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Stark yet tender, existential yet quietly hopeful, this collection invites readers to confront the void and find the light within.","brand":"Rebel bohemian Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52605204070733,"sku":"x6z45","price":8.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0924\/9377\/5181\/files\/zmr4jjk-front-shortedge-384.jpg?v=1760708670"},{"product_id":"instamatic-karma","title":"Instamatic Karma","description":"\u003cp\u003eSuave Collective Publishing  in association with Rebel Bohemian Press presents\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eInstamatic Karma \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIn 1970 John Lennon delivered Instant Karma, a song that he announced “ wrote it for breakfast, recorded it for lunch, and we're putting it out for dinner.\" It was written and recorded in one mammoth 24hr session with Phil Spector in the producer's chair and pressed and into the shops in just 10 days. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTaking that as our inspiration, along with the idiom that a picture paints a thousand words six modern poets from the current crop of Modernist Beat Poets have joined to undertake a similar adventure.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEach choosing a brace of images and presented together at one time. The six poets each taking their own visual cues from the imagery, then pen a dozen different poems in their unique voices, delivering six takes on each image and a total of 72 poems in total.. all within 30 days.. we all shine on!\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eVolume one features the talents of Jason Brummell, Jason Disley, Danny Gray, Garrie Grant, Becky Nuttall and Curtis Tappenden.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rebel Bohemian Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53148551315789,"sku":null,"price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0924\/9377\/5181\/files\/coverinstcam.jpg?v=1767966845"},{"product_id":"the-beat-goes-on-by-danny-gray","title":"THE BEAT GOES ON by Danny Gray","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePerfect Bound paperback\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN: 978-1-326-28504-3 \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Beat Goes On is the third collection of Danny’s Modernist Beat Poetry. His feel for lyrical rhythm is still much in evidence and the swing of the words and the lines still sit firmly within that Beat cadence so well - but the overarching feel that runs throughout this collection is - love. Unabashed and deftly detailed in multiple ways across the pieces, whether it’s love for a time, a place, a person, a pet, an item of clothing - or indeed several items of clothing - love echoes across the pages. Even when let down by it, love’s motifs and nuance flow as freely as the words on the page.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDanny Gray is like a modern-day street corner existentialist, wielding a battered notebook instead of a soapbox, a working class Beat poet for the 21st century. Drawing on the raw edge of punk attitude, the freewheeling energy of the Beat Generation, and the introspective angst of existential thinkers like Camus and Bukowski, Gray’s writing is part protest, part confession, and part search for meaning in the everyday grime of modern life. His poems are urban sketches of the human condition, scribbled in the margins of a society he refuses to conform to. He confronts hypocrisy, addiction, alienation, and spiritual longing with a blunt honesty that never shies away from the ugly truths of existence. There are echoes of Ginsberg’s howl, Kerouac’s wanderlust, and a gritty kitchen sink realism that makes his voice unmistakably his own. 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There’s social observation here, a kitchen sink visit to reality, twenty-twenty-four style, with an emphasis on authenticity rather than what might be presented by the mainstream media. You’ll be taken to Paris, to a tourist landmark, but you won’t see it like you would in the brochure. You’ll go to a traditional English pub but it won’t be a picture postcard. You’ll encounter contemporary mores, contemporary bores, the trend for home deliveries, the lives that are lived beneath a major flight path, a world where the use of AI is taking over. But there are contemporary inspirations as well. You’ll sing to these melodies. You’ll hear what spurs the muse, where it can take you if you write for yourself and don’t worry about restrictions. In the world unseen by the mainstream, you’ll feel the pulse of the imagination, the beat, the bebop, the soul. You’ll be taken to Soho, to the land of the absolute beginner, the home of the hip, you’ll touch the creases of the cloth, meet the hedonistic delights that take you to the moon and back. It’s all there in a phrase, a moment of truth that you will recognize, whether you knew it before or not. There are nods to modernism, art, culture, music. You’ll visit subculture, eighteenth century style. You’ll find a oneness with nature. There will be descriptions of reality, from the gentle pursuit of angling, so real in fact that you could almost be there, to the pleasures of plonk. There are personal recollections, innermost memories. Fears coming alive in the corridors of nightmares. The underclass personified in the decline of small towns. The blight of waste products littering the urban landscape. This is a book that brings Modernist Beat Poetry into the spotlight. 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This is what makes Beat Dimensions highly relatable collection of Modernist Beat Poetry - for if you enjoy music, art and style you will admire Danny's personal perspective. He shows you the dimensions of his world, a world that draws on inspiration, improvisation and an intricate fluidity that is not unlike that of a great jazz album. So, take five - and enter this dimension, I am pretty sure it won't be last you will want to dive into.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e'Dark and foreboding passages are weaved together with a promise of better days ahead, in an eclectic collection of poems. 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