Jayne Fenton Keane Reviews Brook Emery

Posted on January 22, 2004 by Jayne Fenton Keane

MisplacedHeart.jpgMisplaced Heart by Brook Emery
Five Islands Press, 2003

Misplaced Heart showcases Emery's diverse, lyrical voice in a collection that is capable of satisfying a range of tastes. Emery's documentation of familiar, often ordinary scenes, places and circumstances, and his pleasure in a style that fluctuates between the lyrical and the colloquial, is a well recognised feature of his writing. An enjoyable feature of his work is its edginess and unswerving commitment to honest emotional representation … Continue reading →

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Klare Lanson Interviews Ben Stebbing

Posted on January 20, 2004 by Klare Lanson

Press send now: Manchester-based the-phone-book.com publishes micro-writing of 150 words or less to the Internet and mobile phones. Klare Lanson talks to co-editor Ben Stebbing about all things short, or micro.

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Brentley Frazer Reviews Justin Lowe

Posted on January 13, 2004 by Brentley Frazer

trylaughter.gifTry Laughter by Justin Lowe
DeadPan Press, 2000

'When reading Justin Lowe, I keep looking over my shoulder, even on the bus, not as though I am being watched, more as if I expect to see someone who looks like a master philosopher from the middle ages who has traveled through time to observe us, here and now, taking down notes.'
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Are You Searching For Me?

Posted on January 13, 2004 by Adam Ford

I play about with rule-generated writing every once in a while, trying to find something within the genre that resonates with me. I'm fascinated by what's on offer. Jeff Noon's Cobralingus, for example, a “machine” for taking two disparate texts and cross-breeding them, then seeding them with further ideas in order to generate prose and poetry, is quite mesmerising. Early last year I used it to combine a section of text taken from a dinosaur book with the track-listing from Frank Zappa's Strictly Commercial and ended up with a prose-poem called “The Third Fruit is a Bird” that I'm really happy with.
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Serpentine; my breath

Posted on January 1, 2004 by Chris Mansell

SALON Departments: 5-Minute Mystery 3/1/45

The Picnic By The …

Swans on the …; Mallard Duck at morn; He never came

a wink too soon Nor bought too long a day; But now, I

often wish the night Had borne … …

The black car which transports Freddie and the group

rides off from the …

Into his study found him seated at his desk studying a

fragment of rare … “That's about it.” “That's about

nothing,” I mumbled under … …

I hold … … to stop my damn bosom, and a stale

tingling slowly builds up, gray emanating from this

strong, angular, pale face –

… Screams. The tepid swamp water closes over my head

and I try desperately to – Hughnah!!

… repose. Baptized In burning waters, So hot I fear

my … ; Yet hopeless to erase, Nor replace, Your

incandescent touch

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Pauline Hanson

Posted on January 1, 2004 by Ivy Alvarez

Pauline Hanson is science fiction
Pauline Hanson is correct

Pauline Hanson is science fiction by Ian Woolf
Pauline Hanson is wrong
Pauline Hanson is a warning that the betrayals
by the old organisations of the working class
Pauline Hanson is a borderline racist and bigot

Pauline Hanson is a woman who heads
Pauline Hanson is having it off with various unnamed persons
Pauline Hanson is the lightning rod of voter discontent

Pauline Hanson is reviled and abused as racist
Pauline Hanson is urging voters
Pauline Hanson is back

Pauline Hanson is a very scary person
Pauline Hanson is one violent nugget
Pauline Hanson is gone

Pauline Hanson is a flathead — site quite
obviously speaks for itself
Pauline Hanson is indeed beginning to fall
Pauline Hanson is also vehemently against migration
Pauline Hanson is a tool of the Jews

Pauline Hanson is inciting racial tension in Australia
Pauline Hanson is not aware of the Ettridge edict
Pauline Hanson is something of a celebrity

Pauline Hanson is our mother/sister/daughter/cousin
Pauline Hanson is a former fish
Pauline Hanson is not near that point

Pauline Hanson is a mean
Pauline Hanson is out of excuses

Pauline Hanson is a media construct
Pauline Hanson is not celebrating
Pauline Hanson is on her way back to power

