Bill Griffiths

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"And the Lambs"

Larry hath
Sharp teeth open
(Well it's a white morning)
Sheep that will eat by bone
Jaws are grand axes

Uz is allays bein sinful Uz is fed up wiv it clamit Satan

And lamb

(this, I'm not sure why, is one of my favourites of Bill's poems.)

Bill was a good friend and one of the best poets I've known. I didn't see him very often, but it was always a pleasure to hang out with him when he was in town, or when our paths crossed at festivals etc. His commitments to both radical poetics and radical politics are an example to us all.

Eat Yerself Fitter

Couple of weeks back I blagged a copy of Adrian Clarke's new "Possession: Poems 1996 - 2006", from Veer Books. Don't know how much it costs but it seers your fists and everyone should get one. Now. I think the address is veer at gmail dot com, . Just find it. Razors after midnight.

Ha

Oh dear. Looks like my Baudelaire things are a bit controversial

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All of my translations of Baudelaire are now up in the latest issue of Onedit (link in sidebar). And you can listen to me reading some of em at the Bad Press site (ditto), tho I think I may have said that before.

Better than Ron

"The ethic is behavioral. I am a poet. It seems to me a point of honour and deep responsibility that I not number among my friends a cop, or a doctor or lawyer, or a president of the united states, or the head of an insane asylum, or a gangster" - Ed Dorn, 1963

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the yt communication blog (see link in sidebar) is now back in action, as are we. the role of the artist is a disturber of the peace. more noise. abolish the vortex of snobbery.

Two Translations from Baudelaire