Sunday, April 28, 2013

Sunday, March 17, 2013

St Patrick's Day Special Offer PB4 HALF PRICE!!

To help celebrate St Patrick's Day I was going to  buy the world a pint, but that's not possible so here's the next best thing HALF PRICE copies of the world's greatest magazine.

We chopped the online price from €10 to €5.Postage remains the same as there is nothing in our superpowers that we can do about that.Please select Ireland on the paypal button above if you live in Ireland or choose Rest of The World if you live in the rest of the world and other galaxies.

GO ON TREAT YOURSELF!! Happy St Patrick's Day to you and yours!

Monday, March 11, 2013

PB4's flying from the shed across the globe.

 I am a fat mean posting machine! The shed is FULL of magazines, envelopes,tea, sellotape, stickers,ink pads, whiskey, stamps,biscuits,CDs,customs forms, strong ale,Ltd edition prints, PB2s, PB4s,addresses, and swearing.If I had more hair, I'd be tempted to pull it out.
It is incredibly time consuming actually physically getting a mag into the post but also the most satisfying fun you can have this side of sneezing, I LOVE it! I'm sorry that the process is slow, specially if you are still eagerly awaiting your copy of PB4.
But I'm in a groove now and I'm flying through them like a Henry Ford production line and will be finished in a day or two. Something amazing like one of these little beauties below will be coming to a letterbox near you SOON! Watch the skies!

And if you haven't ordered one I'd like a written explanation and a Doctor's note. Thank you.

Friday, February 8, 2013

BUY PB4 HERE




Hello world! How are you? Would you stop with the fighting and make a cup of tea and relax and buy a copy of 'The World's Greatest'* magazine, PB4!
There's a paypal button up above this post, up there to the left a bit, tis easy to use. You'll get 141 perfect bound pages of international  poetry, illustration, reviews, articles, flash fiction and even a strip cartoon! PLUS a 12 track CD of 8 poets, 1 performance poet and three musicians.
Here's the full list of contents to give ye a flavour!



