Category: Publications
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Published in The Belleville Park Pages vol. 5
Smiling Like Snakeskin, a weird little poem about holidays at the beach, rebirth, and dead skin, is featured in volume five of the Belleville Park Pages. The copies are 2€ or 2£, or you can subscribe and have them delivered to your doorstep by editors Will Cox and James Bird, both wearing bunny costumes. They will […]
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Published in the Bastille Magazine vol. II
The Bastille Magazine, edited by David Barnes and his team of superheroes (Bruce Sherfield, Troy Yorke, Suzanne Allen and Pearlann Porter), is a bi-annual literary publication showcasing some of the top dogs of the Paris spoken word scene. It is organised thematically around the word (and world of) “Dreams” and features some truly excellent writers […]
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Published in the Belleville Park Pages
It’s an exciting time to be in Paris. I’m not sure that’s true but it has a nice, historic-moment feel to it, that phrase; Hemmingwayesque, maybe. Anyway, I’m excited, is the point. Lots of good poetry being generated here and at the peak of this monsoon heat wave, a new lit mag has broken the […]
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Published on theNewerYork’s EEEL (again!)
JSR and the other nutjobs at theNewerYork (unfortunately no longer hosted) have published my piece #iQuit: A Twitter Feed. I did quit for a while, but took it up again. Don’t judge me. ***
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Thought Catalog – Part II
Part II of my Well-Travelled article just went online on Thought Catalog. TBH, I’m not a total pessimist (not all the time…), these articles were just a gut-reaction to how people generally view travellers: invariably lucky and privileged. There is truth to that cliché, I wouldn’t swap my life for anyone’s (except maybe an astronaut’s), […]
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Published on Thought Catalog
Thought Catalog(ue) is an interesting place; good comedy, an intimate, minimalist style, has a sort of gonzo 2.0 thing going on. I’ve always found the editors consistent and the writing often quite good, so it’s an honour to be featured alongside kickass writers like Chelsea Fagan (forthcoming novel, keep your eyes skinned), Christopher Hudspeth, Ryan O’Connel, and two poets […]
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Dr Seuss is in the House
Amazing vibe at the Spoken Word Paris gig last Monday, a Dr Seuss-themed evening hosted by the talented David Barnes. The evening featured great live music (Victor‘s performance was as usual a riot of bilingual Song and Verse), a Dr Seuss poem, a few pieces inspired by the doctor’s rhyme-laden style, some intense audience participation (“Mule!”), […]
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Published by theNewerYork
The zany, experimental literature-minded folk on theNewerYork have published my piece Engine Fuel. You can check it out here, with a new, more SEO-friendly title – Google Search History: An Expat Tale. They publish a variety of strange and wonderful writing forms, from thematic lists to instruction manuals to dense, aromatic flash fiction. I recommend you […]
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The poem that started it all
Below I have transcribed from memory one of my first poems, written when I was in high-school, which was praised in gushes and squeals by my fanclub at the time, that is to say my mother, a few close friends, and the girl I wrote it for (who was dating a total douche-bag). Nectar of […]
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My name is Ian
A guy who looks like me and has the same shirt as me, but is named Ian, was spotted at Spoken Word Paris last Monday. He even recited my poems Chicken Omelette and Wrong Segment. The open mic “slam” gig hosted by Au Chat Noir near Parmentier every Monday provides a very real, very public outlet for creative […]
Yann Rousselot 