A lively, talented writer is Wred Fright. Check out the website of this dynamic stalwart of the small press and zine world, author of the hilarious garage band novel 'The Pornographic Flabbergasted Emus'. Visit Wred by clicking here.
The dynamic Bill Shute of Kendra Steiner Editions has a blog which relays fascinating details about the chapbooks, such as KMD's Retrospective Forecasts, which have been streaming from his San Antonio press at a rate of around 60 in the last year or so. Catch up with news about the Kendra Steiner poets (including Shute himself, who is a gifted and prolific bard), by clicking here.
There is a new website supporting poets and their work. It is run by Joe Thraveson-Lambert, a friend of the Derz and a contributor to the monthly poetry parties held out at Nacton near Ipswich. On this site you can upload your work and advertise your publications. Visit Poetry Pleasure and get acquainted with this enterprising new presence on the internet.
A colleague at the old Stock Unit is the artist Borin Van Loon who sets his stall up at the sign of the Severed Head. Toodle along to his website where you can see examples of his mad artwork and also order his Bart Dickon Omnibus which is a comic for the punnishly oriented and emotionally sophisticated. It's a experience, that's what.
If you want to see a catalogue of exciting and interesting new books in PDF format which you can buy online and download in a trice go to dpdotcom. You can sample the books first, too, with a free extract. It's simplicity itself, and these volumes are all only $5 American (a bit less than 3 quid, mate).
Are you surprised at how so many talentless poets seem to have made it, and you can't see what the fuss is about or why they are any good? Well, they're probably NOT any good. On the other hand, there's a group of subversive poets who have just formed the Guerilla Poetics Project, and they deserve your attention. Check the site out here.
An Ipswich alumnus and poetic colleague of the Derz is Bob Lenney, now a bard with a website. A student of creative writing he was, when KMD for the one and only time held a Workshop. Check Lenney's site why doncha? There was a memorable night at the Plough when Lenney's book 'Heretic' (from Appliance) was launched. In short, the lad goes back a fair way. Nice site modelled, I believe, on the old ragged EDGE.
Don't forget the glossy print mag with all the news about Kerouac, Ginsberg, Corso and similar publications and releases, Beat Scene. Bookmark the site, and also use it to subscribe to the fascinating mag full of photos, interviews and articles about those Beats (also Buk).
Veteran small press poet and reviewer Ian Seed has a new ezine out, a monthly. He uploads Stannard, Mallin and the Derz in the first issue 1, along with others. One to bookmark: Shadow Train.
John Baker is an accessible and interesting writer, and a Brit, with a number of books out. Find his website and weblog here.
A section is dedicated to KMD, with six of his poems, on the Other Voices website (in Vol 14): find it when you click this.
Review of a book about San Francisco's 'Barbarian' poets by future ragged EDGE contributor Charles P. Ries found here.
Two Derz poems are due to appear in #9 of Coffee House Poetry, Jan Fortune-Wood's tasty mag. Click the link and check the website out, have a look at some of the competition winners (incl. Ronnie Goodyer), maybe mail a cheque while you're at it.
A new stopover that's highly recommended for a visit and a Bookmark: Rupert Mallin's website,
rupert.mallin.info, which is full of art and poetry. Also contains a link to his blog.
Web Directory of Resources, including Literature, Free Submissions are Welcome.
There's a website has its origins in the University of South Carolina. The Lemming is a multicoloured streaming audio experience of the literary kind. Marcelle Crickenberger and her team are doing a great job. See what you think -- run with The Lemming.
Zygote in my Coffee is a fantastic webzine run by Brian Fugett. Features Winans, Brad Hamlin and many others. You'll want to make a favorite of this baby. Click here for Zygote.
A brilliant new publisher with a cracking website is Bluechrome. Loads of interesting titles here, worth sending for. Get there and check it out.
Laura Hird has a web phenomenon going.
Her site is vibrant, baby, full of ideas and bursting with links. The internet was made for enthusiasts like Laura: click here.
Mystery Island may change your life.
Take the trip and see how the natives are faring when you click here.
Aesthetica, a magazine from York run by Cherie Federico, is worth investigating.
Find out about it by visiting the website.
Monkey Kettle is a magazine from Milton Keynes. The website seems lively, the place must have a scene all right.
See what's bubbling in the Kettle when you click here.
There's a fantastic literary cornucopia of a website hosted from Atlanta, Georgia, called Unlikely Stories. My first find there was the superb gay black poet Shane Allison. Then I got into the think-pieces of the editor, Jonathan Penton. All highly recommended, quirky, original. I go back there all the time.
Explore it all when you click here.
An ezine well worth your attention is Jim Chandler's baby. Consistently presenting thoughtful material you want to read -- and reread. Thunder Sandwich. Check it out--great place to browse to find yourself some new verse scribblers.
For Thunder, click here.
Following through a tip from Martin Blyth's poetry website (see below) we lucked onto findpoetry.com. Check it out--great place to browse to find yourself some new verse scribblers.
Click here to visit the site now.
Ragged EDGE readers may be interested to know about a series of promotions in the Derz's home town that is shortly going to feature the artist. Check out the 'Is It On Boy?' website for gigs at Tne Venue.
You can read KMD's autobiographical sketch 'Gainsborough Boy' and interesting
articles and poems by other hands on the Wandering Dog website [http://wanderingdog.co.uk].
Another goodie packed with Beat info and comment, this time originating in Southern California, is Mary Sands' Beat Generation News [http://home.earthlink.net/~beatnews/].
Peter Howard runs an informative and entertaining site, Low Probability of Racoons, affiliated to the Poetry Society here in England. Many links and sources, also clever poems including Hypertext verse that shimmers and
dances. [http://www.hphoward.demon.co.uk/poetry/].
Ernest Slyman of New York City has an an attractive webpage called Poet Watch studded with photographs of the faces of poets. Click the thumbnail and you go to a website featuring the poet's work. Great idea? [http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/7514/].
You must get into The Beat Page and study those great artists some more. Nicely presented, with evocative photos, many new--to me at least. Immortal ephemera and passing gods. [http://www.rooknet.com/beatpage/index.html]. Click button below to visit it now.
Findpoetry comes recommended by Martin Blyth (see above). Click the button below to visit a very lively poetical site bursting with links and not only that but abounding with free offers.
Dimestore Productions have put a link in from their site to the ragged Edge. According to Ian Shires, the Ragged is:
Open Wide Magazine has now gone back from e-zine to a print format, but you can still stay in touch via the website. Issue 12 now out, highly charged material, mean and gutsy writers. It knocks the stuffing out of some of these crusty old mags that have been creaking around the place for years.
Give yourself a treat, find out the latest news about it and mail a subscription after you've clicked here.
"A decent artist site, exposing views and writings of the creator of the site, and others. Lots to read, plenty to look at. Very real and down to earth. I enjoyed looking around."
If you wish to go to Dimestore Productions, a fascinating shop window of the literary cyberworld bursting with opinion, click here.
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