Deathmasques

 Deathmasques is a collection of early writings: a few prose poems and tales from 1970-1973. 

The prose poems comprised six pieces: 'The Poet' (1970), 'No More Beauty' (1971), 'In the Palace of The Sphinx (The Supplicant)' (1972), 'Dream of Stone' (1972), 'Into The Abyss (The Renegade)' (1972) and 'Silence' (1973).
One felt that the prose poem was a particularly Decadent form. Also included were two macabre short stories 'Mute Witness' (1972) and 'We Vampires' (1972). Other texts from this period include chunks of experimental neo-gothic or modern fantastic fiction (mainly dreadful!) and various quasi-theoretical statements relating to art projects such as Crisis of the Object and Rictus Sardonicus.
Deathmasques story 'We Vampires' appeared in the anthology Haunting Tales (2008) and 'Mute Witness' from the same collection appeared in Monomyth # 44 Issue 8.2 (2008) both from Atlantean Publishing.

Deathmasques publication 1999-2020

Deathmasques I The Poet, Headstorms Short Fiction Magazine Vol 1 Inclement Publishing, 2004
Deathmasques I The Poet, Monomyth Supplement Issue 12 Atlantean Publishing, 2004
Deathmasques I The Poet, International Times Jul 2020
Deathmasques II No More Beauty, Unhinged PJL Press, 3 Sept 1999
Deathmasques II No More Beauty, International Times Sept 2020
Deathmasques III In the Palace of the Sphinx (The Supplicant), International Times Sept 2020
Deathmasques IV Dream of Stone, Unhinged 6 Sex & Death Issue PJL Press, 2000
Deathmasques IV Dream of Stone, International Times Oct 2020
Deathmasques V The Renegade, Monomyth Supplement Issue 13 Atlantean Publishing, 2004
Deathmasques V The Renegade (Into The Abyss), International Times Oct 2020
Deathmasques VI Silence, Midnight Street 2, Immediate Direction, 2004
Deathmasques VI Silence, International Times Nov 2020

Related publications 2020

Mute Witness, International Times Nov 2020

We Vampires. International Times May 2020

Illus: Neo-Convulsive Self-Portrait 1973/2001

Metropolitain

 

- il y a des princesses, et, ci tu n'es pas trop accable, l'etude des astres, - le ciel.

- there are princesses, and if you're not too freaked out, the study of the stars - the sky.

- Arthur Rimbaud Metropolitain:  Les Illuminations (1886)

illus: Metropolitain, 2002

Life Into Shape

 The burnt out trees will leave you cold…

 – Beth Orton

At that moment, when I thought I was about to die, I saw my entire life unravel. It was an indistinct vision, a split second in time. Can I describe the shape of my life as I saw it then, at that moment?

The starting point, the point of departure, as it were, was a Point – I saw a microscopic, metallic point lost in a black void.

Is it possible to call a point a shape?

Should I think of this point as a complex entity, like a trefoil icosahedron or a Medusa-like tangle of helical forms unwinding through time? Undoubtedly the split-second itself was The Point, the horizon of infinity enclosed in time by perception.

Within the temporality of that second, as it split asunder, the point unfolded, unfurling with agonising slowness. It would be very tempting to describe this monadic point as a tessellated surface of Celtic spirals. Perhaps it was a multifaceted crystal, its flat walls conforming to the laws of low energy directions, or even a gold crystal with a pitted surface like that of Saturn’s moon Iapetus. Yet, in close up, this entity (my life) appeared more like a donut of magnetic fluid.

However, I knew that this was an illusion and, being the extrapolation of mathematical co-ordinates derived from my imagination, it would mutate into a web-like form, a network, each node a scintilla generated by the primal departure point itself. The majority of these secondary points represented co-ordinates outside the narrow parameters of the linear time-line of my ‘life’ as understood on a mundane, day-to-day basis. This web extended beyond the antechamber of memory, encompassing ancestral events and unconscious experiences, producing patterns very different from the past-present-future trajectory of the arrow of time.

If the synchronic shape of my life is a light-cone of consciousness, then the diachronic shape of my life is the broad-leafed arrow of time, emerging from womb-darkness, vanishing into darkness beyond the grave. But the multidimensional shape of my life is this network of co-ordinates.

Looking more closely at the filamentous matrix, it was clear that some scintilla had a reddish hue while others were ice-blue. The red points signified moments of pain or negative emotion such as – for example – crises during critical illnesses, times of bereavement, early nightmares and several road accidents (including this one). The few ice-blue points represented instances of clarity. The vast majority of nodes were of neutral, indeterminate, off-white complexion.

I looked in vain for lights indicating moments of passion, for the centre of desire is a Black Hole from which, as we all know, light cannot escape.

At this moment my perception of the multiform shape of my ‘life’ registered another change and the fascinating web mutated yet again.

The resolution of the image degraded. Black turned to white and the interlaced network changed into a vision of bare branches: burnt out trees, stark against a greying sky.

First published in Headstorms Short Fiction Magazine Vol 1, Inclement Publishing, 2004

Poetry & Prose Publications 2000-2009

 

Poetry Publications 2000-2009

Includes Prose Poems and Short Fiction - A Fractured Muse and Vespula Vanishes

  

