Larry Beckett

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New website now at LarryBeckett.com

This tumblr website is now here only for archive purposes. To see the latest books, events and other news please visit LarryBeckett.com

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Where are you spending your Fourth of July? Eight years ago, in 2015, Larry celebrated Independence Day in England — as a featured guest at the acclaimed Ledbury Poetry Festival, where he performed an excerpt from “Paul Bunyan,”. Some might call that irony, others might see the act itself as a piece of poetry.

You can decide for yourself — the performance has been archived at LedburyPoetry. Larry starts at 26:13, but listen from the beginning which starts with George Wallace who has a voice that resonates.

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Larry Beckett – Howl at the Beat Museum (Tape) – Soundohm

**  Limited edition of 50 ** An excellent extended reading by Tim Buckley's lyricist Larry Beckett of and about Allen Ginsberg's Howl.

Howl at the Beat Museum. Live performance by Larry Beckett at the museum in San Francisco. Another cassette recording! Available through SoundOhm.

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A Unique and Bespoke Object

A cassette tape of the 2022 London performance by Larry Beckett & Stuart Anthony now available on the Dutch label Counter Culture Chronicles. Find it through bandcamp or Soundohm

Stuart Anthony

Stuart Anthony. 260 likes · 3 talking about this. Stuart Anthony is a singer/songwriter working with Tim Buckley lyricist & American poet La

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The Life of a Song: ‘Song to the Siren’

"To the ancient Greeks, they were hybrid creatures, part bird, part woman, who lured sailors to their death with the spell of their music. In 1967, singer and songwriter Tim Buckley and poet and lyricist Larry Beckett paid tribute to those deathly seducers with 'Song to the Siren,' a haunting ode to doomed love whose story is the stuff of pop legend.” David Cheal Financial Times APRIL 22 2016 Full article here: https://tinyurl.com/ycvs324p

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Rockin' with the beats

Imagine our delight when, on a regular visit to the official Allen Ginsberg website [allenginsberg.org], we read this: <<check out also Stuart Anthony and Larry Beckett’s 2022 version of Mirabeau Bridge (“Le Pont Mirabeau”)>> Thanks, https://www.facebook.com/therealallenginsberg!

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Simon Warner shared an email postcard from UK guitarist Stuart Anthony who, in June, was in London for a live gig with Larry and then in Paris to visit the inspiration for the Apollinaire poem that gives the duo’s most recent album release Mirabeau Bridge its Gallic title… To read that postcard, head to https://simonwarner.substack.com/p/correspondence-7-stuart-anthony * * * #poetry #beatpoetry #guillaumeapollinaire @instapollinaire

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on writing American Cycle

Beat Soundtrack #20: Larry Beckett

In which prominent Beat figures, writers and critics, historians and academics, fans and followers, talk about the relationship between that

“After writing most of the long poems of American Cycle and contemplating writing a beginning and ending, I thought of when I was rolling down the freeway back into Los Angeles after years away, and how those old off-ramp names — Sepulveda, Sunset, Figueroa — had stayed in my memory, like the names of rivers a century before. These highways are our rivers. And then from On the Road I took the image of the American driver and imagined him going north on Highway 1, and then west on Route 66, along the way encountering the next nexus, where history, legend, and song mysteriously cross, and I had US Rivers, to start and finish the epic.”

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kind words

Mutual admiration society: Larry praised Marc Zegan's newly published book, Lyon Street, and Marc praised Larry. "Larry Beckett, perhaps best known for his songwriting gifts, is a mythic poet of ground shaking proportion. He reaches deeply into the lives of gods, sirens, epic heroes, and magical figures who open pathways between the material world and more subtle realms. He makes present the mythos and epic literature at the heated core of the western tradition, the bohemian freedom of the 19th and early 20th century, and the near boundless scope of the real and imagined American West." -Marc Zegans

Lyon Street availabe now.

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Beat Soundtrack #20: Larry Beckett

In which prominent Beat figures, writers and critics, historians and academics, fans and followers, talk about the relationship between that

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kind words

"Celebrated American poet and noted rock lyricist Larry Beckett, who has always acknowledged his debt to the Beat writers, has a new and rather fine album on the shelves. Mirabeau Bridge pays tribute to French writer Apollinaire and the city of Paris more generally. The 14-track collection is a collaboration with the British singer-songwriter Stuart Anthony. Rock and the Beat Generation turns up the stereo. And note that this transatlantic pairing can be seen and heard live in London on June 24th, 2022." - Simon Warner

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Traverse le pont!

Larry Beckett and Stuart Anthony’s new album ‘Mirabeau Bridge’ produced by Paul Walmsley has just been released, 8 April 2022.

If you love Paris, poetry, and musical variety, then this album is for you.

Based on the work ‘Alcools’ by the lauded French early 20th Century Poet Guillaume Apollinaire, the album also includes a cover of Time Buckly and Larry Beckett’s song ‘Moulin Rouge’ and Larry’s own stroll through Paris ‘Sonnet 34′.

CD/digital album available on Bandcamp and streaming on your favorite streaming site.

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The Orchard has released Larry's audio performances of the long poems that constitute American Cycle. You can access the ten performances on Spotify, Apple Music, iHeart, and anywhere else where you go to download music. Just go to your favorite online music store, search Larry Beckett, and the options should pop up!

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The "biggest" book from American Cycle, available in paperback with a CD of the author reading the entire poem. On deep sale today, March 21, 2022. Almost half off, through Amazon.

Paul Bunyan [Larry Beckett] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Paul Bunyan

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BBC Radio 4 - Poetry Please, Larry Beckett

This week's guest is Larry Beckett.

Mark your calendar -- Larry will be featured on yet another @bbc 4 radio program. (You caught his episode of Soul Music this past December, right? If not, listen to the archive -- you'll find a link at americancycle.us) The legendary Roger McGough welcomes Larry onto his show this Sunday, January 9, 2022. Larry performs, among other pieces, his poems "Blue Ridge" and "John Lennon," as well as his translation of Guillaume Apollinaire's "Mirabeau Bridge" and the Gerard Manley Hopkins innovative classic, "That Nature is a Heraclitean Fire and of the Comfort of the Resurrection." The show will be available for download from https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00138rw

#poets #poetry #beatpoetry #beatgeneration #blueridgemountains #johnlennon @gerard_manley_hopkins @gerardmanleyhopkins #gerardmanleyhopkins #guillaumeapollinaire @instapollinaire

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1967: The Year in 50 Classic Rock Albums - Best Classic Bands

It was the year that the rock album came of age, with timeless releases from the Beatles, Dylan & Stones alongside newcomers Jimi Hendrix, t

One the list - Goodbye and Hello. Tim Buckley

"...ornate, expansive masterwork that revealed its creator to be way more than just another troubadour with a guitar. The title track is brilliant, as was the single “Morning Glory.” Lyrics of both title track and Morning Glory by Larry Beckett.

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The Anti-Explainer Insight of “Soul Music”

For more than two decades, the show has explored how memory, association, and sentiment create a song’s meaning.

The New Yorker ran a nice piece last week about @bbc Radio 4 "Soul Music" show, including some nice words about our episode on "Song to the Siren." Post Date: December 11, 2021