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June 7, 2022 by Simon Sweetman

Poem: Choose The Fire You Can Put Out

old Charles reckoned what mattered most was how well you walked through the fire – but I now disagree; I can see what he was saying, sure, weather the storms you must. And there’s such dignity in getting by, you make it through with your head as high as you are able to hold it […]
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March 10, 2022 by Simon Sweetman

For Giving Bukowski: Discovering Charles Bukowski and Letting Him Go

It was a weekday as I recall, but back then they all blurred. And I only went downtown because that was easier than going up the hill, and I went into the bookstore that I’d just discovered, because it was one of the greatest things on earth. (And it still is). Bookstores in general, but […]
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July 1, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

Poem: Where I Should Leave This.

I’ll always remember Bukowski, his crassness so funny for a time. But even when that was part of the thing, it was ultimately his way with a line – the way, out of almost nowhere, he could melt your heart, by showing he even had one. Nowadays, he’s deeply unfashionable. (Perhaps even more so than […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Books, Bukowski, Charles Bukowski, Poem, Poem: Where I Should Leave This., Poetry, Where I Should Leave This. ·

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December 28, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Books That Blew My Mind # 2: “Run With The Hunted” by Charles Bukowski

Run With The Hunted: A Charles Bukowski Reader by Charles Bukowski I couldn’t really write about Charles Bukowski for my Authors I Admire series because there’s not a lot to admire – beyond the fact that as a writer, not as a human being, he did the time behind the typewriter. But I can rave […]
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August 16, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Charles Bukowski: On Drinking

On Drinking Charles Bukowski Ecco Charles Bukowski would have been 100 if he was still alive today – and of course making it to his 70s was, for him, the equivalent of living to nearly 200. He was all but dead in his 20s. And 30s. And 50s. And drinking was his thing. The hard […]
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December 27, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Poem: The Best Teachers

The thing I loved the most about discovering Charles Bukowski’s poems was the way the words would stretch down the page on their way towards their journey and carrying, always, their purpose – but he was just a guy, a writer, documenting his day, his life, his ways… And I took it. And held it […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Buk, Bukowski, Charles Bukowski, Chuck, Hank, Henry Chinaski, Poem, The Best Teachers ·

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March 14, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 424

Tom Waits, The Heart of Saturday Night (1974) I come and go with Tom Waits but in some ways this is my favourite albums of his, the most special to me might be the better way to put it. I discovered it as a CD – and it needed to be that way. You see […]
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November 8, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

A Word From The Wise: His Name is Bukowski

Bukowski’s poems, novels, short stories, travel accounts, journals, screenplays, letters an columns used to fill a shelf in my room. I collected them for as long as Bukowski has been dead – scarily that’s now over 20 years. And recently I moved most of them on, time to let them live somewhere else. Let someone […]
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August 28, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

The Ghost of Electricity: War Stories by Jon McLeary # 126 Post Office

In early 1984 the band was on hold. I’d recorded Act Your Age in Auckland almost as a solo album and I had two children on the way – I needed to get a job. Michelle and I were living in the big warehouse on Wakefield Street and I had been doing a bit of […]
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January 21, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

Poem: Proof-Reading

It’s getting easier to write without Buk’s books staring down from the shelf, he thought (but couldn’t prove).
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Buk, Bukowski, Charles Bukowski, Poem, Poem: Proof-Reading, Poems, Poetry, Proof-Reading ·

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September 13, 2013 by Simon Sweetman

Poem: Mirroring

some days it seems like nothing goes right. you put on your favourite album – it’s scratched beyond belief: it won’t play. you pick your favourite line – designed to sound like Bukowski: some days it seems like there’s a rock in every snowball. you put your next favourite album on – it plays! it […]
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