POETRY

poems of the month of
December 2003

ultimat e leaves

confession from belgrade

rejoice in the dog

post-millennium maggot

dispatches from the war against the world

albanian poems

NEW PAGES: Albanian Poems of Exile   A curious poem by Rudyard Kipling   Albanian Dirt: problems of translation

french poems in honour of jean genet

the hells
going on

suicide for
non-beginners

fearful symmetry

book disease

foreground
trouble

the transcendental hotel

cinema of the blind

lament of the earth mother

uranian poems

haikai by okami

haikai on the edge

black hole of your heart

jung's motel

leda and the swan

gloss on rilk e's ninth duino elegy

jewels and shit: poems by rimbaud

villon's dialogue with his heart

vasko popa:
a shepherd of
wolves ?

the rubáiyát of
omar khayyám

genrikh sapgir:
an ironic mystic

imagepoem

BETWEEN POETRY AND PROSE

400
revolutionary maxims

nice men and
suicide of an alien

anti-fairy tales

the most terrible event in history

ESSAYS

a muezzin from the tower of darkness

a holy dog and a dog-headed saint

an albanian ikon

being or television

satan in the groin

womb of half-fogged mirrors

tourism and terrorism

diogenes
the dog of sinope updated

shoplifting in britain & america

this sorry scheme of things

the bektashi dervishes

combatting normality

fools for nothingness:
atheists & saints

field guide to megalithic ireland

megalith of the month

houses for the dead

ireland and the phallic continuum

irish cross-pillars

irish sweathouses

french megaliths

egregious.org

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' western values '

Poetry, in essence, is a form of cognitive thought, of knowledge, of philosophy.

- Mikhail Katkov , 1856

To see the world with severed eyelids.

- Heinrich von Kleist

There is no document of civilisation that is not also a document of barbarism.

- Walter Benjamin

A poet can onl y warn.

- Wilfred Owen

The basic metaphysical problem is the question of suicide.

- Albert Camus

We only think and believe what we want to believe and think.

- Diogenes of Sinope

The essence of poetry is the questioning of 'reality'...but words are a medium of endless qualification.

- Philip O'Connor

Civilisation makes rottenness so much easier.

- Noël Coward

Culture is a bridge between the deepest lies
and the shallowest truths.

- Swami Vrhka Baba

Life is a night in a terrible hotel.

- Saint Teresa of Ávila

The more conscious we are, the more mechanical we become.

- Professor John Gray

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

- Rudyard Kipling

The whole of human history is the sound of an insane scream.

- Anthony Weir

What I am describing is not really what
you are interested in.

- U.G. Krishnamurti