Poetry Collections

• Ratzinger Solo (Contraband Books, 2016)
• 663 reasons why (Contraband Books, 2016)
• The Cursory Epic (Contraband Books, 2014)
• Shuddered [with Aodán McCardle and Piers Hugill] (Veer Books/Red Ochre Press, 2009)
• DCLP (Veer Books, 2008)

Individual poems have been published in Xcp: Cross Cultural Poetics, YT Communications Bulletin, Instant Anthology: Online, A-a-a-a-a-a, Ad   ssing the Future, LUC Underground Poems, Reception, Veer Away, 'veer off', Great Works, Nth Position, Resolution Rider (Taxi Gallery), Transatlantic Howl! A Dedication to Allen Ginsberg, Intercapilliary Space, etc.

Song Work

• Aesop Affable [with Michail Paliaologou] (Paxos International Music Festival, 2008)
• Numb Not Memorial [with Cimeon Ellerton] (Voiceworks, 2008)
• Wold Shadow/Anticipation of The Night [with Michail Paliaologou] (Voiceworks, 2007)

Performance Work

As part of the performative poetry and poetics grouping London Under Construction (LUC) , multiple performances in various mediums and in various places including: Diorama Arts Centre, Taxi Gallery, Horse Hospital, Paper Cuts, Subvoicive, ePoetics Conference 2005, The Klinker, Eton Mission, Lambs Field, Poetry Buzz, Partly Writing 3, etc.

 

 

Streatham Common

 

[ instruction: read slowly ]                                 eyelashracture

       beastviewoflondon   [one word]

        common leviathans

                                of   hang
                                               hang 
                                       hung

 

        and ... well,                             ... ordinary things

                still there    [ instruction: altered ]   

                                                                                        stillthere :

 

      a sense of      said

 

 

 

 

 

 

      , and put my shades back on

 

                     of Streatham Commons rearing

       record hereshop now, this  edge

 

                                                                                                - hot work

 

from The Cursory Epic Pt 4 – The Crown of Kings

 

The legendary grasp or is it?

Porky George – YOU become the hero 

356
Tory campaign office / articulates / a means of rapid escape / with your placards / derogation / standing water / take me to the top / Yog-Shoggoth for President 

361
You have stabbed yourself in the / half a buttock with two eyes / Dave / You must / it’s my turn / stacked / super bankers / it usually is 

363
if a hero climbs up / on top of you / single-parent parasites / Porky G / if the tax code is / strike with your weapon / Ian Duncan / Syndrome / will bring balance to the / super bankers / to the tax code / Do you have a vial of / the Kingdoms 

364
drive it / into their homes / Mr Osborne / spike / has utility / is asking for trouble / turn further right, or / in high heels and a wig, ok 

369
Lord Tebbit / locked with a grass / a bullfrog / buuurrrp / all eyes / he says / and then / it / breaks it / in the pantry / carcass / pie / will you believe his / bitter taste / Lord Tebbit / with the meat-cleaver / in the pantry 

371
descriptor / instant / health = welfare / have you eaten today? / gender / cut 

374
is dressed like a woman / party ratchet / man stands there / is helpless / strike him / Lord Tebbit 

384
You must fight her / her gold / her tax exile / vibro-blade / said / stiletto and suspenders / is scrounging 

387
Take the right / due / Lord Tebbit / is unable to see / batter her / oh, batter her 

392
Fuck me / Lord Tebbit / on the fumble table / with the meat cleaver / in the pantry / in the stockings / in the pantry / in the 18^th century basque / in the coffin / Do you have a clove of garlic? 

