Load the Guns
by Sean McGahey
This is more than just another new offbeat generation “reinvigorating contemporary poetry” book from Joe Ridgwell. This is for the developing illicit offbeat generation. If you’re reading this then you NEED this book!
http://www.blackheathbooks.org.uk/37.html
The BBC dared to ask if today’s poets affect social change, test the boundaries of form and take poetry forward with the times….YES THEY BLOODY DO!!
Ridgwell is one of 5 or 6 UK writers/poets that strike at the heart of the urban consciousness. Interdependence of poetic forms and social contexts was needed and is provided by Joseph Ridgwell.
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July 9th, 2009 at 9:25 am
I think Ridgwell is in the top one of UK writers/poets, and he’s the most handsome
Xxx
July 14th, 2009 at 4:02 pm
The BBC poetry season, from what I have seen, has been a crock of crapola. The ususual mainstream hoo ha with poets I want to kick in the face.
Of course, Carol Ann Duffy has now parked her fat backside on the pot and is preparing herself to stink the place out with the same old boring shite.
This does leave Simon Armitage free to wander. I can only hope he wanders into my local where I can break his fucking elbows.
Load the guns is on my list, however. I like what I’ve seen of Joseph Ridgwell. And I like the design of those Blackheath editions. They’re quite reminiscent of the early Black Sparrow ltd runs.
July 16th, 2009 at 2:13 pm
What’s this, a sensible comment?
The BBC poetry season was always going to be a crock of shit, because nobody working in a position of power at the BBC understands or appreciates poetry. Those overpaid parasites wouldn’t recognise a decent stanza if it glassed them in the face and severed their fleshy jugulars.
This is, of course, along with the fact that it is an anchronism that has no place in the modern world, is why no one should should even consider paying their TV licence.
Joe Ridgwell
July 17th, 2009 at 6:28 am
Are you saying I don’t usually make sensible comments?!?!
Hmm, I don’t know.
I like to think I do…at least on occasions.
As far as the TV is concerned; I like classic cinema so I have a big screen to watch films. I don’t even bother with a television. The only broadcast TV I see is at friend’s houses.
July 17th, 2009 at 12:39 pm
No UV, I liked your comment, that’s why I responded.
Well, TV is generally a bit shit, but it’s the licence fee that bugs me, not television itself. I mean, what the fuck is that all about? The sooner it’s abolished the better.
If the BBC really is the best television in the world then it will survive without such a extortinate tax on the poor.
joe r
I myself have never paid for a TV licence and never will
And if anyone from the BBC debt collection dept is reading this, get a proper job you useless hunks of shit.
July 17th, 2009 at 2:29 pm
Please. Just don’t start me on the issue of taxes. Just don’t.
I agree with you. I’ll leave it at that,
The ecology con. Green taxes.
Bastards.
Makes my fucking blood boil
July 17th, 2009 at 3:43 pm
yeah, yr right, fuck taxes, let’s get back to the poetry
Load the literary guns and keep searching for the lost elation………………
All the sadness in the world stalks the land like a death heron in winter………………
All the money disappears into my mouth as the sun sinks low and ominous across the domain………..
Now I’m off down the boozer to get pissed
Adios
July 17th, 2009 at 7:42 pm
Beat you to it! Gotta drink in my hand right now…
And my heart spins like a coin on a card players table
until finally it stops
and I can find my solace in the bitter sediment
at the bottom of a glass.
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