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Stranger Than Kindness: The Nick Cave Exhibition + Book

 

Stranger Than Kindness is a journey in images and words into the creative world of musician, storyteller and cultural icon Nick Cave.
This highly collectable book invites the reader into the innermost core of the creative process and paves the way for an entirely new and intimate meeting with the artist, presenting Cave’s life, work and inspiration and exploring his many real and imagined universes. It features full colour reproductions of original artwork, handwritten lyrics, photographs and collected personal artefacts along with commentary and meditations from Nick Cave, Janine Barrand and Darcey Steinke.

Stranger Than Kindness asks what shapes our lives and makes us who we are, and celebrates the curiosity and power of the creative spirit.

The book has been developed and curated by Nick Cave in collaboration with Christina Back. The images were selected from ‘Stranger Than Kindness: The Nick Cave Exhibition’, opening at the Royal Danish Library in Copenhagen in March 2020.

Nick Cave has been performing music for more than thirty years and is best known as the songwriter and lead singer of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, whose latest album Ghosteen was widely received as their best work ever. Cave’s body of work also covers a wider range of media and modes of expression including film score composition and writing of novels. His recent Conversations events and Red Hand Files website have seen Cave exploring deeper and more direct relationships with his fans.

Stranger Than Kindness: The Nick Cave Exhibition
A journey into the creative world of musician, storyteller and cultural icon Nick Cave.
23 March 2020 – 3 October 2020
Exhibition in the Black Diamond Copenhagen
Stranger Than Kindness: The Nick Cave Exhibition
The Black Diamond – Royal Danish Library
Søren Kierkegaards Plads, Copenhagen, Denmark
Please check our website for a new opening date:
www.thenickcaveexhibition.com

The exhibition was developed and designed by Christina Back, Royal Danish Library and Janine Barrand, Arts Centre Melbourne in collaboration with Nick Cave for The Black Diamond, Copenhagen. It was curated and produced by Royal Danish Library in collaboration with the Australian Music Vault at Arts Centre Melbourne. The soundscapes were composed and recorded for the exhibition by Nick Cave and Warren Ellis.

The book: Stranger Than Kindness is a journey in images and words into the creative world of musician, storyteller and cultural icon Nick Cave.

This highly collectable book invites the reader into the innermost core of the creative process and paves the way for an entirely new and intimate meeting with the artist, presenting Cave’s life, work and inspiration and exploring his many real and imagined universes.

Nick Cave
Stranger Than Kindness
Hardcover: 276 pages
Publisher: Canongate Books;
Main edition (23 Mar. 2020)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1838852247
ISBN-13: 978-1838852245
Product Dimensions: 22 x 3 x 29 cm
£35.00
https://canongate.co.uk/

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Raymond Garfield Dandridge: The Poet

 

The Poet

The poet sits and dreams and dreams;
He scans his verse; he probes his themes.

Then turns to stretch or stir about,
Lest, like his thoughts, his strength give out.

Then off to bed, for he must rise
And cord some wood, or tamp some ties,

Or break a field of fertile soil,
Or do some other manual toil.

He dare not live by wage of pen,
Most poorly paid of poor paid men,

With shoes o’er-run, and threadbare clothes,—
And editors among the foes

Who mock his song, deny him bread,
Then sing his praise when he is dead.

Raymond Garfield Dandridge
(1882 – 1930)
The Poet

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Gilbert Keith Chesterton: Nightmare (Poem)

 

Nightmare

The silver and violet leopard of the night
Spotted with stars and smooth with silence sprang;
And though three doors stood open, the end of light
Closed like a trap; and stillness was a clang.

Under the leopard sky of lurid stars
I strove with evil sleep the hot night long,
Dreams dumb and swollen of triumphs without wars,
Of tongueless trumpet and unanswering gong.

I saw a pale imperial pomp go by,
Helmet and hornèd mitre and heavy wreath;
Their high strange ensigns hung upon the sky
And their great shields were like the doors of death.

