Bøker av Craig Podmore

A book of an insatiate rage against modern society; a look into the scourge of human nature and its unremitting depths of madness. Craig Podmore delves into the world of true crime, here he doesn't scruple to explore those who defy moral boundaries, this is poetry that dissects deviancy and malignant vices with apathy; an external viewpoint without virtue. On the cusp of the chamber pot, Podmore looks in and doesn't shy away from the foulest stench of the modern man.

"UK born writer, photographer and filmmaker, Craig Podmore, brings us another 131 pounds of flesh in his new and gravel-rash-raw collection of poetry The Hell in Me, the Hell in You. A textual viewpoint of a nightmarish pop-culture of the future; a snuff television addled society and dirty cum-faced blow jobs, Craig invites De Sade to the table and serves him with blood and champagne. Its bleak, unrelenting and it will most likely piss a lot of people off, like all good literature with intent and purpose, it proposes a dark viewpoint of reality that is hard to argue against or ignore.The poems are short, punchy and without dull prose or unnecessary lines. Some things are just a soft tap, a quick squizz over and it's done, put the book down and walk away. Craig's work in this collection is as much a punch in the face to read,as it would have been to write and to live. Solid and meaty, this book burns spot fires exactly where they should be lit; in your guts." - Ben John Smith

"Pornocopia presents the kind of poetry that punches you in the face and leaves you with the taste of your own blood. It's the literary equivalent of being grabbed by the scruff of the neck and forced to acknowledge, then examine, your own shit on the carpet. Podmore, however, never presents himself as removed or exempt and it's precisely this unflinching honesty and torturous self-awareness that charges Pornocopia in all its brilliance." - A.D. Hitchin (Co-editor of CUT UP!; Author of Messages to Central Control, The Empath)

Anton, a born sadist, a philosopher of psychosexual visions as an act against the world that tries to spit him out; a charlatan of provocative yet violent intellectual discourse that will devour all of whom are against his very nature. Jeremiah, an Afghan vet, distraught by his comrades' deaths during conflict returns to civilised life but struggles to conform to consumerist society. There's only one resolution but it lies in an unattainable place. "Comparisons are odious but often edifying; in this instance I would cite Bataille's 'Story of the Eye', D M Perkins' 'Evil Companions', Delaney's 'Tides Of Lust' and Dennis Cooper's 'Frisk'. Dangerous territory, but one that probably needs treading if we are to understand how the human psyche functions 'in extremis'." D M Mitchell (author of 'A Serious Life')

Craig Podmore is a writer, photographer, filmmaker and director from Manchester, UK. He is the author of "I am a Gun" and "The Abattoir Heavens and The Holy Ghost." His work has appeared in various journals and e-zines including "Gloom Cupboard, The Plebian Rag, The Scottish Poetry Review, Epic Rites, Ditch, Poetry, Danse Macabre, Calliope Nerve, Horror, Sleaze, Trash, Sein Und Worden, Sex and Murder Magazine, Gutter Eloquence "and "Fashion for Collapse." Reviews The poems are like Genet's red rose of monstrous size and beauty discovered in the heart of the executed murderer. Given the name of the press, one might note that these poems embody poiesis as the word is explicated in e.g. Heidegger's "Introduction to Metaphysics," they do not thematize Being explicitly, but they disclose, they reveal the death camp logistics that has replaced the primitive "Mitsein" of the squaddy. Get this book; these poems need to be read. - David McLean, author of "Cadaver's Dance" and" Hellbound" Had Rilke made it to The Front Line he may very well have compiled a series of poems such as Craig Podmore offers us in his harrowing yet tender collection, " Love Notes from a Soldier's Diary." Podmore is no stranger to the themes of love, death, war (he does not tackle the minor issues), and here we have the double spectres of death and absent love - the ones that hollow us out yet make us feel desperately alive - set against the agony and futility of war. - Gillian Prew, author of "Disconnections"