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until the end of my life grzegorz wróblewski i search for myself through literature art and contacts with other people it is a kind of self verification my essence is an attempt to find some meaning in existence this process will probably last until the end of my life grzegorz wróblewski in his own words wróblewski describes his journey as one of continuous self discovery he views his interactions with the world and his creative endeavors as a means to understand his own identity and place in the cosmos this introspective approach aligns with existentialist thought emphasizing the importance of personal experience and the perpetual search for meaning also quantum theory hermit life ideas of home lots of exploration a terrific interview over at spillwords with the artist poet writer grzegorz wróblewski read the rest of the interview over here stuart ross surreal absurd sampler march 18 2025 reality is the bubbling cauldron of absurdity we are flung into the giant ladle of surrealism stirs us around and around until we capitulate to its nurturing demands stuart ross we are delighted to present this week s surreal absurd sampler the maestro of madcap stuart ross stuart ross has published over 20 books most recently the poetry collection the sky is a sky in the sky the memoir the book of grief and hamburgers and the short story collection i am claude françois and you are a bathtub stuart runs the feed dog book imprint for surrealist poetry at anvil press and the 1366 books imprint for experimental fiction at guernica editions he lives in cobourg ontario canada and occasionally blogs at bloggamooga blogspot com click here to read his surreal absurd sample p3 annihilation march 15 2025 manchester s live literature scene has been awash with amazing visiting poets this spring and for this free afternoon of absurd surreal poetry we are agog to see vik shirley stephen emmerson and marcus silcock corralled by tom jenks and reading in a place packed with brilliant books read the rest of the announcement over here https www creativetourist com event absurd surreal poetry online launch of dream dust march 9 2025 my first reading for my new book dream dust is online tuesday april 1st surreal absurd stories prose poems join us sign up for the event over here 20 00 gmt april 1st https www eventbrite com au e broken sleep books march 2025 launch tickets 1270331508739 aff ebdsoporgprofile keep_tld 1 an afternoon of absurd surreal poetry march 9 2025 i m reading in april as part of the launch of my new book dream dust broken sleep books reading with three fab uk poets stephen emmerson tom jenks and vik shirley dream team of surreal absurd writers it s in manchester i haven t been north in quite some time but loved manchester over a decade ago as part of the other room reading series excited to read at a cool venue in manchester ps annihilation eve see poster for details sign up here to attend it s free https www eventbrite co uk e an afternoon of absurd surreal poetry tickets 1276001768639 aff oddtdtcreator do you wear socks with your sandals february 28 2025 it seems like so many people love the beach millions of humans frolicking on the beach i am not a cocktail sippin roll in the sand kinda fella but a beach with howling winds and nobody else around the only thing packed is the sand that s a nice beach but i moved to a beach place full of super social creatures i visit the beach often and you know what that means you need to wear sandals i wore sandals in my youth but they weren t hot beach sandals they were cold beach sandals you needed socks here is a true story written shortly after moving to sitges first published in sprung formal a literary arts journal published annually in association with the liberal arts and graphic design departments at the kansas city art institute now the microfiction prose poems is part of my book dream dust surreal absurd micro stories and prose poetry loosely built around travel dream dust is available from broken sleep books in the uk and worldwide naked freedom by marcus silcock the crustacean period a journey through my 1990s february 13 2025 long ago in my crustacean period i worked at chevron gorging on beef jerky and graveyard radio this was the mid 1990s the world of course was very different i rode the bus to work and read greek philosophy also german was in my ear i was hungry here is a reading about that time it s called the bells of chevron navigating january blues the head and the heart january 13 2025 happy monday january is not an easy month post christmas winter for many february even more so my head is spinning some lack of sleep too many thoughts of what s next finding some kind of purpose trying not to read too much news it is so easy to get lost in the head it is good to have a head but i need to remember it is not the only control centre the head it keeps spinning with its thoughts i am trying to keep loose disruptive sleep but trying to fight it