Their mitres were as moving pyramids
And all their crowns as marching towers were tall;
Their eyes were cold under their carven lids
And the same carven smile was on them all.

Over a paven plain that seemed unending
They passed unfaltering till it found an end
In one long shallow step; and these descending
Fared forth anew as long away to wend.

I thought they travelled for a thousand years;
And at the end was nothing for them all,
For all that splendour of sceptres and of spears,
But a new step, another easy fall.

The smile of stone seemed but a little less,
The load of silver but a little more:
And ever was that terraced wilderness
And falling plain paved like a palace floor.

Rust red as gore crawled on their arms of might
And on their faces wrinkles and not scars:
Till the dream suddenly ended; noise and light
Loosened the tyranny of the tropic stars.

But over them like a subterranean sun
I saw the sign of all the fiends that fell;
And a wild voice cried “Hasten and be done,
Is there no steepness in the stairs of hell?”

He that returns, He that remains the same,
Turned the round real world, His iron vice;
Down the grey garden paths a bird called twice,
And through three doors mysterious daylight came.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton
(1874 – 1936)
Nightmare
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Genomineerden E. du Perronprijs 2019: Ellen Deckwitz, Stephan Enter en Asha Karami

De schrijvers Ellen Deckwitz, Stephan Enter en Asha Karami zijn genomineerd voor de E. du Perronprijs 2019.

De prijs wordt toegekend aan schrijvers, kunstenaars of instellingen die met een cultuuruiting in brede zin een bijdrage leveren aan een inclusieve samenleving. De uitreiking vindt plaats op donderdagavond 16 april in de LocHal in Tilburg. Dan houdt Maxim Februari de negende E. du Perronlezing met als titel ‘E. du Perron en de pseudo-identiteiten’.

 

Ellen Deckwitz ‒ Hogere Natuurkunde (Uitgeverij Pluim)

“Op een avond begon je te hijgen, greep naar je borst en riep dat je moest blijven ademen omdat ze anders hadden gewonnen.” Deze openingszin leidt een fascinerende en onheilspellende dichtbundel in, waarin verschillende genres, stemmen en stemmingen met elkaar worden verweven.

Aan het woord is een kleindochter die de stem van haar grootmoeder (1921-2014) laat klinken en haar ervaringen in de oorlog in Nederlands-Indië onder woorden probeert te brengen. Dat levensverhaal werd alleen in flarden verteld, in snippers overgeleverd. Dergelijke details geven een indruk van de overlevingsdrift van de grootmoeder als klein meisje, en van het pantser dat zij op latere leeftijd om zich heen heeft opgetrokken. De kleindochter verweeft haar stem met die van de ander en geeft ook een perspectief op de dochter/moeder (geboren in 1952) die tussen hen in staat. Zij houdt zich buiten het verhaal en overleeft door juist niet te vragen naar waar de pijn vandaan komt. Deckwitz schreef een indrukwekkende dichtbundel die laat zien hoe volgende generaties getekend worden door een land van herkomst dat in oorlog raakte en werd verwoest. Het leed en de veerkracht, soms ingewikkeld met elkaar verbonden, blijven bestaan ook in volgende generaties.

 

Stephan Enter ‒ Pastorale (Uitgeverij Van Oorschot)

De roman Pastorale neemt ons mee naar de jaren tachtig, naar een fictief dorp, Brevendal, in het midden van Nederland. Het ene deel van het dorp is christelijk, de “Goede Herder en Zijn Kudde”, in het andere deel wonen “Ambonezen” die proberen de cultuur die ze verloren zijn vast te houden.

