I just posted a new podcast show. I put this show together around the two poems I’ve had published at Surprising Stories.com, and Bewildering Stories.com: The Aura Seekers, and The Righteous Wrong. I wrote them back in May. The Aura Seekers is all about self-centered people who think a lot of themselves. The Righteous Wrong [...]
Filed under: Friction Fiction, Literature, Poem, poetry | Leave a Comment »
The latest episode of my poetry and music podcast has some great anti-war poetry, and some brilliant music by unsigned people who I forgot to tell. Never mind. I’m sure they’ll like being here. Music by CDK, Squid Ink (Plastic Dave), a great collaboration between Squid Ink and The Hexyl Circle (that’s me), Tom MacNiven, [...]
Filed under: Anti-war, Creative Writing, Emerging Talent, Friction Fiction, Glastonbury, Literature, poetry, Unsigned | Leave a Comment »
I don’t mean overtly anti-war, but I do write poems with a theme of political power, neighbour versus neighbour, calls to arms, and division. So why did the RAF choose the day I’m recording Friction Fiction to try out their fighters overhead? Coincidence? Paranoid? Anyway, it makes for a poignant moment. So I’m putting the [...]
Filed under: Anti-war, Emerging Talent, Friction Fiction, Glastonbury, Podcasting, poetry | Leave a Comment »
That’s how I feel returning to blogging and podcasting and spoofing and block deleting spam after a great week in the south-west. Dartmoor and Cornwall were fabulous. It was like June. I can’t remember a better spring. But now I’m back, and cranking this blog machinery back to life. I had a great reply from [...]
Filed under: Blogging, Cho Seung-Hui, Friction Fiction, Restaurant Reviews, Satire, Writing | Leave a Comment »
Lots of poems with wordplay in them in this 40th edition of the music and poetry podcast show. I spent half the day recording it and the other half packing to get away for a few weeks. The music is great. I found Bombero’s song Andinfinity sitting doing nothing on ccmixter, and then I enlisted [...]
Filed under: Friction Fiction, Music, Myspace, Podcasting, poetry | Leave a Comment »
I just emailed a friend about a visit I made a week ago with Caroline, just before the VT killing, to Stourhead, a beautiful National Trust park near here. We saw a really strange incident. We were trekking round the grounds, and we reached the remote King Alfred’s Tower where there’s a Victorian folly, a [...]
Filed under: Blogging, Cho Seung-Hui, Creative Writing, Fiction, Friction Fiction, Podcasting | Leave a Comment »
That’s me looking intellectual before shorter hair and serious glasses playing a travel guitar on holiday somewhere, it looks like a Landmark Trust house. Today, I recorded Friction Fiction 39. I realised FF40 will coincide with going away, so I’ll have to get it recorded earlier next week. I decided not to read out my [...]
Filed under: Friction Fiction, poetry, Satire, Songwriting, The Riff | Leave a Comment »
Today I published the Friction Fiction Podcast Show 38 I recorded on Friday at Libsyn. Here it is on iandsmith.com for downloading or just plain listening. This week I play music from Slumberlords, Ditto, Stanton Delaplane, a great new song from Tommy Mac, and Ashwan. I read two poems from a booklet published by SCAN [...]
Filed under: A34 Bypass, Environment, Fiction, Friction Fiction, Green Issues, Literature, Music, Novel writing, Podcasting, poetry, Writing | Leave a Comment »
My long satirical piece Margaret Thatcher Speaks at the Gdansk Shipyard, 1988 is now up on Hold It Up For Ridicule. I wanted to do something a lot more thoughtful than usual, and I was inspired by the Gracenesta blog which I don’t even think comes out of the UK. They certainly don’t know what [...]
Filed under: Blogging, Friction Fiction, General, Literature, Music, Satire, Writing | Leave a Comment »
Here is the latest Friction Fiction podcast featuring music from Ghost K, Steveless, Meg, Sammy Ault, Valentine, A Singer Must Die and The Hexyl Circle, and poems from my collection What You Will See at Gattopublishing.com.
Filed under: Friction Fiction, Literature, Music, Podcasting, poetry | Leave a Comment »
