tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7464080738459832332024-03-23T13:43:27.613+00:00Ben BrinkburnWritings Musings PoeticsBen Brinkburnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18433973465265296429noreply@blogger.comBlogger88125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-746408073845983233.post-37717335339965690682020-02-18T19:14:00.000+00:002014-05-16T19:55:49.092+01:00Brinkverse<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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THE EBOOKS HAVE LANDED<br />
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Three poetry collections have finally been published all new and gleamy for the 21st century. They are available on Amazon and all other good online retailers. They will also be available soon as print editions and will all in the near future be collected together into one print omnibus called Brinkverse.<br />
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Meanwhile check out <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00KAGUP90/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1634&creative=19450&creativeASIN=B00KAGUP90&linkCode=as2&tag=skemster-21">How To Be A Spaceman</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://ir-uk.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=skemster-21&l=as2&o=2&a=B00KAGUP90" height="1" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" />
and enhance your cosmic awareness...<br />
<br />Indulge in some <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00KALJFYQ/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1634&creative=19450&creativeASIN=B00KALJFYQ&linkCode=as2&tag=skemster-21">Kitchen Conversations</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://ir-uk.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=skemster-21&l=as2&o=2&a=B00KALJFYQ" height="1" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" />
and muse on the mysterious comic tragedy of life sloshing by whilst mired deep within a town brimming with Modern Urban Angst...and<br />
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Wrap <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00KALRJ1C/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1634&creative=19450&creativeASIN=B00KALRJ1C&linkCode=as2&tag=skemster-21">Mythopoetic</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://ir-uk.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=skemster-21&l=as2&o=2&a=B00KALRJ1C" height="1" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" />
around yourself like a cloak of international twisted-lust-torpor-adventure and experience the antics of dedicated euro-trash in both the new and old worlds.<br />
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Ben Brinkburnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18433973465265296429noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-746408073845983233.post-35348094447801168732014-05-16T19:30:00.001+01:002014-05-16T19:31:06.152+01:00How To Be A Spaceman<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The new collection of poetry <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00KAGUP90/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1634&creative=19450&creativeASIN=B00KAGUP90&linkCode=as2&tag=skemster-21">How To Be A Spaceman</a><img src="http://ir-uk.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=skemster-21&l=as2&o=2&a=B00KAGUP90" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="" style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important;" />
is now available as an eBook from amazon and other good online retailers... all for the price of a decent cup of coffee or herbal tea. It can't get much better than that!<br />
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It will also be part of a printed omnibus edition called Brinkverse which will be appearing in the near future.<br />
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To find out more about this collection visit it's own website at <a href="http://howtobeaspaceman.benbrinkburn.com/">howtobeaspaceman.benbrinkburn.com</a><br />
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Ben Brinkburnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18433973465265296429noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-746408073845983233.post-81693518760536041922014-05-16T19:23:00.002+01:002014-05-16T19:24:57.781+01:00Kitchen Conversations<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The new collection of poems <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00KALJFYQ/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1634&creative=19450&creativeASIN=B00KALJFYQ&linkCode=as2&tag=skemster-21">Kitchen Conversations</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://ir-uk.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=skemster-21&l=as2&o=2&a=B00KALJFYQ" height="1" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" />
is now out for general delight and delectation!<br />
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Available from Amazon initially as an eBook and many other good online outlets. It will also be included within Brinkverse, a printed omnibus which will be appearing in the near future.<br />
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Find out more about Kitchen Conversations at the collections own dedicated website <a href="http://kichenconversations.benbrinkverse.com/">kichenconversations.benbrinkverse.com</a></div>