Unspoken Poetry, Awen Issue 6 Oct 2000, Atlantean Publishing
Angels Bring Us, Awen Issue 7 Dec 2000, Atlantean Publishing
Haunted Astral, Awen Issue 7 Dec 2000, Atlantean Publishing
Dog Star Days, Colonies May 2000
Reflections Extend Worlds, Colonies May 2000
Black Hole Binary, Colonies Scifi , zyworld, 2000
Dog Star Days, Colonies Scifi, zyworld, 2000
In Sympathy With Horror, Druscilla’s Garden 12 Oct 2000
The Shadow Of The Marvelous, Fire No 11 May 2000
Point Of Departure, Handshake No 39 Mar 2000, Dunnock Press
Reliquary, Handshake No 40 May 2000, Dunnock Press
Underworld, Handshake No 42 Sept 2000, Dunnock Press
Moment, Handshake No 43 Dec 2000, Dunnock Press,
Haze Of Pain, International Mag Jan 2000
This/Where, International Mag Jan 2000
Meridian Of The Sun, Legend Issue 2 Winter 2000, Immediate Direction,
Where Flowers, Monas Hieroglyphica Issue 10 Spring 2000, The Monas Press,
Wings Conjoined In Lure, Not Dead But Dreaming XI Apr 2000,
Empty Rooms, Not Dead But Dreaming XII Dec 2000
Unspoken Poetry, Not Dead But Dreaming XII Dec 2000
The Vision Of Morgan Le Fay, Penny Dreadful Issue XIII Midsummer 2000, Pendragonian Publications,
Snowballs In Hell (Don’t Give A…), Planet Prozak Issue 10 Spring 2000, Literally Literary,
Mondo Bizarre (Eyes Insane), Planet Prozak Issue 12 Winter 2000-2001, Literally Literary,
Poetry Reading, Planet Prozak Nov 2000, Literally Literary
Stunning Sunbirds, Planet Prozak Nov 2000, Literally Literary
In The Strange House, Pulsar Edition 1/00 21 Feb 2000, Ligden Publishers
Still Unruffled, Pulsar Edition 1/00 21 Feb 2000, Ligden Publishers
Playing Chopin Op 96 No 1 (L’Adieu), Pulsar Edition 3/00 23 Aug 2000, Ligden Publishers
By The Crimson Sea, Pulsar Edition 4/00 24 Nov 2000, Ligden Publishers
Spiral In The Dust, Silver Wheel No 56 Samhain/Yule 2000
The Black Mask, Silver Wheel No 56 Samhain/Yule 2000
The Uncanny Dance, Silver Wheel No 56 Samhain/Yule 2000
A Long Kiss On Bitch Island, Slope 3 Mar 2000
Neon Aeon I Got Moved On, Stride Magazine, 2000
Neon Aeon II Is There Anybody There? (Freundschaftkarte), Stride Magazine, 2000
Neon Aeon III Heide Woz Ere 93, Stride Magazine, 2000
Neon Aeon IV Just Like You, Stride Magazine, 2000
Neon Aeon V Bomb The Chapel, Stride Magazine, 2000
Before Art, Stride Magazine Oct 2000
Dada Radar, Stride Magazine Oct 2000
Dissolve This Explosion, Stride Magazine Oct 2000
You Are A Star Ascending, Stride Magazine Oct 2000
Some Dreams, The Brobdingnagian Times Broadsheet 17 Nov 2000,
Angel Pictures, This Sepulchre, Springbeach Press, 2000
Beyond The Black Isles, This Sepulchre, Springbeach Press, 2000
Cold Looks White Mask, This Sepulchre, Springbeach Press, 2000
Daughter Of Darkness, This Sepulchre, Springbeach Press, 2000
Flicker Of A Thousand Lights, This Sepulchre, Springbeach Press, 2000
Haze Of Pain, This Sepulchre, Springbeach Press, 2000
In Sympathy With Horror, This Sepulchre, Springbeach Press, 2000
In The Strange House, This Sepulchre, Springbeach Press, 2000
Let There Be Night, This Sepulchre, Springbeach Press, 2000
Sarcastic Angel, This Sepulchre, Springbeach Press, 2000
Skeleton Girls, This Sepulchre, Springbeach Press, 2000
Storm Vision, This Sepulchre, Springbeach Press, 2000
The Black Mask, This Sepulchre, Springbeach Press, 2000
The Craft Of Vision, This Sepulchre, Springbeach Press, 2000
The Monolith, This Sepulchre, Springbeach Press, 2000
The Sarcastic Smile, This Sepulchre, Springbeach Press, 2000
The Shadow Of The Marvellous, This Sepulchre, Springbeach Press, 2000
This Sepulchre, This Sepulchre, Springbeach Press, 2000
Timelight, This Sepulchre, Springbeach Press, 2000
Tonight My Soul, This Sepulchre, Springbeach Press, 2000
Towards Daybreak, This Sepulchre, Springbeach Press, 2000
Towards Sunset, This Sepulchre, Springbeach Press, 2000
Undead Elegy, This Sepulchre, Springbeach Press, 2000
Unspeakable Elegy, This Sepulchre, Springbeach Press, 2000
Vampire Bondage, This Sepulchre, Springbeach Press, 2000
Where The Vanished City Stood, This Sepulchre, Springbeach Press, 2000
Deathmasques IV Dream of Stone, Unhinged 6 Sex & Death Issue Sept 2000, PJL Press
Burning Man VII Celebrity Crucifixion Photos, Backdrop 2 Apr 2001
Against The World, Cold Print Aug 2001
Convulsive Inspiration (Occult Inspiration), Cold Print Feb 2001
And Now The Rain, Druscilla’s Garden 13 Jan 2001
The Agent Of Destruction, Druscilla's Garden 13 Jan 2001
Babe Rainbow, Fire 11 May 2001
Depths, Fire No 14 May 2001
Empty Rooms, Fire No 14 May 2001
The Obscure Nature Of Turbulence, Fire No 14 May 2001
The Stone Door, Fire No 14 May 2001
Undercover Soundtrack, Fire No 14 May 2001
Meet The Folks (Who Live In Hell), Garbaj Issue 4 Feb 2001, Atlantean Publishing
Slump, Garbaj Issue 6 Aug 2001, Atlantean Publishing
This Carpet’s On Fire , Garbaj Issue 6 Aug 2001, Atlantean Publishing
Could Be Anywhere, Garbaj Issue 7 Nov 2001, Atlantean Publishing
Implosion, Handshake No 44 Mar 2001, Dunnock Press
Closed Moment, Harlequin II Oct 2001
Magnetic Poetry, Harlequin II Sept 2001
Skeleton Girls, Legend Issue 3 Summer 2001, Immediate Direction
The Uncanny Dance, Legend Issue 4 Autumn/Winter 2001, Immediate Direction
Out Of The Velvet Womb, Monomyth Yearbook 1998 [Jul 2001], Atlantean Publishing
Always, Moonstone 82 Beltane May 2001
Eidolon, Moonstone 84 Halloween Nov 2001
Snowfall At Dusk, Moonstone 84 Halloween Nov 2001,
Darkness Of Secrets, Penny Dreadful Issue XIV 2001, Pendragonian Publications
Muse In Darkness, Penny Dreadful Issue XIV 2001, Pendragonian Publications
Unholy Communion, Penny Dreadful Issue XIV 2001, Pendragonian Publications
And The Earth Dies Away, Pulsar Edition 1/02 25 Mar 2001, Ligden Publishers
The Collogruis, Pulsar Edition 2/02 26 June 2001, Ligden Publishers
Art Deco Endgame, Pulsar Edition 4/01 28 Dec 2001, Ligden Publishers
Closed Moment, Songs Of Innocence IV 2001/2002, Pendragonian Publications
Skeleton Girls, Stagger Feral Equinox Issue Mar 2001, Stagger Press
This Carpet’s On Fire , Stagger Feral Equinox Issue Mar 2001, Stagger Press
Vanishing Point, The Black Rose 8 Jun 2001,
Alien Hand Syndrome , The Void Gallery, 2001
Chorale Figurata , The Void Gallery, 2001
Darkness Or Nothing , The Void Gallery, 2001
Distraction , The Void Gallery, 2001
Dream Fractals , The Void Gallery, 2001
Footsteps In The Snow , The Void Gallery, 2001
Image To Dream , The Void Gallery, 2001
Insomnia, The Void Gallery, 2001
Invisible Glory , The Void Gallery, 2001
Kiss The Peach , The Void Gallery, 2001
Lost Words , The Void Gallery, 2001
Meridian Of The Sun , The Void Gallery, 2001
Misplaced Poem , The Void Gallery, 2001
No Muse Of My Cold Heart, The Void Gallery, 2001
Only Shadows , The Void Gallery, 2001
Open Harmony , The Void Gallery, 2001
Self Ritualisation , The Void Gallery, 2001
Sometimes Audible , The Void Gallery, 2001
Street , The Void Gallery, 2001
Swan Of Yuggoth , The Void Gallery, 2001
The Submerged Forest , The Void Gallery, 2001
Tree of Light , The Void Gallery, 2001
The Estranged Attractor, Voyage Issue 11 July 2001, Regent Publications
Storm Vision, Bard Issue 002 2002, Atlantean Publishing
Dream Fractals I, Cold Print Feb 2002
Dream Fractals II (The Wave Function Of All Dreams), Cold Print Feb 2002
Maybe This Is Why, Fire No 18 Sept 2002
No Living, Fire No 18 Sept 2002
Thunder These Trees (Externity Now), Fire No 18 Sept 2002
Unspoken Poetry, Fire No 18 Sept 2002
Edge Of Zone, Harlequin III Feb 2002
Figure, Harlequin V Oct 2002
Angels Bring Us, Inclement Vol 2 Issue 4 Winter 2002
Lost Words, Inclement Vol 2 Issue 4 Winter 2002
Only Shadows, Inclement Vol 2 Issue 4 Winter 2002
Reflections In A Mirror, Inclement Vol 2 Issue 4 Winter 2002
