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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]