my answers to the proust questionaire

What is your dream of happiness?

my caro's arms

What is your idea of misery?

to be truly alone.

Where would you like to live?

manchester, probably.

What qualities do you admire most in a man?

kindness

What qualities do you admire most in a woman?

good conversation

What is your chief characteristic?

curiosity

What is your principal fault?

self loathing

What is your greatest extravagance?

books, mostly.

What faults in others are you most tolerant of?

those faults that do not stop me being their friend

What do you value most about your friends?

their friendship

What characteristic do you dislike most in others?

stupidity

What characteristic do you dislike most in yourself?

my lack of patience

What is your favourite virtue?

compassion

What is your favourite occupation?

writing

What would you like to be?

a human

What is your favourite colour?

alzarin crimson

What is your favourite flower?

can't say i have one

What is your favourite bird?

i like coots.

What historical figure do you admire the most?

I admire many, but no one above any other.

What character in history do you most dislike?

every ruler there has ever been.

Who are your favourite prose authors?

stephen king, george orwell, scott snyder

Who are your favourite poets?

bob cobbing, tim gaze, nico vasilakis, stephen nelson, stephen mcaffery, kurt schwitters, john bennett, bruce andrews, geof huth and aram aroyan.

Who are your favourite heroes in fiction?

the doctor from doctor who, stuttering bill from stephen king's "IT", skinner sweet from "american vampire"

Who are your heroes in real life?

i admire many people.

Who is your favourite painter?

it changes too often to say

Who is your favourite musician?

see above

What is your favourite food?

italian food cooked by my caro

What is your favourite drink?

i no longer have one.

What are your favourite names?

claudio, edward, birmingham

What is it you most dislike?

cruelty

What natural talent would you most like to possess?

fine motor control

How do you want to die?

quietly in my sleep wrapped around my caro, as he is quietly dying himself

What is your current state of mind?

bored

What do you consider your greatest accomplishment?

meeting my caro

What is your motto?

live,laugh,love

back to the multiword

well, international pwoermd writing month is over for another year, so expect some new poems on this blog in the next few days! happy may day by the way! (raises fist). i'll still keep pwoermding tho.

I can't make any soundpo right now as my digital dictaphone is buggered.


fuck


expect more poetry tho

i've decided to wake this blog up, as now they are putting an automatic spamspotting thing on the comments.

i know i havn't been posting much work, but i've been busy with stuff. got lots of work to put up, but i'm finishing books and making mailpo parcels.

sorry about the sporadic posting. as some of you may know, i now have a boyfreind so that's altering my schedual. normal services will resume.

I keep meaning to add more pictographic/collage based non-verbal(semiotic) textual elements in my visual poems like I have done before and used to originally. i must start doing so more. i'm a little too concrete for me at the moment and should experiment in getting more non alphabetically visuo-linguistic again.

It's all poetry unless i say it isn't. there are no images, no visual pieces. only poetry (visual or otherwise).

it's pronounced "herb", not "'erb".

my creative flow is a bit intermittent at the moment.

thank you all those who gave me kind words about my sexuality problems. my recent permutation poem has nothing to do with this. it's a headline from kevin carson's mutualist blog.

i belive in free speech

really don't do as much sound poetry as i should, dammit. sound poetry is very important to me.

wow that was a long poem! when it comes to linier poetry, i'll stick to micro poems for a while. going to do an e-book to replace the one spiiral was meant to be.

great asemicsandglyphs on the new post-literate. that site is ALWAYS amazing, but this time it's extra-amazing.

is language the only thing that exists, ultimately?

logically consistant poetry.

"the basic material of poetry is not the word but the letter.
the word is:
1. a combination of letters
2. sound.
3. denotation
4.the bearer and assosiation of ideas."
Kurt shwitters

to this i would add the visual power of letters.
language is aalmost a physical living organism.

i do not appreciate finding spam on my blogs. they will be deleted.

i should really put my ongoing visual poetry series "notes to paradise lost" together in an e-book at some point. i need to do more.

i've decided to label my visual poems visual poems insted of vispo on this blog. feels better.