signal)
Living in Gravity, Valerie Stetson (Palimpsest)
Rue the Day, Tanis MacDonald (Turnstone)
Cypress, Barbara Klar (Brick)
Poems that Swim From my Brain Like Rats Leaving a Sinking Ship,
Christian McPherson (Bayeux)



SHORT FICTION

The Withdrawal Method, Pasha Malla (Anansi)
The Cult of Quick Repair, Dede Crane (Coteau)
The Old Familiar, Alix Hawley (Thistledown)
All Things Considered, Patricia A. Stone (Hidden Brook)
The Night is a Mouth, Lisa Foad (Exile)
Evidence, Ian Colford (Porcupine’s Quill)
Mother Superior, Saleema Nawaz (Freehand)
The Slow Fix, Ivan E. Coyote (Arsenal Pulp)
Fly on the Wall, Jason Brink (ECW)
My White Planet, Mark Anthony Jarman (Thomas Allen)
Playing Basra, Edward Brown (Exile)
When I Always Wanted Something, Carole Glasser Langille (Mercury)
Flirt, Lorna Jackson (Biblioasis)
Squishy, Arjun Basu (DC Books)
An Unrehearsed Desire, Lauren B. Davis (Exile)
Elysium, Pamela Stewart (Anvil)
The Butcher of Penetang, Betsy Trumpener (Caitlin)
Once, Rebecca Rosenblum (Biblioasis)
In the Quiet After Slaughter, Don McLellan (Libros Libertad)
The Sherpa, Nila Gupta (Sumach)



NOVEL

The Order of Good Cheer, Bill Gaston (Anansi)
1892, Paul Butler (Pennywell)
The Darren Effect, Libby Creelman (Goose Lane)
Ordinary Lives, Josef Skvorecky (Key Porter)
More, Austin Clarke (Thomas Allen)
Here After, Sean Costello (Your Scrivener Press)
Seaweed on the Rocks, Stanley Evans (Touchwood)
Angels of Maradona, Glen Carter (Breakwater)
Operation Rimbaud, Jacques Godbout (Cormorant)
Chef, Jaspreet Singh (Esplanade)
Quintet, Douglas Arthur Brown (Key Porter)
A Week of This, Nathan Whitlock (ECW)
The Year of Numbers, Paulina Wyrzykowski (Seraphim)
The Mountain Clinic, Harold Hoefle (Oberon)
Blasted, Kate Story (Killick)
The Frog Lake Massacre, Bill Gallaher (Touchwood)
The Bewilderments of Bernard Willis, Aaron Peck (Pedlar)
Skin Room, Sara Tilley (Pedlar)
Chase & Haven, Michael Blouin (Coach House)
Charlie Muskrat, Harold Johnson (Thistledown)
Shuck, Daniel Allen Cox (Arsenal Pulp)
Sailor Girl, Sheree-Lee Olson (Porcupine’s Quill)
The Reverend’s Apprentice, David N. Odhiambo (Arsenal Pulp)
Cockroach, Rawi Hage (Anansi)
The Seary Line, Nicole Lundrigan (Breakwater)
Stunt, Claudia Dey (Coach House)
Niceman Cometh, David Carpenter (Porcupine’s Quill)
Good to a Fault, Marina Endicott (Freehand)
Anna’s Shadow, David Manicom (Esplanade)
The Red Dress, Paul Nicholas Mason (Turnstone)
The Steve Machine, Mike Hoolboom (Coach House)
A Slice of Voice at the Edge of Hearing, Brian Dedora (Mercury)
Cleavage, Theanna Bischoff (NeWest)
In the Garden of Men, John Kupferschmidt (3-Day Books)
Girls Fall Down, Maggie Helwig (Coach House)
Scrapbook of My Years as a Zealot, Nicole Markotic (Arsenal Pulp)
The Frankenstein Murders, Kathlyn Bradshaw (Cormorant)
The Entropy of Aaron Rosclatt, James Sandham (Clark-Nova)
Taking the Stairs, John Stiles (Nightwood)
Eva’s Threepenny Theatre, Andrew Steinmetz (Gaspereau)
The Show that Smells, Derek McCormack (ECW)
Entitlement, Jonathan Bennett (ECW)

BC Logger/Runner - hope he wins in Berlin.

Canadian Gary Reed. Fastest in 800 heats?

Track and Field Videos on Flotrack

Trespass Launch(es)

Trespass Magazine celebrates the launch of the 'Americana' issue by travelling North to share the love in Leeds this month, and then caps off the festivities in London with gay cabaret, performance art, brilliant poetry, short fiction and...a Michael Jackson sing-along. It really doesn't get much better than this—it really is It.

Details below:
August 26
Venue: The Enterprise, 2 Haverstock Hill, Camden, London, NW3 2BL
Time: 8:30pm-10:00pm

Featuring:
Music from Peter Scott-Presland and Romy Northover performing alongside Kiera Fox as part of ‘Constantinoplex’. Join us as the This Is It II band (for one night only!)

We also have a vast array of literary talent including:
John Stiles, Sabrina Mahfouz, Heather Taylor, Henrietta Cullinan, Stephanie Petrik, Agnes Meadows, Jacqui Saphra, Anna McKerrow and more!

IN LEEDS:
Trespass Magazine launch of ‘Americana’ issue in Leeds
Venue: Borders Books, 94-96 Briggate, LEEDS, LS1 6NP
Date: 20 August
Time: 6:00pm-7:45pm

With music from The Refined.
Featuring: Anne Caldwell, Emma Decent, Thomas Siddle, Gary Graham, Imogen Featherstone, Gaia Holmes, Lucy Williamson and Gisella Hoyle

A smorgasbord of treats for those of you who were thinking August was turning out to be a hopelessly drear month, and for those of you on holiday, what a reason to come back early!

If you'd like to get hold of a copy of the magazine email our distributor on unkempt44@yahoo.com or buy it online from Inpress Books:http://inpressbooks.co.uk/magazines_listing.aspx?id=459

Best regards,
Sara-Mae Tuson
Editor
Trespass

words, phrases

Researching for the Italian version of Lexulous?

How are you doing at this fine game anyway?

They should do a valley version for those who aren't "Knocked out, loaded." er "pissed to the gills." er "three sheets to the wind."

Or fer those who "can't work today – the winds gone the wrong way."

Last bit from Dan Soucoup's The Nova Scotia Phrase Book.

Middle Aged?

Hey man...

They been calling me middle-aged since I was in my thirties so this piece in the local London Press about the reading in Leytonstone Library is innerestin' but truth is Taking the Stairs was mostly written when I was just into my thirties, a young man.

However...

I was in a Park in Islington trying to get away from a lady at the college who is going through a divorce and asking me what I did during my lunch hours? I've had a few close escapes in my time but I have a top three list of responses to questions you'd rather not answer:

1. "Never a dull moment," is a good one to come back with or

2. "It's all happening."

3. Also "Back in two minutes."

On the subject of middle age, when I was in Toronto in 1998 I met an older lady at the Imperial Library Pub at an event and she said she just had a tiff with her boyfriend. "What did you fight about?" I asked. "Oh the teenage stuff," she said, "How do I look, do I look fat in this, do you still love me?"

So middle age is really closer to teenage in my estimation....

I ask you this... then.

Does a middle-aged man appear just as startled as a teenager when the same woman announces: "Tomorrow, I'm working a full shift – you'll have me all to yourself?"