Thursday, September 17, 2026

Revenge on Culture poem published in International Times, one poem with 2 others to comprise Three Poems of War. Videos, links, etc.

I’ve had another poem published on (or is it in?) International Times and, as ever, I would like to thank poetry editor Rupert Loydell for this. It’s very short, ‘Revenge on Culture’, and it is a response to a photograph called ‘Revenge on Culture’, one of Lee Miller’s ‘blitz’ photos. It is not the image reproduced in International Times. (I can’t post the actual image; I have become wary after having been pursued for copyright fees by a copyright holder of an image I used. Indeed, I have pruned these posts considerably. But that’s, as they say, another story, though I don’t think I’ll make it another post.)

I have, actually, combined this single poem, which you may read here, 

Revenge on Culture | IT

with two others, one of which also appeared on International Times, here:

Pretend-Sleep | IT

although the third one didn’t (though see post below).

Given that they are short poems I have recorded videos of them (at various times) and I intend to present all three now, as they are jointly titled, and will, I hope, be published together one day:

 

Three Poems of War

 

1 Revenge on Culture (after a photograph by Lee Miller)

Video:

 


Post/text: Revenge on Culture | IT

Background blogpost: this one!

 

2 Pretend-Sleep

 Video:

 


Post/text: Pretend-Sleep | IT

Background blogpost: Pages: 'Pretend-sleep' published in International Times

 

3 Broken  

Video:



Post/Background blogpost/text: Pages: Ark and Archive page 1,000 - keeping a daily practice of writing going (It’s part of a longer post about generative writing.)

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Here’s one of many posts about appearing in International Times: Pages: And now more prose is published in International Times (and I reflect on that too)., and this link takes you to all the pieces I have had in the magazine (although there are a few extraneous items in the list too!) : Sheppard | Search Results | IT