05/02/2023
Hello Friends,
Letting you all know of this latest artistic venture from Dave Lordan and myself. We're starting a Substack, it will be the main focus of both of our artistic and creative endeavours for the foreseeable future. We're both really excited with what we can bring to people with it, and the options it gives us. If you are a follower, supporter, or in any way value our work, please do subscribe to the Subsatck. We believe you will be rewarded with some of the best contemporary writing out there right now.
Below is the full in depth details of this new exciting venture.
HIGHBROW HERETICS is a new venture from DAVE LORDAN AND KARL PARKINSON, two leading Irish contemporary POETS and internationally acclaimed ALTERNATIVE LITERARY writers.
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HIGHBROW HERETICS will be very different from most contemporary literature and most of the literary and cultural writing found online. It will be much much deeper, much more eloquent, much more entertaining, and much more challenging than all of that crap.
HIGHBROW HERETICS will concentrate on in-depth coverage of serious subjects relevant to all, in various styles and in various forms, drawing on Karl and Dave's much-applauded work in poetry, story, essay, video, podcast, audio production, and radical pedagogy.
Subjects covered will reflect the usual wide range of Karl & Dave's experiences, insights, and evolving interests, including deep-dives into Irish & International literary history and into the work & continuing relevance of great past writers, philosophers, and religious and political thinkers. Another big theme will be understanding and facing up to the critical condition of Planet Earth and the tremendous challenges and changes lying ahead.
You will not find much on HIGHBROW HERETICS that reminds you of Netflix; of the latest celebrity bestseller; or of the Fascists, censors and scolds of Twitter.
If you're s**t sick of s**t, sick culture and you want something that nourishes your soul and grows your consciousness instead, subscribe to Highbrow Heretics.
It's free and you will never run out of new, deep writing and creative provocations to enjoy.
IF YOU DO SUBSCRIBE YOU'LL RECEIVE FOR FREE THE FOLLOWING BY REGULAR EMAIL :
DAVE’S DROPS
Dave's weekly post about whatever he fancies and in any form he feels like. Could be a 10000 word essay on Poetry and Irish Rebellion or a three minute video lesson on the Crafty Art of Storytelling. He could be channelling Proust or Mother Jones, or perverting Yeats while resurrecting dear O Leary from the grave. Could be anything atall really, knowing Dave.
PARKINSON’S POST
Karl’s weekly post about whatever he fancies Literature, Buddhism, life, art, books.
A poem, a video, a story, audio.
THE EVERLASTING
Monthly deep-dive on great literature or a philosophical debate, always offering fresh perspectives and insights on what the wisest humans that have ever lived - the 'long friends' as Dylan Thomas calls them - can still say to us to help us understand, face-up, live on in 2023.
THE SERIAL
Continous serialization of our vast, internationally acclaimed, multiple award-winning back catalogue in fiction, non-fiction, poetry, art video, and soundscaped story. You'll be able to read and:or listen to all our work in commute-sized chunks, with added notes and explanations to help you understand the contexts of our work and what we were thinking of when we created it. We're talking about thousands of separate works dating from 1987 to this morning. You'll never run out of things to read and chew over on Highbrow Heretics.
Everything is free to all subscribers. However we are asking people who can afford it to become paid subscribers at a level of €7 a month or €77 euro a year. As an incentive to paid subscribers we will send you a hand written double-signed poem from our jointly composed collection, Back To Normal. These handwritten works are rare Irish Literary collectors Items and will accrue in value as time goes by.
ABOUT THE HIGHBROW HERETICS
Dave Lordan is an Irish poet working in text, performance, video, audio, and community creativity, inspired by oral and singer-songwriter traditions and by resistance to empire, capital, and human domestication. His works have won many awards and nominations and he has been a key figure in radicalising multimedia literature in Ireland over the past three decades. Dave’s writing has been translated into many languages, including Italian, Spanish, Irish, Arabic, Chinese, Flemish and Bulgarian. Studi Irlandesi lists 47 complete artistic works in multiple genres. His 48th work, the collection of soundscaped strange tales Last of The King’s Men is available on Spotify and all streaming services.
Karl Parkinson is a writer from inner-city Dublin. The Grind his first short story collection was published in 2022 by Front Line Press. Sacred Symphony his third collection of poetry was published in 2020 by Culture Matters. His second collection of poetry, Butterflies of a Bad Summer, was published in 2016 by Salmon Poetry. His débutnovel, The Blocks, was published in 2016 by New Binary Press, and in Italian translation in 2022 by Battle Editions. In 2013 Wurmpress published his début poetry collection, Litany of the City and Other Poems. His work has appeared in the anthologies, New Planet Cabaret (New Island Press), If Ever You Go: A Map of Dublin in Poetry and Song (Dedalus Press), The deep Hearts Core: Irish poets revisit a touchstone poem (Dedalus Press), Even The Daybreak: 35 years of Salmon Poetry, The Children of the Nation: An Anthology of Working Peoples Poetry From Contemporary Ireland (Culture Matters), as well as in several journals and newspapers, including The Stinging Fly, The Irish Times, Penduline (USA), Dublin Inquirer and many more. Karl is one of Ireland’s most acclaimed live literature performers. His work has been broadcast on national TV and Radio. Karl’s writing has been translated into Italian, Galician, and German.
Back To Normal, a jointly authored collection of poems by Dave and Karl, was published in 2022 by Front Line Press. It was awarded a POETRY TOWN BURSARY AWARD. It was the latest collaboration from Lordan and Parkinson, continuing their acclaimed work together in performance and video poetry.
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