Het verhaal wordt verteld vanuit het perspectief van een broer en zus, opgegroeid in een oude familie met een groot en verwaarloosd landgoed. De roman laat zien hoe verschillende groepen naast elkaar leven, hoe stereotypische perspectieven van kracht zijn, en ook hoe de grenzen tussen de ene en de andere groep poreus blijken te zijn. Deze roman overtuigt omdat de beschrijvingen precies en gedetailleerd zijn, en er subtiel inzicht wordt geboden in de psychologie van de scholier Oscar, verliefd op een Moluks meisje, en zijn zus Louise, die een gesjeesde student is en onzeker over haar toekomst. Goede intenties hebben niet altijd een positief effect, mensen vatten uitspraken en ideeën vaak anders op dan werd bedoeld, en zo worden levens in de provincie geschilderd die veranderen en toch ook hetzelfde blijven. De roman is Perronesk in de veelzijdigheid van personages en in de dialogen waaruit uiteenlopende opvattingen naar voren komen. De meerstemmigheid van de roman wordt niet alleen bereikt door het aanvoeren van verschillende personages, maar zit ook in het hoofd van de enkeling, die haar eigen positie scherp probeert te krijgen: “Die stem – hadden andere mensen die ook? Hadden alle andere mensen die ook? En wat was ze, die stem – was je die zelf, of niet, of niet helemaal, of was je die alleen op momenten waarop je je niet van jezelf bewust was?” Pastorale is intellectueel, literair en uitermate boeiend.

 

Asha Karami ‒ Godface (Uitgeverij De Bezige Bij)

Godface biedt veelzijdige, levendige, geestige en ook vaak verontrustende gedichten. Deze poëzie gaat over van alles, van schuldsanering tot Suikerfeest, van liposuctie tot Aviko-ovenfriet.

Maar bovenal gaat deze poëzie over taal en hoe die als banaal en verheven instrument ingezet kan worden om dagelijkse beelden en ervaringen uit te drukken. Blog post discours en lyriek vermengen zich in absurde beschrijvingen: “ik ben geboren met twee vagina’s / en ik geloof niet in deuren / dit is al mijn derde dood en ik ben nog maar in mijn dertig.” De dichterlijke stem orkestreert het geheel, terwijl zij ook steeds verschillende perspectieven biedt en stemmingen oproept. Er is een sterke thematiek van verschil tussen culturen, groepen, werelden, een verschil dat volledig normaal wordt bevonden. Du Perron zei ooit dat zijn gewone bestaan zonder literatuur onbevredigd zou zijn. Die inzet lezen we ook hier: van alles is literatuur te maken en alles is te dragen omdat het in poëzie uitdrukking kan krijgen. De dichter is tegendraads en scherp analytisch. Dit is poëzie zonder diepzinnigheid of traagheid. Rauw en levendig, en daarmee bestendig in een tijd waarin alles op social media gezegd kan worden, zonder dat daar inzicht te vinden is: “de overweldigende zekerheid / van een ondanks alle zichtbare veranderingen / permanent onzichtbaar onderliggend landschap.”

 

Sinds 1986 reikt Tilburg University jaarlijks een prijs uit ‘ter bekroning van mensen of instellingen die zich middels een actieve bijdrage aan de cultuur verdienstelijk hebben gemaakt voor de bevordering van wederzijds begrip en een goede verstandhouding tussen de in Nederland woonachtige bevolkingsgroepen’. In de vele jaren dat de prijs bestaat, veranderde de universiteit haar naam van Katholieke Universiteit Brabant in Universiteit van Tilburg en vervolgens in Tilburg University, en veranderde de Faculteit der Letteren in de Faculteit voor Communicatie en Cultuur, vervolgens in Faculteit Geesteswetenschappen en uiteindelijk in Tilburg School of Humanities and Digital Sciences. De prijs echter draagt al meer dan twintig jaar dezelfde naam: die van de beroemde schrijver E. du Perron.

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The Penguin Book of Oulipo: Queneau, Perec, Calvino and the Adventure of Form by Philip Terry (Editor)

Brought together for the first time, here are 100 pieces of ‘Oulipo’ writing, celebrating the literary group who revelled in maths problems, puzzles, trickery, wordplay and conundrums.