Ben Brinkburnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18433973465265296429noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-746408073845983233.post-38194612575728201022014-05-16T19:11:00.000+01:002014-05-16T19:17:15.492+01:00Mythopoetic<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The new poetry collection <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00KALRJ1C/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1634&creative=19450&creativeASIN=B00KALRJ1C&linkCode=as2&tag=skemster-21">Mythopoetic</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://ir-uk.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=skemster-21&l=as2&o=2&a=B00KALRJ1C" height="1" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" /> is out now!<br />
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Available from Amazon and other good online outlets, all for the price of a decent cup of coffee or herbal tea. What's there not to like!<br />
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Find out more about this book at it's own small but perfectly formed website <a href="http://mythopoetic.benbrinkburn.com/" target="_blank">mythopoetic.benbrinkburn.com </a></div>
Ben Brinkburnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18433973465265296429noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-746408073845983233.post-64776046360899745552014-04-09T17:04:00.000+01:002014-05-14T21:05:27.718+01:00Soviet Space Art<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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There's some wonderful Soviet era space art, from the time when the future was bright and communism would claim the galaxy. this is an untitled work by V Burmistrov. More to follow, it's irrestible stuff :) [from www.nevsepic.com.ua]</div>
Ben Brinkburnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18433973465265296429noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-746408073845983233.post-24900033907971236322014-04-01T13:11:00.003+01:002014-04-01T13:54:27.295+01:00Are We Alone?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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In the days when robots were dependable and easy to identify<br /><br /></div>
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Some Rumi wisdom</div>
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Ben Brinkburnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18433973465265296429noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-746408073845983233.post-75615862869850864112014-03-14T20:56:00.001+00:002014-03-14T20:56:29.327+00:00HOW TO BE A SPACEMAN<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Well update time from mission control deep in the heart of a Lancashire emerging into joys of spring.<br />
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The production schedule for the collection of poetry and prose called How to Be A Spaceman is actually going to plan. This amazing fact alone is no doubt going to be enough to put a spanner in the works but all seems set for the ebook to be published soon, it's heels followed hotly by a print edition. Hang in there, spacemen...[and women of course]...</div>
Ben Brinkburnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18433973465265296429noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-746408073845983233.post-83972624535947845292014-03-13T21:06:00.000+00:002014-03-13T21:06:34.493+00:00DAYS OF SPARROW, NIGHTS OF HAWK<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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so you've now got a glass eye<br />that's great<br />it really suits you<br />although <br />can't get used to you without<br />the eye patch that<br />gave you real character it was<br />really sorta you<br />y'know <br />and<br />mine's a JD and Coke<br />I know I know sacrilege but hell<br />hell what the hell<br />so what <br />and so here's a toast to the has beens<br />and might of beens and<br />the been's that still are <br />long may they prosper<br />in vulcan peace<br />well not really soon may their fall come<br />soon may they get it over and done with<br />soon may they suffer then swallow their pride<br />in a lake of rum <br />hey then they can join us in Alphabet City snuck away on <br />East 3rd a sparrow's erratic flight<br />from Avenue D<br />and this is not a great part of town<br />this is not hyper-cool urban angst<br />this is pay dirt and delusion and a hollow heart<br />yodeling in the gloaming<br />only full of words that<br />don't fit<br />and some times the bar is full of Belgians<br />sometimes Nigerians<br />sometimes English <br />some stray Chinese now<br />and then<br />clutching bottles<br />grinning ruefully about what might be and<br />what hasn't been <br />sneering<br />the days are for mooching and for flitting<br />for wincing and for teeth gritting<br />the nights are for hawks like you and me<br />feeling free <br />with darkness to cut <br />with <br />old world bravado<br />and neon to caress<br />with new world glass sharp<br />optimism tinged with the<br />smarts<br />of a hidden knife</div>
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The 1st April is now firmly definitely maybe pencilled in for publication first as an ebook on Kindle, then as a paperback a couple of weeks later. Life, is just a bowl of cheerios [with stardust sprinkled liberally over them], baby.<br />
