Michael Marcinkowski

PTR Poetry Theory Review

Early Summer issue of Poetry Theory Review now available. Featuring reviews of books from Kulvert, Broken Sleep, The Last Books, Monitor Books, Sad Press, and more. www.michaelmarcinkowski.org/ptr

PTR Poetry Theory Review

Early Summer issue of Poetry Theory Review now available. Featuring reviews of books from Kulvert, Broken Sleep, The Last Books, Monitor Books, Sad Press, and more. www.michaelmarcinkowski.org/ptr

And someday there will be a more complete machine. One's thoughts or feelings during life—or while the machine is recording—will be like an alphabet with which the image will continue to comprehend all experience (as we can form all the words in our language with the letters of the alphabet). Then life will be a repository for death. But even then the image will not be alive; objects that are essentially new will not exist for it. It will know only what it has already thought or felt, or the possible transpositions of those thoughts or feelings. from Adolfo Bioy Casares's THE INVENTION OF MOREL (1940) translated from the Spanish by Ruth L.C. Simms

Bristoooool please join us on the 4th of July, a day of no other significance, to hear Michael Marcinkowski launching LIVES OF THE SAINTS with Yẽ Yẽ and John Phillips at Bristol’s most-best-poetry bookshop, East Bristol Books.

Tottering State #7: Marcinkowski, Yě Yě, Phillips at East Bristol Books Tottering State: Poetry for Unsteady Times. Tottering State #7 celebrates the launch of Michael Marcinkowski's *Lives of the Saints* (Broken Sleep), with poetry from Yĕ Yĕ (*South*) and from John ...

Friday 4 July at East Bristol Books! 7pm! Marcinkowski! Yě! Phillips! www.headfirstbristol.co.uk/whats-on/eas... @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social

The dream of AGI is amazingly limited.

YES I AM. See you there.

New handbook explores the future of literature in the AI era The Routledge Handbook of AI and Literature offers perspective on the past, present and future of AI and literature.

📕 Prof @drkatedevlin.bsky.social and Dr @michaelmarcinkowski.org contributed to The Routledge Handbook of AI and Literature.

The book explores how literary lenses can be used to better understand human interactions with AI 🔽

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Tottering State #7: Marcinowski, Kemp, Phillips at East Bristol Books Tottering State: Poetry for Unsteady Times. Tottering State #7 marks two recently published titles from Broken Sleep Books concerned with poetic relations between language, belief, politics & the wor...

Upcoming reading at East Bristol Books! 4 July! Linda Kemp, John Phillips, and me! Get tickets! www.headfirstbristol.co.uk/whats-on/eas...

Feelings are Facts: Love, Privacy, and the Politics of Intellectual Shame A debut of new research and analysis, focused on emotions and the affective register—love! shame! intimacy! What happens when we put lov...

Talk from @meredithmeredith.bsky.social. Great example of using serious theory/philosophy in tech discussion. media.ccc.de/v/38c3-feeli...

A picture of the book Lives of the Saints by Michael Marcinkowski sitting upright against a wooden background and pieces of slate. It has an orange cover with an image from a disciple of Hieronymus Bosch showing grotesque creatures facing a figure in a chair with a book on his lap with other figures smaller in the background.

BIG DAY. Official release date for LIVES OF THE SAINTS. Huge thanks to @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social and @godzillakent.bsky.social for making it happen!

Michael Marcinkowski - Lives of the Saints | Broken Sleep Books Lives of the Saints by Michael Marcinkowski explores poetry's power as it intersects with faith and governance, set against a backdrop of ecological ruin and dystopian futures. In a landscape that ble...

You can order it here! www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...

An image of a page of a book showing the text of two poems: VI WAS DECIDED II. As to gauge against the true democratic question of how many times an election may be run until an answer's decided as the grandeur of democracy is that it is able to be changed from one moment to the next as the belief that any particular event may not preclude any future occurrence as democracy is weighted by its expedience to change both as a benefit to and its mandate that if nothing can be done in the span before the next vote then it is not a thing to be done as there is no lasting decision possible in a democracy or whatever except the [uhh] continuing stranglehold of the state. VII for Harold Garfinkel Dependence on the already established.

