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Christian

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About Me

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I am a 2007 Pushcart Prize nominated poet and my poetry and reviews have appeared/are forthcoming in:Adagio Verse Quarterly, Andwerve, Autumn Sky Poetry, Ballard Street Poetry Journal, The Beat, The Blotter, Blowback, Bolts of Silk, Chantarelle's Notebook, Chronogram, Cider Press Review, The Clockwise Cat, The Dande Review, Decanto, Decomp, Defenestration, Denver Syntax, Lit Dispatch, Dogmatika, Down in the Dirt, The Eye, The Fairfield Review, La Fenetre, The Flask Review, Flutter, Hecale, The Hub, Iddie, Iota, Ken*Again, Kill Poet, Laura Hird, Lily Lit Review, Literary Tonic, Loch Raven Review, Mannequin Envy, Mastodon Dentist, Monomyth, Muscadine Lines: A Southern Journal, The New Writer, Nthposition, Obsessed with Pipework, Ottawa Arts Review, Other Poetry, Outsider Writers, The Poetry Kit, Poetry Superhighway, Rattle, Remark, Roehampton Writes, Seconde Wind, Shine!, Softblow, Subtle Tea, Taj Mahal Review, The New Writer, Thick with Conviction, Tipton Poetry Journal, Unfettered Verse, Unlikely Stories, Why Vandalism?, Volume Magazine, The Warwick Review, Word Riot, Zygote in my Coffee

My Interests

Writing, films, music, art, walking about, reading, plays, science, being a nerd, astronomy, astrology, paranormal, the countryside.

I'd like to meet:

Writers, artists, thinkers, musicians, editors.Click here to buy my latest chapbook

Music:

I like bands like Taproot, The Bravery, Breaking Benjamin, P.O.D, Blindside, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Killswitch Engage, System Of A Down, My Chemical Romance, The Killers, Metallica, Slipknot, Snow Patrol, The White Stripes, Seether, Drowning Pool, Feeder, Deftones, Linkin Park, Bloc Party, Billy Talent, Mudvayne, The Pigeon Detectives, Hard-fi, Chemical Brothers, Underworld, Orbital, DJ Shadow, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Alkaline Trio et al

Movies:

The Shawshank Redemption, The Green Mile, X-Men, Spiderman, Serenity,The Matrix, Star Wars, Lord of the Rings trilogy, Wedding Crashers, Dodgeball, foreign films like La Haine, Cinema Paradiso, films by Francois Truffault and Pedro Almodovar.

Television:

Family Guy, The Simpsons, most sci-fi, CSI, Law & Order, Heroes, Becker, Scrubs, The Sky at Night, The Daily Show, Bremner, Bird and Fortune

Books:

H.G Wells, Kafka, Hesse, Calvino, Steinbeck, Iris Murdoch, Lionel Shriver, Sue Monk Kidd, J.G Ballard, H.P Lovecraft, Neil Gaiman, Raymond Carver, Hemingway, Camus, Bradbury, Philip K Dick, James Thurber, Umberto Eco, Jeanette Winterson, Margaret Attwood, Joyce, J.D Salinger, William BurroughsJust some of my favourites. I read pretty much anythingLove drama and poetry, esp Ibsen, Mamet, Beckett, Shaw, Tennessee Williams, the beat poets, T.S Eliot, Amy Clampitt, Adrienne Rich, Basho, Seamus Heaney, John Burnside, Rimbaud, William Carlos Williams, Maya Angelou, Plath, Neruda, Rilke, Goethe, Hughes, W.B Yeats, Wilfred Owen, Tony Hoagland, Ruth Stone, Jacob Polley, Leontia Flynn, Richard Price, Tobias Hill, Elizabeth Bishop(Just some of my favourites, not an exhaustive list)

My Blog

This Annoys Me

Everyone,Thanks for all your support lately. I appreciate it a lot. I've taken a break today from my dissertation. Modernism was getting to me a little, lol. Now, I'm all for freedom of speech but thi...
Posted by Christian on Sat, 08 Dec 2007 12:17:00 PST

It gets better

Thank you all for your lovely comments on my last blog. I appreciate it greatly.This last week has been...interesting. I got acceptances from Unlikely Stories, Decanto, The New Writer, Literary Tonic,...
Posted by Christian on Sun, 25 Nov 2007 06:53:00 PST

News

I got some good news this eveningMy poem 'Motorway' has been accepted in the Ottawa Arts ReviewMore poems soonLove,Christian ...
Posted by Christian on Mon, 12 Nov 2007 01:19:00 PST

The Particle Writes A Love Poem

I hope you're all having a good weekend. Thank you for all your kind comments on my last poem. I appreciate it greatly.I got an acceptance in the Taj Mahal Review todayEnjoy this poemLove,Christian---...
Posted by Christian on Sat, 10 Nov 2007 02:26:00 PST

The Interior of Clouds

Thanks for all your comments on my last poem, everyone. I appreciate it a lot. I've had some new acceptances lately - Bolts of Silk, The Fairfield Review, Volume Magazine, Obsessed with Pipework, Seco...
Posted by Christian on Wed, 07 Nov 2007 07:55:00 PST

Just for fun

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Posted by Christian on Mon, 05 Nov 2007 01:48:00 PST

Directions

Thank you all for your support and birthday wishes. That means a lot to me. I'm pretty busy with university coursework at the moment but hopefully things will slow down by January. Meanwhile, enjoy th...
Posted by Christian on Sat, 13 Oct 2007 05:36:00 PST

Keys

Thank you for all your comments on my last poem. Enjoy this new poem of mine.Have a great Sunday, everyone.Love,Christian----------KeysThe key turning in my front doorhas no idea where it's goingor wi...
Posted by Christian on Sun, 12 Aug 2007 09:11:00 PST

To and Fro

    Thank you for your comments on my last blog. I appreciate your support. This is something I've written today.   Love,   Christian ----------- To and Fro   Summer grasses ...
Posted by Christian on Thu, 28 Jun 2007 04:36:00 PST

Coyote Songs

I hope you've all been well. I have been preoccupied with coursework lately and will catch up with all of your blogs soon.Love,Christian--------- Coyote SongsOne o'clock. The daily hubbubof students g...
Posted by Christian on Sun, 27 May 2007 01:31:00 PST