Showing posts with label Poetry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Poetry. Show all posts

30 July 2018

David Parry presents: English Poetry Cafe; Thomas Rowsell - "The Dream of the Rood"

Part of the poetry collection. Variety of artists and performers - newcomers and old titans - Glass of wine/coffee on the entrance and a hour of entertainment in different forms.

In this video english writer and film maker:
Thomas Rowsell reading "The Dream of the Rood".

More from Tom Rowsell:
THA Talks – Tom Rowsell – Anglo Saxon Paganism & Heathenry
Tom returns to THA Talks for a talk about Yule and its ancient past as well as its future.

He is the presenter and director of the “From Runes To Ruins”, a documentary film on Anglo-Saxon Paganism, he is also a Heathen, Writer, Producer, and has been making documentaries and films for seven years. Thomas learned to make films at the University of Brighton, graduating in 2007. Having spent 4 years working as a freelance journalist writing for Dazed and Confused and I-D magazine, he returned to university to study medieval history at UCL in 2011. He has previously produced Boobs and Revolution (2008), a political documentary on breast surgery in Venezuela and directed a music video in 2007 which was critically acclaimed on BBC Radio 1, His YouTube videos have amassed over 1 million views.

Survive the Jive - From Runes to Ruin Anglo Saxon Heathen Culture - Hour 1

Reincarnation and the Tripartite Soul of Indo-European Tradition

9 July 2018

The Rev'd David Parry presents Nigel Humphreys at Russkiy Mir

Nigel Humphreys is reading from his two previously published collections, while introducing new work from his (then forthcoming) 2013 work, "Of Moment"

Nigel Humphreys is an Anglo-Welsh poet living in the Aberystwyth area.  Since retiring early in 2000 he has devoted much of his life to poetry. During that time he has won several poetry competitions and been highly placed in others.

He continues to be involved with Aberystwyth Arts Centre Poetry Workshop, Poetry Reading Set and The Word Distillery performances. He runs Poetry Courses at the Arts Centre and reads his work regularly to local and London audiences.

In 2007 his first Collection The Hawk's Mewl was published by Arbor Vitae Press, London followed in 2010 by The Flavour of Parallel and Of Moment in 2013.

The Love Song of Daphnis and Chloe will be published next year 2015 by Circaidy Gergory

Nigel Humphreys is a member of The Welsh Academy and Literature Wales.

Nigel Humphreys' blog, with selections of his work can be found at:
http://www.nigelhumphreyspoet.com/apps/blog/

2 July 2018

The Rev'd David Parry presents: Anglo Saxon Poetry by Andrew Rae

I was a Director at The People's Voice (Internet TV Station) for a while - all giving me the chance to produce 10 of these poetry shorts.

As you will see, they were eventually released under the Inlight TV imprint, due to that fact TPV got into serious trouble.

Editor's note:
SMPBI calls for the misappropriation of Culture by the Middle Class to be ended, and for the reunification of the People with our Traditions - our Living Traditions.  Culture belongs to us, and like everything else, has been stolen from us and claimed by the bourgeois parasites.  We are bringing it back to the People.  Without an anchor in our origins and history, we are adrift on the sea of Commercialised Globalism.  Our struggle cannot be solely economic.  We have been robbed of nearly all that is ours. We will not stop until we have taken back everything, and built a better way which prevents the class of thieves from ever stealing from us again.

4 June 2018

DavidParry: The Grammar of Witchcraft - Selected Readings



In this collection of Mini-Sagas and poems, Parry narrates the final journey taken by his alter ego Caliban from the surreal delights of a lesbian wedding in Liverpool, all the way back to a non-existent city of London. In himself, the author is aiming to resolve lyrical contradictions existing between different levels of consciousness: betwixt reality and the dreaming state. And as such, unnervingly illogical scenarios emerge out of a stream of consciousness wherein bewildering theatrical landscapes actively compete with notions of Anglo-Saxon witchcraft, Radical Traditionalism, and a lack of British authenticity. Each analysis pointing towards those Jungian Spirits haunting an endlessly benevolent Archetypal world.


28 May 2018

David Parry: SMPBI Cultural Officer, on 'Caliban'

Editor's note:

SMPBI is proud to welcome on board the Reverend David Parry.  David is a Priest, a Poet, a Man of Culture.  He joins us as our Cultural Officer, bringing with him a broad experience of the arts and of the soul of the struggle.  Socialism is not merely economics, it is the pursuit of all that is good for the people.  Those who have a purely material outlook are as much victims of the degrading degenerate world of globalisation as are the Capitalists who profit by it.  Culture comes from the people.  The idea that it is something of the bourgeois classes is the result of anti-Working Class propaganda.  Like everything else, Culture is created by us, and like everything we create, the Ruling Class lay claim to it, in the manner of thieves who have the arrogance to take credit for that which they have no right to. 

Welcome David!
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The phrase "Proletarian literature" refers to those writings by working-class authors intended for a class-conscious readership. Clearly, even though the Encyclopædia Britannica comments this genre "is essentially an intended device of revolution", these manuscripts are not merely published by the Communist Party, or sympathetic left-wing activists. Rather, the "proletarian novel" - as a narrative about working-class life,reflects a deep cultural difference between American, Russian and other traditions of penmanship to that of Britain. Indeed, British folk scribblers were not especially inspired by the Communist Party per se, but instead found their roots in the Chartist movement, along with idealist Anarchism.


Concerning the book, Caliban's Redemption:

In this collection of occult poems Parry's alter-ego Caliban muses on sexuality, seclusion and Shakespeare. Moreover, by trying to capture the dark dwarf's metaphysical lyrics moment by moment, the author slowly confronts himself as a willing prisoner on the magical island of violence and desire. After all, Caliban would claim that neither Browning nor Nietzsche had fully grasped the ethics of redemption which can only be found in unadulterated selfhood.