Allen Ginsberg's typewriter I bought Allen Ginsberg's portable Olivetti typewriter from a pawnshop in Liverpool where he had left it on an Autumn day in 1965 (I had to pay a bit extra for it because it had his initials, along with others, scraped into the paint on the base) he had pawned it to get a ticket to somewhere where people wanted to listen but never … [Read more...]
Ginsberg and Lowell
the alignment of planets parents and the cost of going ensured that I missed the Albert Hall in 1965 it was just an early disappointment and not outstanding because over years it joined many other disappointments too disappointing to recall too painful to list but the night Ginsberg and Lowell read poetry at Saint Marks church in 1977 sat on stage or … [Read more...]
3 poems by Jim Bennett
scenes 1 this poem is a movie man walking Dale Street in Liverpool three girls pass and turn their heads like they recognise him walk away giggling looking back one with hand over mouth laughing (close up) see man walking towards camera looking annoyed glancing around man walks into a building camera stays on doorway pans to sign “County … [Read more...]