By The Crimson Sea, Legend Issue 5 Spring/Summer 2002 Immediate Direction
Image To Dream, Legend Issue 5 Spring/Summer 2002 Immediate Direction
No Muse Of My Cold Heart, Moonstone 85 Candlemas Jan 2002
Votive, Moonstone 88 Samhain Nov 2002
Dark Anima, Moonstone 88 Samhain Nov 2002
In Extremis, Neon Highway Issue 2 Oct 2002
Loop Decay, Neon Highway Issue 2 Oct 2002
Waiting Here, Neon Highway Issue 2 Oct 2002
A Sleeping Form, Poetry Exchange , 2002
My Thoughts My Mirror, Pulsar Edition 2/02 30 June 2002 Ligden Publishers
Anthelion, Pulsar Edition 3/02 31 Sept 2002 Ligden Publishers
The Spiral Staircase, Pulsar Edition 3/02 31 Sept 2002 Ligden Publishers
To An Aesthete Dying Young, Pulsar Edition 4/02 32 Dec 2002 Ligden Publishers
There Are Many Roads To Space, Text Book Writing Through Literature, Bradford/St Martin's, 2002
Darkness Or Nothing, The Seventh Seal 5 Apr 2002
Don’t Ask Why, The Seventh Seal 5 Apr 2002
Lost Words, The Seventh Seal 5 Apr 2002
Only Shadows, The Seventh Seal 5 Apr 2002
Borderlands Of The World , The Void Gallery, 2002
Boredom (The Cage) , The Void Gallery, 2002
Clockwork Universe , The Void Gallery, 2002
Dark Anima , The Void Gallery, 2002
Externity Now , The Void Gallery, 2002
In These Solitudes , The Void Gallery, 2002
Infinite , The Void Gallery, 2002
Interference Phenomena , The Void Gallery, 2002
More Modern Still, The Void Gallery, 2002
No Philosophy , The Void Gallery, 2002
Poetry Moon Mirror , The Void Gallery, 2002
The Night Alone, Awen Issue 20 Feb 2003, Atlantean Publishing
Dialogue, Candelabrum Vol XI No 4, Red Candle Press, 2003
Depraved, Eclipse Issue 32 Oct 2003, Everyman Press,
Poetry Reading, Eclipse Issue 33 Dec 2003, Everyman Press,
A Sleeping Form, Fractured Muse, Atlantean Publishing, 2003
Angst, Fractured Muse, Atlantean Publishing, 2003
Chronotope, Fractured Muse, Atlantean Publishing, 2003
Depths, Fractured Muse, Atlantean Publishing, 2003
Dynasty Of Venus, Fractured Muse, Atlantean Publishing, 2003
Even The Fading Light, Fractured Muse, Atlantean Publishing, 2003
Fractured Muse, Fractured Muse, Atlantean Publishing, 2003
Implosion, Fractured Muse, Atlantean Publishing, 2003
No Philosophy, Fractured Muse, Atlantean Publishing, 2003
Pictures Of Distant Objects, Fractured Muse, Atlantean Publishing, 2003
Swan Of Yuggoth, Fractured Muse, Atlantean Publishing, 2003
The Ceremony, Fractured Muse, Atlantean Publishing, 2003
To An Aesthete Dying Young, Fractured Muse, Atlantean Publishing, 2003
Tower Of Silence, Fractured Muse, Atlantean Publishing, 2003
Twentieth Century Girl, Fractured Muse, Atlantean Publishing, 2003
We Are The Forgotten Ones, Fractured Muse, Atlantean Publishing, 2003
Chronotope, Fragments No 19 Other People Other Places Apr 2003
Moment, Fragments No 19 Other People Other Places Apr 2003
No Living, Fragments No 19 Other People Other Places Apr 2003
See, Fragments No 19 Other People Other Places Apr 2003
Tower Of Silence, Fragments No 20 That's Life! Jul 2003
Kiss The Peach, Fragments No 21 Improvisation Dec 2003
Only Shadows, Harlequin VI Feb 2003
Swan Of Yuggoth, Harlequin VII Jun 2003
Misplaced Poem, Inclement Vol 3 Issue 3 Autumn 2003
To The Temple, Inclement Vol 3 Issue 3 Autumn 2003
Always, Monomyth Vol 3.4 No 25 Issue 27 2003, Atlantean Publishing,
Are You Not, Monomyth Vol 3.4 No 25 Issue 27 2003 , Atlantean Publishing,
Darkness Of Secrets, Monomyth Vol 3.4 No 25 Issue 27 2003,Atlantean Publishing,
Insomnia, Monomyth Vol 3.4 No 25 Issue 27 2003,Atlantean Publishing,
Invisible Razors, Monomyth Vol 3.4 No 25 Issue 27 2003,Atlantean Publishing,
Kiss The Peach, Monomyth Vol 3.4 No 25 Issue 27 2003,Atlantean Publishing,
Moment, Monomyth Vol 3.4 No 25 Issue 27 2003,Atlantean Publishing,
Muse In Darkness, Monomyth Vol 3.4 No 25 Issue 27 2003,Atlantean Publishing,
Music Fades, Monomyth Vol 3.4 No 25 Issue 27 2003,Atlantean Publishing,
No Sensation, Monomyth Vol 3.4 No 25 Issue 27 2003,Atlantean Publishing,
Still Unruffled, Monomyth Vol 3.4 No 25 Issue 27 2003,Atlantean Publishing,
Underworld, Monomyth Vol 3.4 No 25 Issue 27 2003,Atlantean Publishing,
Most Adored, Moonstone 89 Imbolc Feb 2003
(Another), Outlaw 2 Spring 2003
Angst, Outlaw 2 Spring 2003
Even The Fading Light, Outlaw 2 Spring 2003
Fractured Muse, Outlaw 2 Spring 2003
Vision Impossible, Outlaw 2 Spring 2003
More Modern Still, Outlaw 3 Summer 2003
Dynasty Of Venus, Outlaw 5 Winter 2003
Hermetic Space, Outlaw 5 Winter 2003
Infinite, Outlaw 5 Winter 2003
Invisible Razors, Outlaw 5 Winter 2003
Moonlight Heaven, Outlaw 5 Winter 2003
Something Like This, Pulsar Edition 2/03 34 June 2003 Ligden Publishers
The Monolith, Pulsar Edition 4/03 36 Dec 2003 Ligden Publishers
New Fusion, The Brobdingnagian Times Broadsheet 26 Winter 2003
Out Of The Velvet Womb, The Void Gallery, 2003
Playing Chopin , The Void Gallery, 2003
Misplaced Poem, Anthology 1, Inclement Publishing, 2003
To The Temple, Anthology 1, Inclement Publishing, 2003
Exploring The Text, Avocado Autumn 2004, The Heaventree Press,
The Lost Book, Awen Issue 27 Apr 2004, Atlantean Publishing,
Even The Fading Light, Candelabrum Vol XI No 6, Red Candle Press,
You Looked The Other Way, Eclipse Issue 34 Feb 2004, Everyman Press,
Indigo Zenobia, Eclipse Issue 35 Apr 2004, Everyman Press,
Angels In A Heavenly Landscape, Fire No 22 Jan 2004,
A Secret Language (Trip Up Again), Fire No 24 Oct 2004,
Trip Up Poem, Fire No 24 Oct 2004,
Growing Up In Tiger Bay, Fragments No 22 Pictures & Poems Mar 2004,
Music Fades, Fragments No 23 Artists & Poets Jul 2004,
This Poem, Fragments No 23 Artists & Poets Jul 2004,
Image To Dream, Fragments No 24 Amazing & Wonderful Nov 2004
Spiral In The Dust, Harlequin VIII Apr 2004
But I Can See, Headstorms Vol 1 2004, Inclement Publishing,
Deathmasques I The Poet, Headstorms Vol 1 2004, Inclement Publishing
Life Into Shape, Headstorms Vol 1 2004, Inclement Publishing,
Deathmasques VI Silence, Midnight Street 2, Immediate Direction, 2004
Deathmasques I The Poet, Monomyth Supplement Issue 12 2004, Atlantean Publishing,
Deathmasques V The Renegade, Monomyth Supplement Issue 13 2004, Atlantean Publishing,
Nothing Is, Moonstone 94 Beltane May2004
Believe This, Moonstone 95 Lammas Aug 2004
Unknown, Neon Highway Issue 8 Aug 2004
Aspherical Test Control (Omega Lightning), Outlaw 8 Autumn 2004
Maybe This Is Why, Outlaw 8 Autumn 2004
Lost Masterpiece, Pulsar Edition 1/04 37 Mar 2004, Ligden Publishers
Relatively Cool, Pulsar Edition 2/04 38 June 2004, Ligden Publishers
This Poem, Pulsar Edition 3/04 39 Sept 2004, Ligden Publishers
Even Anarchists, Pulsar Edition 4/04 40 Dec 2004, Ligden Publishers
Entranced, The Bard Issue 1 A C Evans, Atlantean Publishing, 2004
Fragment, The Bard Issue 1 A C Evans, Atlantean Publishing, 2004
Images Of Others, The Bard Issue 1 A C Evans, Atlantean Publishing, 2004
Into Thin Air, The Bard Issue 1 A C Evans, Atlantean Publishing, 2004
Lost In Mist, The Bard Issue 1 A C Evans, Atlantean Publishing, 2004
No View, The Bard Issue 1 A C Evans, Atlantean Publishing, 2004
Relatively Cool, The Bard Issue 1 A C Evans , Atlantean Publishing, 2004
Shattered Some Dreams, The Bard Issue 1 A C Evans, Atlantean Publishing, 2004
The Eye Caught In A Mirror, The Bard Issue 1 A C Evans, Atlantean Publishing, 2004
Automatic Door , The Void Gallery, 2004
Exploring The Text , The Void Gallery, 2004
Magical Flight, The Void Gallery, 2004
Negation And Prelude , The Void Gallery, 2004
The Dark Macabre Totentanz, The Void Gallery, 2004
Third Eye Amusement Arcade Meltdown, The Void Gallery, 2004
Undercover Nightmare , The Void Gallery, 2004
Magical Flight, Awen Issue 36 Oct 2005, Atlantean Publishing,