Pauline Hanson is now known world wide for her
racist beliefs which she is trying to drum
into the heads of all Australians
Pauline Hanson is an unprepossessing individual
Pauline Hanson is the only politician showing
any interest in justice
Pauline Hanson is a bigot

Pauline Hanson is 'the mother of the nation'?
I'll sue her for child abuse
Pauline Hanson is known as the 'fish and chips lady''
Pauline Hanson is making a comeback

Pauline Hanson is an example
Pauline Hanson is not dividing Australia
Pauline Hanson rose from political obscurity wearing her bikini
Pauline Hanson is better known for her rabid anti

Pauline Hanson is igniting racism in Australia
Pauline Hanson is an independent MP who holds
the Federal seat of Oxley here in south east Queensland
Pauline Hanson is finished as a political force

Pauline Hanson is an example of a 'feeding frenzy'
Pauline Hanson is dumb/smart because
Pauline Hanson is ridiculed in the press and
by some intellectuals as 'the oxleymoron''
Pauline Hanson is clear

Pauline Hanson is a man's woman
Pauline Hanson is the most controversial
politician in Australia
Pauline Hanson is the voice of 'mainstream' Australia

Pauline Hanson is a traitor
Pauline Hanson is a racist
Pauline Hanson is now centre
Pauline Hanson is speaking on the same day
Pauline Hanson is an Australian racist
Pauline Hanson is their messenger

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A nice slice of shredder

Posted on January 1, 2004 by Chris Mansell

Helen, publishing a number of reporters,
saw her dream turned into reality
a page at a time.

At once
her castigation of the huge-budget
was described as
a 'most-vivid film experience'.
At the same time asking film critic cabinet minister
intellectuals about the rights or wrongs
of free speech
was like asking the Boston strangler.

In the next month of national publicity,
one of the subsequent military strong opinions
featured women in neck massage.

At the copyright notice
the movie critic's job died suddenly and
Mutability which came from a poem by
York station, caught the eye of
Commons Wilder who commented that
ecological pollution, the
performance art, photocopies
Contemporary Art in 1986.

An outspoken opponent
defected to television,
parliament and fashion.
The html version of this
banned her from its screenings

and another of Helen's works,
Viral Queene Of Mutability,
won a substantial majority
proudly powered by subscribe me.

Today, a gallery with the smell of
talk about Helen's own body
with viral semi-retirement
of desires and pleasures,
proposed a law prohibiting sale.

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Modest Lessons on Continuo

Posted on January 1, 2004 by Sheila Murphy

1. Tinker with a few scales to anticipate pickpocket intervals

2. Seat yourself beside surmised flavors of continuo

3. Use vibrato sparingly (one finger or two)

4. Linger near the upper registers intended to give life

5. Inflict intended inequality just sparingly and for variety

6. Recall that you are offering a mere accompaniment

7. Plucking is a sentence given in small pieces

8. Arouse emotions via dissonance later to be lowered into consonance

9. Contribute to the rumored taste of each surge in momentum

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The Way to Intimacy Is to Throw Open the Doors of Your Vulnerability

Posted on January 1, 2004 by Claire Gaskin

Summers in slavery

I like to throw a curve at people.

Do not assume you both want the same degree of intimacy.

Two way glass.

Followed by a period of apology.

I have a perspective on the proposed space.

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Time and Time again I Wander

Posted on January 1, 2004 by Kelly Pilgrim-Byrne

Space medium, a person may wander
the dead faces carved into stone.

It's a phrase repeated.

We were condemned to wander
in the wilderness for forty years.

The portal into the sunlit world
is drawn back through narrow
streets of whitewashed walls.

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seven times seven

Posted on January 1, 2004 by Heather Matthew

angels are sealed by God

since things sealed up are concealed
that which casts a shadow
is distinguished from the shadow itself

angels are marked by the impress of God

enshrouded, shortened like time
drawn together into a brief compass
to navigate through the shallows and sandbanks of Syrtis.

angels are heavenly bodies

placed beyond doubt in order to prove testimony
the bodies of plants and of stars
confirm their mystical society

angels provide security from Satan

since things sealed up are concealed
they keep in silence their heavenly secret
bodies both of men and of animals

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Multim in Parvo

Posted on January 1, 2004 by Dana Pattillo

This mower was designed to mow between gravestones.
Or mark out tennis courts.
With little, much.

