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Mills and Boon For all the hardened masculinity and rippled pectorals, it’s the Mills & Boon covers that remain a reflection of society’s changing attitude to romance, relationships and desire. ‘The Art of Romance: Mills & Boon and Harlequin Cover Designs’ celebrates the cover art over the last century.

Boudicca retain a warrior attitude that would make their namesake proud. And now Wode – their new fragrance named for the ancient queen’s bright blue war paint – combines both sight and smell, splattering the wearer with a wash of intense blue pigment.

John Waters - writer, director, artist, raconteur and celebrated Pope of Trash - may well be the exception that proves the rule; the Hollywood enfant terrible who refuses to mellow with age. In a rare interview, John Waters talks about the aesthetics of trash, and looks back on a long and eventful career.

Leni and the Führer In the 1930s Leni Riefenstahl was already under Adolf Hitler’s spell after attending one of his rallies. She sought him out. She sent him a fan letter. The Führer in turn offered the dancer and actor turned filmmaker the world on a plate.

Howard Devoto / Magazine Inspired by the Pistols to form Buzzcocks, singer Howard Devoto quickly found himself shackled by the sheep flocking to punk orthodoxy. So Howard left to be reborn as something much more interesting.

Plus Darkside, Gang Gang Dance, RamoSport, Nike, Yoko Ono, Baptist Viry, Tim Ten Yen, Tony O’Neil

Flux Space Special - John Goto ‘Dance to the Muzik of Time’

Fiction - ‘Adulthood’ by Tony O’Neil

And at the front J Lindeberg, Arielle de Pinto, Reality Studio, Pelican Avenue, Fila celebrate 35 years in fashion, Anglomania, Yoox Jewels, Limi Feu, Gola and eBoy, Goliath, Lacoste & Visionaire, Stella & Le Sportsac, Swear Greatest Hits, School of Seven Bells, Ladyhawke, Fortuna Pop, Of Montreal, The Miserable Rich, Lisa Mitchell, Club Brenda, ATP and Melvins, Pascal Comelade, Micah P. Hinson, Jimi Tenor & Kabu Kabu, Beagles and Ramsay’s Good Teeth, You Me Bum Bum Train, Ding>>Dong, Charles Atlas’ Tornado Warning, GSK Contemporary, The Return of the Mind Projected Cinema, William Burroughs’ Life File Books, The Essence of Perfume, Trouble the Water, Lotte Reiniger’s Fairy Tale Films, MAC Metal Urge

#25 The Journal

has reviews by Emma Lee, George Hammond, Andrew Taylor, Jeremy Hilton and Paul Lee.
It being The Journal’s raison d’être there are of course also poems in #25 - by R G Bishop, Helen Buckingham, Simon Currie, John Daniel, Kate Edwards, Robin Ford, Jan Oskar Hansen, Chris Hardy, J. C. Hartley, Emma Lee, David McLean, Ian Mullins, Michael Newman, Frank C. Praeger, Randall Rogers, Steve Spence, Geoff Stevens, Tanner, Steven Taylor, Davide Trame, J. S. Watts, Alex Williams, John Sibley Williams & Alessio Zanelli
Copies available for £3.00 [incl. p&p UK] annual subscription (3 issues) £8.00, outside UK - £4.00, annual subscription (3 issues) £11.00 (all cheques in UK currency please and made payable to ‘Sam Smith’. Or through PayPal.)

The Journal receives no public funds, depends entirely on sales and subscriptions.

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Books

The Sun rises over Arsenal, North London: by Paul Murphy

Carlos Fleitas says “¿Who is Paul Murphy? I don’t know. Although he is a close friend, where his writings are concerned: ¿where the Hell does he comes from? ¿what the hell is his style? ¿who the hell has moulded his art? To put it in a nutshell: how healthy unhealthy (thanks God) is he as a poeitai. Some sort of “enfant terrible”, non conventional (bless them), sincere (up to the point of spilling his guts). I like it, in a society that is full of well being and suspicious of correct language (meaning the end of personal, idiosyncratic speech), he likes to dwell at the other side of the mirror. Spring has sprung in his poetry, essays, and all of his queries. ¡Oh yeah!

Plato expelled poets from his ideal Republic because they are “false pedagoges “ Ok. Translated: because they are itchy mosquitoes of the mind. So is Paul (better John). I like being surprised. A good mind shakes you up, as he does with our nervous grey brain. Or in maths lang: a non linear writing as poems should be. But trust me poets are also your confidents, your pillow they will never let you down. The last line of defense as music is. Imagine a world of guys and gals addicted to poetry. For sure is the first step to f*** the drug dealers.

Time to stop all my jazz. Go to the source: Read Paul’s work! Oh btw:¡Have a nice day Mr. Brown!”

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Generation Txt: new publishing series for emerging writers

Cutting-edge literature producer Penned in Margins is announcing the launch of Generation Txt, an exciting new publishing series for emerging poets. Generation Txt builds on the success of the anthology and live literature tour of the same name, applauded as ‘good news for poetry’ by Richard Morrison of The Times. The series will feature first collections by eight talented new writers under 35, starting with long-awaited debuts by Ross Sutherland and Tamsin Kendrick. The book covers have been designed by Mercy, a collective based in Liverpool who have previously illustrated for Levi’s and The Arctic Monkeys.