  1        Editorial


            Poems

  7   APPLECART ART… Lemn Sissay
  8   WHY WOULD ANYONE DESCRIBE A FISH? …Harvey Reislinger
  9   THE EXECUTIONERS…Fred Johnston
10   ASTRAL SCISSORS…John W Sexton
            11   TALKING TO THE BANKERS…Dale Houstman
12   THE LAST THING I REMEMBER…Richard Halperin
14   READING IN A LIBRARY…Ken Keating
            15   SET TEXT FEVER…Rachel Fox
17   WHERE’S MY GODDAMN BOLGNA  SANDWICH…Quincy R Lehr
19   A QUEEN ANNE’S CHAIR…Laura Cleary
20   MORE HATS…Colm Scully
21   SOUL STREAKERS… Darragh Devaney
       THE DEEP… Paul T Dillon
22   VICENTE RINGS THE BELLS…Michael Touhey
            23   MARGIN PRAYER FROM AN ANCIENT PSALTER…Ian Duhig
25   JULY 4th In ASTORIA… Jonathon Greenhause 
            26   THE CLARE MUSIC WARS…Tim Bradford
            28   GLASS FIRE…Clint Wilson
31   THE SHIFT…Afric McGlinchey
32   SMALL HOUR BLUES…Alan McMonagle
33   SNIFF…Elaine Feeney
34   WHITE NIGHTS…Richard W Halperin
35   NEGATIVE EQUITY…Rosy Wilson
36   (Extracts from) COMBERTON…Bobby Parker
39   NIGHTFALL…Maurice Devitt
40   A GROVE OF TREES IN SESSION…Michael Brownstein.
41   NO MAN’S LAND…Michael Loughran
42   THE FOYLE FLOWS SOFTLY WHEN SHE SINGS (etc)…Kevin Kiely
43   WHEN THE TREE WAS WHITE…Michael Touhey
44   THIRTY MILES WEST OF CHICAGO…Lyn Lifshin
45   MONOLITH OF SANDYMOUNT…Clodagh O’Brien
46   LIGATURES…PC Vandall  
47   HOPSCOTCH…PC Vandall
48   DELICACY…Ivy Page   BLEEDING…Ivy Page
49   IN AND OUT OF NEVER NEVER LAND…Fiona Bolger
51   HOME…Eamonn O’Neill  
             52   VISION OF THE DANSE MACABRE…Gerard Beirne
            54   TWO HORAS…Dave Lewitzky  
56   IN SANTA MARIA DELLA SANITÁ, NAPLES…Liam Aungier
57   DISMAL SATURDAY…Ian C Smith
58   ENGINE TROUBLE…James O’Sullivan
59   FALLING IN LOVE WITH DEAD FEMALE IRISH WRITERS Tim Bradford
            60   BROKEN TRAINS…Bren O’Ruaidh
62   UNCLE JAMESIE RECORDING DECEMBER’S (etc)…Tom Sheehan
63   PASSACAGLIA…Dave Lewitzky
64   DISHEVELLED DRUG REP WORE  (etc)…Korliss Sewer
65   A BRUTHA’S RHAPSODY…Korliss Sewer  
66   ROAD KILL CAFÉ, ROUTE 66…Mike Alexander
67   CAMDEN STREET…Sandra Harris.
68   DOPAMINE AND THE NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS…John  Saunders  
70   THE WIND CHANGED BUT I DIDN’T GET (etc)…Sarah Clancy
71   DOWNTOWN DITHYRAMB…Brenda Cusack
72   TAKE ME HOME…Paul T Dillon
73   OBITUARY FOR THE GIRL IN MY MAD LOVE (etc)…William Neumire
74   DUEL…Mark Valentine.    
75   HARK TO THE ROOKS…Mark Valentine  
76   THE CHICKEN-OR-THE-EGG SESTINA…Marybeth Rua Larsen.     
78   DETAIL…CP Stewart  
79   THE STINKING ROSE…Elaine Feeney
82   KRASNODAR…Alan Jude Moore
84   ASYMETRIC WARFARE…Ben Nardolilli
86   FOUND ART MODIFIED…Ariel Dawn
87   SWEETNESS IS FOR THE BEES…Dimitra Xidous
88   PLOTTING TO POISON YOU…William Doreski
90   AFTER EDWARD HOPPER’S ‘HOTEL ROOM’…Arthur Broomfield
91   SHABBY LAUNDRETTE…Ian C Smith
92   CLOUDS…David R Morgan
93   WATERMELONS IN WINTER…PC Vandall
94   LOVE IN A DERELICT…Noel King
95   GATHERING DUST…Alan Garvey
96   COMPARABLE TO…Kate O’Shea
97   YOUR ALMOST BLUNTED PURPOSE…Kevin Rabas
98   ATTRACTA McCABE WALKS HER COWEENS…Mike Absalom
100   TIME TRAVELLER…Fiona Sinclair
101   iFRUITY…iDrew
102   NAKED…Ariel Dawn
103   ANTHRACITE…Karen Nowviskie
104   THE FALCONER…CP Stewart
105   UNTITLED…Steve Kain
106   FIVE RED TULIPS…John Prior
107   I FORGOT WHAT IT WAS LIKE TO WANT TO BE (etc)…Sarah Griffin                        
110   THEIR TROUBLES…E.M Reapy
111   A SNAPSHOT RECOLLECTION…AJ.Huffman
112   BIRCHWOOD…Brenda Cusack
113   CLOUDY: 80% CHANCE OF RAIN…Korliss Sewer 
114   NOISES…Lance Nizami
115   NOVEMBER   Jack Brae Curtingstall
116   SURPLUS…Ian C Smith
117   RISE…Anne Tannam
118   DIVORCED…David R Morgan
119   END OF DISCUSSION…Alan McMonagle
141   NOT THE KIND…Dimitra Xidous

Visual poems

121   FILM MAKING ( ADVERISEMENT no.6 )…Christopher Barnes
122   FILM MAKING ( 40s FLICK SCREENS 202-204 )… Christopher Barnes


Flash Fiction

120   GRANNY FIGHTS BACK…Frances Kenny


Illustrations

13   BANCO DE MUERTOS…Steve Simpson
21   THE DEEP…Cróna Gallagher
27   THE CLARE MUSIC WARS…Tim Bradford
40   A GROVE OF TREES IN SESSION…Cróna Gallagher
51   HOME…Padhraig Nolan
59   FALLING IN LOVE WITH DEAD FEMALE IRISH WRITERS..Tim Bradford
  58   BLOB MONSTER (#1)…Vivienne Baille
  77   ГРАФИКА... Unur Epmakob
  85   AN EXHAUSTED CHILDHOOD (etc.) …Dale Houstman
  99   ATTRACTA McCABE WALKS HER COWEENS…Mike Absalom
109   PHOTO COLLAGE…Peadar O’Donoghue
113   CLOUDY: 80% CHANCE OF RAIN…Cróna Gallagher
119   ANTICPATION…Mike Haskett
121   BLOB MONSTER (#2)…Vivienne Baille
140   TIME OUT…Mike Haskett