makes it worse here is a poem written on train to wroclaw poland last summer there were lots of young people in the compartment with backpacks shaggy 70s but it was 2024 middle age what is it here is a poem about time and the mind body split part of my forthcoming book dream dust coming in march from broken sleep books https player vimeo com video 1046310657 badge 0 autopause 0 player_id 0 app_id 58479 minimalist art and poetry wróblewski s influence january 12 2025 i just read three new poems by grzegorz wróblewski this morning it is the start of 2025 well over a week into it really also feeling my middle age i still have at least 17 years of work or probably more since i am not sure i can ever afford to stop working with no property piddly savings etc so guess i am still middle aged squarely middle aged whatever that means time to build or let go life expanding and contracting well one thing for certain i feel my mortality differently i expect that will continue there are comforts great art as always especially minimalist without pretensions i think i need that more than ever endless hours of techno narcissism little narrow alleys of specialised professional niches no thank you i want the bigger picture grzegorz wróblewski has always been a favourite a good friend someone whose art nourishes even if at first glance it might seem heavy and pessimistic it is not one thing only it is sometimes like the poetry of james tate and charles simic direct and often humorous surreal absurd it cuts through the bullshit here are three new poems translated into english of grzegorz wróblewski they deal with life and death directly also birds solipsism and hot mammals the flow of life read them over at north of oxford dream dust surreal absurd travel stories december 31 2024 hurrah i have a new book coming in march 2025 from broken sleep books in the u k broken sleep makes very fine books super happy and grateful it is called dream dust microfiction prose poems from berlin barcelona london poland prague utah and more i have been working on some of these prose poems since 2018 so it s nice to have them birthed into the world here is a prose poem from the new book it is called white elephants and was written in prague while searching for the biggest medieval square in europe instead we found large sculptures of alien crawling babies by david černý and then the great underground cabaret here is a reading of white elephants from my upcoming book dream dust figurative surrealism bridging psychology and art december 30 2024 surrealism has spread it s wings far and wide of course it is less and less interesting to pursue some kind of pure surrealism it seems the most interesting surrealism is often mixed for example pure surrealist automatism can sometimes feel like someone trying to tell you their fascinating dream it is often not every interesting but as a starting point yes so i suppose at least for me i enjoy super reality and the uncanny rather than abstract surrealism or automatism as an end point a grounding with a nice rug that is pulled out from under you however i also enjoy some abstract surrealism miro for example i am less and less interested in word salads and verbal gymnastics as the main driving force of linguistically innovative poetry also i have grown more and more disillusioned with post modern theories and sensibilities with their obsessive focus on power as the centre of human experience foucault etc ditto overly academic poetics tied to dense specialisation often obscuring rather than opening up and revealing the liberation of thought and language change randomness and unpredictability and transgressing boundaries those are the legacies of surrealism that stick with me also dreamlike imagery that expands the narrowly constructed realms of the real i am pulled towards surrealism for its intersection of psychology and art here is this morning s new surrealism painting by inka essenhigh it is called predawn in spring 2020 it is an example of figurative surrealism haunting and beautiful those ghost like figures are welcoming the sun is warm in the centre and the skeleton trees are also beautiful death is there but also beauty also those elemental energies of yin and yang masculine and feminine winter poem dear working man with tarred leggings december 21 2024 a new prose poem from my ongoing manuscript this one is called dear working man with tarred leggings winter poem a little morning broth to heat the bones beauty does not only exist for the leisure class letters to objects a memoir of portadown december 6 2024 working on a new manuscript letters to objects some of it memoir some of it stories maybe prose poetry some with pathos but hopefully not bathos tis the season for the invasion of memories here is one about growing up in oakwood place in portadown n ireland my granda roses it can never do it justice it being language it being the passing of time and people here is my first letter it is called dear roses pulse of the nation a