“Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotion know what it means to want to escape from these.”
T.S. Eliot, Tradition and the Individual Talent, 1912
Art by Francesco Lojacono.
David Lohrey on Sudden Denouement Literary Collective
He tells me Fashion has a purpose.
“You’re not against anything,” I say.
This is part of the problem. People
defend the end of the world, explain
it, like they don’t care. Like if they
understand it, they can control it.
https://suddendenouement.com/2019/03/20/the-crime-of-understanding-david-lohrey/
David Lohrey’s plays have been produced in Switzerland, Croatia, and Lithuania. In the US, his poems can be found at the RavensPerch, New Orleans Review, Nice Cage, and The Drunken Llama. Internationally, his work appears in journals located in the UK, the Netherlands, India, Malawi, and Hungary. His fiction can be seen at Dodging the Rain, Terror House Magazine, and Literally Stories. David’s collection of poetry, MACHIAVELLI’S BACKYARD, was published by Sudden Denouement Publishers. He lives in Tokyo. You can read more of his writing at Writing, Musing, Poetry.
Sudden Denouement Welcomes New Collective Member R. S. Williams – These Broken Gods II
“We and us, as gods of ink,
with stars snatched in fists made of paper and power,
shall sin…”
R.S. Williams writes strange and provocative things, usually from multiple perspectives—human and otherwise. She has an increasingly codependent relationship with words and started writing them down as a way to get even closer to them. You can read more of R.S.’ writing on Instagram and Facebook.
Foundations by Jimmi Campkin on Sudden Denouement Literary Collective
“I salute the trees. I am not magnificent but I can see everything grow. I hear the grass chattering and laughing. I stare at the oaks as they stretch like old hungover drunks after a binge.”
https://suddendenouement.com/2019/03/18/foundations-jimmi-campkin/
Jimmi Campkin is a “Writer, photographer, creator of SANCTUARY. 16bit child, INFP with clinical nostalgia and red wine for blood.” You can enjoy more of his work at jimmi campkin.com.
“She paints her face to hide her face. Her eyes are deep water. It is not for Geisha to want. It is not for geisha to feel. Geisha is an artist of the floating world. She dances, she sings. She entertains you, whatever you want. The rest is shadows, the rest is secret.”
― Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha
Art by Kawase Hasui.
Magnificent piece by Nitin Lalit Murali on Sudden Denouement Literary Collective
“The sunrise kills, and the sunset terrifies. I snatch sleep between the aubade and the curtain call, but even then, demonic dreams haunt. I’m not your source of inspiration.
….
So, I don’t ask for your sympathy and empathy is never given without a clause. I only ask for your understanding.”
Read more: https://suddendenouement.com/2019/03/05/the-knight-of-infinite-resignation-nitin-lalit-murali/
Nitin Lalit Murali is a poet, flash fiction writer and essayist from Bangalore, India. He also enjoys reading literature of different genres and listening to jazz and neo-classical music. He started writing seven years ago and art has consumed him over the years. He blogs regularly at Fighting the Dying Light.
”‘They are like epiphanies, embodying all the tension and fragility of a state of grace. Small and yet hugely evocative, they are haikus in flowers. They are limitless energy barely contained in a halo of quiet. They are nature manipulated by man. Man in harmony with Nature.’’
– Toshira Kawase
Ikebana by Toshiro Kawase.
“Ignorant people think it is the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain’t so; it is the sickening grammar that they use.”
– Mark Twain
Art by Géza Farago – Slim Woman with a Cat, 1913.
“If you find yourself hungry for the kind of words that walk boldly into the dark filled spaces of your poetic heart, be prepared to put your dancing shoes on. This anthology is a collective kaleidoscope of fragmented and pulsing light from some of the most talented writers around the globe. Having them intermingle, and rubbing shoulders against each other in one volume – is a gala for the senses.”
Anthology Volume I: Writings from the Sudden Denouement Literary Collective is now available at Amazon.com and Amazon.com.uk
Learn more about Alfa at http://alfapoet.com/
I am delighted that some of my poems have been included in the Sudden Denouement Anthology Volume I.
“If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing.”
– Marc Chagall
Art – Marc Chagall (1887-1985) The Betrothed and Eiffel Tower, 1913