A photo of a page of a book showing two poems: LII Woe! Torn down! What value knowing be?' Pastoral black landscape to name. Limp branch pin arbor ox wood pine low woollen thick of love to know box calculate gone locust thrush wrench grandeur effort rhizome splint where valley woe devotion torn in felis glory long what rest as pollen garner seed hap stress of value given bother something know. LIMI Metallic blaze shim golden bronze blaze glisten rough pine split hard cut nail pressed pine tack plate sheet fit cup back tar keep sand rend sum blaze tuck light blend keep rise want wrent long look hung plank pine sheet felt blaze rise up far knot for grace ground slant land rough grime far place sheet fit count rend shunt lank hung crisp tend seamlessness and upwardness debar.

Photo of a page of a book with a poem: LXIX fine-grain single achieve latencies 10 cycle performance measure switch tolerate parallel overhead implementation Encore Multimax scalability over large-scale describes average base binary network latency 55 cycles requires are different unprocessing parallel environment machine resident synchronisation the need add provide other bandwidth processing exploit.

An image of a poem title “about poetry today”

A picture of the book Lives of the Saints by Michael Marcinkowski sitting upright against a wooden background and pieces of slate. It has an orange cover with an image from a disciple of Hieronymus Bosch showing grotesque creatures facing a figure in a chair with a book on his lap with other figures smaller in the background.

BIG DAY. Official release date for LIVES OF THE SAINTS. Huge thanks to @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social and @godzillakent.bsky.social for making it happen!

8PM (UK) 30 DECEMBER! Online launch event for @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social !!!!!!!!! I can’t be there live, but there will be a recording of me reading from LIVES OF THE SAINTS (available December 31!)!!! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/broken-sle...

Hand holding a copy of LIVES OF THE SAINTS.

Page from LIVES OF THE SAINTS with poetry reading: 1) Equal pay for equal work; 2) Direct election; 3) Disarm the police; 4) Abol ition of capital punishment; 5) Wages are an evil; 6) Free schools supported by the state; 7) Total separation of mo ney and state; 8) Total ban on fossil fu els; 9) Abolition of land ownership; 10) Aggressive reforestation; 11) Redistrib ution of private property; 12) Common allocation of living space; 13) Abolition of currency; 14) Open all borders; 15) Everything for everyone without labour or prejudice. I REFUTE IT THUS The organ projects what is the true question of poetry. 'If the necessity of every duty is to be estimated by the frequency with which it is inculcated and the sanctions by which it is enforced and whose decrees are established forever in a particular manner the observation of those commands which seem to be repeated that they may be strongly impressed and secured by habitual submission against violation there is scarcely any virtue we ought more diligently exercise than that of compassion to the needy and.

Page from LIVES OF THE SAINTS with poetry reading: Potato okra garlic turnip parsnip yam dill onion cabbage carrot spinach beet kohlrabi radish mushroom barley hops alfalfa lettuce chard corn ginger sprouts gourd apple bean kale rutabaga groat.

Now in the material world, @mrm1.bsky.social 's LIVES OF THE SAINTS. Out officially on 31 December from @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social. New year new you new book.

a black and white cartoon of a man holding a sign that says ' sickos ' . Alt: a black and white cartoon of a man holding a sign that says ' sickos ' .

Somebody's just bought Pedagogy of the Oppressed. It is 10am

8PM (UK) 30 DECEMBER! Online launch event for @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social !!!!!!!!! I can’t be there live, but there will be a recording of me reading from LIVES OF THE SAINTS (available December 31!)!!! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/broken-sle...

This year’s anthology has a wonderful selection from me!

Michael Marcinkowski - Lives of the Saints | Broken Sleep Books Lives of the Saints by Michael Marcinkowski explores poetry's power as it intersects with faith and governance, set against a backdrop of ecological ruin and dystopian futures. In a landscape that ble...

Just a reminder that I have book coming out with Broken Sleep 31 December. You can pre-order now! www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...

This kind of thing is so great.

Thanks for this! Can I be added?

Thanks for making this! Can I be added?

