Friday, June 26, 2009

Issue 20 & Bukowski's Birthday approaches

Issue 20 has been typeset and is ready for the printers! It's a great issue too. I think they might be getting better and better each time. By issue 40 we'll be golden!



Our next fundraiser is 8 pm August 14th @ Thirsty Dog on Karangahape Rd.

Side Stream poets Miriam Barr, Daniel Larsen & Christian Jensen mash it up with live, improvised jazz by the Dirty Words Live Sessions Band. All proceeds raise money to fund the next issues of Side Stream. MC Shane Hollands.

Charles Bukowski was born on August 16th 1920. He worked in the post office. He was around before, during and after the beat movement. He butted heads with publishers. He wrote about the underbelly, about the fringe. He gave beauty to ugliness. He would have dug Side Stream. Bukowski's Birthday brings the infamous Shane Hollands' Dirty Words Live Sessions together with poets from Side Stream. A three-piece jazz band improvises music and the poet has to follow their lead, winging a performance to whatever it is they have created. It's just electric. $10 on the door to raise funds for the next issues of Side Stream.



Contributors List

Issue 20, July 2009

Cover art by Rachael Naomi Heimann
Jill Chan - Unsimple
Vaughan Gunson - at work
Aleksandra Lane - Nursery Rhyme
Judith McNeil - I wandered lonely
Matt Gould - fair enough
Mark Pirie - Elizabeth 1: The Virgin Queen
Helen Rickerby - Reading the signs
Jonathan Wright - Vodyanoy
Colin Munn - Be Lovers
Ross Brighton - A Note of Apology
Colin James - In Capable Hands



Submissions for issue 21 close on August 15th for a September release.