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January 22, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Ali Whitelock: and my heart crumples like a coke can
and my heart crumples like a coke can Ali Whitelock Wakefield Press I finished reading Ali Whitelock’s poetry volume the day I heard of Mary Oliver’s passing. I had been savouring the pages of “coke can”, taking my time, reading no more than four poems in a sitting; deep stories, they require a lot of you (in the best possible way), they sit with […]Archive
July 6, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
Noah Van Sciver: Fante Bukowski Two
Fante Bukowski Two Noah Van Sciver Fantagraphics; 1 edition I was a huge fan of Noah Van Sciver’s first iteration of Fante Bukowski; so much so I swiftly studied up on some of his other comics – but I loved this despicable character of Fante Bukowski, a self-appointed literary hero; self-assured but also clueless – […]Archive
April 5, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
On: William Carlos Williams, American Poetics, Modern Art’s Influence And Poetry Existing In A Person’s Lifetime
“nobody can save you but yourself” – Charles Bukowski William Carlos Williams was born in the late 19th Century (September 17, 1883) and died in the midst of rock’n’roll revolution and post-modernist art in the middle of the 20th Century (March 4, 1963). A doctor, majoring in pediatrics and obstetrics, Williams kept his twin medical […]Archive
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 […]Archive
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 […]Archive
June 4, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
Noah Van Sciver: Fante Bukowski
Fante Bukowski Noah Van Sciver Fantagraphics; 1 edition Noah Van Sciver’s graphic novella about a talentless/struggling writer is brutal in its satire – take for example this scene where at a reading given by Dave Eggers a trio of desperate and hopeful writers gather, one says “I brought my new story. I’m gonna give it […]Archive
January 30, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
Charles Bukowski: On Cats
On Cats Charles Bukowski Ecco I recently sold all of my Bukowski books – well, the way second-hand dealers work it’s fairer to say I gave them away…but that’s cool, I wasn’t out to make a big score, I just wanted to move them on; liked the idea of letting them have a turn on […]Archive
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).Archive
August 30, 2015 by Simon Sweetman
Charles Bukowski: On Writing
On Writing Charles Bukowski Ecco; 1st Edition edition Back a couple of decades ago I devoured almost anything and nearly everything with the Bukowski name attached, film adaptations, spoken-word CDs, tributes, and the words: novels, short stories, screenplays, travel vignettes, diary entries, columns and the poems, mostly the poems – some of the printed correspondence […]Archive
August 23, 2015 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 833
Tom Waits, Closing Time (1973) This one is always the way back in for me. I give up on Tom Waits for years at a time now, well months and months…and then I find my way back. And this album is the first step. It was of course his first step, but not the first […]Archive
June 10, 2015 by Simon Sweetman