Dean Parkin's Soundstuff — now available on
Traydio.com What actually is Soundstuff?
Poem? Story? Skit?
Sonic tinkering? Have a quick click & listen! Pick N Mix sonic tinkerings now available from www.deanparkin.co.uk
Surely worth a listen, at least once. And if nothing else, you can hear samples of 'soundstuff' on the myspace audio player.
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Influences
Particularly balding men with glasses... Elvis Costello, Woody Allen, Roger McGough. And also those mostly with hair... Thomas Lux, Stephen Dobyns, Tom Waits, Michael Laskey, Christopher Reid, Christopher Logue, Adrian Mitchell, Graham Parker, Raymond Carver, Richard Brautigan, William Matthews, Philip Levine, Tony Hoagland, Mark Halliday, James Tate, CK Williams, Bernard Spencer, Van Morrison, John Hiatt, Warren Zevon, Jeff Tweedy (Wilco, Loose Fur, The Golden Smog), Krazy Kat & Ignatz, Calvin & Hobbes, William Carlos Williams, William Saroyan, Alastair Reid, Dave Allen, Matt Harvey, Neil Innes, John Shuttleworth, Stanley Unwin, Ian Dury, Billy Bragg, Billy Connolly, Larry David, New York and John Lennon.
Sounds Like
Probably the shortest poem that
I've written...
Irresistible to Women? You might have read the book.
Here's a photo gallery I call 'The Irresistibles' - celebrating bald men (mostly) and their glasses...
Dean Parkin was always younger than he looks but is now catching up. Since March 2007 has been poet-in-residence on the Roy Waller Show on BBC Radio Norfolk, appearing once a month with the aim of helping to demystify poetry.
In September 2008 he won an Escalator Live Literature Award to develop a one man show - Ducks, Trains & Other Tracks - a selection of which will be featured at the Norfolk & Norwich Festival on Friday 8th May 2009. He was also recently awarded an Arts Council England Grants for the Arts Award to develop this one man show further.
He has had a poem, featuring pubic hair, nestling nicely between Ruth Padel and Tom Paulin in the Forward Anthology. His first pamphlet, 'Irresistible to Women' (2003) was followed more recently by, 'Just Our Luck' (2008) - both published by The Garlic Press.
He has given readings at festivals, colleges and pubs and has run workshops in prisons, schools and on a NATO base in Germany. He didn't know there was a NATO base in Germany until then.
When he was a much younger man he entirely made-up a local legend which went on to appear in the Penguin Book of British Myth & Legend and is probably the first poet to appear on television reading a poem on the loo
He can also be quite friendly and is not at all scary like some poets he could mention.
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Hi Dean, thanks for the add. We met briefly at Stanza last year. I think you were one of the slam judges, and I was in it :-) Like the Buskers Hat poem, must read your book again, not had it off the shelf for a few months, and I did enjoy it. Doing a lot of touring these days so hopefully our paths will cross again at some future gig somewhere. :-D xxx
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Thank you for supporting Justice For Kirsty and for adding us to your friends. Best wishes and wishing you all good things for 2008 from Dylan and everyone at JFK.
Merry Christmas Dean, all the best for the festive season to you and yours, many blessings of love, light and peace. If that doesn't work try good grass and Whisky - it works for us ;-) Martin & Paul
Please check out the profile and let me know your thoughts! You can do six_events anywhere in the world; just do one or two events if you like.
So far, there will be hundreds of simultaneous performances of six_events in Spain, America, Egypt, China, Japan, Italy, England, Canada and Australia.
If you would like me to send you a reminder nearer the time about this then just send a blank email to six_events@yahoo.co.uk (or just send me your email in a message on here)