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Ben Brinkburnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18433973465265296429noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-746408073845983233.post-43032413726659397362013-04-13T15:28:00.000+01:002013-04-13T15:29:37.067+01:00Billy Caravan on the Edge of Nowhere<h4>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I sat with Billy in his caravan<br />buffeted by winds and squalls <br />and at other times<br />roasted by summer heat<br />scalding the tin roof<br />lolling in oven like conditions <br />as we drank luke warm beer <br />[the fridge only periodically worked<br />when hit with a hammer]<br />and in cyclical freezer like conditions we drank<br />supermarket smartprice whiskey<br />musing over edgeland legends <br />and urban decay <br />and towns with no cheer <br />which was always the cue for some<br />Tom Waits<br />[old record player-/vinyl/much drunken sing-alongs]<br />the cheap liquor slipping down<br />a bin burning outside<br />ragged crows cawing<br />and Billy laughing saying<br />he has reached the heights of consciousness<br />he calibrates with the saints<br />on the level of spiritual vibrations and<br />he knows this because he’s done the tests<br />found a book in a skip<br />putting the world to rights with a divine glow<br />safe in his kingdom<br />slouched iover vintage porn mags<br />in Billy’s caravan.</span></strong></h4>
Ben Brinkburnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18433973465265296429noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-746408073845983233.post-9768673389145340582013-04-13T15:09:00.000+01:002013-04-13T15:32:00.102+01:00The Norwegian<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Dismay at the ineffectiveness of the Labour Party in the UK to operate in the best of social democratic traditions and represent not just the ordinary people of the nation but, in particular, the weakest and most needy has been growing for years. Much like the Democrats in the US, labour has positioned itself on the neoliberal centre -right, and now either too fearful- or perhaps reluctant- to shift leftward again.<br />
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Well there are many people who wish it would, particularly as a lot of people who are dismissive of the three main parties being pretty much the same [and they have a point], then frustratingly move further Right and support parties like UKIP.<br />
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As such there is clearly a vacuum on the Left on both sides of the pond. In the UK, an embryonic organisation called Left Unity, which is pulling together the various strands of the Left such as traditional socialists, UK Uncut, Occupy etc., is off the ground and already has an impressive number of local groups operating across the country. <br />
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Find out more about the movement and local groups near you [most have a Facebook presence too] here:<br />
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<a href="http://leftunity.org/" target="_blank">Left Unity</a><br />
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It's time for a new voice to stand up against the dismantling of the nation we and our forbearers have built during the 20th century. We can no longer rely on any of the main establishment parties to do it for us anymore... so let's re-organise.Ben Brinkburnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18433973465265296429noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-746408073845983233.post-60148412527400298682013-03-02T19:14:00.001+00:002013-03-02T19:14:09.584+00:00Urban Edgeland Chaos<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Hail to the new era!<br />
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Herald the sudden epoch of Spaceman chic and the unbearable lightness of bollocks!<br />
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oh yes yes yes hang onto your hats and cross your legs...<br />
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...for the new overhauled Brinkers blog is now taking shape in lovely magazine format. <br />
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Tweakings are necessary, small but intricate adjustments are needed to the delicate cybernetics of Brinkburn mission control, deep consideration of the advanced neutron drives of the multi-dimensional beating heart super alloy prism at the core of this blog are, as you read this, being carefully instituted, and in addition, there is much need for drinks.<br />
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For the Brinkburn oddessy has reached new dizzying heights in this fair year of 2013. As if touched by the hand of God....or more accurately, slapped by it... Brinkers has moved up a gear and is now 'full on' engaged with the world and has now overhauled his back catalogue and, in wonderful go-getting neoliberal speak, has Added New Product to develop a New Offer of shiny Brinkverse.<br />
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The fine art of self-promotion will now continue with the relentless whoop and swoosh of Peleus's sword as it finds virtue and success in the hunt; it will continue to roll out as thunder across the plains of Thessaly, prosecuted in righteousness as Perseus's sword Harpe did indeed itself, find justice and balance in the decapitation of Medusa. Oh yes, all this...and more.<br />
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Spankingly beautiful website viewable <a href="http://benbrinkburn.com/" target="_blank">here</a><br />
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Want see some poetic works in process? Check out Ben's <a href="http://hellopoetry.com/-ben-brinkburn/" target="_blank">Hello Poetry</a> presence. Go on, you know you want to.<br />
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Further information to follow, but Ben's new collection of poetry is now on the launch pad ready for blast off. <a href="http://howtobeaspaceman.benbrinkburn.com/" target="_blank">'How to be a Spaceman'</a> will appear soon first as ebook, then in print for traditionalists published by Wordflute. Brinkverse, a further collection, is scheduled for release in the Spring. <br />
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Busy busy busy...no flies now on Brinkers...come and join the party, the pina coladas are on him...</div>
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