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Michael Marcinkowski

@michaelmarcinkowski.org

Currently Digital Humanities at King’s College London. Director of Education Digital Futures Institute. Formerly Bristol, Ambient Literature, poetryfoundation.org. LIVES OF THE SAINTS available from Broken Sleep Books michaelmarcinkowski.org

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Michael Marcinkowski

@michaelmarcinkowski.org

An image of a page of a book showing the text of two poems:

VI
WAS DECIDED
II.
As to gauge against the true democratic question of how many times an election may be run until an answer's decided as the grandeur of democracy is that it is able to be changed from one moment to the next as the belief that any particular event may not preclude any future occurrence as democracy is weighted by its expedience to change both as a benefit to and its mandate that if nothing can be done in the span before the next vote then it is not a thing to be done as there is no lasting decision possible in a democracy or whatever except the [uhh] continuing stranglehold of the state.

VII
for Harold Garfinkel
Dependence on the already established.

A photo of a page of a book showing two poems:

LII
Woe! Torn down! What value knowing be?'
Pastoral black landscape to name.
Limp branch pin arbor ox wood pine low woollen thick of love to know box calculate gone locust thrush wrench grandeur effort rhizome splint where valley woe devotion torn in felis glory long what rest as pollen garner seed hap stress of value given bother something know.
LIMI
Metallic blaze shim golden bronze blaze glisten rough pine split hard cut nail pressed pine tack plate sheet fit cup back tar keep sand rend sum blaze tuck light blend keep rise want wrent long look hung plank pine sheet felt blaze rise up far knot for grace ground slant land rough grime far place sheet fit count rend shunt lank hung crisp tend seamlessness and upwardness debar.

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LXIX
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An image of a poem title “about poetry today”

December 31, 2024 at 5:42 PM

Michael Marcinkowski

@michaelmarcinkowski.org

BIG DAY. Official release date for LIVES OF THE SAINTS. Huge thanks to @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social and @godzillakent.bsky.social for making it happen!

A picture of the book Lives of the Saints by Michael Marcinkowski sitting upright against a wooden background and pieces of slate. It has an orange cover with an image from a disciple of Hieronymus Bosch showing grotesque creatures facing a figure in a chair with a book on his lap with other figures smaller in the background.

December 31, 2024 at 5:32 PM

Michael Marcinkowski

@michaelmarcinkowski.org

8PM (UK) 30 DECEMBER! Online launch event for @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social !!!!!!!!! I can’t be there live, but there will be a recording of me reading from LIVES OF THE SAINTS (available December 31!)!!! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/broken-sle...