Relatively Cool, Fragments No 25 Brief Encounter 2005
Beautiful Chaos, Fragments No 26 One More Time Sept 2005
Not The Cloudy Sky, Harlequin IX Feb 2005
Negation And Prelude, Harlequin X Oct 2005
The Necromancer's Wife, Harlequin X Oct 2005
Vespula Vanishes, Inclement Vol 5 Issue 3 Autumn 2005
Only Shadows, Moonstone 95 Lammas Aug 2005
Be Careful On The Stairs, Pulsar Edition 1/05 41 Mar 2005, Ligden Publishers
Lost In Mist, Pulsar Edition 1/05 41 Mar 2005, Ligden Publishers
Danger (Midnight Street), Pulsar Edition 4/05 44 Dec 2005, Ligden Publishers
Advice To A Young Poet, The Supplement Issue 22 2005, Atlantean Publishing,
When You See My Grave, The Supplement Issue 24 2005, Atlantean Publishing,
(Another), The Supplement Issue 25 2005, Atlantean Publishing,
The Dark Macabre Totentanz, Awen Issue 42 Oct 2006 Atlantean Publishing,
Flashback Phantoms, Bard Issue 049 2006 Atlantean Publishing,
Dada Radar, Fragments No 27 The Last One Feb 2006
Waiting Here, Fragments No 27 The Last One Feb 2006
Depths, Inclement Vol 6 Issue 1 Spring 2006
Lost In Mist, Inclement Vol 6 Issue 1 Spring 2006
The Spiral Staircase, Inclement Vol 6 Issue 1 Spring 2006
You Looked The Other Way, Inclement Vol 6 Issue 1 Spring 2006
Flashback Phantoms, Inclement Vol 6 Issue 2 Summer 2006
Ice Sun Moon, Inclement Vol 6 Issue 2 Summer 2006
Reach For The Skyline, Inclement Vol 6 Issue 2 Summer 2006
Skies In Her Eyes, Inclement Vol 6 Issue 2 Summer 2006
A New Reality, Inclement Vol 6 Issue 3 Autumn 2006
Bye Bye Kitty Hell Bunny, Inclement Vol 6 Issue 3 Autumn 2006
Lust For A Vampire (Mircalla), Inclement Vol 6 Issue 3 Autumn 2006
Memories Mid-Distance, Inclement Vol 6 Issue 3 Autumn 2006
Can You Explain, Inclement Vol 6 Issue 4 Winter 2006
Hot Is The New Cool, Inclement Vol 6 Issue 4 Winter 2006
Slave Mask, Inclement Vol 6 Issue 4 Winter 2006
Vikki Verso, Monomyth Vol 6.3 Issue 39 2006 Atlantean Publishing,
Memory In The Making, Pulsar Edition 2/06 46 Sept 2006 Ligden Publishers
Darkness Or Nothing, The Argotist, 2006
Exploring The Text, The Argotist, 2006
Flesh Creep The World The Flesh And The Devil, The Argotist, 2006
Indigo Zenobia, The Argotist, 2006
Relatively Cool, The Argotist, 2006
Third Eye Amusement Arcade Meltdown, The Argotist, 2006
Beautiful Chaos, Awen Issue 44 Feb 2007, Atlantean Publishing,
Flesh Creep The World The Flesh And The Devil, Awen Issue 45 Apr 2007, Atlantean Publishing
Automatic Door, Fire No 28 Jun 2007,
Poetry Is A Dangerous Place, Garbaj Issue 31 Nov 2007, Atlantean Publishing
Dead End I, Inclement Vol 7 Issue 2 Summer 2007
Dead End II, Inclement Vol 7 Issue 2 Summer 2007
Masquerade, Inclement Vol 7 Issue 2 Summer 2007
Slave Mask, The Dark Tower Volume 3 The Black Throne, Atlantean Publishing, 2007
A New Reality, Vespula Vanishes & Other Poems, Inclement Publishing, 2007
Angels Bring Us, Vespula Vanishes & Other Poems, Inclement Publishing, 2007
Bye Bye Kitty Hell Bunny, Vespula Vanishes & Other Poems, Inclement Publishing, 2007
Can You Explain, Vespula Vanishes & Other Poems, Inclement Publishing, 2007
Dead End I, Vespula Vanishes & Other Poems, Inclement Publishing, 2007
Dead End II, Vespula Vanishes & Other Poems, Inclement Publishing, 2007
Depths, Vespula Vanishes & Other Poems, Inclement Publishing, 2007
Flashback Phantoms, Vespula Vanishes & Other Poems, Inclement Publishing, 2007
Hot Is The New Cool, Vespula Vanishes & Other Poems, Inclement Publishing, 2007
Ice Sun Moon, Vespula Vanishes & Other Poems, Inclement Publishing, 2007
Lost In Mist, Vespula Vanishes & Other Poems, Inclement Publishing, 2007
Lost Words, Vespula Vanishes & Other Poems, Inclement Publishing, 2007
Lust For A Vampire (Mircalla), Vespula Vanishes & Other Poems, Inclement Publishing, 2007
Masquerade, Vespula Vanishes & Other Poems, Inclement Publishing, 2007
Memories Mid-Distance, Vespula Vanishes & Other Poems, Inclement Publishing, 2007
Misplaced Poem, Vespula Vanishes & Other Poems, Inclement Publishing, 2007
Only Shadows, Vespula Vanishes & Other Poems, Inclement Publishing, 2007
Reach For The Skyline, Vespula Vanishes & Other Poems, Inclement Publishing, 2007
Reflections In A Mirror, Vespula Vanishes & Other Poems, Inclement Publishing, 2007
Skies In Her Eyes, Vespula Vanishes & Other Poems, Inclement Publishing, 2007
Slave Mask, Vespula Vanishes & Other Poems, Inclement Publishing, 2007
The Spiral Staircase, Vespula Vanishes & Other Poems, Inclement Publishing, 2007
To The Temple, Vespula Vanishes & Other Poems, Inclement Publishing, 2007
Vespula Vanishes, Vespula Vanishes & Other Poems, Inclement Publishing, 2007
You Looked The Other Way, Vespula Vanishes & Other Poems, Inclement Publishing, 2007
The Vision Of Morgan Le Fay, Awen Issue 55 Dec 2008, Atlantean Publishing
Weird Stuff, Bard Issue 068 2008, Atlantean Publishing,
So Not Funny (Radio Edit), Garbaj Issue 32 Feb 2008, Atlantean Publishing
A Poke In The Rye, Garbaj Issue 34 Aug 2008, Atlantean Publishing
Mutt, Garbaj Issue 34 Aug 2008, Atlantean Publishing
Some News Just In (Smile Please), Garbaj Issue 34 Aug 2008, Atlantean Publishing
Stubbylee Park, Garbaj Issue 34 Aug 2008, Atlantean Publishing
A Scandal In Crewe, Garbaj Issue 35 Dec 2008, Atlantean Publishing
Daft!, Garbaj Issue 35 Dec 2008, Atlantean Publishing
Trendy!, Garbaj Issue 35 Dec 2008, Atlantean Publishing
Boo Galaxy, Handshake No 75 Oct 2008, Dunnock Press,
Dream Scanner, Handshake No 75 Oct 2008, Dunnock Press
Tonight The Clouds, Handshake No 75 Oct 2008, Dunnock Press
Dark Anima, Harlequin XIII Columbine Sept 2008
We Vampires, Haunting Tales, Atlantean Publishing, 2008
Automatic Door, Inclement Poetry Magazine, 2008
Bye Bye Kitty Hell Bunny, Inclement Poetry Magazine, 2008
Flashback Phantoms, Inclement Poetry Magazine, 2008
Hot Is The New Cool, Inclement Poetry Magazine, 2008
South Of Suburbia, Inclement Poetry Magazine, 2008
Thunder These Trees (Externity Now), Inclement Poetry Magazine, 2008
Miles Above, Inclement Vol 8 Issue 2 Summer 2008
Nothing Else, Inclement Vol 8 Issue 2 Summer 2008,
South Of Suburbia, Inclement Vol 8 Issue 2 Summer 2008,
Mute Witness, Monomyth Vol 8.2 Issue 44 2008 , Atlantean Publishing
No Hope Now, Neon Highway Issue 13 Aug 2008
Forget Latex Love (LUV 2288), Old Rossum's Book Of Practical Robots, Atlantean Publishing, 2008
Beauty Is Freedom, Stride Magazine Apr 2008
Lucky Stars, Stride Magazine Apr 2008
Sexy Solitaire (I Want To Be Alone), Stride Magazine Apr 2008
Stone Heart Sleepwalker, Stride Magazine Apr 2008
The Scavenger's Daughter, Stride Magazine Apr 2008
Thinking About Surfacing, Stride Magazine Apr 2008
Too Much Like Real Life, The Penniless Press 29, 2008
Free Speech Today (Oxford Union), The Supplement Issue 38 January 2008Atlantean Publishing
Could Be Anywhere, Awen Issue 61 Dec 2009, Atlantean Publishing,
Edge Of Zone, Awen Issue 61 Dec 2009, Atlantean Publishing,
Dream Of Aldeberan, Bard Issue 074 2009, Atlantean Publishing,
Misericordia, Bard Issue 075 2009, Atlantean Publishing,
Eclogue, Bard Issue 077 2009, Atlantean Publishing,
A Sleeping Form, Carillon Issue 24 Jun 2009
Dream Scanner, Carillon Issue 24 Jun 2009
Shattered Some Dreams, Carillon Issue 24 Jun 2009
A Poem Like This, Curlew Issue 65 Dec 2009
Couture And Anarchy, Curlew Issue 65 Dec 2009
Perfect Storm, Curlew Issue 65 Dec 2009
Remembrance, Curlew Issue 65 Dec 2009
Stone Heart Sleepwalker, Curlew Issue 65 Dec 2009
As The Footsteps Fade Away, Fire No 31 Apr 2009
Fragile, Fire No 31 Apr 2009
Listen To The Voice, Fire No 31 Apr 2009
Credibility Street, Garbaj Issue 36 Feb 2009 Atlantean Publishing,
A Friend In Southend, Garbaj Issue 37 May 2009 Atlantean Publishing,
Being Posthuman, Handshake No 77 Jun 2009 Dunnock Press

