September 01, 2004
Vietnamese Underground Poetry. In Vietnam, if you want to buck the poetry world's status quo, you don't need an arts council grant, a whining editor and a tiny readership. The sub-cultural geniuses of the British poetry scene could learn something from "Open Your Mouth" - blowing its smelly breath into the literary scene one photocopied issue at a time.
August 27, 2004
Ernie Cline - Spoken word. Unleash your Geek.
Billy Collins reads "Japan" in this MP3 download from http://poetry.about.com
August 24, 2004
Poetry In Iraq.
From the Christian Science Monitor comes this vaguely interesting article about a local form of street poetry from Iraq called darmee. Disposable, oral, highly rythmic, freestyled and up to the date, darmee would seem to have more in common with Rap.
Shizzle. Indeed.
PoetryWhore II - This time it's personal.
Finally, the site begins to look a bit better, and despite a few rough corners, we can get back to what we do best. Namely, slagging off Andrew Motion and finding bizzarre articles about poetry on the web.
The Whore's slightly different though. Gone are the days when we ruled the place with an Iron fist. Now, anybody can join in on the fun. Click the "New User" button above, and you too can be posting all your favorite poetry gossip and links. We reserve the right to delete what we don't like, but heh - If this were a democracy, then we'd probably be away invading a middle eastern country.
It goes without saying that this is NOT the place to post your crappy poetry. Any poetry placed on the site will be archived away and mercilessly beaten.
Have Fun, and welcome back.
August 15, 2004
Returning... Sorry about the downtime folks. poetryWhore has recently been hacked, and we've been trying to get it back on line. Come back in seven or so days.
August 01, 2004
The Slab
We can't wait to lay into Laddish Wankfest "The Slab". Despite the fact that the strangely named editor ("cartoon", or something - I really can't be arsed looking it up) is none other than the adorable Peter Knaggs, this magazine is shaping up to be a fantastically nepotistic waste of money. Let's just hope that none of the funds for this brick sized book of swear-words came via Arts Funding.
In almost comical post-modern / post-Irving / Post-Punk style, the magazine blurb tells us ... (and We're paraphrasing here) "blah, blah, blah...You probably won't like this...Don't buy this magazine...". It can only be a matter of time that such anarchy alerts the authorities, and the thing is shut down.
Unfortunately the website www.theslab.co.uk isn't up yet, so we'll save the real venom for then.
April 25, 2004
Walt Whitman
If you're going to write a term paper on Walt Whitman, then I strongly suggest that you write something like this.
"With his blue ox, Emily Dickenson, Walt Whitman traveled across young America . . . His LiveJournal ... is full of whiny Goth poetry"
April 18, 2004
Julia Darling
It's really hard to say anything bad about English poetess supremo Julia Darling. Not because of the cancer, although we'd be lying if that wasn't a factor. It's because we really, really like her. If you like your contemporary poets, then you'll like her poetry. It's sparse, efficient, and very moving.
Her website is everything you want from your poets. Despite the almost saccharine pink of the design, you can tell it's something that was created either BY or FOR Julia. No marketing men have got to this one.
Even if we were going to be snarky, then the snarkiest thing we could say would be something like... "She's like a Wil Wheaton for pretentious Lesbians. Ha!"
Check it out. Good samples of her work, up to date (And God - Isn't that a suprise) details of her performances, workshops and appearances, and the thing which has completely endeared us to her ... A proper weblog
At poetryWhore, we too fear
those flowers tied to lamp posts. Fear the crash.
March 28, 2004
Ahhh Poetry
You may have noticed a general reduction over the last year in the number of stories posted at poetryWhore. What can we tell you? The truth of the matter is that, like most "poets", we're almost pathologically lazy. The mindset which entreats us into knocking off twenty lines of blank-verse about kittens instead of actually writing something somebody may be interested in is the same mindset that allows us to do nothing on the site because... frankly... we can't be bothered.
So - Sorry to have bothered you. Hope you enjoy what little content there is here, and maybe... just maybe... We'll see you at some half-assed reading in a public house somewhere in Yorkshire.
December 23, 2003
More for writers than poets ... is this little gem. Choose a level of obscurity, the number of names required, press the "Go" button and voila... As many random American names as you need for that screenplay you're currently struggling with.
October 01, 2003
Obvious Really
From the "stupendously obvious" section of local rag SheffieldToday comes this Article.
Denise Hackett is devastated after finding herself unable to shift the [self-published poetry] books she forked out for out of her own pocket. The 54-year-old has even been unable to get copies of Golden Verse placed in Doncaster's libraries.
Why is this news?