3:AM in the Mix: Gang of Four
Gang of Four are back with a vengeance, with their new single ‘Never Pay for the Farm’, that combines a raw punk sound with their trademark groovy rock and roll. Listen and download for free here.
The Missing Links
Ivy4Evr (see picture above), an SMS drama written by Tony White (3:AM interview here) and created by the Blast Theory, begins on 10 October: it takes place “entirely on the users’ mobile phone and gives them the possibility to interact via SMS messages influencing the narrative as they go along”. * Loud Flash: British Punk […]
Brought to you by the letter C
Bunny Booker: Audrey Rabbit reviews Tom McCarthy‘s C.
3:AM Reloaded
What you (may have) missed on 3:AM this week: Fiction: An exclusive extract from Ben Myers‘ Richard; ‘The Fights’ by Alix MacLean Flash fiction: ‘Magic Wand’ by Zachary S. Tompkins Poetry: In the 29th of the Maintenant series, SJ Fowler interviews the Russian-born English poet Annie Katchinska; ‘Three Poems’ by Annie Katchinska; ‘Two Poems’ by […]
Maintenant #30: Martin Glaz Serup
The long poem The Traffic Is Unreal consists of not one voice but a variety of voices. They are gathered, more or less, by a thematic principle – the book, as I see it, is very much about synchronicity; love and politics… I wanted not one but several voices, several angles, like a kaleidoscope… I tried to achieve that effect in the text by using a lot of direct quotes, but without making it clear to the reader where we’re reading a line from Pentti Saarikoski or Charles Baudelaire or Deng Xiaoping or ‘me’ for instance… Instead of trying to make up or imagine what other people might think, I used other peoples thoughts. I hope and think that you can sort of sense the shift in tones and that they indicate small shift in the context of history, social belonging et cetera, making the poem more, if it’s possible to use that word, dialectical, open and ‘alive’. Maybe.
In the 30th of the Maintenant series, SJ Fowler interviews the Danish poet Martin Glaz Serup.
Seven Poems
That was a boring seminar! it’s raining
everytime I see a tree I want to write about it
the way it stands there / in the rain
I felt sick to my stomach when I read about the new cut-backs in the papers today
maybe it was just a hangover / I felt nausea
you can easily get the idea that there’s nothing else in the world but marital problems / and pedophiles
The room they’ve given me is cold / but richly furnished
anyone who seizes the telegraph wire and national press can lead a great nation
the ceiling is high / there’s noise from the other rooms / the water in the pipes hisses like gas
By Martin Glaz Serup.