Listen To The Voice, Inclement Vol 9 Issue 1 Spring 2009
Still She Stands, Inclement Vol 9 Issue 1 Spring 2009
The Silver Ghost, Inclement Vol 9 Issue 1 Spring 2009
From Yesterday, Pulsar Edition 1/09 51 Mar 2009 Ligden Publishers

illus: Fractured Muse, Atlantean Publishing 2003

Poetry & Prose Publications 1984-1999

 

Poetry Publications 1984-1999

Includes Prose Poems and Short Fiction from Exosphere to Colour of Dust


Another Street, Exosphere, Stride Publications, 1984
Blood Relatives, Exosphere, Stride Publications, 1984
But I Can See, Exosphere, Stride Publications, 1984
Dawn Chorus, Exosphere, Stride Publications, 1984
Desecration, Exosphere, Stride Publications, 1984
Distorted Images, Exosphere, Stride Publications, 1984
Entarte Kunst, Exosphere, Stride Publications, 1984
Mock-Transcendental Notes, Exosphere, Stride Publications, 1984
More And More, Exosphere, Stride Publications, 1984
Nil Revolution, Exosphere, Stride Publications, 1984
Oedipus And The Sphinx II, Exosphere, Stride Publications, 1984
Perhaps There Will Be Memories, Exosphere, Stride Publications, 1984
Silence II, Exosphere, Stride Publications, 1984
The Stitches Are Out, Exosphere, Stride Publications, 1984
Urspasm, Exosphere, Stride Publications, 1984
Vampfires, Exosphere, Stride Publications, 1984
Vatic Heresy, Exosphere, Stride Publications, 1984
Virgin Pages, Exosphere, Stride Publications, 1984
Wings Of Midnight, Exosphere, Stride Publications, 1984
Close To It, Stride 19 Winter 1984/1985,, 1984
Enter The Heart, Stride 19 Winter 1984/1985,, 1984
All Day Long, Decaying Orbits, Stride Publications, 1985
All The Poetry On Earth, Decaying Orbits, Stride Publications, 1985
Chronique Scandaleuse, Decaying Orbits, Stride Publications, 1985
Cosmetic Surgery, Decaying Orbits, Stride Publications, 1985
Edited Skylights, Decaying Orbits, Stride Publications, 1985
Failing Hearts, Decaying Orbits, Stride Publications, 1985
Fringe Pattern Destiny, Decaying Orbits, Stride Publications, 1985
Half Chance, Decaying Orbits, Stride Publications, 1985
Ice, Decaying Orbits, Stride Publications, 1985
Many Lights, Decaying Orbits, Stride Publications, 1985
Metacropolis, Decaying Orbits, Stride Publications, 1985
Moi, Decaying Orbits, Stride Publications, 1985
No Date, Decaying Orbits, Stride Publications, 1985
No/Human Activity, Decaying Orbits, Stride Publications, 1985
Onyx Master, Decaying Orbits, Stride Publications, 1985
Preface For A Lost Book, Decaying Orbits, Stride Publications, 1985
Select Infinities, Decaying Orbits, Stride Publications, 1985
The Engulfed Cathedral, Decaying Orbits, Stride Publications, 1985
What Sort Of Game, Decaying Orbits, Stride Publications, 1985
Zone Libre, Decaying Orbits, Stride Publications, 1985
Eyes III, Stride 20 Spring 1985,, 1985
Filigree Paintings Explode, Stride 20 Spring 1985
Jet City (Cthonchants VIII), Stride 20 Spring 1985
Metacropolis, Stride 20 Spring 1985
No Date, Stride 20 Spring 1985
Space Opera I The First Report From Neogaea, Stride 21 Summer 1985
The First Report From Neogaea, Stride 21 Summer 1985
Space Opera (Prelude) Gaze Of The Medusa, Stride 24/25 The Serendipity Caper
Space Opera I The First Report From Neogaea, Stride 24/25 The Serendipity Caper
Space Opera II This Report Follows, Stride 24/25 The Serendipity Caper
Space Opera III The Neon Flyby, Stride 24/25 The Serendipity Caper
Space Opera IV Discovered This Other Report, Stride 24/25 The Serendipity Caper
Space Opera V Neogaea, Stride 24/25 The Serendipity Caper
Space Opera VI Space Opera, Stride 24/25 The Serendipity Caper
Space Opera VII Anathema (We Are All Survivors), Stride 24/25 The Serendipity Caper
Burn The Hollywood I Used To Know, Chain Lightning, ApparitionsPress, 1987
Cascade I Together, Land Mass 3 The Cascades, Apparitions Press, 1987
Cascade II Residue, Land Mass 3 The Cascades, Apparitions Press, 1987
Cascade III Glade, Land Mass 3 The Cascades, Apparitions Press, 1987
Cascade IV Hooded Bombers, Land Mass 3 The Cascades, Apparitions Press, 1987
Cascade IX My Atlas Of The World, Land Mass 3 The Cascades, Apparitions Press, 1987
Cascade V Turn To The Wall, Land Mass 3 The Cascades, Apparitions Press, 1987
Cascade VI Jack And Jill, Land Mass 3 The Cascades, Apparitions Press, 1987
Cascade VII I Know You Are, Land Mass 3 The Cascades, Apparitions Press, 1987
Cascade VIII The Bitch Is Black, Land Mass 3 The Cascades, Apparitions Press, 1987
Cascade X Don't Think The World Owes You Boy, Land Mass 3 The Cascades, Apparitions Press, 1987
Cascade XI So Young, Land Mass 3 The Cascades, Apparitions Press, 1987
Chapter 6 (Autobiography), Stride 27 July 1987
Freedom And Equality, Stride 27 July 1987
La Plus Belle Teratoma, Stride 27 July 1987
She Moves Like Concrete Poetry, Stride 27 July 1987
The Man (You’ve Been Waiting For), Stride 27 July 1987
Today II, Stride 27 July 1987,, 1987
The Black Rooms, The Luminous Boat, Apparitions Press, 1987
The Poet Destroyed By Fire, The Luminous Boat, Apparitions Press, 1987
Don’t Call, Chaos International No 4 Mar 1988, BM Sorcery, 1988
Hex, Ikons, Apparitions Press, 1988
A Demon Speaks, Stride 32 Spring/Summer 1989
Bed And Borderline, Stride 32 Spring/Summer 1989
Craving For Oblivion, Stride 32 Spring/Summer 1989
Just Live, Stride 32 Spring/Summer 1989
Life Of Glass, Stride 32 Spring/Summer 1989
March Of Time’s Contradiction, Stride 32 Spring/Summer 1989
Quit This Dying Forest of Pylons, Stride 32 Spring/Summer 1989
The Invariant Speed Of Light, Stride 32 Spring/Summer 1989
A Demon Speaks, Chimaera Obscura, The Phlebas Press, 1992
After Sunset, Chimaera Obscura, The Phlebas Press, 1992
And/Or, Chimaera Obscura, The Phlebas Press, 1992
Another Space, Chimaera Obscura, The Phlebas Press, 1992
Don't Call, Chimaera Obscura, The Phlebas Press, 1992
Evening (In The City), Chimaera Obscura, The Phlebas Press, 1992
La Plus Belle Teratoma, Chimaera Obscura, The Phlebas Press, 1992
Life Of Glass, Chimaera Obscura, The Phlebas Press, 1992
Painful To Watch, Chimaera Obscura, The Phlebas Press, 1992
Phobos II, Chimaera Obscura, The Phlebas Press, 1992
Representation Of The Body, Chimaera Obscura, The Phlebas Press, 1992
Shadow Guide, Chimaera Obscura, The Phlebas Press, 1992
Somewhere In England, Chimaera Obscura, The Phlebas Press, 1992
The Invariant Speed Of Light, Chimaera Obscura, The Phlebas Press, 1992
The White Earth, Chimaera Obscura, The Phlebas Press, 1992
White Music, Chimaera Obscura, The Phlebas Press, 1992
White Remnants, Chimaera Obscura, The Phlebas Press, 1992
White Rites, Chimaera Obscura, The Phlebas Press, 1992
Whiter Than White, Chimaera Obscura, The Phlebas Press, 1992
Alchemical Cybernetics, Memes 7 June 1992
Aratron, Memes 7 June 1992
Interior, Memes 7 June 1992
Nebula, Memes 7 June 1992
Walking Wounded (Ghosts Of Black Flowers), Emotional Geology, 1993
Chapter 6 (Autobiography), Ladder To The Next Floor, University Of Salzburg, 1993
Filigree Paintings Explode, Ladder To The Next Floor, University Of Salzburg, 1993
La Plus Belle Teratoma, Ladder To The Next Floor, University Of Salzburg, 1993
Life Of Glass, Ladder To The Next Floor, University Of Salzburg, 1993
She Moves Like Concrete Poetry, Ladder To The Next Floor, University Of Salzburg, 1993
The Man (You've Been Waiting For), Ladder To The Next Floor, University Of Salzburg, 1993
Today II, Ladder To The Next Floor, University Of Salzburg, 1993
The Vision Of Morgan Le Fay, Memes Issue 8 Nov 1993,, 1993
Inanna V Who Speaks? Who Calls? Terrible Work 2 Autumn 1993, Spineless Press, 1993
Xantra I The Stirring Of Dead Leaves, The Xantras, The Trombone Press, 1993
Xantra II Spirit Eye Edge Realms, The Xantras, The Trombone Press, 1993
Xantra III Fused Elemental Singularity, The Xantras, The Trombone Press, 1993
Xantra IV Beyond Nothing, The Xantras, The Trombone Press, 1993
Xantra IX The Vela Pulsar, The Xantras, The Trombone Press, 1993
Xantra V Chaotic Terrain, The Xantras, The Trombone Press, 1993
Xantra VI Horrenda Charibdis, The Xantras, The Trombone Press, 1993
antra VII Distorting Mirror, The Xantras, The Trombone Press, 1993
Xantra VIII White Power/Red Flesh, The Xantras, The Trombone Press, 1993
Xantra X Wheels of Inhuman Thought, The Xantras, The Trombone Press, 1993
Xantra XI Dark Blue Echo (Stranger Still), The Xantras, The Trombone Press, 1993
Xantra XII The Sky Belongs To Us, The Xantras, The Trombone Press, 1993
Neon Aeon I Got Moved On, Neon Aeon, The Trombone Press, 1994
Neon Aeon II Is There Anybody There? (Freundschaftkarte), Neon Aeon, The Trombone Press, 1994
Neon Aeon III Heide Woz Ere 93, Neon Aeon, The Trombone Press, 1994
Neon Aeon IV Just Like You, Neon Aeon, The Trombone Press, 1994
Neon Aeon V Bomb The Chapel, Neon Aeon, The Trombone Press, 1994
Angela, Terrible Work 3 Spring 1994, Spineless Press, 1994
Candlemas Draco 70707, Terrible Work 3 Spring 1994, Spineless Press, 1994
Lapis Philosophorum, Terrible Work 3 Spring 1994, Spineless Press, 1994
Nightmare Cantos IV Inward Cold Dreaming, Terrible Work 3 Spring 1994, Spineless Press, 1994
Like The Dark Side Of The Moon, The Third Alternative 1 Jan 1994, TTA Press, 1994
Boulangerie Patisserie, The Third Alternative 2 Apr 1994, TTA Press, 1994
Space Opera (Prelude) Gaze Of The Medusa, Fantasy Commentator Vol III 3/4,, 1995
Space Opera III The Neon Flyby, Fantasy Commentator Vol III 3/4,, 1995
Space Opera IV Discovered This Other Report, Fantasy Commentator Vol III 3/4,, 1995
Black Light, Frontal Lobe 2 1995, Organism, 1995Some Days, The Third Alternative 5 Feb 1995, TTA Press, 1995
Embers For Angels, Forever Process Angles Of Incidence 19th Phase, Lung Gom Press, 1996
Not Deade But Chaynged A Poem Attributed to Barnabas Scarfe, Not Deade But Chaynged, The Trombone Press, 1996
