accepts poetry / prose / hybrid - the aesthetics of dread, iconoclasm, fractured history, etc ISSUE 4 https://xitter.cf/t.co/7pMr2OJmvf editor @huntergagnon
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Excited to present Issue 5
work that questions history, revelation and the concept of language
poems by: Meg Smith @MegSmith_Writer , Ruchi Acharya, Tom Charles Bair III @pilate_lite , Isabella Melians, Vytenis Bagdonas @bagvyt , and Mike Bove
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ALT red slouching beast image with text "what metamorphic / and volatile creatures." -Isabella Melians
All who have submitted, thanks for bearing with us - all responses are very delayed - one could say the beast writhes, decayed, near absent body, in the sludge of an unspeakable pit
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A publication worth supporting, for the range and depth of its vision and ambition. And hello to @huntergagnon who I see has work in it, he was such a pleasure to correspond with when he published work of mine recently in the excellent @SlouchingBeastJ.
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read the striking "Home alone" by Vytenis Bagdonas @bagvyt
Bagdonas generates an amazing intensity of memory and image here, with details energizing commentary - we loved it, and the dark-dwelling insects too, of course
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Alan Bern's photo-haiga in @ZinDaily!
"... I capture moments, sometimes with the camera on my phone, sometimes with a few words, and sometimes with both... And, yes, it’s often awfully familiar, but there is always something new to see..."
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"Rats Live on No Evil Star" by Mike Bove
A sweet poem about child-rearing, anxiety and a very evocative palindrome. The rats are the little fleeting custodians of our dreams. A piece of memory and change.
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Read and love (as we did) Chella Courington's poems - personal and narrative, they generate a jewel-like reality that allows for intensified cataclysm
"Clouds" and "Close to the Edge"
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"MISSIVE TO MY CHILDREN" and "CLATTER OF BLISS"
by Ismail Junaid Oluwadamilare @IsmailJunaidOl1
Thundering language of metaphysical suffering, triumph and warfare - poems acting as incantations and expansions of the personal into cosmic battle
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"The coming resort of the world" and "114,901 acres" by Glenn Bach @AtlasCorpus
incredible world-poetry that describes an "Atlas" through scenes of environmental change, expansion, the hungry and terrified spirit-beast of development striding around
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The whole schema! Prize-winning book from past contributor Dennis Hinrichsen published by @GreenLinden1 Includes poems from Issue 2 oslouchingbeastjournal.com/d…
"—O euro & yen // British pound sterling //
how you see me leaving darkened rooms // hands dripping"
An amazing (and free!) album of 8 poems by Dennis Hinrichsen set to soundscapes by Tom Larter! schema geometrica is the inaugural selection in our Wishing Jewel series, awarded to a collection of poems that challenges our ideas about what a book can be.
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Read "Body Count" and "Lucy Terry Prince" by Elizabeth Upshur @Lizzy5by5 in Issue 4
Love these poems that intensely engage with the concept of history - as a personal, scattering, violent concept, redeemed by the possibility of communion through story
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Language battles its own abstraction - "Be Radha, She Wrote On The Back" by Kushal Poddar - emotion narrative inflamed by cosmic imagery, read it! Very good intensification of substance w/ sleeves of myth-images slouchingbeastjournal.com/ku…
Going to try this newsletter thing. About to send out some flustered thoughts (a rant!) + praise for Issue 4 contributors
Will be more personal, but, potentially, ill-advised🦺
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Loved the short fiction / flash horror of Steven Hendrix in Issue 4
work that is calmly, coldly estranging
(we at Slouching Beast are addicted to estrangement)
read "I took the elevator down..." and "My pen falls from my hand..."
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Behold *Issue 4*
"instead of zero at the bone, we find each other"
- Elizabeth Upshur
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w/ excellent work from
Chella Courington
Ismail Junaid Oluwadamilare @IsmailJunaidOl1
Glenn Bach @AtlasCorpus
Elizabeth Upshur
Steven Hendrix
Kushal Poddar @Kushalpoe
"A WOLF IN THE HEAD" and "PLEASE PASS WHAT HE SAID" by Alan Bern
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Atmospherics of panic, delirium, fear, predation + breakdown of language. Bern's pieces immediately transmit the reader into a specific perception / interior world.
Read "Beyond the Flesh" by Seungbihn Park
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Park's poems are vivid, reflective and sometimes brutally violent - voice projected into the communal drift of consciousness, and the intensity of life taken.