Zephyr maims electric dream organs.
Three monadic organs.
Art-Noveau organ.

Neanderthals all along.
Acolytes wading river.
Dogs hooking up.

Invasion of the short fiction acolytes.
Fuzzy logic hooking up mayhem
to Triangle Fraternity's event horizon.

Not even any good puns for this one.
What does mip in mip mapping mean?
The Latin rhetorical term.

Multim in parvo mapping is a texturing technique
used to improve the visual quality.
A lot of dog in a small space.

Ignores shape change of inverse pixel.
But allows size to vary.
A lot of dog in a little dog.

The organ was designed within the framework.
Essentially it was a heeling dog.
Simple bilinear interpolation from neighbors.

Pre-compute an image pryamid
texture mapping a sample program
specifying the texture texture.

Other colored liquid may be used
condensed into a small compass of phrase and fable
like the regular Multim in Parvo.

Nice wrinkle, lovely head, nice eye
and a cheeky little thing in the bargain.
Out of small beginnings come great things.

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Steve Waugh and His Current Insignificance when at the Crease

Posted on January 1, 2004 by Nick Whittock

steve waugh is a strange sport
where manoeuvres barely visible

is crooked and ask if they think
steve of matchfixing

if mark waugh can be bought
the game

and its most visible gorillamama.

cricket was one of them.

steve waugh oil
and several slicks were visible

no longer their no nonsense guide
forgets the

its mysterious
disappearance

and steve waughs no longer
are the west indians

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DJ Huppatz: My thoughts on Google poetry

Posted on January 1, 2004 by Cordite Poetry Review

John Cage came to me as an obvious start so I initially plugged in the
words “Portrait of John Cage” only to find dick higgins has already written
a piece called “jog he can” so instead I tried “Portrait for Cage” & came
up with some nice bits & pieces. Then I tried “self portrait”, “happiness”
and “diary”. My problem with Google as a machine for writing is that it
works far too well at what it's supposed to do which is take you to sites
directly related to your search words. It's not random enough for my liking
& doesn't think sideways (I guess you're supposed to do this yourself).
A metonymic search engine? The other problem I had is with the internet as
source material: there's just so much boring informational text out there
to wade through or thoroughly cut up to make it interesting (& so much
English, especially American English). These days it's become one giant
shopping mall. Not that shopping malls don't make interesting source
material but gee you have to be in the right frame of mind. For me the most
interesting sites were those found under “diary” where ordinary folks put
their thoughts online & gems appear more frequently like the one above, so
good I just had to shoplift it.

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Portrait: For Cage

Posted on January 1, 2004 by DJ Huppatz

Pour faire le portrait d'un oiseau / Peindre d'abord une cage
Avec une porte ouverte / back to the main page
galleries resources whatever the cosmos music
texture enhancements and rendering.
Some of my interests:
food plays an important part in my life &
collecting mushrooms — collecting mushrooms,
dark Cage — 1970? in radio studio.
He doesn't seem to know about the portrait,
I sit directly over it whenever he comes in.

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Diary

Posted on January 1, 2004 by DJ Huppatz

Friday, November 1, 2002

Tonight I went out to dinner with some friends to a place in the West
Village and saw Monica Lewinsky. She sat next to us and seemed like a
really nice girl. I don't have lots of money, so I ordered a salad. Monica
had a burger and fries. At the end of dinner, Monica and her friend were
given cupcakes by the owner, and we wanted some cupcakes really badly too.
So my friend leaned over and started gabbing with Monica and her friend,
and they gave us a cupcake. We all shared it. So tonight I scored 1/4 of a
cupcake from Monica Lewinsky and her friend.

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Self-portrait

Posted on January 1, 2004 by DJ Huppatz

self-portrait, nude, in the box store.

self-portrait, wet, in mouth of whale,

with fish. Public toilet. Video rental store. … 8:00pm

This was at the arcades, some shooting game

with pretty helpful engrish on the side:

At dinner, everyone needs a melody straw.

Greg's wonderful laugh at the end of the book.

View items in shopping cart, I bet you

come across some scary, nasty rooms.

What's the worst you've seen?

