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September 17, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

Poem: How To Beat Poetry!

Jack Kerouac’s sonorous voice rotted more brains than just his own. Mine was nearly one. Mine was nearly won. Mine was nearly wondering. Mine was nearly one-dimensionally focussed for a time. Old Jack and Bill and Corso too, the best minds of my generation were destroyed by cell phones, internet rage, intermittent signalling all around […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Corso, Ginsberg, How To Beat Poetry!, Howl, Jack Kerouac, Poem, Poem: How To Beat Poetry!, WIlliam S. Burroughs ·

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July 21, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

Sweetman Podcast: Episode 125 – Russell Self

Welcome to episode 125 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T, Yeastie Boys and La Petite Chocolat. Here I had a chat with Russell Self. He’s a Wellington-based, English-born musician and poet. Russell’s held many jobs, let many more go, he’s been a busker, a troubadour, he recites his own poems and sings covers – he also […]
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December 12, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Stubs: # 216 – Howl, Wellington, 2010

When I was introduced to the poem Howl and the poems in that book and any other things by Allen Ginsberg it blew my mind. Right time. Right place. University – first year, eager, hungry. And this madness, these lines, this attitude, it infected me. And I’ve been a fan of the Beat poets and […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged 2010, Allen Ginsberg, Beat Poet, Film, Film Festival, Howl, James Franco, Movie, Poem, Poems, Poet, Stub, Stubs, Stubs # 216, Stubs: # 216 – Howl, Wellington ·

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June 16, 2013 by Simon Sweetman

JC Brooks & The Uptown Sound: Howl

JC Brooks & The Uptown Sound Howl Bloodshot Records This, the third record from Chicago’s impossibly-clean sounding JC Brooks and the Uptown Sound is another round of catchy pop hooks married up to a soul-lite sound, bounce along fun in the vein of Eli “Paperboy” Reed or Charles Bradley without the growl. But it’s an […]
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