Beat the Dust likes to support small independent publishers, particularly those that combine the traditional craft of book-making with cutting edge underground writing. So, this issue of Beat the Dust celebrates the launch of Tangerine Press’ DWANG issue 1, a hand bound, limited edition anthology featuring exclusive poetry and prose from around 50 contributors, including Billy Childish, Dan Fante, The Brutalists, Tim Wells, Salena Godden and Rob Plath. In the June 09 edition of Beat the Dust we have the latest, unpublished work from a selection of writers featured in Dwang #1. We also have Alan Kelly’s interview with Tangerine’s big boss man himself, Michael Curran.
BEAT THE DUST’S DWANG EDITION IN COLLABORATION WITH TANGERINE PRESS
Author:
Michael Curran, head honcho at Tangerine Press and Alan Kelly
Michael Curran identifies the things he’d like to hear read/sung on his deathbed:
Song: Road - Nick Drake Poem: How Beautiful It Is - Robinson Jeffers Play: A Lie of the Mind - Sam Shepard Novel: The Poor Mouth - Flann O'Brien
Alan Kelly identifies the things he’d like to hear read/sung on his deathbed:
Novel: Valley of the Dolls - Jacqueline Susann Film Script: Pink Flamingoes – John Waters or Play: Festen - Thomas Vinterberg, Mogens Rukov Song: Mysteries of Love - Julee Cruise Poem: Shy - Ani Defranco (Okay, this may be a song, but I always think of it as poetry.)
Submission Date:
07 Jun 2009
Category:
Interview
In Chap-book
Title:
The Michael Curran Interview
Excerpt:
Alan Kelly (AK): Michael, first off I’d like to ask how and why you set up Tangerine Press?
Michael Curran (MC): I learnt to bind books by hand about 5 years ago, Alan. I had no real plan back then. But I did know I wanted to produce tactile, hardcover books using the best materials available. I was waiting, I suppose, for a writer to come along and inspire me.
Rob Plath identifies the things he’d like to hear read/sung on his deathbed:
Poem: Song - Allen Ginsberg Play: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof - Tennessee Williams Novel: On the Road - Jack Kerouac Song: I'm Gonna Live Till I Die - Frank Sinatra
Submission Date:
07 Jun 2009
Category:
Poetry
In Podcast and Chap-book
Title:
Two poems by Rob Plath
Excerpt:
my cousin leonard was in a bar fight in mexico & locals murdered him at 26 years old & left him in a shallow grave
Edward Lucie-Smith identifies the things he’d like to hear read/sung on his deathbed:
Song: In diesen Heilgen Hallen - Sarastro's aria from The Magic Flute Play: Waiting for Godot – Samuel Beckett Novel: The Crystal World – J G Ballard Poem: Love and Life - John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester
Submission Date:
07 Jun 2009
Category:
Poetry
In Podcast and Chap-book
Title:
Ambition by Edward Lucie-Smith
Excerpt:
Ambition took her To that high window – She flew through it, And broke.
You could say Ambition broke her, Shattered her plan To be the first…
Adrian Manning identifies the things he’d like to hear read/sung on his deathbed:
Poem: So Now - Charles Bukowski Play: The Dumb Waiter - Harold Pinter Novel: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson Song: Tiger Mountain Peasant Song - Fleet Foxes or Surf's Up - Brian Wilson
Submission Date:
07 Jun 2009
Category:
Poetry
In Podcast and Chap-book
Title:
Two Poems by Adrian Manning
Excerpt:
you reach towards sunlight pull down slivers throw them into my eyes a real god at last
you grip chunks of laughter and stuff them into my open mouth
Salena Godden identifies the things she’d like to hear read/sung on her deathbed:
Song: Get It While You Can – Janis Joplin Poem: Roll the Dice – Charles Bukowski Novel: Cider with Rosie – Laurie Lee Play: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof - Tennessee Williams
Submission Date:
07 Jun 2009
Category:
Poetry
In Podcast and Chap-book
Title:
Five Poems by Salena Godden
Excerpt:
When I awoke I was perfectly confused until the night before slowly flooded my mind did I dream him? no he had gone my house was bedraggled booze stained and smoky I stared at the hole in my empty bed I reckoned he must have gone to the pub or something
Stuart Crutchfield identifies the things he’d like to hear read/sung on his deathbed:
Song: Truth is Marching In - Albert Ayler Poem: Today! - Steve Richmond Play/Script: Krapp's Last Tape - Samuel Beckett Novel: Suttree - Cormac McCarthy
Submission Date:
07 Jun 2009
Category:
Poetry
In Podcast and Chap-book
Title:
Church of Yuh! by Stuart Crutchfield
Excerpt:
dockside doles out
free jazz from a tin can whilst walking home through
Geoff Hattersley identifies the things he’d like to hear read/sung on his deathbed:
Song: There Ain’t No Santa Claus On The Evening Stage - Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band Novel: Dreaming Of Babylon - Richard Brautigan or Pulp - Charles Bukowski. Play/Script: I can’t really think of a play or script I’d like to hear read. A performance (rather than a reading) of Ionesco’s Rhinoceros would be brilliant, but I’d need a bigger bedroom. Poem: Anything long and pointless by Rupert Loydell, just to remind me that there are worse things than death.
Submission Date:
07 Jun 2009
Category:
Poetry
In Podcast and Chap-book
Title:
Poem for Kylie by Geoff Hattersley
Excerpt:
She had long hair, one of the shits had hold of it, dragged her round by it while the other two took turns to boot her in the face.
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