Bowl Magazine

I first became aware of this wonderful site via a recommendation to hear this album (and I pass on that recommendation - I sat transfixed as I listened to a poet who has worked out just exactly how his words, his voice, and most importantly his spaces and pause, can work with other musicians)

Well Garry Franks then told me about this magazine he publishes online BOWL (Beauty of Washing Lines).

It's full of fascinating, considered, playful, naughty, caring writing about the Arts, Thought...well just being human really.

I have been meaning to recommend it for ages but this post has now has been prompted because Rodney Wood - a chap I know - has magically appeared in the new issue!

http://bowlartsmagazine.tumblr.com/

Just as an example of their playfulness they published this wonderful poem by Appollonia Vitelli which has become a favourite of mine (it's a bit blue)

"“Don`t Piss In Men`s Mouths!

u no when u rlly reddy 2 cum + u no u r goin 2 xplode in hss mth butt frightennd ur goin 2 piss in his mth inted? I dd 1ce + he wssnt himpressed, butt I ill wnt du agn!”

Hannah Arendt (October 14, 1906–December 4, 1975)

"The greater the bureaucratization of public life, the greater will be the attraction of violence. In a fully developed bureaucracy there is nobody left with whom one could argue, to whom one could present grievances, on whom the pressures of power could be exerted. Bureaucracy is the form of government in which everybody is deprived of political freedom, of the power to act; for the rule by Nobody is not no-rule, and where all are equally powerless we have a tyranny without a tyrant."

Damn she was good. On the types of power (from "On Violence" 1970) - "These definitions coincide with the terms which, since Greek antiquity, have been used to define the forms of government as the rule of man over man—of one or the few in monarchy and oligarchy, of the best or the many in aristocracy and democracy, to which today we ought to add the latest and perhaps most formidable form of such dominion, bureaucracy, or the rule by an intricate system of bureaux in which no men, neither one nor the best, neither the few nor the many, can be held responsible, and which could be properly called the rule by Nobody. Indeed, if we identify tyranny as the government that is not held to give account of itself, rule by Nobody is clearly the most tyrannical of all, since there is no one left who could even be asked to answer for what is being done. It is this state of affairs which is among the most potent causes for the current world-wide rebellious unrest."