18/08/2024
Each week during Australian Poetry Month, a poet walks us through one of their works. Here, Lang Leav reflects on tense trips to Cronulla beach in the 90s
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05/08/2024
Each week during Australian Poetry Month, a poet walks us through one of their works. Here, singer-songwriter Kelly explains his collaboration with poet Dana Gioia
30/05/2024
Music round-up! Reviews:
Middle Kids: Faith Crisis Pt 1 https://wp.me/p107ld-1Tp
Patrick Sansone: Smokey Day https://wp.me/p107ld-1Tz
Roger Robinson: Sound Man https://wp.me/p107ld-1Un
English Teacher: This Could Be Texas https://wp.me/p107ld-1Ut
Iraina Mancini: Remixes (Undo the Blue/Sugar High) https://wp.me/p107ld-1UH
Wonder 45: Wonderland https://wp.me/p107ld-1UO
London-based soul ensemble Wonder 45 was originally put together as an instrumental recording project by producer/writer Holley Gray to work with Ross Ewart (guitar), Chris Nickolls (drums) and Ste…
27/03/2024
“ALL THE HOT WOMEN I KNOW HAVE ELLA FREARS ON THEIR BEDSIDE TABLES.”—Sheena Patel
Taking the form of one long email addressed to an estate agent, Goodlord is a fictional memoir of habitation, a genre-defying novelistic text that beautifully evokes the people and places of our lives——the spaces of work, those that may or may not be ‘home’, sites of trauma and ecstasy. Showing all the control of voice one would expect from a poet of her rare skill, Ella Frears has created a book that is as funny as it is harrowing, and beautifully skewers the contemporary housing crisis while questioning the fundamental desires, drivers and disappointments that lie at the heart of our obsession with ‘property’.
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27/03/2024
Imogen Wade’s The Time I Was Mugged in New York City impresses judges for ‘lyricism in the account of an abduction’
19/02/2024
Poetry round-up -
Review of Allen Ginsberg: Material Wealth (Allen’s voice in poems and songs 1956-1996) https://wp.me/p107ld-1T4
Selected Poem - After work, Luke Samuel Yates https://wp.me/p107ld-1Tc
Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) was an American Beat poet, raconteur, activist, and thinker; he was also a prolific collector, meticulously saving letters, postcards, draft notes, manuscripts, photograp…
16/02/2024
We have a whole host of new music reviews to read (by “whole host” we mean three).
Cracker: Bingo! Live in the Inland Empire https://wp.me/p107ld-1SL
Middle Kids: Faith Crisis Pt 1 https://wp.me/p107ld-1Tp
Hollysseus Fly: Birthpool EP https://wp.me/p107ld-1SD
The website for the Yaamava’ Resort and Casino in Highland California proudly proclaims that you will have “AN EXPERIENCE UNLIKE ANY OTHER – Luxurious accommodations. World-class event venue.…
26/12/2023
Seasonal guidance from the author of Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis, and The Orange and Other Poems
06/12/2023
In the early 70s singer-songwriter Elliott Murphy was proclaimed one of the “new Dylans”, along with Bruce Springsteen, Loudon Wainwright and John Prine. Whether the world needed a new Dylan is deb…
06/12/2023
One of the 70s “new Dylan’s” Elliott Murphy provides his top 10 Bob Dylan tracks for the 21st century. Also new on the site - we review Murphy’s last EP, “Wonder-full”
In the early 70s singer-songwriter Elliott Murphy was proclaimed one of the “new Dylans”, along with Bruce Springsteen, Loudon Wainwright and John Prine. Whether the world needed a new Dylan is deb…
06/12/2023
Jalen Ngonda’s “Come Around And Love Me” – review
Jalen Ngonda is a Daptone recording artist who grew up just outside of Washington D.C. bur currently lives in the UK. At the age of 11 his father introduced him to the joys of soul music, most nota…
10/10/2023
Music review round-up!
