Covering Tracks

It's been a while and looking back at the stuff I wrote when I was last about, it's pretty awful.

Covering Tracks is hopefully going to be my first collection. It's based on the idea that plagiarism can be a good thing. I have taken phrases from the work of other artists and written poems that hang off them like new clothes. My main influence in this is Ted Berrigan, a fantastic New York based poet who wrote pieces influenced by the collages of Robert Rauschenberg.

Any crit gratefully appreciated. The harsher the better.

Night-Spinning Spider

A manipulated pantoum, taken from "Les Enfants Terribles" by Jean Cocteau.

"The B Movie of My Life"

From "One of Us" by Michael Marshall Smith. Please look at "Part of a Girl" too if you have time, and let me know which one you prefer from this novel.

a Rolls is a Rolls is a Rolls

from "American Psycho" by Bret Easton Ellis.

A Thimble of Sorts

from "Woman's World" by Graham Rawle

Backwards to Bethlehem

'Cover' from "Wise Blood" by Flannery O' Connor. Needs a lot of work, so any critique, however harsh, appreciated.
Cherry

Dead Duck Day

'Cover' of "About A Boy" by Nick Hornby.