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Mark Vanner




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Mark Vanner is 28yrs old and wakes up most mornings to find he is still in the same city in which he fell asleep. Nottingham. He survives on a strict diet of cheap lager, cigarettes and filthy pot noodles. His poems have appeared in magazines, anthologies and ezines worldwide, most recently Thieves Jargon Press. In 2004 his poem 'It Only Hurts When You Walk Away' was short listed for the Forward top 100 Award.

MARK'S INFLUENCES:

CHRISTOPHER WILLIAMS - Ra Poetic Verse (Collected Poems)

The first book I ever stole from a library and the first real poetry book that rattled around my tiny brain like a bottle of Newcastle Brown Ale in a washing machine. If you read this Christopher I owe you �5.99.

OTHER AUTHORS/MUSICIANS WHO'S BOOKS AND CD'S MARK MAY OR MAY NOT HAVE STOLEN:

IRVINE WELSH

Click image to listen to sound clip of Welsh reading from his novel 'Glue' on the Salon.com website; for Spike magazines excellent archive of Welsh-related links from around the globe, click here; to visit Welsh's own website, click here or to order books by Welsh on Amazon, click

SEX PISTOLS

Click image to visit the God Save the Sex Pistols website; for the Filth and the Fury Pistols site, click here or for related books and cd's on Amazon, click here
DAN FANTE

Click image to read Dan's story, 'Princess' on the Showcase section of this site; to read read Tony O'Neill's interview with Fante on The New Review section of this site, click here or for related items on Amazon, click here.
JOHN FANTE

Click image to read Dan Fante's article on his father on The New Review section of this site; to read Mike Ferraro's article on the film of John Fante's 'Ask the Dust' on The New Review, click here or for related books and cd's on Amazon, click here
JOY DIVISION

Click image to visit the Joy Division Central website; for the Joy Division Shadowplay website, click here or for related items on Amazon, click here.
PHILIP LARKIN

Click image to visit the official website of the Philip Larkin Society; for a selection of Larkin's poetry online on the Certando site, click here or for related books on Amazon, click here
THE SMITHS

Click image to visit the Ask Me Ask Me Ask Me Smiths website; for the Shoplifter's Union website, click here or for related music on Amazon, click here
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

Click image to visit the William Burroughs files on the Interwebzone; for Graham Rae's review of the dvd 'William Burroughs: Commissioner of Sewers' on The New Review section of this site, click here or for related books on Amazon, click here
IAIN BANKS

Click image to visit Iain Banks' official website; to read 'Getting Used to Being God' - Spike Magazine's interview with Banks, click here or for related books on Amazon, click here

SIMON ARMITAGE

Click image to visit Armitage's official website; for an interview with Armitage on the Sonnet Central website, click here or for related books on Amazon, click here
JEFF NOON

Click image to visit Spike Magazine's website for Noon; for an interview with Noon on the Guardian Unlimited website, click here or for related books on Amazon, click here

JACK KEROUAC

Click image to visit the official Jack Kerouac website; to listen to Kerouac reciting (and singing) his work on the Kerouac Speaks site, click here or to view Kerouac's back catalogue on Amazon, click here
PABLO NERUDA

Click image for a profile of Neruda on the Academy of American Poets website; for 60 poems by Neruda on the Free Net website, click here or for related books on Amazon, click here



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SELECTED POETRY

by
Mark Vanner






GOODNIGHT MODERN LIFE

The planes fly low over my house
Cracking the walls with drones
Like dogs howling into the night
Screaming of fat Americans and death
And love and money and God and you
Are gone. Lost to another, better looking,
Less selfish than I.
The planes fly low over my house
As I light the darkness with another
Cigarette and wait for the first shower of
Corpses to crash down from the skies
Through the diarrhoea slates of my roof,
Down onto my sad, pathetic, drunken life.
The thunder passes, I reach towards the
Stereo and somewhere Cobain screams -
Rape me, Rape me, Rape me...

� Mark Vanner




FOR MY SWEETHEART


Thankfully

I was born with few brains,

Otherwise

This Constant

Bullshit

You continue to put me through

May have grown stale

Years ago.


� Mark Vanner





TIME & TIDE


In summer,
Lying by the canal,
Silently placing bets on how many
Bodies they�d drag from her stinking depths to the shore�

I counted fifteen one day.


� Mark Vanner





VALENTINE


No cards
Or commercial sentiments,
Instead my belongings
From a love affair gone bad,
Wrapped in a brown padded envelope,
And sealed with a kiss.



� Mark Vanner




ABSENCE


I hear them at night,
Living beneath me.
Fucking like animals,
In this heat.
This terrible heat,
Wishing you were here.


� Mark Vanner




TAKE WITH YOU NOTHING WHEN YOU GO


It happened again today.

Driving home,

I lost all air.

And once again

Felt the world in its entirety
Crushing down on my lungs.
Retching at the side of the road,

I somehow found you.

Amongst crippled aluminium cans
And glory filled condoms.

Your face,

Your legs,

Those perfect sized tits.

The only girl I ever loved.

It was all there,

Now gone

Forever.


� Mark Vanner




SIMPERING INTO OBLIVION


The night I tried
To get her drunk,
Ended in a row.
She threw plates,
And smashed glasses.
I smoked cigarettes,
And hid behind the sofa.
She told me to leave,
Called me a sick desperate prick,
I said I thought she was right,
Then poured her another drink.


� Mark Vanner




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