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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 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 […]