Issue 11.2 Spring 2016

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Author Statement

Micro-climates I call my poems. These are short dense works subject to chance associations, seed text, spliced narratives, gags, lyrical enquiry, psycho-geographical ramblings, post-modern cut up & whatever may be passing / bump me. I fuse such active bright lil’circuits until they are fast & self-sufficient. These are subject to rapid shifts in form & time periods as well multiple voices & multiple characters, they are disciplined but most unstable. These micro-climates are entirely unplanned before conception & are pleasingly subject to prevailing conditions, whatever I’m reading, doing, wherever I go. The most suitable of these I learn & perform individually or as part of a short sequence. In terms some of these may be made into a video poem or song. As a poet/performer, when the opportunity arises in terms of suitable content I use poetry as a vehicle for performance, onstage as well as with music & video. My aim is to make sharp, concise, disciplined work which is presented through a fragile, punk filter. I try to present a fluid body of work appealing to fellow poets as well as practitioners of other art disciplines & as a result collaborate whenever the opportunity arises. I like my work to promote a sense of urgency in both performance & page, something sharp presented with vigor & push

Billy Cancel has recently appeared in Blazevox, Gobbet & Streetcake Magazine. His latest body of work PSYCHO'CLOCK is imminent on Hidden House Press. Sound poems, visual shorts and other aberrations can be found at billycancelpoetry.com

 

zealous thresher

 

Billy Cencel

 

 

zealous thresher     village background     fades
red to pink so     glad we were capable of     power
prang for slack ebb &     could get it together     now    
back to the farm muscle boy     my undulating
song is only in effect     2 hours either side of high
tide     or else it’s the sky hotel     some caution
sign then the block ‘n’ fall joint         duller in plumage
     less red markings     i’ve returned from the
shambles with     a fresh fresh horse     so check your
6     this sounds like     a personal problem     they’re back
from a fool’s errand     with a club fed lobby pass &
bad idea jeans     well up for craptitude swoon
time         spud & onion man declares he’s also
     got the warm fuzzies     for a blotched grid
wrong number     & is at treetop level all engines
out         dreary thing     pressed send sent bounces    
     back from physical world     minus chain link fence     no chain
link fence     for loose color slope     loose color slope     brightness
highly saturated     brightness all     energy movement all     unreadable
text unreadable text     acceleration spread

 

 

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