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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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June 3, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

Poem: Goodbye Charles Bukowski

some things, like books, are in your life but just for a bit, some books are just like people – goodbye Bukowski, your books were on my shelf for 15 years, they moved with me through several homes – and overnight, I packed the books and took them to a store for anyone else to […]
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March 31, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

Poem: For The Next In Line

It was a weekday but back then they all blurred and I 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). That’s where I found it. Run With The […]
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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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August 2, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Shit That’s Good! Crap Albums I Love # 35 – Charles Bukowski, “Hostage”

Charles Bukowski, Hostage, 1985 the bulls are grand as the side of the sun and although they kill them for the stale crowds, it is the bull that burns the fire, and although there are cowardly bulls as there are cowardly matadors and cowardly men, generally the bull stands pure and dies pure untouched by […]
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July 28, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Noah Van Sciver: The Complete Works of Fante Bukowski

The Complete Works of Fante Bukowski Noah Van Sciver Fantagraphics; 1 edition Noah Van Sciver’s brilliant satire Fante Bukowski is here collected so we have the standalone volumes one, two and three all in one big book to enjoy. Along with some ephemera including visual tributes by other graphic novelist artists.
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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 […]
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June 24, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Poem: On Reading. And Writing.

Reading Charles Bukowski and Stephen King, that was the thing. Those were the guys.  And yet I hardly ever think of them now.  Certainly don’t read them.  It’s not that I hate their words or worlds or works,  I’ve just moved on. That’s what is supposed to happen.  That’s what you’re supposed to do.   I’m looking – without actively looking – for the next thing to   get hooked on, to find and […]
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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 […]
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