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Hybrid Heaven

Posted on January 1, 2004 by Adam Aitken

Two-way MMDS: Today and Tomorrow

(HEV) Program. Search. What is an HEV HEV
Components Frequently

2000 HYBRID Comments?

swap kits, customization and modification of the

model.

It's not just a concept.

Graphical tutorial explains the workings

with low prices and reasonable airmail costs

ambient sounds with occasional crossings

Hybrid… the new breed

Hybrid is divided

into two different departments, Programming
and Advertising Graphics.

Directory for the creative/performance world.

Fansite of the trance duo.

Welcome ! Hybrid Children

is the ultimate rock group that hail from
Helsinki, Finland.

What's New, Wasp

… They Are… HYBRID MUTANTS.

an environmentally conscious, fuel-efficient,
hybrid

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C, Kitchener ON, Canada N2K 3S2

Hybrid Vigor Institute

… The Hybrid Vigor Institute is dedicated
to stimulating unconventional

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unexpected discoveries

Hybrid Skateboards

interoperable hybrid networks

Reptilian anthropomorphic CG artwork and
stories.

Hybrid Poplar

Hybrid poplar trees and cuttings. … Hybrid
poplars are deciduous trees that

grow in

zones 2 through 10 – This includes the entire
continental United States.

hybrid medical animation

Hybrid Elephant Incense

Hybrid Elephant Incense. Incense, Oils &
Fragrances. … Please note: Hybrid

Elephant is unable to accept credit card
orders at this time.

Real Cross-breed Animals

The animals in this collection really do
exist. The development of these

animals was by either human intervention or a
freak of nature.

Puppet Master – Look. I am connected to a
vast network, of which I myself am a

part.

To one like you, who cannot access it, you
may perceive it only as light.

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Monotreme

Posted on January 1, 2004 by Will Day

Monotreme More Shallows,…
(Similar pages)

… Rough

positions (dist, distal; mid, medial. …
bumpy skin and a thick, long snout
Rough

Instead of scales,
I have small tooth-like denticles
Supreme Monotreme.

Rough

is a monotreme related to … terrier
the now extinct broken-hair, or rough-coated, terrier …
granulomatous,

              greyish

                           granulating …
– (Similar pages)

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where real fun begins or a googled xmas

Posted on January 1, 2004 by Peter Horn

Xmas Fun is dedicated to the child in all of us.

The Return of Anti-Christmas Satan Claus
increases spam by 650 percent
Santa on sled
Santa In and Out,
Santa Listening
a contact Santa page
Email Santa a
Pre-lit Artificial Chrismas Tree
or The Singing Christmas Tree
and the Song Nut case
which reconnects carols with dancing
Christmas Music for la femme active

The 2002 Patriotic Chrismas Holiday
[Nightmare Before Xmas]
Christmas Seals Fight Big Tobacco,
Bad Air and the Asthma Epidemic
Koala Christmas Decorations
CHERISHED TEDDIES
CHRISTMAS FIGURINES [Pokemon]
FUNKY TREES FOR A COOL YULE
Adopt a Tree: The Christmas Trees
will be back again next year!!

We have all the Favorite recipes
for your Welsh Terrier Xmas:
Starters. Freshly Prepared Soup of the Day.
Crispy Sesame Chicken Fillets,
Cucumber and Chilli Salad.
Tomato, Mozzarella and Avocado Salad
A Very Veggie Chrismas

For a lighter view of the holidays
entertain the idea of a xmas boycott:
use Xmas Dingbats against
the compulsory Christmas giftgiving madness
and the Nightmare Before
Christmas Lunchbox
Let's have a Consumer Holiday

Christmas Eve Superstitions
Sinking Trees And Rolling Eggs:
Sammy, the Christmas Snake
Jolly Holly, An Elf Named
Freddie Eddie, the Elk

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liqueur cakes and puddings
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delivered by HB-X04 Reindeer
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smoke-infested… playing at the Bijou

