Anthems and Album Tracks [Flapjack Press, 2011] is the new poetry collection by Dr Dermot Glennon. It has been said his tragic and untimely birth in Downpatrick, Ireland, in 1972 robbed the world of one of its best loved person-shaped spaces. Educated in, amongst other places, his clothes, Dermot's first solo poetry collection, Songs of an Unprepossessing, Normal and Plain Character, was published by Knives Forks and Spoons Press in 2010. Poet, author, stand-up, Silver Stake Poetry Slam winner and hunter of scandal, Dermot is also co-author [w/Adam Irving] of poetry collection Karma Veranda (Mucusart Publications, 2003) & the short story collection [w/Paul Neads] Occam's Blunt Instrument (Mucusart Publications, 2007). Although he is possibly one of the greatest poets of the last century, by virtue of this being subjective and non-specific as to which one of the greatest, he has often been ignored and

Isn't It Just Like Talking Only More Shit?

Hi, my name's Dermot.
I write macabre poems
all about death.

This one's a haiku,
it's called: 'The Introduction',
it goes like this:

"Hi, my name's Dermot.
I write macabre poems
all about death."

from Anthems and Album Tracks

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Titles by Dermot Glennon

Occam's Blunt Instrument

Occam’s Razor would have us believe that the simplest explanation is usually the best - but is it?

If the face of a ghastly fiend suddenly appears in your mirror, do you book an appointment with the beauty therapist or the vicar? Ever had an out-of-body experience only to forget where you parked it? Have you ever worried about the chemicals they put into your homeopathic medicines and later been disappointed on looking up “hydrogen oxide” in a reference book? Or, perhaps, you have stared so intently into the darkness looking for ghosts that your eyes have gone funny and actually seen some.

If you are tired of the mundane and decidedly unsuper natural world then this collection of 23 short stories from Dermot Glennon and Paul Neads is the book is for you.

“Utterly superb! I savoured the sheer richness and splendour of the writing like a fine wine (not that I know anything of fine wine),” Marvin Cheeseman

“Razor sharp,” Salford Advertiser

"Short sweet and to a very obtuse point, these short stories had me laughing out loud. Just the right size to digest a quick one over your break, I cannot recommend it highly enough," Dr Christophe M. Turner, amazon.co.uk

“I laughed out loud more than once and smiled quite a lot too. It deserves to be a huge success,” Helên Thomas

“Reminds me of the great Alan Sillitoe,” Tony Curry

“The most insanely convoluted explanation is usually the most amusing”

History records that William de Ockham (Occam as he is now known) stated “Pluralitas non est ponenda sine neccesitate”, in what came to be known as Occam’s Razor - a hugely influential tool to the philosopher. This is normally paraphrased in translation as “The simplest explanation (i.e. the one that makes the fewest assumptions) is the one most likely to be true”. Tragically, he is not recorded as having stated that “The most insanely convoluted explanation is by far the most entertaining”, in what didn’t come to be known as Occam’s Blunt Instrument.
Furthermore, if Aesop was alive today, hadn’t written his well known fables and had instead written sarcastic para-parables, this is almost certainly the collection that he would have written. The facts that he isn’t, he had, he hadn’t and this is almost certainly not the collection that he wrote, have meant that the world of creative writing has lost this treasure trove of literary gems forever… Until now.
Were one to apply Occam’s Razor to the reported phenomena discussed in this book, one would ascribe all of them to the implausible, unverifiable ravings of cranks and dismiss them as pure nonsense. By applying the logic of Occam’s Blunt Instrument, Paul Neads and Dermot Glennon have instead proven them to be genuine phenomena with perfectly logical (if entirely refutable) rational explanations; the simplest thing to do when faced with New Age alternative medicines, superstitions and conspiracy theories would be to debunk them. Instead, the authors attempt the more difficult task of actually bunking them.
Each of these stories follows the simple pattern: listen to clearly erroneous claims made by backwoods weirdoes and notoriety-seeking freaks, pick up the ball and run with it (i.e. fervently believe what they are saying to be true), give a scarcely credible explanation for the phenomenon and finally descend into almost vitriolic sarcasm towards the end of the tale.
By this means, we hope to demonstrate that the truth is not always worth a rat’s ass.

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• ISBN 9780954281663
• Publisher Flapjack Press
• Genre Short Fiction
• Extent 120pp

Anthems and Album Tracks

Open the door of this book and step into the universe of Dermot Glennon, and you may not be able to get out again. You may not want to. You may want to get help. Arranged in broadly thematic chapters with style guide introductions and explanations of the underlying ideas and philosophies that led to the writing of the poems within, this book also benefits from a design that fits most standard bookshelves and coffee tables.

Dermot Glennon was born in air and educated in, amongst other places, his clothes. Although he is possibly one of the greatest poets of the last century, by virtue of this being subjective and non-specific as to which one of the greatest, he has often been ignored and

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"Dermot's poetry is like a horror film. You want to hide but you can't stop yourself looking" - Rod Tame, Write Out Loud

"A mystery ranging from everywhere to nowhere, calling for an intelligent open mind. Funny, hard and relatable" - Lauren Bolger, Paradox

"Dermot Glennon's writing is like a picture by Escher, only funnier. Behind the formal mastery and strong sense of order lies real depth, sometimes constructed from a cleverly realised unreality. And when the harlequin mask is occasionally dropped the illusion is punctured by a startling emotional honesty" - Simon Rennie, Inn Verse

Isn't It Just Like Talking Only More Shit?

Hi, my name's Dermot.
I write macabre poems
all about death.

This one's a haiku,
it's called: 'The Introduction',
it goes like this:

"Hi, my name's Dermot.
I write macabre poems
all about death."

from Anthems and Album Tracks

Price £6.50

Details

• ISBN 9780955509292
• Publisher Flapjack Press
• Genre Poetry
• Extent 112pp