Age of miracles and wonder - international mail received via the South African Post Office

 

Well, this is certainly the age of miracles and wonder, especially when you finally get international mail delivered via the South African Post Office, and it comes from Henry Denander, poet, publisher and master watercolourist. Thank you, Hank!

Sun Ra mail art from Henry Denander

More mail art from the great, generous Henry Denander - a stamp series of his watercolour portrait of Sun Ra - thank you, Hank!

Received in the post

It is always a delight to receive surprise mail from Henry Denander - here we have art stamps, a postcard, a small collection of 12 collages, and of course a mail art envelope!

Mail art received from Henry Denander

Mail art received from Swedish artist, poet and publisher Henry Denander, including a stampsheet of portraits of Dr Hunter S Thompson. Am wondering whether Henry has done any portraits of Dr John, who died last week?

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.

Mail art: envelope from Henry Denander

Poetraits by Henry Denander

Poetraits, a collection of watercolour portraits by Henry Denander, published by Bottle of Smoke Press, Delaware, US.

Mail art from Henry Denander

Mail art received from Stockholm poet, artist and publisher Henry Denander (envelope and inside contents).

Mail Art from Henry Denander

Cats and Boxes by Henry Denander

Graffiti Kolkata volume 1

Graffiti Kolkata, volume 1, a new poetry journal edited by Subhankar Das, in Kolkata, India. Includes work by poets such as Catfish McDaris, Henry Denander, Kyle Allan, Yanis Livadas, Jim Wittenberg, Mistry Rainwater Lites, Subhankar Das, Falguni Roy, Michael McAloran, Lynn Alexander, Sharmy Panday and Gary Cummiskey.
Cover artwork by Henry Denander.

To order, email subhankar.das45@gmail.com.

Interludes of Passion by Ann Menebroker, published by Kamini Press

Interludes of Passion by Ann Menebroker, a mini-chapbook of three poems, published by Kamini Press, Stockholm, 2012.
Limited edition of 125 copies printed and signed by the author.
Cover artwork by Henry Denander.
To find out more about Kamini Press and to order titles, contact www.kaminipress.com

The Accidental Navigator by Henry Denander

The Accidental Navigator by Henry Denander, published by Lummox Press, San Pedro, California 2011

120 pages of new and selected poems from Stockholm poet and artist Denander. Drawing on his background as a financial manager in the music industry, some of the poems focus on musicians such as Chet Baker, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Keith Jarrett and Bob Dylan. Others are concerned with writers such as Henry Miller, Erica Jong, Haruki Murakami and Charles Bukowski. Some of the poems deal with Denander's sojourns on the island of Hydra, where the presence of Leonard Cohen is often lurking.

The volume also contains the excellent surreal story The Poetry of Mr Blue.

ISBN: 978-1-929878-88-8

The Accidental Navigator is available from www.lummoxpress.com

Watercolour of a cat by Henry Denander

Henry Denander is a Swedish poet and artist. He is the author of, among others, The Poetry of Mr Blue and The Loulaki Bar and other poems from Hydra.

Watercolour by Henry Denander

The Loulaki Bar and other poems from Hydra by Henry Denander

The Loulaki Bar and other poems from Hydra by Swedish poet and artist Henry Denander was published by Miskwabik Press, in the US in 2009. A beautiful little collection filled with watercolour paintings of people, animals ( lots of cats) street and harbour scenes.

One of the poems in the collection is:

Medicine

i eat twelve different pills
every day, i swallow them
down with water, there's no
taste or flavour, some are white
and some are blue, some are
large and some are small,
none of them make me fly.

Envelope from poet and artist Henry Denander, holidaying in Hydra

The poetry of Mr. Blue by Henry Denander

The poetry of Mr. Blue is a short story by Swedish poet and artist Henry Denander, published by Bottle of Smoke Press in 2007. The story, dedicated to jazz and blues historian Sam Charters, is a mysterious and disquieting tale set on the Greek island of Hydra. A beautiful little production, this English editon was limited to 225 copies. The first Swedish edition was limited to 75 copies.

Envelope from Stockholm poet and artist Henry Denander