Ross and Tamsin are both exciting writers who have been active in the performance poetry scene over the last ten years; these publications prove they’re equally impressive on the page and mark the arrival of two new talents in British poetry. Things To Do Before You Leave Town and Charismatic Megafauna will be launched at East End venue Vibe Live, Brick Lane on Tuesday 13th January (free entry).

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ROSS SUTHERLAND

Things To Do Before You Leave Town

ISBN: 978-0955384646; RRP £6.99

Published 9th January 2009

http://www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk/?page_id=22

Clandestine paperboys, mono-browed cousins, murderous actions heroes and Swiss euthanasia clinics jostle for position in Ross Sutherland’s intelligent and wildly entertaining debut collection. Sutherland charts the never-ending urban excursions of Pac-Man; constructs cut-ups of celebrity obits; and dons a surgical mask to conduct an ‘Experiment to Determine the Existence of Love’. Things To Do Before You Leave Town is a sharp, ambitious and blackly comic exploration of the end of things, where ‘all roads that lead out are really leading back in’.

“Refreshingly fearless and bleakly funny … Sutherland is a truly contemporary original” Luke Kennard

TAMSIN KENDRICK

Charismatic Megafauna

ISBN: 978-0955384653; RRP £6.99

Published 9th January 2009

http://www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk/?page_id=23

The sacred, the profane and the prophetic come together in this stylish debut collection by Tamsin Kendrick. In Charismatic Megafauna Kendrick ponders the romantic potential of Peter Pan and Captain Hook, liberates Mr Tumnus from his snow-bound Narnia, composes urgent communiqués from a post-apocalyptic city, and documents the struggle to find love. Kendrick’s unique poetry is characterised by vivid, surreal imagery, brimming with references to myth, legend and pop culture, and underpinned by a genuine, if fraught, search for the divine.

“Tamsin Kendrick explores the terrains of love and faith with unflinching directness and refreshing honesty” Niall O’Sullivan

The Train of Ice and Fire - Mano Negra in Colombia
Ramon Chao

Maybe it was the best adventure I ever had’ - Manu Chao

Ramon Chao’s account of this life-changing journey through the heart of an exotic and dangerous country, from Santa Marta on the Caribbean Coast to Bogota in the Altiplano. Officially released in February 2009, advance copies are now available direct from route-online.com
About the book
Colombia, November 1993: a reconstructed old passenger train, bespangled with yellow butterflies, is carrying one hundred musicians, acrobats and artists on a daring adventure through the heart of a country soaked in violence. The intention is to put on free shows for locals at railway stations along the way: vibrant spectacles involving music, trapeze, tattoo-art, an ice museum and, star of the show, Roberto the fire-breathing dragon. Leading this crusade of hope is Manu Chao with his band Mano Negra.

Ramon Chao is on board to chronicle the journey. As the train climbs 1,000 kilometres from Santa Marta on the Caribbean Coast to Bogota in the Altiplano, Ramon keeps one eye on the fluctuating morale of the train’s eccentric cargo, and the other on the ever-changing physical and social landscape. As the papa of the train, he endures personal discomfort, internal strife, derailments, stowaways, disease, guerrillas and paramilitaries. When the train arrives in Aracataca, the real-life Macondo of One Hundred Years of Solitude, Mano Negra disintegrates, leaving Manu to pick up the pieces with those determined to see this once-in-a-lifetime adventure through to the end.

The Train of Ice and Fire is a book about hope and dreams in troubled times. It is about a father accompanying his son through an experience which will change his life. But most of all it is about Colombia, the flora, the fauna, the history, the politics and, more than any of that, it is a book about people.

Foreword by Ignacio Ramonet

OK, this one’s a CD

ALL KINDS OF DISORDER
NICK BURBRIDGE AND JON SEVINKWITH ROB KENNEDY

In All Kinds Of Disorder Nick combines talents with Jon Sevink, fiddler and composer for folk-rock band The Levellers, on a unique album of spoken word, music and effects. Poems taken from Nick’s collection of the same name (published by Waterloo Press) are embedded in Sevink’s innovative compositions and sound effects, across a range of styles, to create a unique listening experience.The cast are genuine outsiders and subversive characters, attacking all centres of the fixed and safe, yet at the heart is a celebration of redemptive forces.While Nick, as singer/songwriter in McDermott’s Two Hours, has often collaborated with The Levellers on musical projects, and the latter band recently returned to the UK Album Chart Top 30 with Letters from The Underground, this recording represents a groundbreaking fusion of ideas, and appeals to the listening and reading public alike. A five-track sampler was released with the original poetry volume to great reviews… In the reading of poetry to folk music Nick Burbridge may well have invented another genre! He is a superb performance poet and Jon’s intricate music fits the words superbly. (folking.com) Like a tribal incantation, these words flow in ‘unstopped cadences / that summon and echo dark moments of belief’ (Poetry Express) The forthcoming CD is obviously going to be good (Folkmag) The compromised tenderness and strange wrongness reminded me of the kind of voices conjured up by the great Patricia Highsmith; indeed I felt that had her psychopathic hero Ripley gone and lived in Sussex and joined a folk band he might have written these poems (3ammagazine) All Kinds Of Disorder is featured in the next issue of Rock’n’Reel The album will be available for only £6 from mid-October at www.levellers.co.uk http://www.levellers.co.uk/www/en/shop/?GROUPID=16 and www.burbridgearts.org

Contact nick@burbridgearts.org