Michael Marcinkowski - Lives of the Saints | Broken Sleep Books Lives of the Saints by Michael Marcinkowski explores poetry's power as it intersects with faith and governance, set against a backdrop of ecological ruin and dystopian futures. In a landscape that ble...

available for pre-order from @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...

Hi! Can I be added to the DH starter pack?

Cover of the book Lives of the Saints by Michael Marcinkowski, published by Broken Sleep Books. The cover features a surreal medieval-style painting with strange, fantastical creatures and figures in bizarre scenarios, typical of the works of Hieronymus Bosch. A figure in regal attire sits on a throne, surrounded by grotesque hybrid creatures and surreal characters. The background includes pastoral scenes, with additional figures and animals engaging in mysterious activities. The book title appears at the top in teal, the author's name in dark red below it, and the publisher's name at the bottom in the same red on an orange background.

Postscript to Lives of the Saints ‘As such the crush the Lord our God whose chaunce like grief veil plait drownt death. Haecceity “just this” the chaine of chalice Rome vom fear buck leave gland sear and truss in martyr’s weave. Agone hap burnt as Passion’s Lot, hwaet penss lack waft in wither wake blear solum mark not knowing known as diaphragm the cannon’s march to poem begg and vanguard soil rotten breathe as groaning crush and blaring doubt selah selah selah.’

Lives of the saints I Number One Which might just be something specific to the afterimage of an empirical society and I guess it’s a question of whether or not there’s much value in worrying about methodology or thinking about the question of social organisation and no matter what we might want to say about management or teleology they’re both just dependent on the question of cause and I had stupidly thought that Arnold’s book was going to be about the variability of culture and how it exists previous to our understanding of it or the way that culture is nothing except a refactoring of the non-sensible into the sensible but really he just seems to talk about reticence and cause and I guess it’s that ‘I think that the artists who aren’t very good should become like everybody else so that people would like things that aren’t very good’ which is still just that the intelligibility of anything is always just the intelligibility of some previous state of affairs which is still really just only about an older belief in a particular understanding of the movement of time which to me is only just a bare and somewhat foolhardy commitment to the lasting efficacy of cause. II Or that it’s the readability of the poetic line or more than any- thing it’s the lyrical proposition of the thing and no matter my feelings toward you or the collective will of ours toward history or the balkanisation of the state it’s forgetting

which is the supposed progressive idea of language being the bulwark of memory and trace or the recognition of trace and the repetition in which it’s the very idea of trace that is underwritten in the perspectivist longevity of trace and it’s that repetition is itself just change in the longue durée which as in the contextualisation of the thing or the actual density of a line built up and the particular coherence of gravity none of this being choice but only our situation being previous to the invention of the ideal or the repetition of form which in the opposition to a monist realism there’s nothing that we can say about the line other than that it’s just the return of the same which laid out across the moment of the lyric is change. III all of which is just the question of whether or not we can have some criteria against which the poem is able to be judged or the idea that there is an outside to the informational question of judgement or the communica- bility of judgement and it’s about the supposition of certain sets of particular facts which is really just a question of judicial selection or the bracketing off of certain parameters toward the claim of phenomenolog- ical experience and in that there’s a need for the delineation of certain understandings of horizon or the possibilities of the repeatability of phenomena which are not such as the specificity of texture or the absence of texture but for some reason I always think that you’re unhappy with me or that I’m somehow screwing things up and it’s that I don’t seem to have any real purpose with things and maybe there are other methods of reparative behaviour or things I could do differently but the difficulty is maybe to be able to feel the quality of a work without any recourse

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Lives of the Saints by Michael Marcinkowski explores poetry's power as it intersects with faith and governance, set against a backdrop of ecological ruin and dystopian futures.
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Bristol Poetry Institute Annual Reading 2024: Don Paterson Join the Bristol Poetry Institute in the Great Hall of the Wills Memorial Building for a reading from award winning poet Don Paterson.

The Bristol Poetry Institute is pleased to announce the 2023-2024 Annual Reading featuring Don Paterson. 6PM on 7 February in Wills Memorial. Free and open to all. Book here to secure your place! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bristol-po...

The Golden Mountain, painted on David Hume's Treatise, in which he introduces the image as an example of how we form concepts from experiences.

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