prose poem inspired by dreams october 28 2024 i ve been reactivating my german from high school and college dreaming of berlin but also other things in the air like the prose poems of max jacob max jacob 1876 1944 was a french poet painter and writer who played a significant role in the early 20th century literary scene he was a close friend of pablo picasso and guillaume apollinaire and his work is known for its blend of surrealism and symbolism jacob s prose poems such as those in his collection le cornet à dés the dice box often explore themes of dreams spirituality and the subconscious here is a little prose poem from a new collection of travel prose poems coming in march 2025 from broken sleep books in the uk lots of them are based on dreams this one was in the air it is called pulse of the nation pulse of the nation explores the collective consciousness maybe partially it draws from history of the now https player vimeo com video 1023672678 badge 0 autopause 0 player_id 0 app_id 58479 exploring travel through prose poetry october 11 2024 i am super chuffed to have a new prose poem in issue 2 of strings literary magazine written during the summer of 2024 i found inspiration in reading various translations of rilke i also acquired a new technique of writing in pencil rilke brought to mind my days in trieste as a dog walker i moved to trieste after spending a year teaching in turkey trieste had a statue of james joyce and i kissed it in the mornings i wore some sort of balloon trousers semi hippy and walked a big golden retriever and a small pug the bora howled i was pulled in two directions it was semi romantic this collage prose poem is about travel travel can sometimes help with beginner s mind and that s the place that feels fresh travel literature as language in movement also impermanent like my pencil poetry is about freshening up the mind via language opening our perceptions visual art freshening the eyes music freshening the ears poetry can freshen the ears eyes heart mind language and so on who doesn t want to feel fresh it is a continual process you can read the poem here check out the terrific issue as well here is a slap dap reading of the poem this morning happy friday folks max jacob s the dice cup insights and analysis october 9 2024 surprises by max jacob translated by ian seed from max jacob s mind bending collection of prose poems the dice cup available from wakefield press here is quick slap dash reading of the poem everything in this book is terrific poland is for lovers august 2 2024 it s been an epic journey from barcelona through france and germany to the mountains of poland currently in the oldest spa town in poland called cieplice it s been around since 1281 lushing out in the green i wrote a prose poem on the fly it s called the green ticket it is part of my new book of travel prose poems called dream dust forthcoming in march 2025 from broken sleep books in the uk https player vimeo com video 994119151 badge 0 autopause 0 player_id 0 app_id 58479 the visual sonnets of laura wetherington august 2 2024 thylias moss once said to me that the knots and turns in a tree s branches are all evidence of failures but in the context of a complex system they make the tree beautiful and unique i turned to the trees first with tree rubbings and then with collage i am making new sonnets visual ones then in the spirit of antonin artaud s desire to get outside of language laura wetherington super chuffed to publish the surreal absurd visual poems of laura wetherington over at mercurius this week check out her visual poems over here barton smock july 25 2024 terrific surreal absurd sampler from barton smock at mercurius magazine it s kinda partly neo creationism with adam and eve surrealism steals the past from nostalgia it s not an escape it s a sustainable staying a personal ruin that ruins nothing my love for transformation is unchanged angels hate art barton smock check barton smock s sampler out here swan songs june 21 2024 here is a swan song for the old life it was written a few years ago right before christmas and travel to poland after emergency surgery and feeling alive it is also about middle age shame suffering there is a little chisel in there as well it s a reference to c s lewis and his answer to why we suffer there is no good answer except a lot of suffering is mental a lot of clinging holding too tight after playing touch and go with this world and the next world or non world perspectives shift so here it is a wee prose poem for middle age suffering surviving emergency surgery and the naked beach of sitges etc ian mcmillan surreal absurd june 11 2024 i can more or less remember when i first tried to be surrealistically creative it was on a church youth club trip to london in around 1969 when i was 13 on the way home my mates and i were spectacularly bored on the rattling bus and i said apropos of nothing that when i got home i was going wash my hands in 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