About A Girl
Wener hit the big time with her focused, intelligent, guitar-driven pop. Her band Sleeper acquit themselves well from the collapse of the Britpop bubble because Wener saw the crash coming and split the band after their third album, allowing them to leave the party with their heads held high. From the safety of middle age she can recognise the nineties music industry as a Russian novel of deals and intrigues, with everyone somehow able to go through the charade that they are about the music and nothing else.
Max Dunbar reviews Louise Wener‘s Different for Girls.
Maintenant #24: Audun Mortensen
My relationship to what might be perceived outside of Norway as its poetry tradition of the last 100 years, seems to me, I guess, equivalent to my relationship to what might be perceived in Norway as its poetry tradition of the last 100 years. Personally, it doesn’t seem appealing to be categorized as ‘in opposition’ to that tradition or something, which seems commonly implied in frequently asked questions re ‘me as a poet’. However, I don’t seem to have much time for ‘that tradition’ anyway… If my ‘poetic’ was somehow related to the fact that I’m Norwegian, it would possibly be primarily manifested in the process of figuring out how to question how being Norwegian/[any nationality] could constitute [anything].
In the 24th of the series, SJ Fowler interviews the Norwegian writer Audun Mortensen.
Six Poems
in bed
mentally projecting
486″ x 486″ neon sign
of the face of the duane reade employee
who complimented my nasal spray
possibly due to its soothing aloe vera
just imagined
a six feet tall nasal spray
standing in the whitney’s 5th floor
permanent collection
and i’m standing in front of it
with a ‘hay fever grin’ on my face
By Audun Mortensen.
3:AM Reloaded
What you (may have) missed on 3:AM this week: Poetry: In the 23rd of his Maintenant series, SJ Fowler interviews the Croatian poet Ana BožiÄević; ‘Six Poems’ by Ana BožiÄević; ‘Two Poems’ by James D Autio Reviewed: Max Dunbar on Alex McBride’s Defending the Guilty; Richard Marshall on the latest Semina text, The Dark Object […]