Yer can’t beat a bit of healthy competition in life, so with this in mind we decided to pit a couple of small indie presses - GRIEVOUS JONES PRESS (represented by its American Mettle imprint) and DONUT PRESS - against each other in a poetry face/off. Each press selected four poets from their stable to represent them and a “weapon” of choice...meaning in this case, a theme, which two of their own team and two of the opposing team would need to write about. American Mettle’s weapon of choice is the theme, The Virtues of Vice and Vice Versa. Donut Press’ weapon of choice is the theme of Gentrification. Who wins? You decide... and if you’d like to share your conclusion with the rest of the world, cool, post a comment on the site. Okay, competitors, ready...
BEAT THE DUST’S LITERARY FACE/OFF ISSUE - MARCH 2010
GRIEVOUS JONES vs DONUT
Tim’s latest poetry collection published by Donut Press is Rougher Yet. Here’s his Top 8 combat-related song list:
F: War On The Terraces - Cockney Rejects A: Ballroom Blitz - The Sweet C: Where Have All The Boot Boys Gone? - Slaughter And The Dogs E: Saturday Night’s Alright For Fighting - Elton John /: Runnin’ Riot - Cock Sparrer O: Generation Of Scars - Terrible Twins F: Chaos - 4 Skins F: Gang Warfare - The Strike
Submission Date:
19 Mar 2010
Category:
Poetry
In Chap-book
Title:
my nietzschean overcoming of culture
Excerpt:
‘And so the population was gradually led into the demoralizing temptations of arcades, baths, and sumptuous banquets. The unsuspecting Britons spoke of such novelties as ‘civilization’, when in fact they were only a feature of their enslavement.’
David's latest book published by American Mettle is American Means. Here's his Top 8 combat-related song list:
F: I Am The Warrior - Patti Smith A: Lawyers, Guns And Money - Warren Zevon C: Big Gun - AC/DC E: Tender Comrade - Billy Bragg /: War - Edwin Starr O: Tin Soldier - Small Faces F: Fight For Your Right To Party - The Beastie Boys F: Bang Bang - Nancy Sinatra
Submission Date:
19 Mar 2010
Category:
Poetry
In Chap-book
Title:
moving on up (and into her)
Excerpt:
starved in my crack-of-dawn bedsit until the cock crowing needs a drain, dash, back in bed I lay contemplating conurbating, maybe with someone, anyone, a she preferably with long soft hair I can mend when it falls in the sink using glue stick and bits of blonde spaghetti string, she will have to be a musician so we can start a death-metal folk band, I’ll play chainsaw and she can burn books by Gordon Ramsay...
F: Bring Da Ruckus - Wu Tang Clan A: Fight Fight With Fight - Cats And Cats And Cats C: Wallop - Chas & Dave E: Fisticuffs In Frederick Street - The Toy Dolls /: Getting Evil In The Playground - Neil's Children O: Fight - Art Brut F: Temper Temper - Rodney P F: Kung Fu International - John Cooper-Clarke (from his Sony Album)
Submission Date:
19 Mar 2010
Category:
Poetry
In Chap-book
Title:
how it plays out
Excerpt:
Waking again – still believing you're Barry, the yodelling, mobile deejay from Bury, who cut out the feature on his early retirement from the local newspaper to send to his mum...
Misti’s poetry collection, Sloppy Mouth is due out on American Mettle very soon. Here’s her Top 8 combat-related song list:
F: (There's Gonna Be A) Showdown - New York Dolls A: Fortunate Son - Creedence Clearwater Revival C: My Way - Elvis Presley's version E: Pretend We're Dead - L7 /: Asking For It - Hole O: Catatonic - Babes In Toyland F: Long Haired Redneck - David Allan Coe F: No Feelings - Sex Pistols
Submission Date:
19 Mar 2010
Category:
Poetry
In Chap-book
Title:
marshmallow witch
Excerpt:
Mother and maternal grandmother and sister and cousins see this evil in me and call it some kind of crazy not threatening really this brand of crazy ain't the dangerous designer kind won't see me behind the wheel of a big deal car blastin' the bad girl with sparkly polish lyrics that could lead me down that dark and oh so twisted Anais Nin Erica Jong Anne Sexton road of serious fuckin' descent...
Tim’s latest collection published by Donut Press is Caligula On Ice And Other Poems. Here’s his Top 8 combat-related song list:
F: Stone Cold Dead In The Market Place - Louis Jordan And His Tympany Five A: Alle Gegen Alle – Laibach C: Battle Of New Orleans - Lonnie Donegan E: Call The Army (I’m Alive) - Anti-Pasti /: Flashback - Ministry O: Staring At The Rude Boys - The Ruts/Young Mr Bizzle And His Chums The Gallows F: Ohio - Neil Young F: Trouble Trouble - Crazy Cavan
Submission Date:
19 Mar 2010
Category:
Poetry
In Chap-book
Title:
bohemians
Excerpt:
You notice first a braying noise and then the public bar’s brimful of quirky hats and canvas shoes, ultra-skinny jeans and stubble...
John’s latest collection of poems published by American Mettle is Sodomy Is A City In New Jersey. Here’s his Top 8 combat-related song list:
F: Hurricane - Bob Dylan A: You Gotta Fight For Your Right To Party - The Beastie Boys C: Eye Of The Tiger - Survivor E: We're Not Gonna Take It - Twisted Sister /: Ballad Of The Green Berets - SSGT. Barry S. Sadler O: War - Edwin Starr F: Eve Of Destruction - Barry McGuire F: Between The Wars - Billy Bragg
Submission Date:
19 Mar 2010
Category:
Poetry
In Chap-book
Title:
a mountain of zen accusations
Excerpt:
north vegas sits just off the highway like a discarded sofa a mountain of zen accusations bathing in the glow of golden eternity a tourist biting kerouac's style in a kiddie pool with the ghost of elvis peaceful at 3:28am...
Liane Strauss on the virtues of vice and vice versa
Liane’s new collection of poems to be published by Donut Press in April is Frankie, Alfredo. Here’s her Top 8 combat-related song list:
F: Step On - John Kongos A: Eye Of The Tiger - Survivor C: War - Edwin Starr E: Get Up, Stand Up - Bob Marley /: I Fought The law - The Clash O: Fight The Power - Public Enemy F: Boy Named Sue - Johnny Cash F: Cows With Guns - Dana Lyons
Submission Date:
19 Mar 2010
Category:
Poetry
In Chap-book
Title:
the vices of poetry versus the virtue of verses
Excerpt:
Homewards weaving in the glow of just gone noon-dawn, my red-carpet train spilling like champagne, my kisser a molasses of mascara, more than a little the worse for the fine transports of last night’s month’s worth of carpe diem odes...
Karl’s new collection of poems, Red Star Ascending will be published by American Mettle later this year. Here’s his Top 8 combat-related song list:
F: Two Minutes To Midnight - Iron Maiden A: The Trooper - Iron Maiden C: Run To The Hills - Iron Maiden E: Aces High - Iron Maiden /: Die With Your Boots On - Iron Maiden O: To Tame A Land - Iron Maiden F: These Colours Don't Run - Iron Maiden F: Masters of War - Bob Dylan
Submission Date:
19 Mar 2010
Category:
Poetry
Title:
guts to water
Excerpt:
sunlight detonates off a thousand splintered shards of glass like god’s stripper glitter strewn across the alley stiletto heels of honed fire pierce my eyeballs threatening to create a second migrainal sun lap dancing my brain...
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