Twisted Fish

A recording of the poets and novelists who read at The Smallest Arts Festival In The World, which took place in the house of Michael and Sylvia Blackburn (Lincoln, 1991). Performers include Jonathan Coe, John McGill, Martin Stannard, Sue Dymoke, David Belbin, Brendan Cleary, etc. Plus music specially composed by Duncan Chapman.

Some poems from The Revolution Was Not What It Seemed.

A reading of 'Kaspar is Dead' by Dadaist artist and poet Hans Arp. Translated into English by Michael Blackburn.

Sourced from a biography of the infamous Cagliostro.

Or, Anyone Can Be Rembrandt, poems 78 - 100. A poem a day from the second year.

Year Two: poems 52 - 77; a poem a day for 365 consecutive days.

Herewith a citizen-centred version of the New Year's speech bestowed upon our wretched selves by the Glorious Successor, Comrade Brown, rendered not less intelligible than the original by having been processed through an online cut-up engine then converted into human-sounding talky-talk via a free text-to-speech software program. All Health and Safety procedures, regulations governing Equality, Diversity and Multidigital Intercomplexiarity; and EU Directives on Necessary Innovation and Control of Resistant Individual Creativity been complied with. The work also adheres to the voluntarily imposed guidelines required by the Dynamically Cohesive Plurally-Centred Non-Offensive Communities Unit. But that's enough of that shit. If you think this is bad, remember the reality is worse. A text version is available on www.scribd.com - add /michael blackburn (with the space).

Year Two; poems 26 - 51; a poem a day for 365 consecutive days.

The second year commenced in March. Poems 1 - 25; a poem a day for 365 consecutive days (again).

A poem sourced from the Second World War novel by Antoine de Saint-Exupery (original title, Pilote de Guerre).