Nick Corbin & The Hang Ups, Feelin’ Kinda Lucky
https://wp.me/p107ld-1Rz
Ezra Furman, S*x Education Songs from Season 4 https://wp.me/p107ld-1RD
Matt Berry, Top Brass https://wp.me/p107ld-1RV
Nick Corbin is an East London based singer and songwriter as well as the founder of soul specialist label, Big AC Records. Until February 2018, Corbin was the singer and main songwriter of indie so…
22/08/2023
The experience of accidentally preparing a vegetarian shepherd’s pie in a bike basket on the way home and treading on another tall man’s long foot are considered in Luke Samuel Yates’ Dynamo https://wp.me/p107ld-1Rd
Novelist Philip Roth described his life as turning sentences around: “I write a sentence and then I turn it around. Then I look at it and I turn it around again. Then I have lunch. Then I come back…
09/06/2023
Dream Wife’s "Social Lubrication" is not for the faint-hearted, small-minded or lily-livered, but in itself this could be a reason why you may appreciate it as much as we do. Review https://wp.me/p107ld-1R3
Dream Wife’s bassist Bella Podpadec says that Social Lubrication speaks to “systemic problems that cannot be glossed over by lube…the things named in the songs are symptoms of f-ed up structures. A…
09/06/2023
A few years ago we interviewed klipschutz, Chuck Prophet’s co-writer and a distinguished poet, in relation to Prophet’s 2020 album "The Land That Time Forgot". Publication of the interview got shelved but we’re pleased you can now read an updated version here https://wp.me/p107ld-1QD
A few years ago we interviewed klipschutz, Chuck Prophet’s co-writer and a distinguished poet, in relation to Prophet’s 2020 album The Land That Time Forgot. Publication of the interview got shelve…
22/02/2023
Here’s a round-up of recent poetry articles:
Review of Stefan Mohamed’s collection Farewell Tour - https://wp.me/p107ld-1PR
New selected poem – Jon Cone’s Elements of Language https://wp.me/p107ld-1Q2
I learned how to write the word ‘home’ And the word ‘love’. I learned how to write the words ‘here’ and ‘blue’. I invented a city and taught myself how to live with my imagination, my baseball glov…
27/01/2023
Joe Henry special – reviews of new album All The Eye Can See https://wp.me/p107ld-1PF and book “Unspeakable, the Collected Lyrics of Joe Henry 1985-2020” https://wp.me/p107ld-1Po
Joe Henry is an American musician and songwriter with an impressive discography stretching back to his 1986 debut Talk of Heaven through to his most recent, All The Eye Can See (2023). Around the t…
14/12/2022
Gaspard Murphy is a musician and producer living in Paris, and the productive non-prodigal son of musician Elliott Murphy. He’s produced music by his father (and played in his band) as well as for …
12/12/2022
Jack Kerouac special!
Our reviews of the re-issues of “Jack Kerouac and Steve Allen, Poetry for the Beat Generation” and “Blues and Haikus”:
https://wp.me/p107ld-1NI
https://wp.me/p107ld-1NS
Facts and Stats: Poetry for the Beat Generation is the debut spoken word album of American novelist and poet Jack Kerouac (1922-1969). It was originally released in 1959 in the US in mono by Dot Re…
08/12/2022
Carmy Love's new single 'In The Morning' is out now on Big AC Records.
29/11/2022
Bob Dylan special! Read about the exclusive “signed” edition of The Philosophy of Modern Song https://wp.me/p107ld-1Mw and check out author Ray Padgett’s top 10 live Dylan tracks https://wp.me/p107ld-1N4
In anticipation of Ray Padgett’s book of interviews with Bob Dylan collaborators, Pledging my Time (buy here), we asked the author for his top 10 live Bob Dylan tracks. Ray Padgett: That Dylan is a…
03/11/2022
We’re not the greatest at keeping our social media up to date, but there’s a shedload of new reviews and articles up on the site, including:
Paul Kelly, “Time” https://wp.me/p107ld-1KN, “Rivers and Rain” https://wp.me/p107ld-1KR, “Drinking” https://wp.me/p107ld-1L7
Indigo Sparke “Hysteria” https://wp.me/p107ld-1KH
A.O. Ge**er “Meet Me at the Gloaming” https://wp.me/p107ld-1KW
Elliott Murphy, “Wonder” https://wp.me/p107ld-1Lw
The People Who Run The Country (poet Luke Wright’s band) https://wp.me/p107ld-1M8
Top 10 The Dream Syndicate Tracks (from the director of a new documentary about the band) https://wp.me/p107ld-1LI
Emiel Spoelder is the director and producer of Beyond the Days of The Dream Syndicate, a new documentary film about American rock band The Dream Syndicate. It tells a story of “fast success, lost f…
06/10/2022
Alex Beaupain covers Serge Gainsbourg’s controversial album “Love on the Beat”, our review at https://wp.me/p107ld-1Ko
In 1984 the French singer, songwriter, enfant terrible icon Serge Gainsbourg (1928-1991) released Love on the Beat. Recorded in New Jersey with Billy Rush and Larry Fast, it was his penultimate alb…
06/10/2022
Sometimes you need expert advice. When it comes to Galaxie 500, we asked A Head Full of Wishes for their top 10 songs https://wp.me/p107ld-1JW
Andy Aldridge is the founder and editor of A Head Full of Wishes, an invaluable source of information for fans of Galaxie 500, Damon & Naomi, Dean & Britta and Luna. Aldridge started the we…
29/09/2022
Poetry special!
