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"Ah-oh, smokestack lightning
Shinin', just like gold
Why don't ya hear me cryin'?"
Howling Wolf
Smokestack champions poets who are unconventional, unfashionable, radical or left-field and who are working a long way from the metropolitan centres of cultural authority.
Smokestack is interested in the World as well as the Word.
"In the dark times
Will there also be singing?
Yes, there will also be singing
About the dark times."
Bertolt Brecht
Smokestack believes that poetry is a part of and not apart from society.
"and on every side
smokestacks were dancing on rooftops."
Vladimir Mayakovsky
Smokestack does not think "difficulty" in poetry is a virtue or that poetry is a place in which to hide.
Smokestack argues that if poetry does not belong to everyone it is not poetry.
"Smokestack has a great squad of radical poets lined up for its first season. I predict that the team will roll like thunder, strike like lightening and electrify British poetry."
Adrian Mitchell
The Blue Cat is a courteous, outspoken, well-read, somewhat randy anarchist ready again to lay down one of his lives for what he believes. He's a cross between Top Cat, Puss in Boots, Schrodinger's Cat and the Cat in a Hat. He's a trickster, a prankster, an illusionist and an illusion. And he's in the UK. Frank Reeve tours the UK in July, at the following venues:
The Blue Cat Walks the Earth is the third book in which Frank Reeve has let the Blue Cat out of the bag. The book comes with a CD of Frank Reeve reading these new poems accompanied by Don Davis on sax and Joe Deleault on piano.
More about The Blue Cat Walks the Earth.
Full list of Smokestack publications.
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Last update: 30th June 2009.
