Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Duppy Conqueror

At the round earth's imagin'd corners, blow
Your trumpets, angels, and arise, arise
From death, you numberless infinities
Of souls, and to your scatter'd bodies go!







Yes, me friend, me good friend,
Dem say we free again.
Yes, me friend,
We deh a street again.

The bars could not hold me;
Force could not control me now.
They try to keep me down,
But Jah put I around. Yeah!

Yes, I've been accused many a times
And wrongly abused, now.
Oh, but through the powers of the Most-High,
They've got to turn me loose.
Don't try to hold me up on this
bridge, now.
I've got to reach Mount Zion -
The highest region.
So if you a bull-bucka,
Let me tell you this -
I'm a duppy conqueror - conqueror.

Yes, me friend, me good friend,
Dem say we free again.
Yes, me friend, me good friend,
We deh a street again.

So don't try to cold me up
on this bridge, now.
I've got to reach Mount Zion -
The highest region.
So if you a bull-bucka,
Let me tell you this:
I'm a duppy conqueror - conqueror.

Yes, me friend,
Dem say we free again.
Yes, me friend,
Dem set we free again.
Yes, me friend, me good
friend...

Art by Pat Jones http://imagineii.typepad.com/imagineii/

Friday, October 30, 2009

Caratacus Rides Again!


My Domus Carataci personal blog on JournalSpace with years of posts was destroyed when JournalSpace's server crashed in 2007. Since then I haven't run a personal blog, channeling most of my energies into Shit Creek Review, The Chimaera and THE FLEA and their respective blogs. But some material fits better onto a personal blog than onto the more formal context of a literary magazine's blog; with that in mind I have revived Domus Carataci, now on Blogspot, and renamed it I, Caratacus. I will update it from time to time, whenever Bloggina, the Muse of Bloggers, inspires me.