This week we have a review of Tom Sastry’s collection “You have no normal country to return to” https://wp.me/p107ld-1Jz
and a selected poem by John McCullough, “Oops, I Did It Again” https://wp.me/p107ld-1Jg
Critics are rarely popular, and this includes with poets. Robert Burns, responding to some adverse criticism, suggested his adversary-commentator was a “ennuch of language”, a ”pickle-herring in th…
16/09/2022
Here’s a catch up of some recent music reviews:
Josh Rouse, Going Places https://wp.me/p107ld-1IR
Moon Panda, What On Earth https://wp.me/p107ld-1IZ
The Beths, Expert In A Dying Field https://wp.me/p107ld-1J9
On “Knees Deep”, a song written late on for The Beths’ third album Expert In A Dying Field, vocalist and guitarist Liz Stokes wishes that she was “brave enough to dive in/but I never have bee…
28/07/2022
Before we take a short break, here’s a roundup of recent reviews and poems on Poetic Justice
Jeremy & The Harlequins: ABRA CaDaBRA https://wp.me/p107ld-1HQ
Jungle: Keep Moving EP https://wp.me/p107ld-1HW
Bright Eyes: A Collection of Songs Written and Recorded 1995-1997, a Companion EP https://wp.me/p107ld-1I2
Bright Eyes: Letting Off The Happiness, a Companion EP https://wp.me/p107ld-1I8
Bright Eyes: Fevers and Mirrors, a Companion EP https://wp.me/p107ld-1Ic
Nerina Pallot: I Don’t Know What I’m Doing https://wp.me/p107ld-1Iy
Selected Poem, Holly Singlehurst https://wp.me/p107ld-1Gz
Selected Poem, Victoria Kennefick https://wp.me/p107ld-1HL
À La Carte In the restaurant I watch you slice a hunk of meat on porcelain. Your winking knife presses to relieve muscle from fat, soft as toothless gums. The steak wants you to eat it, is begging …
29/06/2022
New music review. Grant-Lee Phillips' "All That You Can Dream" gently reaches out to listeners in a troubled world https://wp.me/p107ld-1HD
Grant-Lee Phillips considers world events on All That You Can Dream, his eleventh solo album, including the Notre Dame fire (Paris, 2019), the Capitol Riots (Washington, 2021), and the COVID-19 pan…
21/06/2022
Here’s a treat on the longest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere. I Turn My Podcast On’s Tyler Darling provides his top 10 Spoon tracks, one from each album so far wp.me/p107ld-1GW
Tyler Darling is the producer and broadcaster of “I Turn My Podcast On”, a podcast devoted to American band Spoon. Starting in June 2020, Darling has guided listeners through many of Spoon’s albums…
20/06/2022
New on the site: reviews of Suki Waterhouse’s “I Can’t Let Go” and Linda Hoover’s Record Store Day release “I Mean to Shine”, also a poem by Holly Singlehurst – go get it at https://wp.me/p107ld-1GQ
Actress and model Suki Waterhouse had apparently been dreaming of making and releasing this record for years, and to record it, her debut LP, she reached out to producer Brad Cook (Bon Iver, War On…
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