The Missing Links
Lee Seigel: the novel is dead. Robert McCrum: no, it’s not. * A review of Dennis Cooper‘s Smothered in Hugs. * The Indie on a fresh breed of literary magazines. * Lou Reed booed. * No London underground? * Happy birthday to Nikola Tesla. * Mad Men costume designer launches his own line, called Mod. […]
Maintenant #20: Adam Zdrodowski
There is quite a heavy weight and a strong pressure on young poets — about what poetry should or shouldn’t be like, a pressure connected with the Polish tradition. Fortunately, I didn’t do Polish studies and so I managed to distance myself from all these futile discussions. On the other hand, there are more and more options for young poets, there’s a growing interest in the writing of Polish authors who have been somewhat neglected, there are lots of literary magazines and publishers. So, even though the dominant tradition is still quite strong (in school curricula, in the media), there are numerous options for those who want to do something else…
In the twentieth in his Maintenant series SJ Fowler interviews the Polish poet and translator Adam Zdrodowski.
Five Poems
This glittering spring of time,
The shadow that covers us
On train platforms in snow-covered vales.
Leads us to a period of great weightlessness.
The shadow that covers us
(it immobilises bodies like a plaster space-suit)
Leads us to a period of great weightlessness —
This rocket soaring into the starry future.
It immobilises bodies like a plaster space-suit,
Although it promises fantastic journeys,
This rocket soaring into the starry future.
Time lies, and clocks cannot be trusted…
By Adam Zdrodowski.
3:AM Reloaded
What you (may have) missed on 3:AM this week: Flash fiction: ‘Forget the Fucking Swans’ by Sam Jordison; ‘An American Flag’ by Alan McCormick & Jonny Voss Poetry: In the nineteenth of his Maintenant series SJ Fowler interviews the Greek poet Krystalli Glyniadakis; ‘Five Poems by Krystalli Glyniadakis Non-fiction: Courtesy of 3:AM Asia, Japanamerica: ‘Create […]