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Lit Up / Fevers of the Mind

4/12/2022

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I'm one of the headline readers at Lit Up on Thursday 21st May, a poetry night with a difference: encouraging performers to read a mix of their own work and poems by poets they love and admire. Join us online and grab one of the open mic slots too.

Also, I'm thrilled to announce that Fevers Of The Mind has invited me to become a regular contributor, one of their "wolfpack". Many thanks to editor David O'Nan for the invitation.

Here's the first entry, three short extracts from my new book, All This Light In Which To See The Dead: Pandemic Journals 2020-21. Look out for more each month over the next year.
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THING 4-way split album out now

4/3/2022

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Just released from German experimental music label Attenuation circuit: THING, 4-way split album featuring the DARDIS track 'impoverished floating'.

Available on digital download and limited edition CDr.

Big thanks to Sascha Stadlmeier for having me as part of the series.

Also recently released is the compilation MONOLITHIC BLOCKS from French label Camembert Électrique: Synthetic Iron Restrore I is track 44 on the album
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RTE Lyric FM Poetry File

3/30/2022

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Many thanks to RTÉ Lyric FM for having me on their Poetry File segment this past weekend, in association with Poetry Ireland. I read my poem "While You're Free" and talked a bit about the piece, regarding illness and the expectations of working life. Big thanks also to Eithne Hand for inviting me to take part. A second poem will featured in the segment on June 4th.
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New prose collection, 'All This Light In Which To See The Dead', out March 9th

2/23/2022

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From Rancid Idols Productions

Written at the height of the worldwide pandemic, 'All This Light In Which To See The Dead' is part journal, part memoir, part essay collection.

As much a diary of thoughts and reflections as day-to-day events, the collection sees the author trying to make sense of ‘the new normal’, experiencing the isolation of lockdown through the prism of depression and Asperger’s.

Faced with so many dying from coronavirus, and the fear of death everywhere, the author is forced to confront this own relationship with death, as well as the passing of his father four years previous. Mixed in with reaction to the developing news and daily death counts, Dardis reflects on childhood reminiscences, family, mortality and the apparent joys of middle age.

For enquires and reviews, please contact rancididols [at] mail [dot] com


Pre-order on Amazon
Read the Foreword  |  Read a sample chapter

The book will also be available via other platforms soon.
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Artwork pamphlets available via Gumroad

2/23/2022

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Want some strange art stuff in your life?
You can download two e-pamphlets of artwork (paintings, doodles, drawings, ink sketches), Many Headed and Cartoon Truffle, from Gumroad, for free/pay-what-you-want.
Enjoy!

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January '22 round-up

1/31/2022

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In 2021, I decided to take a break (mostly) from submitting poems, and concentrate on a few book projects, as well as other areas of my life. January 2022 has already made up for that self-imposed lull, with six poems in four publications:

Poetry Super Highway: The Astonished Backseat of '86
Class Collective: Daguerrotype
Fevers of the Mind: So You Want To Earn Some Self Respect?
Word City Lit: Lost Stranger / Consensual / A Purpose For Ice

Also, on the sounds front, there is a new DARDIS release coming from Attenuation Circuit, as part of their newly-launched THING series. This will be a four-way split album: four artists, one track each of approx. 12 minutes. This should be out late-February / early March, more details soon...

[Additionally, I'm giving a quick shout out to Listiller for its useful directory of writing gigs, cheers!]
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News round-up, October '21

10/31/2021

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Been a while since I last posted, so here's a quick round up of news...

  • New collection Endless Flower out now from Rancid Idols Productions.
  • Also on RIP, a new EP collected from various projects, Projections.
  • 1tracktape releases a new track from artists on the new moon of each month, as part of their New Moon showcase. My long-form piece 'Back To Work' was released on October 6th (appropriately enough, my birthday!).
  • Poem 'Sheep Dip' was announced as a semi-finalist in Cultural Daily's The Jack Grapes Poetry Prize, 2021
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Fly On The Wall Press Summer Festival

6/17/2021

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I'm reading as part of Fly on the Wall Press's Summer Festival, on Saturday 3rd July, online via Zoom. Loads of great authors from morning to evening, a day long extravaganza of eclectic expositions! I'll be on from 5.05-5.25pm.
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New remix track out today

6/16/2021

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KLEPSYDRA: DITTY ODE 02 is a remix of an original track by melophobia, as part of Default Standard Records' ongoing Ditty Ode series.

Mimicking melophobia's reproduction of sounds from a water clock, I looked elsewhere to see how water could sound: travelling through the pipes in a broken radiator, rainfall heard through a skylight, a shower in a forest. The original track had already provide a barrelful of sound; I wanted to cause ripples on the surface of the water, to slow everything down and revel in each drop.

The track is avaiable for free download via DSR's Bandcamp page.
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New Album forthcoming...

6/6/2021

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​I've a new album of dadaesque glitch-music coming out later this month from Default Standard Records.

'Fluxus Incapacitated' is a collection of ten experiments, exploring the idea of a treated vinyl, i.e. an anti-record.

​Many thanks to Dimitris of 1tracktape and for the support of Arts Council of Northern Ireland  for making this possible.
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