Saturday, October 24, 2009

Dzanc Best of Web and Pushcart Nominations

SCR/The Chimaera/The Flea

2009 Nominations for the Pushcart — Best of the Small Presses Anthology and the Dzanc Books Best of the Web Series.


Pushcarts

SCR

'Prayer for a Horseman' by Timothy Murphy

http://shitcreek.auszine.com/issue10/prayer-for-a-horseman/


'After the Funeral' by Janice D. Soderling

http://shitcreek.auszine.com/issue9/after-the-funeral/


'After Van Gogh’s CafĂ© Terrace at Night' by Sam Byfield

http://shitcreek.auszine.com/issue9/after-van-goghs-cafe-terrace-at-night/


'Kung Fu Monkeys Hijack Armored Car' by Dennis Loney

http://shitcreek.auszine.com/issue9/kung-fu-monkeys-hijack-armored-car/


'Life' by Bill Greenwell

http://shitcreek.auszine.com/issue10/life/


'Monstrance or Reliquary' by Ann Drysdale

http://shitcreek.auszine.com/issue10/monstrance-or-reliquary/



The Chimaera


'The Red Mud of Lydney' by Ann Drysdale

http://www.the-chimaera.com/Aug2009/Spotlight/AnnDrysdalePoems.html


'An Understudy for Desire' by Alan Gould

http://www.the-chimaera.com/Aug2009/Poems/Gould.html


'Lighthouse, with Poet Brandishing His Hat' by Rhina P. Espaillat

http://www.the-chimaera.com/Aug2009/Theme/Poems/Espaillat.html


'Talcott Mountain' by Martin Elster

http://www.the-chimaera.com/Aug2009/Theme/Poems/Elster.html


'The Annexe' by Stephen Edgar

http://www.the-chimaera.com/Feb2009/Spotlight/StephenEdgarPoems.html


'I Am Going Drown' by Charles Musser

http://www.the-chimaera.com/Aug2009/Theme/Poems/Musser.html



The Flea


'Two Theories' by Rhina Espaillat

http://www.the-flea.com/Issue2/TwoTheories.html


'Against Beauty' by Alfred Nichol

http://www.the-flea.com/Issue2/AgainstBeauty.html


'High Bank' by Bill Greenwell

http://www.the-flea.com/Issue2/HighBank.html


'Body of Evidence' by Catherine Chandler

http://www.the-flea.com/Issue1/BodyofEvidence.html


'Iconography' by Maryann Corbett

http://www.the-flea.com/Issue3/Iconography.html


'Said Yeats’s Bones to Hardy’s Heart' by Ann Drysdale

http://www.the-flea.com/Issue3/SaidYeats_sBones.html




Dzanc Books Best of Web

http://dzancbooks.org/BestOfTheWeb/index.html


SCR

'After the Funeral' by Janice D. Soderling

http://shitcreek.auszine.com/issue9/after-the-funeral/


'Prayer for a Horseman' by Timothy Murphy

http://shitcreek.auszine.com/issue10/prayer-for-a-horseman/


'Death Watch' by Michael Cantor

http://shitcreek.auszine.com/issue10/death-watch/


The Chimaera

'Sonnet 23 from The Dark Lady' by Jennifer Reeser

http://www.the-chimaera.com/Aug2009/Poems/Reeser.html


'Distraction' by Rick Mullin

http://www.the-chimaera.com/Feb2009/Theme/Poems/Mullin.html


'Seeing People' by Geoff Page

http://www.the-chimaera.com/Aug2009/Poems/Page.html



The Flea


'Vertigo' by Stephen Edgar

http://www.the-flea.com/Issue1/Vertigo.html


'Clock of the Moon and Stars' by Marly Youmans

http://www.the-flea.com/Issue2/ClockoftheMoonandStars.html


'Hydrangeas' by Mark Allinson

http://www.the-flea.com/Issue3/Hydrangeas.html

Monday, October 12, 2009

IMPORTANT: Submissions Sept - October

My computer and much of its back-up went to God on the morning of 4th October due to an unfortunate combination of events involving two poodles, a lunatic cat, some tequila and a go-go dancer. Consequently if you submitted work by DIRECT EMAIL to The Chimaera between September 7 and October 4 you need to resubmit it. 

If you submitted work by the online form, as most did, then your work is safe and you should not resubmit. Read the announcement here: http://www.the-chimaera.com/Submissions.html

Needless to say I am mortified by this development, and apologise to all concerned.

Friday, October 2, 2009

The Fleas of the Apocalypse

THE THIRD FLEA of the Apocalypse is loose!

http://www.the-flea.com/

Mark Allinson, Mary Alexandra Agner, Maryann Corbett, Ann Drysdale, Richard Epstein, Midge Goldberg, Bill Greenwell, R. Nemo Hill, Janet Kenny, Janice D. Soderling, J.J. Steinfeld, Leo Yankevich, Marly Youmans, & Thomas Zimmerman

Flea! Flea!

Monday, August 24, 2009

Terry Stanton needs help

My old friend Terry Stanton, who used to drink at The Royal George, is in dire straits. Nine months ago he fell and hit his head, and has been in intensive care ever since, having lost many of his faculties. There will be a benefit for him at Palm Beach R.S.L. on Sunday 30th August, 1-4 pm, with an auction of art by (amongst others) Martin Sharp, Reg Mombassa, Bruce Goold and Mick Glasheen. Phone (02) 9974 5566.

Click on the images below to make them bigger and easier to read.




More on Terry here:

http://theroyalgeorge.blogspot.com/2006_03_01_archive.html

I'll post more info when available.




The Terrence Fund

St. George Bank Avalon NSW

B.S.B. 112.879 Account Number 456.125.143

For further info please contact

Patrick Dougherty

Ph. (02) 9974 4255

patrickcl@bigpond.com


Fran Holloway

franholloway33@gmail.com

Saturday, August 15, 2009

Chimaeras, Dark Ladies and the GOP

An excerpt from one of Jennifer Reeser's 'Dark Lady' sonnets recently published in The Chimaera has been picked up by a website called 'GOP12'. It's an online blog which tracks American Presidential hopefuls for 2012 from the Republican party — and has been quoted in ABC Business News, and at salon.com, among other places:

From one of the best contemporary poets, Jennifer Reeser, an excerpt from the assumed perspective of the obscure woman of William Shakespeare's later poems.

If I were both thy mistress and thy muse,
From all conceivable reactions, chief
Among my choices — if I had to choose —
Would be the innocence of disbelief.

More here.