Epiphany Of Power, Notes From The Post Pop Underground 5 Nov 1996, Youth Hostile Association, 1996
Heart Throbs Or Phantoms Of Sex Appeal, Notes From The Post Pop Underground 5 Nov 1996, Youth Hostile Association, 1996
Transit And Culmination, Angel Exhaust 15 Autumn 1997
Before Art, Dream Vortex, Tabor Press, 1997
Constrain The Spirits, Dream Vortex, Tabor Press, 1997
Cosmic Fortune, Dream Vortex, Tabor Press, 1997
Creeping Darkness, Dream Vortex, Tabor Press, 1997
Dream Vortex, Dream Vortex, Tabor Press, 1997
Fearful Other, Dream Vortex, Tabor Press, 1997
Grimoire, Dream Vortex, Tabor Press, 1997
Lifelong Heretic, Dream Vortex, Tabor Press, 1997
Preparation Of The Operators, Dream Vortex, Tabor Press, 1997
Sator Arepo Tenet Opera, Dream Vortex, Tabor Press, 1997
Simon's Flight, Dream Vortex, Tabor Press, 1997
Today The Sky Is Clear, Dream Vortex, Tabor Press, 1997
Painful To Watch, Earth Ascending An Anthology Of Living Poetry, Stride Publications, 1997
The Bosnian Way Of Walking, Earth Ascending An Anthology Of Living Poetry, Stride Publications, 1997
Further Instructions (Urban Readouts), Slipping Into The Palace Unnoticed, The Trombone Press, 1997
Instructions For A Journey (Urban Readouts), Slipping Into The Palace Unnoticed, The Trombone Press, 1997
Space Opera (Prelude) Gaze Of The Medusa, Space Opera, Stride Publications, 1997
Space Opera I The First Report From Neogaea, Space Opera, Stride Publications, 1997
Space Opera II This Report Follows, Space Opera, Stride Publications, 1997
Space Opera III The Neon Flyby, Space Opera, Stride Publications, 1997
Space Opera IV Discovered This Other Report, Space Opera, Stride Publications, 1997
Space Opera V Neogaea, Space Opera, Stride Publications, 1997
Space Opera VI Space Opera, Space Opera, Stride Publications, 1997
Space Opera VII Anathema (We Are All Survivors), Space Opera, Stride Publications, 1997
A Memorial Note Vincent Roke 1940-1990, A Memorial Note, The Trombone Press, 1998
Crashdive, A Ship To Nowhere And Other SF Poetry, IDR, 1998
Nebula, A Ship To Nowhere And Other SF Poetry, IDR, 1998
Primal Scene Monster, A Ship To Nowhere And Other SF Poetry, IDR, 1998
Let There Be Night, Dark Fantasy Newsletter 2 Sept 1998, Springbeach Press, 1998
The Thing From Another Room, Dark Fantasy Newsletter 2 Sept 1998, Springbeach Press, 1998
Vampire Bondage, Dark Fantasy Newsletter 2 Sept 1998, Springbeach Press, 1998
Dick And The Poet, Dick And The Poet, The Trombone Press, 1998
An Angel Right Here Right Now, Esoteric 1 Sept 1998,, 1998
Damned In Three Worlds, Esoteric 1 Sept 1998,, 1998
Shadows From Another Life, Esoteric 1 Sept 1998,, 1998
Lyric For Lilith, Fantasia Anthology Of Fantastic Fiction And Poetry, Springbeach Press, 1998
The Fata Morgana, Fantasia Anthology Of Fantastic Fiction And Poetry, Springbeach Press, 1998
Zone Mauve, Fantasia Anthology Of Fantastic Fiction And Poetry, Springbeach Press, 1998
The Sarcastic Smile, Monas Hieroglyphica Issue 6 Dec 1998, The Monas Press, 1998
The Man (You've Been Waiting For), My Kind Of Angel, Stride Publications, 1998
There Are Many Roads To Space, My Kind Of Angel, Stride Publications, 1998
Que Sera Sera (Just Die Of Boredom), Planet Prozak Issue 4 Dec 1998/Jan 1999, Literally Literary, 1998
Empty Streets, Asphalt Jungle Issue 3 Spring 1999,, 1999
Some Days, Asphalt Jungle Issue 3 Spring 1999,, 1999
Am I The Ghost?, Colour Of Dust Poems and/or Texts, Stride Publications, 1999
Ambiguous Signals, Colour Of Dust Poems and/or Texts, Stride Publications, 1999
Anywhere Local, Colour Of Dust Poems and/or Texts, Stride Publications, 1999
Beyond The White Wall, Colour Of Dust Poems and/or Texts, Stride Publications, 1999
Black Light, Colour Of Dust Poems and/or Texts, Stride Publications, 1999
But I Can See, Colour Of Dust Poems and/or Texts, Stride Publications, 1999
Colour Of Dust, Colour Of Dust Poems and/or Texts, Stride Publications, 1999
Cthonchants, Colour Of Dust Poems and/or Texts, Stride Publications, 1999
Dream Vortex, Colour Of Dust Poems and/or Texts, Stride Publications, 1999
Embers For Angels, Colour Of Dust Poems and/or Texts, Stride Publications, 1999
Ethos Mythos, Colour Of Dust Poems and/or Texts, Stride Publications, 1999
Externity, Colour Of Dust Poems and/or Texts, Stride Publications, 1999
He Looked Out From Dead Glass Eyes, Colour Of Dust Poems and/or Texts, Stride Publications, 1999
Hidden Limbo, Colour Of Dust Poems and/or Texts, Stride Publications, 1999
Impossible Games, Colour Of Dust Poems and/or Texts, Stride Publications, 1999
Inanna, Colour Of Dust Poems and/or Texts, Stride Publications, 1999
Like A Mirror, Colour Of Dust Poems and/or Texts, Stride Publications, 1999
Marginalia, Colour Of Dust Poems and/or Texts, Stride Publications, 1999
Nebula, Colour Of Dust Poems and/or Texts, Stride Publications, 1999
Neon Aeon, Colour Of Dust Poems and/or Texts, Stride Publications, 1999
Non-Aligned Poems, Colour Of Dust Poems and/or Texts, Stride Publications, 1999
Recall Those Rituals, Colour Of Dust Poems and/or Texts, Stride Publications, 1999
Satis Verborum, Colour Of Dust Poems and/or Texts, Stride Publications, 1999
Stranger Here Myself, Colour Of Dust Poems and/or Texts, Stride Publications, 1999
Such Elusive Flames, Colour Of Dust Poems and/or Texts, Stride Publications, 1999
The Black Mask, Colour Of Dust Poems and/or Texts, Stride Publications, 1999
The Cascades, Colour Of Dust Poems and/or Texts, Stride Publications, 1999
The Mask Is My Life, Colour Of Dust Poems and/or Texts, Stride Publications, 1999
The Nightmare Cantos, Colour Of Dust Poems and/or Texts, Stride Publications, 1999
The Shadow World, Colour Of Dust Poems and/or Texts, Stride Publications, 1999
The Vision Of Morgan Le Fay, Colour Of Dust Poems and/or Texts, Stride Publications, 1999
The White Earth, Colour Of Dust Poems and/or Texts, Stride Publications, 1999
The Xantras, Colour Of Dust Poems and/or Texts, Stride Publications, 1999
Then Nowhere, Colour Of Dust Poems and/or Texts, Stride Publications, 1999
Thin Ice, Colour Of Dust Poems and/or Texts, Stride Publications, 1999
Viewed Through Crystal, Colour Of Dust Poems and/or Texts, Stride Publications, 1999
Xanths, Colour Of Dust Poems and/or Texts, Stride Publications, 1999
All The Streets (Remix), Fire No 9 Sept 1999
Fault Lines, Fire No 9 Sept 1999
Flicker Of A Thousand Lights, Fire No 9 Sept 1999
Footsteps In The Snow, Fire No 9 Sept 1999
Time Was Nothing, Fire No 9 Sept 1999
Timelight, Fire No 9 Sept 1999,, 1999
Unquiet Mirror, Fire No 9 Sept 1999,, 1999
The Mutation Show Underscore, Glasshouse Electric, Silver Gull Publishing, 1999
Where The Vanished City Stood, Handshake No 35 Apr 1999, Dunnock Press, 1999
Am I The Ghost?, Ixion May 1999, Ixionmag, 1999
Insomnia, Ixion May 1999, Ixionmag, 1999
Poetry Moon Mirror, Ixion May 1999, Ixionmag, 1999
Burning Man I Black Rock City (Welcome To), Memories Of the Future Tales Of The Burning Man, Raunchland, 1999
Burning Man II Home Of The Burning Man, Memories Of the Future Tales Of The Burning Man, Raunchland, 1999
Burning Man III No Spectators, Memories Of the Future Tales Of The Burning Man, Raunchland, 1999
Burning Man IV Try Our Coffee It's Delicious, Memories Of the Future Tales Of The Burning Man, Raunchland, 1999
Burning Man IX Caca Bell, Memories Of the Future Tales Of The Burning Man, Raunchland, 1999
Burning Man V Dayglo Now, Memories Of the Future Tales Of The Burning Man, Raunchland, 1999
Burning Man VI Brighter Colours Equals Brighter Tomorrow, Memories Of the Future Tales Of The Burning Man, Raunchland, 1999
Burning Man VII Celebrity Crucifixion Photos, Memories Of the Future Tales Of The Burning Man, Raunchland, 1999
Burning Man VIII McSatan's Bistro, Memories Of the Future Tales Of The Burning Man, Raunchland, 1999
Burning Man X Here Is Postmodern Space, Memories Of the Future Tales Of The Burning Man, Raunchland, 1999
Burning Man XI The Non Arrival Of God, Memories Of the Future Tales Of The Burning Man, Raunchland, 1999
Burning Man XII Burning Space (Envoi), Memories Of the Future Tales Of The Burning Man, Raunchland, 1999
Cold Looks White Mask, Ocular No 19 Aug 1999, Wyrd Press, 1999
Haze Of Pain, Ocular No 19 Aug 1999, Wyrd Press, 1999
In The Strange House, Ocular No 19 Aug 1999, Wyrd Press, 1999
Omega Lightning I All The Mirrors, Omega Lightning (Reverse Geometry II), The Trombone Press, 1999
Omega Lightning II Orbiting Fireball of Time, Omega Lightning (Reverse Geometry II), The Trombone Press, 1999
Omega Lightning III This Obscene Feast, Omega Lightning (Reverse Geometry II), The Trombone Press, 1999
Omega Lightning IV Growing Up In Tiger Bay, Omega Lightning (Reverse Geometry II), The Trombone Press, 1999
Omega Lightning V Will You Hold My Hand?, Omega Lightning (Reverse Geometry II), The Trombone Press, 1999
Omega Lightning VI Catch A Bus, Omega Lightning (Reverse Geometry II), The Trombone Press, 1999
Omega Lightning VII Life-Defining Moment, Omega Lightning (Reverse Geometry II), The Trombone Press, 1999
Omega Lightning VIII Trying To Get A Fix, Omega Lightning (Reverse Geometry II), The Trombone Press, 1999
Freezing Fog, Planet Prozak Issue 7 Summer 1999, Literally Literary, 1999
Swan Of Yuggoth, Swan Of Yuggoth, CygnusXPress, 1999
Another Space, The Brobdingnagian Times Supplement 3 Summer 1999,, 1999
Jet City (Cthonchants VIII), The Brobdingnagian Times Supplement 3 Summer 1999,, 1999
The White Earth, The Brobdingnagian Times Supplement 3 Summer 1999,, 1999
The Stone Door, The Stone Door, CygnusXPress, 1999
Deathmasques II No More Beauty, Unhinged 3 Sept 1999, PJL Press, 1999
Devil Pictures, Voyage Oct 1999, Regent Publications, 1999
Alien Autopsy, Zest 6, IDR, 1999


