€ 22.50
COLD TURKEY PRESS
€ 22.50
Bone Hebrew contains poems, letters, and drawings by Sinclair Beiles, tributes to and memories of Beiles by Heathcote Williams, Lilliane Lijn, and Yannis Livadas, photographs and artwork, all lovingly compiled and edited by Beiles’s friend Gerard Bellaart. Bone Hebrew is a beautiful tribute to the mad and lost poet from South Africa.
€ 40.00
Dylan is an incisive poem that returns the name Dylan to its rightful owner, Welsh poet Dylan Thomas, and exposes Bob Dylan as a common plagiarist and thief:
“‘Thomas’ poetic bloom was pilfered, then repackaged as ‘Dylan Inc.’ / The cultural theft was copyrighted. ‘Dylan’ became a brand – / With Goldman Sachs, in association with a company called SESAC, / Issuing…
€ 10.00
An Iraqi Child is a strong denunciation of the war on Iraq. Williams’ point of departure is a photo of an Iraqi boy who is drawing the bomber planes that left him scarred and mutilated. Following and analysing that ravaged image Williams aims his pen at the machineries of war and lays bare the business interests and propaganda that fuel them.
€ 10.00
In an email to Gerard Bellaart of Cold Turkey Press Heathcote Williams writes about this poem:
“Had a message from Marianne Faithfull…’Isn’t it time you wrote me another song?’ I said: ‘What do you want it to be about?’ She said she’d been reading a book about Edith Piaf and was gripped by it. I said I’d have a look.”
€ 7.50