399
You say the word aloud / Lord Tebbit / we love you / in all / fiscal probability / and Porky / oozing and schmoozing 

402
at the discretion of the Director / I’m coming’ up, I’m comin’ / Lord Tebbit / oooh / before you is a / a power figure / is it Lord Archer? / stuffed into brown / roll for it / Norman / meaty and from behind / Norman /and Conservative concession / the one for you? / There is nothing else of interest 

411
Turn to / Lord Tebbit / in a hi-hat / in your backpack / whelks and lash / said / it needn’t be the end of the line / oh, no! / cash for gash for 

414
Lord / Baron KaiKai of Chingford / Lord / Chingford / Lord / OoOwOoO WoOo OoOwOoOOwWO oOoOoWOo 

427
You do not have a / bulbous head / in a crouching / Lord Tebbit / all those hairy legs 

428
Your Necromantic spell has failed / Porky George / there shall be no more / Lord Tebbit / reroll a new character and start again 

432
The Random Demon table / is it / Lord Tebbit? 

435
the fortress stands / and it stands, Mr Speaker / is a monument to your right / is classified / says Andrew Lloyd Webber / in the kitchen / with Lord Tebbit 

439
survived the city of / has spoken / fishers of the brown trout / with only one Lord Tebbit / one Lord Archer / Do you have the password / shaft spurt / will loan you the money 

441
if you like my hair / Lord Tebbit / is smoking hot / thank god! / arena players / in Tottenham / with a false bottom / Lord Tebbit / with a syringe / can you pay? / the hyperdrive 

443
will offer them large, hairy / Lord Tebbit / my mother had me tested / lets get twisted / from his very grasp 

446
there is no returning home / is a common occurrence / will cost 20 Gold Pieces / in a dress / and the rise of / Darth Tebbitus’ / flood warning / for same sex / under the park / lights / might  / put your hands up 

453
William Hague / Hero Points / rumble / get ready to / priority sort / Lord Tebbit / you cannot carry two swords / in Waltham Forest

 

'by the way, everyone should get a copy of estaphin's brilliant DCLP, from Veer Books . if anything could be called 'conceptual poetry' its this / but instead of being a simple poeticisation of our alienation, or a macho display of pseudo-newness / its a superb collage of language, nastily joyous & righteously exasperated, about cottaging and surveillance, using mainly found material & stuff from chatrooms etc. there's a good bit when the authorities at Canary Wharf (London's premier symbol of the occult power of capital) find out whats going on in their toilets: "men are using public toilets at the heart of the estate for homosexual sex . . . right under the noses of some of the world's most powerful companies", goes the headline. yeh, thats what 'powerful companies' are for.'--Sean Bonney, Abandoned Buildings

'Identity is something that can be stolen and abused, invented and deleted. The language in this book [DCLP] exposes this, but offers no solutions. Just before the final statement - 'XB-33 - Mlada Fronta' - we read: 'I'm not sure that piping classical music into Stratford Bus Station at ear-splitting volumes is actually a strategy'.'--Tom White, Stride Magazine

'That the ex-Pope, Donald Trump, and Han Solo continually survive as characters, despite radical inconsistencies in public declaration and perception, obviously has something sinister about it. What’s the fuel of their survival, if not ‘our’ flesh and blood, translated into code? This book’s operation is un-translation. Back to the real inside the speech. Something is happening which exceeds existing understanding and description of the operation of power, and goes beyond existing critique of language – something other than hyper-reality, hyper-instrumentality, fetishism of reference, degradation of language, ‘post-truth’. Complex meldings of theology of sacrifice, business discourse, political rhetoric give some paths to follow. Ratzinger Solo shows an essential part of what it means to be inside this situation.'--William Rowe 

'A key awareness opened by these texts is that the spectacle relies upon asymmetry, a fact which Mooney exposes and exploits by layering it back onto itself. Rather than exposing absences in the present by recourse to a future perspective, Mooney harnesses a magical strategy, using manifestation and repetition to force its readers to cheat a way out of their own cognitive entrapment. Unlike Debord who concedes that we must use the language of the spectacle, Mooney’s stance is that language is ours if we are aware of what it is, of what we are doing. For a reader to survive these worlds in which poetry, fantasy, speculation and game constellate and clash with each other, the subjunctive orientation of conventional reading—its retrospective, posthumous direction—must undergo extinction. After all: the future is now, and our participation in the game is not optional.'--Francis Gene-Rowe and Aodán McCardle, 'Control – Information – Resistance – Game: Stephen Mooney’s Antispectacular Poetry'