Featuring writers including Georges Perec, Raymond Queneau and Italo Calvino, it includes poems, short stories, word games and even recipes. Alongside these famous Oulipians, are ‘anticipatory’ wordsmiths who crafted language with unusual constraints and literary tricks, from Jonathan Swift to Lewis Carroll.

Philip Terry is a translator, and a writer of fiction and poetry. He has translated the work of Georges Perec, Stéphane Mallarmé and Raymond Queneau, and is the author of the novel tapestry, shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize.

His poetry volumes include Oulipoems, Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Dante’s Inferno (a Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year, London Review Bookshop Book of the Week, and recipient of a Society of Authors Travelling Scholarship Prize), Quennets, and Dictator, a version of the Epic of Gilgamesh in Globish.

He is currently translating  Ice Age signs from the caves at Lascaux.

• ‘Philip Terry’s collection is packed with fabulous, wide-ranging work that displays the full ingenuity, brio and originality of Oulipian ideals in action. An exhilarating feat of in-depth reading, and translating, it takes its place as the definitive anthology in English for decades to come.’ – Marina Warner

• Philip Terry’s playful selection will appeal to lovers of word games, puzzles and literary delights.

The Penguin Book of Oulipo
Queneau, Perec, Calvino and the Adventure of Form
Edited by Philip Terry
Imprint: Penguin Classics
Published: 31/10/2019
ISBN: 9780241378427
Hardcover
Length: 576 Pages
Dimensions: 240mm x 49mm x 162mm
RRP: £25.00

# new books
The Penguin Book of Oulipo
Queneau, Perec, Calvino and the Adventure of Form
Philip Terry (Edited by)

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Forever Words. The Unknown Poems by Johnny Cash

These never-before-published poems by Johnny Cash make the perfect gifts for music lovers and fans alike.

Edited and introduced by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Paul Muldoon with a foreword by John Carter Cash, this poetry collection is illustrated with facsimile reproductions of Cash’s own handwritten pages. Now an album with music by Rosanne Cash, Brad Paisley, Willie Nelson, Kacey Musgraves, Elvis Costello, and more.

Since his first recordings in 1955, Johnny Cash has been an icon in the music world. In this collection of poems and song lyrics that have never been published before, we see the world through his eyes and view his reflection on his own interior reality, his frailties and his strengths alike. In his hallmark voice, he pens verses about love, pain, freedom, and mortality, and expresses insights on culture, his family, his fame, even Christmas. Forever Words confirms Johnny Cash as a brilliant and singular American literary figure. His music is a part of our collective history, and here the depth of his artistry and talent become even more evident.

JOHNNY CASH (1932–2003) was an American icon and country music superstar. He performed everywhere from Folsom State Prison to the White House. In 1980 he became the youngest living person to be chosen for the Country Music Hall of Fame; he was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1977, the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1992, and the Gospel Music Hall of Fame in 2010. A recipient of the Kennedy Center Honors as well as the National Medal of Arts, he won nineteen Grammy Awards, four of them posthumously.

PAUL MULDOON is the author of twelve collections of verse, including Moy Sand and Gravel, for which he won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. He is the Howard G. B. Clark Profes­sor at Princeton University, and between 1999 and 2004 he was Professor of Poetry at Oxford. Since 2007, Muldoon has been poetry editor of The New Yorker. He is a fellow of the Royal Soci­ety of Literature and of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Forever Words
The Unknown Poems
By Johnny Cash
Cat.: Poetry | Music
Paperback
$18.00
ISBN 9780399575150
144 Pages
Nov 12, 2019
Published by Plume

# new poetry
forever words
the unknown poems
by johnny cash

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Poetry by Diana Marie Delgado: Tracing the Horse

Set in Southern California’s San Gabriel Valley, Diana Marie Delgado’s debut poetry collection 

follows the coming-of-age of a young Mexican-American woman trying to make sense of who she is amidst a family and community weighted by violence and addiction.

With bracing vulnerability, the collection chronicles the effects of her father’s drug use and her brother’s incarceration, asking the reader to consider reclamation and the power of the self.

