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| Brutalism 1: Nowhere Fast |
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Full blurb:
This hard-hitting and emotive chapbook contains poems by Ben Myers, Tony O'Neill and Adelle Stripe. Each writing about the respective Northern towns of their adolescence, Nowhere Fast marks the public debut of The Brutalist poets. Inspired as much by the music of punk and reggae, comics and kitchen sink cinema, these are bare-knuckle poems of violence, paranoia, cheap sex, eccentric characters and a desire to escape. The themes of the poems are captured in refined illustrations by artist, Lisa Cradduck. The collection is limited to 300 copies and will not be reprinted in this format.
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First page first lines:
From Tony O’Neill’s ‘Piss Town’
going back
through institutional corridors
and over grown secret paths
which cut across the backs of the hospital
like surgery scars on desolate hills
up the winding stone staircase to an industrial ground-zero
of abandoned refrigerators
and dripping chimneys spewing
thick, grey chemical smoke
to the blackened wall
where I wrote the inscription
“Joy Division” in silver paint
sometime around 1992
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Category: Poetry collection
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Author: The Brutalists – Ben Myers, Tony O’Neill, Adelle Stripe
The Brutalists were formed by writers Tony O’Neill, Adelle Stripe and Ben Myers during the heat wave summer of 2006. All are active members of the literary underground, publishing their work via a plethora of books, anthologies, fanzines, websites, readings and weblogs.
The Brutalist manifesto calls for writing that touches upon levels of raw honesty that is a lacking form most mainstream fiction. Not prepared to sit around waiting to be discovered — The Brutalists see themselves as a band who have put down their instruments and picked up their pens and scalpels instead. The only maxim they adhere to is an old punk belief, which they have bastardised for their own means: 'Here’s a laptop. Here’s a spell-check. Now write a book.' To read an interview with The Brutalists at Dogmatika, go here.
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Publisher: Captains of Industry Press
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Reviews:
"Brave new writing, touched with tenderness and a raw emotional depth…The Brutalists' writing offers an insight into the colloquialisms and dialect of the north of England." – The Guardian
"Their style sits between the heartfelt sex and drugs scrapings of the beats and the Romantics’ sense of rebelliousness and innate connection with place. We can smell Bukowski on their breath, alongside the grubby stink of the kitchen sink….this series of blank verse ruminations on the horrors of small town living are among the most open and direct poems in circulation today." - The Roundtable Review March ’08
"Blackburn, Durham and Tadcaster are the three hometowns under the microscope in this heartfelt, emotional ode to experiences, people and life from each author’s memories of where they were born and bred. “ - The Crack
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| Book code: BTD032 |
| Price: £ 5.00 |
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