August 2006:
Greetings friends and warriors, August 2006 has seen lots of activity on the writing front. Here's a brief round up:
A new story, 'Do Not Feed The Lions' is published on Dogmatika.com
'Increase The Size Of Your Dick' is the working title for my collection of SPAM-based poems. A selection of them are currently on BLATT Books weblog: blatt-blatt.blogspot A selection have also been added to this here site (see up there, under SPAM poems?)
New music reviews and interviews have appeared in Kerrang!, Classic Rock, Contactmusic, Plan B, Bookmunch and DrownedInSound
There's a new interview with me about the impending literary revolution on Scarecrow. It'll be published in September.
A new poem 'Stairwell Rope And Denture' is now on Straight From The Fridge: upbondageupyours.blogspot
I'm now involved officially doing the UK publicity for Tony O'Neill's excellent debut 'Digging The Vein' (Wrecking Ball Press). It's on sale in the UK November 2006.
I'm also helping out publicise Travis Jeppesen's excellent new collection, 'Poems I Wrote While Watching TV'. A review I wrote for Bookmunch.co.uk is here: bookmunch. Contact me for review copies of either: ben@indstrength.com
My book Muse is out in Russian this month through the Fluid Publishing House. Oy! More details: www.gorodets.com
The Gulag's album 'The Shadow Of The Bomb', for which I wrote the lyrics, just earned a First at degree level for collaborator/composer Doc Throberts. Congrats to him. It will get a full release in 2007. You can hear excerpts now here: www.myspace.com/thegulag
The Israeli government be drunk on the blood.
Watch out for the New Brutalists...