Illus: Colour Of Dust. Stride Publications (1999). Cover design by Neil Annat.

 

The Dream Collector

1. Dragged up the stairs of accident and damage towards the broken concrete fortress, you stick your head through the broken tiles and collect what was left behind at school: dinosaurs, educational television, twigs for fingers when you couldn't write.

2. Put your dolls aside and face up to the day. Your family is a series of cut-out figures hidden in the forest and who knows what else might emerge? Always the shadow memory of moments from your past, the echoing cathedral of endurance.

3. You see faces in the rain and imagine riding a carousel horse away from the rotting and discarded now. The glass is always broken and missing, there are always steps and ladders to climb. There is no way out of everybody's dreams.

 text © Rupert M Loydell 2022

illus © A C Evans 1998

Beyond The Dream Screen

A time will come when we are nothing but a memory haunting the dreams and nightmares of some superior species.

This future race will inhabit our planet (no longer called Earth) and live in perfect ecological balance: adjusted to the world, the cosmos, nature and all living creatures. A tenuous memory will be the sole flaw in existence:

MAN… unconscious origin of perturbed sleep, subtle agent of demoralization – what a destiny!

Illus: The Dream Screen, 2017

 

Enter The Heart

 

Enter the heart – but you did – a varied, more confused display.

No formal charges of air piracy can be made – no formal charge.

RANDOM 1 RANDOM 2 RANDOM 3 CAUTION ENTER THE HEART

Boys on motorbikes don helmets.

North north-west of the saltworks – caution.

Caution – going, going, gone – can’t see far.

Darkness visible. Motormen blame snow. Waste threatens.

Representations deny all possibilities – remember.

RANDOM 1 RANDOM 2 RANDOM 3

Made for guidance. Encourage suffering masses.

Unconscious censor job what we need interrupt weather reports – hollow tactics – alarm:

DEAD BOY LEFT OF FRAME

Psychoblock 4.

Ten minutes search – increase volume.

INCREASE VOLUME INCREASE VOLUME

No cold rush of air, no human activity. Report back – report back.

RANDOM 1 RANDOM 2 RANDOM 3

No. Duties divided – dead boy left of frame – what.

Possibly within days.

Circular opening –enter the heart exit from the brain.

No human activity – mother superior nightmare easy listening synthesis.

Representations at Geneva ignore all other possibilities trauma vocabulary visionary justice perhaps there will be memoirs perhaps there are visionary

RANDOM RANDOM RANDOM

don helmets don helmets left of frame – DEAD BOY – deny deny deny.

Unconscious censor job planning a move two cars crash head on dangerously low nurses report unhelpful suggestions transglobal expeditions north north west what – enter the heart exit the brain.

Illus: Psycho Block III, 2001

 

Close To It

 

Close to it. Edge corroded. Dirt. Stones. Bricks, possibly. Can’t see far. Dark.

 

THE AIRCRAFT LANDED THERE COULD BE NO CHARGE OF AIR PIRACY THE CO-PILOT AND ONE OTHER MALE PASSENGER HAD DECIDED TO REMAIN.

 

Rough, circular opening. Fragments nearby. Throw them in. Hear them go. Going, going, gone. Can’t see far. Perhaps there are memories.

 

INCREASE VOLUME: NO FORMAL CHARGE. DUTIES AT DEPARTMENT HAVE ALREADY BEEN DIVIDED BETWEEN TWO SECRETARIES MIGHT WELL TAKE PART-TIME JOB LATER.

 

Closer. Very unwise. No cold rush of air. No darkness visible. No way down or out. Walk round about. Edge covered. Dirt. No sign of life, lower life, or even spawn or eggs gathered in dirt. What –

 

SAME VOLUME: THE AIRCRAFT DUTIES AT DEPARTMENT LANDED NO FORMAL SECRETARIES COULD BE CHARGED LATER POSSIBLY WITHIN DAYS PERHAPS THERE ARE MEMOIRS WE USE THE WORD WHAT –

 

No cold rush of air very unwise very close much closer there could be no formal male passengers – the move could mean a reference possible within days – perhaps there are memoirs, close to it. Close.

Illus: Even Closer, 2003

Uncanny Valley

 

Ecstatic submission a blunt weapon but it doesn’t matter.

Instrument supplier almost human ‘delight’ is the only word replacing missing oxygen breaking in suddenly feels innocent as kicking a ball around a coaxial cylinder we suspect the curse of rotten luck in the pathological sense, a developmental abnormality. How long have you got?

Light conversation about plant fluid failure mechanisms. Solar cells weekly to your hotel room where everything you see, hear, feel and think is controlled specifically on demand, by voluntary agreement thanks to ‘uncanny valley’ effect magnetic maps robot faces no strangers to getting bogged down – or a run for their money. “Means this is no longer the case, will boost resistance slightly forward kissing device can visualise clusters of information phosphorescent rainforests dominated by high towers improve intimacy, enhancing bubblegum fun”. A hideous atonal nursery rhyme eerily futuristic. Have you got how long?

It doesn’t end there.

Techniques based on a smooth plastic casing outlive universe regular repeating patterns due to contact with additional elastic boundary state, a grip that is firm but gentle. You can say it's only recently (sad though it is) as we slip through a doorway into an antique coffee bar where we lounge around using the technology at our disposal like the microbes in your home. True only in the past few years constantly coming into contact with a sorry state of affairs. Collateral damage like social evidence for the record or a Stone Age equivalent of celebrity culture perhaps they were just having a lark. You got long have you? Drop talking eerily futuristic enhancing death and hideous atonal nursery of rhymes and ecstatic submission.

This tangle far from random now surrounded by artificial pharmaceuticals and other complex products of rational design. We don’t understand the details, the chemical dance, the pros and cons from illness and death inducing disgust with subtle influences the hairdresser was girlishly thrilled and the sparks fly from day one. Exactly what it is she wants, this blow wave alien from LV-426, savage celebrations single mum takes on a transparent cube comedy sequel set at a chic high class New York party in a partial vacuum perhaps. Long got how have you?

So, looking back or looking ahead. From Toulouse to limbo from too cool to calypso deadpan delivery a spine tingling tale something unexpected and unsettling a poignant verse an old enemy plunges briskly into the action a disguised morality lesson with emotional complications discovered their partners were having an affair in the same plane crash. Have you?

