Guided by colours: Gary Cummiskey speaks to Robert Roman about Pascal Ulrich

Pascal Ulrich in Toulouse in 2005.

The latest issue of The Odd Magazine - Oddity 28 - contains an interview by Gary Cummiskey with Robert Roman, poet, artist and publisher, about artist and poet Pascal Ulrich.

The interview is both in English and French.

Thank you to Robert Roman for the interview and for translating the English interview into French.

There is an excellent blog, created by Robert Roman, devoted to the work of Pascal Ulrich.

Dye Hard Interview: Adrian Manning: A poetic microcosm

Adrian Manning is an English poet and micro-publisher. He has had a number of chapbooks published, including Wretched Songs

For Out of Tune Musicians, Down At The Laundromat, Bring Down The Sun(with Henry Denander), These Days, Days Like This (with John Dorsey) and 13 Poems from the Edge of Extinction. His poems have been published around the world and have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. He is the founder of Concrete Meat Press, a micro-press that publishes poetry broadsides and chapbooks.

He lives in Leicester, England.

DH: How and when did you start writing poetry? I am curious about the contemporary poetry scene in England. I regard most English poetry as conservative. Is there a strong ‘alternative’ poetry/literary culture there? 

AM: I started writing when I was a teenager, about 17 or 18. I had a notebook in which I used to record my thoughts about my confused worldview at the time. It was sort of like a diary but the thoughts took on a poetic prose form...Read more.

Charles Bukowski FIVE by Neeli Chervkovski

Published by Beat Scene Press, Coventry, UK. Visit www.beatscene.net to order

Ask The Dust by John Fante

This novel, written by the relatively little-known John Fante and published in 1939, was a strong influence on Charles Bukowski, who wrote the introduction for this edition, published in 1998 by Canongate, Edinburgh. The novel concerns Arturo Bandini, a young, struggling writer staying in a seedy LA hotel and his strained, and ultimately tragic, relationship with a waitress named Camilla Lopez.  A must-read for any serious admirer of Bukowski's work.

Yannis Livadas: The margins of a central man

Yannis Livadas was born in Kalamata, Greece in 1969. He has done dozens of different jobs and travelled extensively in India, Tunisia, Algeria, Italy, France, Morocco, Portugal and Spain. He has published seven poetry collections, the most recent being Ati: Scattered Poems 2001-2009. He has translated the work of authors such as Jack Kerouac, Gregory Corso and Charles Bukowski. He now lives secluded in the Greek countryside....Read more here

Original typescript of Charles Bukowski poem

Courtesy: Catfish McDaris