Diana Marie Delgado is the author of Tracing the Horse and the chapbook Late Night Talks with Men I Think I Trust. She is the recipient of numerous grants, including a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. A graduate of Columbia University she currently resides in Tucson, where she is the Literary Director of the Poetry Center at the University of Arizona.

Come back with me
to the ruins.
We will look
through family
photographs;
I can show you
what the wind
and I did.
Who keeps
the stars
from falling
out of the sky?

Diana Marie Delgado
fragment from: Never Mind I’m Dead

Series: New Poets of America (Book 43)
Paperback: 112 pages
Publisher: BOA Editions Ltd.
September 10, 2019
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1942683871
ISBN-13: 978-1942683872
Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.2 x 8.5 inches
$ 17.00

# new poetry
Diana Marie Delgado
Tracing the Horse

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Emily Dickinson: Aspiration (Poem)

 

Aspiration

We never know how high we are
Till we are called to rise;
And then, if we are true to plan,
Our statures touch the skies.
The heroism we recite
Would be a daily thing,
Did not ourselves the cubits warp
For fear to be a king.

Emily Dickinson
(1830-1886)
Aspiration

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Dichter Jules Deelder overleden

Op 19 december 2019 is – na een zeer kort ziekbed – overleden dichter J.A. (Jules) Deelder. De dichter werd volgens zijn familie “tot zijn eigen verbazing” 75 jaar oud.

Jules Deelder (Rotterdam, 1944 – 2019) was een opvallende verschijning en erg geliefd als schrijver, dichter, muzikant en performer. Hij was zijn leven lang een groot liefhebber van Jazz en fan van de Rotterdamse voetbalclub Sparta. De club riep hem, kort voor zijn dood, nog uit tot lid van verdienste. Verder stond Deelder bekend als ‘De nachtburgemeester van Rotterdam’.

Jules Deelder werd gerekend tot de ‘performance poets’ ( of ‘popdichters’) een beweging die aansloot bij de ‘Beat Generation’ van Amerikaanse dichters als Allen Ginsberg en Jack Kerouac.

De familie van Deelder en uitgeverij De Bezige Bij, staan met dit gedicht stil bij zijn overlijden:

Zijn gaan is
een komen
Zijn komen
een gaan

Hij houdt niet
van zitten
Hij blijft
liever staan

Zichzelf
en de wereld
een raadsel

(Uit: De Zwarte Jager – J.A. Deelder, 1973)

I.M.
Jules Deelder
(1944 – 2019)

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Emily Dickinson: Drowning is not so pitiful (Poem)

Drowning is not so pitiful

Drowning is not so pitiful
As the attempt to rise.
Three times, ’t is said, a sinking man
Comes up to face the skies,
And then declines forever
To that abhorred abode
Where hope and he part company, —
For he is grasped of God.
The Maker’s cordial visage,
However good to see,
Is shunned, we must admit it,
Like an adversity.

Emily Dickinson
(1830-1886)
Drowning is not so pitiful

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Emily Dickinson: A Word (Poem)

A Word

A word is dead
When it is said,
Some say.
I say it just
Begins to live
That day.

Emily Dickinson
(1830-1886)
A Word

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Gladys Cromwell: Approach (Poem)

 

Approach

Apparelled in a mask of joy till now,
I knew thee not. Asleep, I see thy face
More simply. Sorrow s leisure lets me trace
The nicer lines. Thy sealed lids, thy brow,
Thy lasting posture, purposes avow ;
In thy spent form resides a moveless grace.
A pageant was thy life, and in its place
I find a truth to feed and to endow
My heart. Thy wonted mask of joy belied
The meaning death s bare attitude makes clear.
From living gesture thought went often wide,
And I was poor interpreter ; but here,
Where it would seem our thoughts anew divide,
The steady silence draws thy spirit near.

Gladys Cromwell
(1885-1919)
Approach
From: Songs of the Dust, 1915

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