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Tom Dorman

About Me

My first book 'Strange Girls in Hospital Nighties' is now available. A collection of intensely personal and highly charged poems, it is a starkly beautiful piece of work. Contact me for more information. I am also singer/songwriter in the Expressionist group The Death of Artists.Lefthand (male): free enneagram test

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Member Since: 20/02/2006
Influences: BOOKS/INFLUENCES - Tomb for 500,000 Soldiers (Pierre Guyotat), Our Lady of the Flowers (Jean Genet), The Torture Garden (Octave Mirbeau), Umblical Limbo, Nerve Scales, Artaud the Momo (Antonin Artaud), The Songs of Maldoror (Comte de Lautreamont), The Flowers of Evil, The Spleen of Paris (Charles Baudelaire), Aurelia, Sylvie (Gerard de Nerval), A Season in Hell, Collected Poems (Arthur Rimbaud), Saturnine Poems, Songs Without Words (Paul Verlaine), The Way by Swann's, In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower (Marcel Proust), Let Us Compare Mythologies, The Spice Box of Earth, Flowers for Hitler (Leonard Cohen), Life Love Death Void and Wind (Roger Gilbert-Lecomte), Story of the Eye, Collected Poems (Georges Bataille), Poems (Georg Heym), Ariel: The Restored Edition (Sylvia Plath), To Bedlam and Part Way Back, All My Pretty Ones, Live or Die (Anne Sexton), Fear and Trembling (Soren Kierkegaard)...MUSIC/INFLUENCES - The Cure, The Dresden Dolls, Bauhaus, Joy Division, Einsturzende Neubauten, The Sisters of Mercy, The Smashing Pumpkins, Nick Cave, Leonard Cohen...PAINTERS/INFLENCES - Soutine, Kirchner, Bacon, German Expressionism...FILMS/INFLUENCES - Begotten, The Seventh Seal, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, The Passion of Joan of Arc, My Life and Times With Antonin Artaud, The Seashell and the Clergyman, Alice (Neco z Alenky), The Lover, The Libertine, The Mission, Mermaids, Cabaret...

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2006 - an artistic reflection

With the end of 2006 fast approaching, I thought I would reflect a little on what I have achieved artistically this year.   My poetry book 'Strange Girls in Hospital Nighties' was released (weird...
Posted by on Mon, 11 Dec 2006 11:30:00 GMT