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lexico is moving

lexicoproject — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 23:02:09 +0000

The world’s most fraudulent translation blog is moving! In late 2011 it will be relaunched as a new blogsite fronted by Michael Zand. Watch this space!

the honey bee

lexicoproject — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 22:57:06 +0000

true true . i am not a honey bee
gone at first sight of smoke
or a cheeky banshee . she
who leaves when there s trouble

or broken . like a swollen flood
bleeding out of the river bed
or a casual friend . saying “bye”
taking care of my greeded self

voyelles (again)

lexicoproject — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 21:34:57 +0000

Check out this fine rendition of “Voyelles”…

This time from Sean Bonney.

Some crap about the immanence of vowels…

http://abandonedbuildings.blogspot.com/2010/05/after-rimbaud.html

lion is alive

lexicoproject — Sat, 29 May 2010 16:38:57 +0000

My new book of poetry, lion, is out now from Shearsman Books.

It is available to purchase at all good online booksellers (and direct from me!). Look out for various readings across the UK this summer.

http://www.michael-zand.com/lion.php

voyelles

lexicoproject — Sun, 23 May 2010 10:29:25 +0000

anywhere near the banker . is overt . blue . vile
jedi rays kill / cudgel his veneer . his sluttancy
anywhere new . is a corset alluding to much clutter
on a quay . a bomb of turd . panting for cruella

golf is dumb . like candies and vapours . descending
a lensed glass . road blocks . as a freeze on umbrellas
hits the pauper . sans good craic . the reds of liverpool
don a colour . or lie on everest in a penny tent

you are a secret ( where divans die or mar your ride )
ok . play with paté . stream anima . pay for the rise or
calculate prynne . or grant france some studs

but see lights . a trial verses *demand* . this anger
oh and i . a lone ego . will rain violence . to save you !

a still from “los olvidados”

lexicoproject — Sat, 15 May 2010 22:12:03 +0000

come . you shimmer in any light
a candle flickering in a butt
this milk . it works wonders on you
like brass beds and silk hats

forgive my ego . it slums you . you
feigning . or hoarding nightwords or
biting on a rolled up towel . as
neon streams a thread . across you

this surface . this commodity of sex
but in between is . still . hints of you

tim atkins on horace

lexicoproject — Sun, 09 May 2010 10:36:54 +0000

The redux of an odorous Italian…

For those of you unfamiliar with his work, Tim Atkins is a British poet and translator of Petrarch, Horace, and Buddhist texts. Here is a sample of his wonderful reworking of Horace…

Tim Atkins – Horace Extracts

road striker

lexicoproject — Mon, 03 May 2010 09:41:52 +0000

…

thief . beat this sin

beauty in spin . in him

mirror glass nym ph in

to hint me . muse me

…

lord . he comes again

a spin in . a sass in

“tired of this marble floor”

i share . he kills me happy

…

the honey bee

lexicoproject — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 09:27:22 +0000

The next in the series of Rumi translations, “the honey bee”, has been selected for the Mawlana Rumi Review, the journal of the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies at the University of Exeter. More on this to follow shortly.

1179

lexicoproject — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 23:12:05 +0000

he pulls a chair . screeched
* in sessant cough in *
cowered / diminished words
and you and you and you

we have several options
go in for the kill . or dial hash
to speak to the operator
( i know . i know it’s nothing