Posted on January 1, 2004 by Jen Crawford

1

butcher boy used to hold daily
The Loop is a clamorous, smoke
the absurd fingers until she winced
had been Terry Sheehan) watched her
He was occupied with his eggs

in the loneliness of her daily
black bread, boiled cabbage, bacon, eggs
his agony until the fellow winced
the holy angels took her
of the cock or the clamorous

tenants send them a little meal and eggs
hen with one chicken, he is the clamorous
Her birthday!” sighed Rose.
gold pieces were a perpetual temptation: a daily

Babe they found a foster-nurse, Princess Mah?’Ćpraj?’Ćpati – her
years Would fall on all the worlds by daily
his wrist he pressed The arrow's barb, and winced to

by the whirlwind, pounding out with clamorous
Worst of all, the Guilfogle family eggs
She was noisily somnolent; her stays
both could and would become daily a

and the butcher boy used to hold daily
this brief explanation: The Loop is a clamorous
She knew she'd want to do her
crushed the absurd fingers until she winced

 
 

2

then no would up her
dense degree deal darkness daily
electronic elect elbows elapse eggs
sash winding windage winced
clapped clandestinely clamping clamorous

yew grit ca hark drag eggs
learned horse devices daughter clamorous
flow nor blue warn her
sorer owner notable mystery daily
diary striped sauce rapture winced

Her trembling hands betray her anxiety.
chore daily domestic task (such
clamorous.2 clandestine secret ~ chaperon older
coddled eggs. ” codicil supplement to

She would take out her Page 7.
Jaybird heard a low growl followed quickly
by a clamorous racket of yowls, yips, growls, and barks

of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, for any
purpose,
and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the

butcher boy used to hold daily
The Loop is a clamorous
the absurd fingers until she winced
had been Terry Sheehan) watched her
was occupied with his eggs

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Season for Stubbies

Posted on January 1, 2004 by Paul Mitchell

the stubby canadian cousins yet another cliché that seems to be really true
large black shiny stubby pterodactyl-like creatures

bill was relieved the afterburner was caged in a stubby housing
at a slower switch-off characteristic

steve opened his jacket slightly and let bill catch a glimpse
of the wakizashi's stubby handle

the flourish and sweep as best they could but their stubby arms
under the quilting bee reminded them of what the season was

steve and bill agreed that scene tom cruise was in rang true
villain of the film    a short, stubby goateed man

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Morning Rattles the Clouds

Posted on January 1, 2004 by Jill Jones

Morning sun online
helpless against
                    swept across news
waked to sultry trade

Whenever I fly easy
          wings
rattle shame, well –
got me, baby, up against the fence
(way you do/ shame on you)

Construction elbows shadow scaffolding
halfway up, into
information –
Jesus among the clouds
several versions since the 1970s
Believed!

Songs
       creation machines
           – readable

Boss loony/ dot aspirations/      blow!
all but ready to lie
in the corner
                     (Too bad …)

Advertise Gay4Pay
read the corner
so the right buttock will be
keeping the score

From front page morning
a sliding puzzle
              (page 3
                         for the light)

People look up (maybe???)
4.sex+the+civil+war

My dragon statue
tacks the corner this morning

 

Note: This poem was the result of a search using an ixQuick metasearch. It was written for Search Poems but did not end up being used. It has been tweaked slightly in the meantime and this is its first publication.

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Morning/Rattles/Clouds

Posted on January 1, 2004 by Jill Jones

Arctic patrol 1942

 
 

1. Shore leave

In the ignored morning
spent early firing guns
turning my ears inside out

got cleaned up
caught the truck and train
visited my good friend Fox
in the Basement Bar

 

2. A visit

impossible to drag men from under
steep rising gangplank
ladies descend

with difficulty two Jeeps plow
scent of perfume, cosmetics
a cloud of mosquitos
peek-a-boo lace – a riot!

dozens of prospects
among a sea of grinning
base morale rises in minutes

 

3. At sea

a trustworthy diesel rattles bowels
a magician machinist
and the black gang crew
squeeze eleven knots from the monster

full throttle, Madam throbs in tempo
engine pounding bowels
way beyond imagination

 

4. Final news

crippled or
holed-up in some remote fjord
engine problems

complete many small chores
then the fear is official
capsized under heavy ice
skipper never sailed as far north

lost forever
believe this to be true
death by drowning

 
 

Note: This poem was the result of a search on SearchMil.com and uses words and phrases from a specific document turned up in the search.

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