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ploughing a deep furrow of drink-fuelled melancholy since 1980

About Me

Pulp-writing Irish deadbeat. Co-editor of Dogmatika ("sharp, street-wise and savvy" -Kevin Williamson, Rebel INC), 3:AM Magazine ("a dream publication for the young, literary and clued-up, and it counter-balances nicely the London/New York publishing behemoth.” - The Times) and editor of Laika Poetry Review . Assorted writings, ramblings and general shite-talk can be found here: Writing Blog

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Arthur Rimbaud, Jeff Mangum, Seafarers, lighthouse keepers, jacobites, publishers of obscure books, the ghost of Antoine de Saint Exupery, fellow deadbeats.

My Blog

This is a Low

The Shipping Forecast, cow-killing and imbeciles on camping trips over on Dogmatika"To prepare ourselves for a Jim Morrison-esque mystical journey, wed ingested magic mushrooms on the b...
Posted by on Sat, 20 Jun 2009 05:49:00 GMT

"Where he's from the birds sing a pretty song..."

Review of Thomas Truax's superb new album Songs From the Films of David Lynch on Dogmatika alongside poems from Paul Perry and Susan Tomaselli's roundup of all thing alt-lit."Through acc...
Posted by on Wed, 20 May 2009 14:25:00 GMT

From the Bowels of Londinium They Came...

Following the success of the recent London Recession Session night (featuring the likes of Tom McCarthy, Paul Ewen, Lee Rourke, Christiana Spens and many more), Beat The Dust is now running the variou...
Posted by on Sat, 09 May 2009 06:30:00 GMT

Death becomes him

Pondering the afterlife and David Eagleman's remarkable Sum on Dogmatika. Sum is written as a series of short philosophical propositions or flash fictions, each beginning at the point at which you die...
Posted by on Sat, 09 May 2009 06:19:00 GMT

Mayakovsky Lives!

Comrades! Workers! Stinking lackeys of the Capitalist West! The third installment of the Van Gogh's Ear column featuring Vladimir Mayakovsky is now over on 3:AM. 0 74>p>2L5! Writers are given to writ...
Posted by on Mon, 20 Apr 2009 11:40:00 GMT

Not Waving

Interview with Paul O'Connell creator of the superb Sound of Drowning now on Dogmatika. DA: Theres been a trend for British and Irish writers/artists to be let loose on traditional US comic character...
Posted by on Mon, 20 Apr 2009 11:33:00 GMT

London Calling

"A 3:AM, Beat the Dust, Lost Elation Showcase: Some of the best minds of our generation take on the summer of discontent in The Recession Session Live! Readings, DJ sets, and a burlesque act, includin...
Posted by on Sat, 11 Apr 2009 04:40:00 GMT

drowning the sorrows

Interview with Patrick deWitt, author of the excellent new novel Ablutions, now on Dogmatika. "Ive found [the drinkers'] reasons to be unique, though usually stemming from one type of loneliness or ...
Posted by on Fri, 10 Apr 2009 02:57:00 GMT

Flux Magazine

The latest issue of the cool as fuck Flux Magazine is just out and available via their website and all good stockists (WH Smith for one). FeaturingStaff Benda Bilili are not your average band. A colle...
Posted by on Fri, 10 Apr 2009 02:32:00 GMT

Murder, she wrote

 In advance of their new album Honey Moon, Rennie Sparks (of the wonderful Handsome Family) discusses William Burroughs, love, ghosts and murder ballads with some kind of vagrant (ie. me...
Posted by on Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:47:00 GMT