Many things reeking if they so choose, when feeling for instance a pale shadow affecting every thing long term. Power hungry sculptures further north capture pages turning in the confessional all first rate equipment and support agreed leading to fight against passion where they are still having problems even now winging their way to us polluting our waterways, climbing mountains, dancing and dining out?

illus: Psychic Corridor, 2002

Beyond Surreal II

Strange contours on the radar, Secret lab deep in the countryside, Technicians in white coats.
On the blink again, sir
What is it?
Dunno, sir, it’s beyond me,
Picture not perfect. Colour errors continue,
It’s beyond surreal,
A cruel story, the sins of youth. What really rocks this starlet?
It was due to the sloppy production schedule, she said, gagging for some action,
Toying with her easy-fit waistband extenders and her magnetic bracelets worn for sitting or standing
At the console, (a superb luxury machine, finished in brushed silver).
Set the alarm and wake up with a perfectly timed analogue face.
Touch and glow!
She certainly did, but preferred shopping in bargain basements with sinister mercenaries from a distant galaxy. The bookies rarely get these things wrong.
We hang on as we look to bounce back into real time, and the good thing is there are no more odds and ends
But we can still hit the headlines with this
Grisly slash-fest mashup filmed by viewers as two stoned pot smokers drift into range
Zap! Ultimate in snug comfort.
Keep your hands warm, I begged her as she took up her spoke shave balsa stripper,
Ready for playing among the stars. As if that was not enough!
We can break new ground with this inner landscape,
You’ll be amazed.
We slipped along between the floating solar-powered string lights – Not sure who’s at the door?
Eyes as hard as steel she unleashed a satirical puppet show and lashed out with mind-blowing super-fonic vocals; I’m so filthy filthy you’ll explode in seconds! She screamed.
It was a team of Manhattan-based scientists, a mother-and-daughter set-up with conflicting views about the future, huh. Well, that fractured our rampant ultra-hard obscure zombie cannibal death trip B-movie cover story, haunted by a cordless chiming doorbell in fact, a sonic deterrent to deal with lane huggers and interstellar tailgaters
Don’t forget the accessories! Brilliant!

illus: Inspiration To Order, 1996

Strange Evil Flowers

Rogue metal guerrilla movements migrated to London, like strange evil flowers from a dark lake where nothing is sane, nothing is safe. Super-handy extra free gift wrap-around sunglasses water-effect solar cherubs, pinching and cramping instant easy look add wheels to a vibrant kaftan. Yes, the underside has special suction cups and slip-resistant grippers simply apply before bedtime for a lot of extra style.

Attracts dust like a magnet. Close-up view, flip down, turn about use to protect your identity while your lower body stays in place accept no responsibility perfect for poached diamond dust repel pests forget the frustrations turn it over. Speak rhythmically in rhyming couplets or folk chants.

A Roman flash dance and a cheering crowd in tune with some really beautiful things, a crucial contribution from a maverick mathematician suddenly able to talk. The ideas were brilliant, like some far-out ultra-violent comic book metropolis, dominating the media or some psychotic nemesis. Camp body action involving ape-men and pterodactyls. Unrest and crumbling consensus guaranteed to make you laugh cry puke and develop a nose for drama - don’t miss out on dangerous art oblivious of every level of reality, is there any stopping us?

From 'Rogue Metal', 2012

Another Quiet Night In The City

Which one are you today?

Despite clear message we suffer temporarily.

 – seriously? classic result re-mastered full control –

But when small copies of a theoretically possible bigger blockbuster micro-transaction surfaced, becoming one of those rare moments, all baroque and lovingly crafted, unraveling details: disproportionate ‘representations’, psychotic types running around with worse-than-expected headaches a year earlier – she moved out! 

Fast-twitch tailspin stunning-looking quest: this isn’t something we’re handling well. Keep your shifty eyes on the road ahead…

So get stuck in acquiring this new body-mod type hobby, maximum strength wireless telegraphy blow-drier treatment. Torn fishnets, piercings, eyes-on-stalks, tattoos (sex-roses-demons), extreme Steampunk weirdness. And if the dam breaks?

Well, can’t help thinking about her deprived childhood – contrasting characteristic dishy, sharp, dude well-placed to help – a dodgy Fox in Socks or, maybe a cuddly 'Mr Tickle'. Smart office, stylish furniture, dedicated receptionist, cool rooms, business lounge, one-bedroomed flat, acoustics just right, not compromised in critical areas. Just sign-up, unlock car, focus on value – may end up a consultant.

Rapid response; powerful, reliable, scaleable, innovative and very ‘new world’. The Greatest Show on Earth: pseudo-cuties, gaffe-prone clowns, intriguing old bw silent films, vintage late night factor, hoax moon landing for extra fix. Never same again – dog-hairs, notebooks, char-grilled foie gras, pizza-and-pyjama party, awesome impersonators… are we really on the way out?

Fast-twitch tailspin stunning-looking quest: this isn’t something we’re handling that well, so,  keep your shifty eyes on the road ahead… We enter the strange world of Citizen X.

Back in the sixties and seventies a blend of daft comedy and musical revelry highlights, like four-day event skin treatments and massages, you’ll be able to watch despite everything the blackouts the slowdowns. Creepy fan-mail but no booking fees! 
Now arriving to phase-out entire cities (New York-London-Paris-Berlin) in period costume you get on with it in an original jet-black ball-gown. True privilege light a candle have a glass of wine, closer now, mistakes are the way to learn: we dress up and dance our socks off – snake ring, fingerless gloves, edgy soundtrack impressively constructed, code missing. Automatically get everyone in the mood make sure your pet isn’t left out shouldn’t need monthly bewitching this ‘Gothic Luxe’ trend: monochrome lace spider bracelet, battered leather jacket testament to power of a multitude of sins, heaven for wild girls dates back to Saxon times – what crisis? 
Endemic issues speed up process shamelessly different shapes sizes backgrounds it was almost noon screaming agony outside veritable cornucopia of vice, dazzling discoveries if you see nothing else tune in to this reunion of opposites special edition. Three point two million years ago we observe your fast-disappearing world of coastal lagoons so Cindy’s dream of becoming an actress goes out the window fishing trip. Visit a studio, trade in crystal meth, political dossier recast as airport novel (huh?) grab an extra, find out more with sub-machine guns; yes it’s just another quiet night in the city circa 1952.

Fast-twitch tailspin stunning-looking quest: this isn’t something we’re handling well. So just keep your shifty eyes on the road ahead…We enter the strange world of...?

It’s overwhelming and truly special to be here. Fine art prints, elbow-patch blazers, hybrid golf clubs, thrills amplified first class turn-out you gotta be on some next level high-stakes electric dreamy instrumental happy slappers slapping, flappers flapping about call you tomorrow gaudy reminder of those luminous superdry suits, inflammable paper hats, glo-sticks, sin and spectacle: regrettably the air vent explodes. Exclusive chat ideal protection skinny-fit trousers, secret pockets, do your research nation-wide, slip back into that cockney accent what a laugh iconic alien cartel inside my brain welcome to hell slim design so-hated tiny minority public comment bad press not too good not the moment to get it on… so much can go wrong on the sofa with your new girlfriend honey honey don’t stop honey honey dynamic incredibly exciting are you brave enough?

Pale blue skies engine capacity post-war consumer boom culture, retro-futurism, new wave writers, deviant subtopian norms, pretentious and intrusive outdoor advertising hoardings, wires, poles, ill-sited public utilities such a fool to ask (Cindy Oh Cindy) edit your copy on trains and planes snap pictures into your diary long lens sunset over the rocky bay two couples scupper your plans think of new ways feminine variations end in another crisis.

Are we really on the way out? Today which one are you?

Illustration: The Strange World of Citizen X, 2007

Alchemy Of The Mirage

Thematic symbols atomise, scattering trace elements across a light-sensitive plate hovering between your eyes and your hands

Now in the elemental darkness alien storms shatter a mirror ball into a thousand winged fragments

Bright vision suddenly, in a trance, you can see across tracks of time – satin finish, clear droplets – alchemy of the mirage

Illustration: Trace Element, 2006

The Atom Smasher Of Dreams

To find the ultimate element of desire a team using Attention Theory and a temperature high enough to mimic conditions when the universe was just microseconds old have found our most recent dreams follow a mathematical vortex pattern.
Quarks loop through these vortices, even though shot pacing isn’t everything – good narrative, strong acting and a fireball about four trillion kelvin at its core, are probably more important. This is just the way you dream about far-away places, old girlfriends and alien cities built by insects. Later this year researchers will separate lower energies, helping to describe the human attention-span when dreaming about the future.
Is life a mathematical trick? That is exactly what the more negatively charged entities would like us to think. They expect the separation to disappear but we have seen signs of such vortices and fields created by gluons that can twist, forming dreamlike structures in the all-pervasive vacuum of space. This is what gives mass and substance to lurid, inhuman fantasies.
Perhaps the key lies in measuring desire with greater precision, although we now think that psychic films are more gripping because they resonate with other movies, not your memories. You may try to copy the style, but the galaxies will collide anyway. Explosions can create a series of waves, transforming the magnitude of ‘pink noise’ at random intersections in the brain – a property that has never been seen before. Others have observed the vortex in music, street fashion and air turbulence. This type of dream field should cause two particles to collide off-centre, smashing gold and copper ions head-on like a slow motion car crash in the Valley of Despair, tracking the eye-movements of dreamers like jets of matter expelled from backward spinning black holes.
Mutations are locked in and several different kinds of fantasy arise, helping to explain all kinds of non-material phenomena.
Always leave space for magnetic fields to build up in your dream life.
Never look back.

Illustration: Transtemporal Parapraxis II, 2002