Reviews

123   Padhraig Nolan reviews THANKS FOR NOTHING HIPPIES (Sarah Clancy)
126   Niamh Bagnall reviews   ME AND THE DEAD (Katy Evans Bush)   
130   David R Morgan reviews  COMBERTON (Bobby Parker)


Article

128   Dave Lordan explains EVERYTHING  RHYMING ALL THE TIME


Cartoon

132   ANXIOUS MAN…Bobby Parker


Contributors’ notes

Pages
133-139



Cover Art

Front cover  CLOWN #4…Sara Wendy Oliva

Back cover  DUBLIN…Mark Jenkins
             CD Track listings

      1   WOOZY WITH CIDER…James Yorkston
      2    SWEETNESS IS FOR THE BEES…Dimitra Xidous
      3    THE SHIFT…Afric McGlinchey
      4    FIVE RED TULIPS…John Prior
      5    A BRUTHA’S RHAPSODY…Korliss Sewer
      6    ROAD KILL CAFÉ ROUTE 66…Mike Alexander
      7    THEY’RE SAYING IT’S OVER…Laura Moody
      8    WATERMELONS IN WINTER…PC Vandall
      9    IN AND OUT OF NEVER NEVER LAND…Fiona Bolger
    10    SET TEXT FEVER…Rachel Fox
    11    HOT DAMN!...Stuart Wilde
    12    MARAKESH…Brendan Hickey



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Wednesday, December 5, 2012

PB4 HAS GONE TO THE PRINTERS!!



At last! PB4 has been bolted together from raw flesh and bone and steel in a well used shed in Co.Wicklow. 130 pages of brilliance will be perfect bound and encased in a matt laminate cover and given electrical charges and vodka until it comes pounding into life!

This may be the greatest creation since the wheel (8000 years BC) and the pop up toaster (1567 AD)
Use the 'Buy Now' button to order before stocks and the sands of time run out of the house and go live in a commune in Zagreb. Prices are €14 for Ireland and €15 for the rest of the world and include postage and packaging and a MIGHTY 12 track CD of music and spoken word.

I'll tell you more about the magazine when my eyeballs stop bleeding and exhaustion turns to euphoria.

Here's a taster! Illustrations from PB4 plus track by Laura Moody plus a few photos of my own.

Wednesday, August 22, 2012

GET ABOARD and get GOURMET!

The bus has 4 days left to make another €519 to meet its target of €1950 at fundit.ie HERE http://www.fundit.ie/project/pb4-issue-4-of-the-poetry-bus-mag if we don't meet the target we get nothing !


SO! Here is an amazing offer/opportunity. The wonderful poet Kona Macphee has kindly donated a voucher for Darina Allen's world famous Ballymalloe cookery school at beautiful Shanagarry in Co.Cork.The voucher is valid for the whole of September and entitles TWO people to a wonderful afternoon that includes lessons at the cookery school PLUS a gorgeous lunch for TWO!
The cookery lessons alone cost €140.Lunch there is very rare and by invitation only so this may be the ONLY chance you might get to have this experience!! It is not possible to put a price on it as there are no prices!!
I'm looking for offers to pledge to the poetry bus.The highest offer over €140 will get the voucher and a copy of PB4!! Please share this and spread the word!
  Here's a taster from Ballymaloe
'When you step through the little wooden side gate­ and into the courtyard of Ballymaloe Cookery School you enter a different world. A world where the whole emphasis is on food - growing it, preparing it, cooking it, eating it and, crucially, enjoying it. A world that feels wonderfully cut-off because it is in the middle of ten acres of organic market gardens'
 
Further info HERE!

Monday, August 13, 2012

PB4 Needs HELP!!






PB4 needs funding please help by ordering an advance copy for only €10 (other options available!)
The mag will be @ 90 pages PERFECT BOUND (at last, hopefully!) of poems and illustrations, reviews, articles, cartoon (s) and a FREE audio CD of some of the poets reading PLUS some exquisite music tracks  including , well I can't say yet!! There will be famous poets and NEW DISCOVERIES! There's wonderful Art from Ireland, England, Italy (gorgeous front cover copyright Sara Wendy Oliva) Switzerland and Russia!

  This will be the very best issue so far, I am very excited, particularly for the new names getting aboard.But this is a magazine of the people, by the people, for the people.So it's up to YOU.If you want the mag to exist then please help and tell every friend, relative, neighbour, stranger that you meet on the street.We have only 13 days to raise €1950.
An ambitious target but one we have to go for to progress and raise quality. If there is no PB4 there will be no PB5 PB6 etc etc.etc We have 13 days to make or break.I pray we make it!



http://www.fundit.ie/project/pb4-issue-4-of-the-poetry-bus-mag