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Dirty Mondays: “High Windows” by Philip Larkin
High Windows When I see a couple of kids And guess he’s fucking her and she’s Taking pills or wearing a diaphragm, I know this is the paradise Everyone old has dreamed of all their lives— Bonds and...
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Dirty Mondays: “Feeling Fucked Up” by Etheridge Knight
Lord she’s gone done left me done packed up and split and I with no way to make her come back and everywhere the world is bare bright bone white crystal sand glistens dope death dead dying and jiving...
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Dirty Mondays: “The Breasts of Mnasidice” by Pierre Louÿs
Pierre Louÿs was quite a one, and is an old favourite of Bookkake. He was among a number of writers we seriously considered but ultimately didn’t include in the first Bookkake set. An intimate of Gide...
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Dirty Mondays: “The Love That Dares To Speak Its Name” by James Kirkup
For Easter Monday, possibly the most controversial poem of recent decades: James Kirkup’s “The Love That Dares To Speak Its Name”. When it was first published in Gay News in 1976, it caused a furore...
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Dirty Mondays: Byron’s “Love and Death”
Yesterday was the 185th anniversary of the irrepressible Lord Byron’s death at Missolonghi from a violent fever as he prepared to assault Lepanto. Byron’s love for Greece – the attack on the Ottoman...
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Dirty Mondays: “Aphrodite” by John Hall Wheelock
It’s a cold, wet day in London today, and John Hall Wheelock’s poem of the snow-cold sea, the dawn-light and the wind seems to let a little brightness in, despite its insistence on stillness and...
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Dirty Mondays: “I Love Sensual Women” by Daniil Kharms
W took a little hiatus last week, so we thought we’d better give you something good to make up for it. Daniil Kharms was one of the more extraordinary members of the St Petersburg literary scene of...
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Dirty Mondays: “The Hairy Prospect, or The Devil In A Fright”
One more gem from The Amethyst, reviving Bookkake’s Dirty Monday poetry tradition: The Hairy Prospect, or The Devil In A Fright Once on a time the Sire of Evil In plainer English called the devil Some...
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Dirty Mondays: Catullus 16
Brought to mind by a recent court case, and with thanks to Julian at Sybawrite, Bookkake’s Dirty Monday Poem returns for a special one-off. “City boss denies lewd latin claim” goes the BBC headline,...
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Dirty Mondays: Cock up yer Beaver
Beavers – the aquatic, tree-felling, dam-building rodent – are currently being reintroduced to Scotland, as related in a long article in this Sunday’s Observer, and not without controversy. The...
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