Beat the Dust’s quest to bring you quality writing plucked from a sea of mainstream mediocrity continues. This month’s BTD is a fun-size issue featuring some top notch confessional poetry, interviews with the godfathers of the literary underground and, to whet your whistle, an extract from a fine new novel just released by indie publishers, Future Fiction London. The next issue open to all writers is February 2010. Deadline for submissions - Sunday 31st January, so plenty of time to write something epic and then (handy hint alert) edit it.
EAT THE CRUST - The Breadline Issue - November 09
Author:
John Dorsey
John Dorsey’s playlist prompted by seven words selected at random from Protest! – the debut publication from Beat the Dust Press:
P: Nature - Fake Wood Trim by Emmet Swimming R: Adrift - One is the Loneliest Number by Three Dog Night O: Face - Pretty One by Roy Orbison T: Happy - Shiny Happy People by R.E.M E: Vagrant - Like A Rolling Stone by Bob Dylan S: Sea - Brandy by Looking Glass T: Nothing - Losers by Dave Van Ronk
Submission Date:
06 Nov 2009
Category:
Poetry
In Podcast and Chap-book
Title:
training wheels
Excerpt:
the 4th of july had come early that year when the space shuttle challenger exploded into a million little pieces of brilliant light like a chernobyl sunset...
Steve Finbow’s playlist prompted by seven words selected at random from Protest!:
P: Nature - Wood Beez by Scritti Politti R: Adrift - On Some Faraway Beach by Brian Eno O: Face - Gangsters by The Specials T: Happy - Use Somebody by Kings of Leon E: Vagrant - Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet by Gavin Bryars & Tom Waits S: Sea - Endless Sleep by Jody Reynolds T: Nothing - Kill Your Idols by Sonic Youth
Submission Date:
06 Nov 2009
Category:
Novel extract
In Podcast and Chap-book
Title:
balzac of the badlands
Excerpt:
The café is full of locals. Shift workers. Railwaymen. The unemployed. The steam from the coffee machine hangs in the air above our heads like the London sky outside. I can smell leatherette, dried ketchup, mustard and the sweet whiff of marijuana. I take out my notebook as I slip a tricky piece of egg yolk and the butt of a sausage into my mouth, my head turned sideways so I can eat and read at the same time. Tuesday 7th May, SB goes missing. Last seen lunchtime 2pm, Palmers Green, getting into black Saab with three guys, look like Kurds. Friends, relatives, boyfriend – nothing. Thursday 9th May, Mr. Beckford goes missing. Last seen morning, 6 a.m., home Muswell Hill. Wife, employees, friends – nothing. A piece of black pudding crumbles as I fork it, a large fatty piece falls into my second egg yolk turning it a purpley orange. Now it looks like an embryo. Toss!...
Ford Dagenham’s playlist prompted by seven words selected at random from Protest!:
P: Nature - Sehr Kosmisch by Harmonia R: Adrift - Solitaire by Gallon Drunk O: Face - Eyes Without A Face by Billy Idol T: Happy - Jackie by Scott Walker E: Vagrant - Wharf Rat by The Grateful Dead S: Sea - Sitting On The Dock Of The Bay by Otis Redding T: Nothing - Oh, Sweet Nuthin' by The Velvet Underground
Submission Date:
06 Nov 2009
Category:
Audio Recording
In Chap-book
Title:
werdtalking with ford Dagenham
Excerpt:
Ford Dagenham reads his three-part poem Werdtalking. To listen, click the play button
David Blaine’s playlist prompted by seven words selected at random from Protest!:
P: Nature - Mr Blue Sky by Electric Light Orchestra R: Adrift - Cast Your Fate to the Wind by Vince Giraldi O: Face - So Far Away by Carole King T: Happy - Beautiful Day by U2 E: Vagrant - Better Days by Citizen King S: Sea - Ocean Pearl by 5440 T: Nothing - Never Ever by All Saints
Submission Date:
06 Nov 2009
Category:
Poetry
In Podcast and Chap-book
Title:
asshole’s pantoum
Excerpt:
My belief is we will, in fact, be greeted as liberators. We believe he has, in fact, reconstituted nuclear weapons. I would chalk that one up as a miscalculation. Well, you can’t anticipate everything.
We believe he has, in fact, reconstituted nuclear weapons. It must have something to do with his background, his upbringing. Well, you can’t anticipate everything; I did misspeak…we never had any evidence that he has acquired a nuclear weapon...
Jeff Aubert mini-interviews Mark SaFranko and Dan Fante
Jeff Aubert’s playlist prompted by seven words selected at random from Protest!:
P: Nature - Joga by Bjork R: Adrift - Piano Concerto n°2 by Shostakovich O: Face - Bomber by Motorhead T: Happy - 9th Symphony by Beethoven E: Vagrant - My Way by Sex Pistols S: Sea – Sea and Sand by The Who T: Nothing - Silence by Loneliness
Submission Date:
06 Nov 2009
Category:
Interview
In Chap-book
Title:
mark safranko mini-interview
Excerpt:
Life: Ferdinand Celine said somewhere, I can’t remember where now, that when you look deeply at life all you see is mystery upon mystery upon mystery. There’s a lot of truth in it. Our only course of action is to roll with the waves. Much easier said than done. Most of the time it’s the waves rolling over us...
Jack Henry’s playlist prompted by seven words selected at random from Protest!:
P: Nature - Ode to Joy by Beethoven, from the final movement of his 9th Symphony. R: Adrift - Space Oddity by David Bowie O: Face - Walk Away by Kelly Clarkson T: Happy - The Middle by Jimmy Eat World E: Vagrant - Train to Jordan by Curtis Mayfield S: Sea - Tobacco Island by Flogging Molly T: Nothing - Hurt by Nine Inch Nails and/or Johnny Cash
Submission Date:
06 Nov 2009
Category:
Poetry
In Podcast and Chap-book
Title:
the downtown café
Excerpt:
saul and i met downtown at a café on the corner of 6th and Los Angeles Street a no-name decrepit place where vagrants and transients linger for cheap coffee and a glimpse of smooth, shaven leg on a fucked-out 9 to 5 waitress named betty...
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