THE CRACKED SLAB

Dogcast 1

2012-01-28T10:00:00.000Z

Inspiring and atmospheric stuff.

This will be a weekly podcast of the Spoken Word, scheduled for release every Friday.

This episode features: Nick Cave, William S Burroughs, Steven Jesse Bernstein, Mark Todd, Alan Moore

and yours truly.

Over the weeks I aim to introduce listeners to new and emerging talent interspersed between existing bodies of work. It will be entertaining, engaging and is meant as a platform for one of the most undervalued (but vital) forms of entertainment around.

DOGCASTS!

2012-01-26T09:08:00.002Z

The editor of Dog Horn Publishing has asked me to undertake the task

of curating a weekly/monthly podcast (Dogcast).

I have accepted the invitation

and so

I am seeking submissions of poetry, prose, rants, rolls, friction, fiction, the weird, the insane,

the fucked, the mucked, both ugly and beautiful, let it flow, speak it to the beast, record it,

add some noise, send it in MP3 format - to me at: davemigman(at)yahoo(dot)co(dot)uk

If you need ideas please check out some stuff by Dog Horn Publishing, or check out Polluto, to get a better understanding what floats the boat.

There are no financial rewards, only eternal glory, a chance to promote your work, to raise

your fists from literate gutters and volley the airwaves with our unsightly tirades!

More Serpent Rose News

2012-01-18T21:43:00.001Z

After submitting the Serpent Rose Dog Horn Publishing has agreed to publish the book at the end of 2012. In the meantime they will to serialise certain parts as tasters. I am currently working on spoken word segments extracted from the text.

I am sure these segments will prove very interesting indeed, considering the nature of the text itself. I feel very strongly about this work.

The Serpent Rose

2012-01-15T16:21:00.000Z

I thought I would post some samples of one or two things I've been writing of late. The Editor of Dog Horn Publishing asked if I had anything for them and I spent part of my winter writing The Serpent Rose. It's a strange story, part fact, part friction, laced with lunacy, vampires and insight... stuff like :

"Inhale the root’s blood, arain of bodies like a fall of soot

break upon the ground – outthere I hear them, they are the echoes of the golden masked priests and womengripping their mother figurines. Frantically they frigg themselves with marblephallus’ to placate the angry mother, to halt her shaking womb… I can fuckingtaste their evanescence in the night, their molecules taint my tongue.

I lay there awake, my eyesclutch the darkness. There is no moon. I lay there and my hand strays to herside of the bed. She shrugs me off, irritating fly. By now I should knowbetter. By now I should not cross the line. I am sorry for caress, hungered bymy longing like a spike in the heart.

Closing my eyes I memorise herform, I can picture her working the tables, the way she balances the steamingplates of saganaki, hota, mousaka and carafesof white wine like a pro. Her musclesare silken, she moves with a fluidity, grace and poise.

with a

smile that blinds cupids

(binds fools to islands)

(floating in the sky)

where they do not belong!

A rift between us filled withcats, the wind sour through the eaves. Remembering the moment I fell throughher eyes. Raised on a rock of ledges above the ocean of sighs and screams, carvea tunnel to retreat the many faces that gawk down from moons and stars.

I reached the caverns heart -deep, dark some fossilised womb

curled like foetus, dreamtlike Brutus, occultus lupinus

to stick out the sun

again and again

so I might lord above

the ocean’s screaming fire

I thought I could sacrificemyself to you that I might surrender my beliefs upon your altar but themountain cracked beneath me, the ocean wave bellowed my name

and the serpent rose witheredin your name I thought in due course a gift for a gift

but now you waltz from mytouch

stick

me like a voodoo doll full oftiny holes

I tumble to my allottedquarters

crushed

serpent like"

The story weaves around the main character, Dan, who arrives on a volcanic island called Ioussa. He falls for a woman and becomes a resident, and his life begins to get very, very strange. The idea of the book was to provide a heady mix of prose, poetry and straight writing to create something a little different than the run of the mill genre fiction that packs the shop shelves.

Blaze Vox

2012-01-07T11:21:00.003Z

Stunning work in Issue 11 of Blaze Vox,

including a few poems of

mine they selected for the issue.

Well worth a read!

More Poems online

2011-12-13T15:02:00.000Z

I've not been sending so much poetry away these days (too busy writing), however what I have seems to be liked by various editors. You can find some at:

Poetry Scotland

2011-11-30T21:38:00.001Z

Media Virus 28

2011-11-07T17:35:00.002Z

Media Virus 28 is now out and my work is featured in the Editors Pick.

For your viewing there is a selection of art and word,

I'm very happy that they liked this work, as I've always had a predilection for combinations of medium - art/writing/word forms/noise/spoken word.

the link is:

MEDIA VIRUS

please browse the other authors work and my stuff is
HERE

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63 Channels

2011-05-25T23:10:00.001+01:00

Link to three of my poems in this online zine HERE

The Great Flood

2011-05-05T22:37:00.004+01:00

A video premiere!

I present to you....

Enjoy!

Murky Depths

2011-04-15T17:13:00.002+01:00

Terry Martin from Murky Depths just sent me a copy of Murky Depths issue 16 - great artwork, stories and comics throughout. I have an illustration in there too!

The Horror Zine

2011-04-15T17:10:00.002+01:00

The Horror Zine

put up a page of

my artwork here

many thanks to Jeani for that.

Virus', Ink, Sweat and Tears

2011-03-28T08:31:00.003+01:00

Dear Viewer

Yes you! Well Mr. Migman is back on line after a series of personal tragedies and and a virulent computer virus. So I'll be posting a bit more frequently and hope to get more stuff up in the noise section.

Got a poem in Ink, Sweat and Tears, go THERE to have a peek.

more soon!

Breadcrumb Scabs cover art!

2011-02-06T12:24:00.003Z

Breadcrumbs Scabs 26 is now available

with cover art by Mr. Migman

2011-02-05T10:17:00.003Z

Here is another poem at Chanterelle's Notebook

2011-02-05T10:01:00.002Z

Commonline published a wee poem of mine called

The Chef is Pissed - Get off the boat!

There's also a lot of very good work on their site, please have a look.

Media Virus Magazine

2010-12-13T10:44:00.003Z

Here's my poem

The Partisans

amongst a selection of other work by various writers.

Delinquent

2010-12-13T10:28:00.002Z

I've had a number of poems and rants in published in Delinquent over the years.

This is Issue 13

and I'm in it too

along with a host of other writers and poets.

2010-11-03T19:46:00.002Z

Posted something new

on the Noise Blog

The Art of The Dark

2010-10-31T09:02:00.003Z

DARK DELIVERIES FROM DOG HORN PUBLISHING

GUD

2010-09-28T14:39:00.003+01:00

Issue Six now out!

Literary fiction, poetry and art

and look at that cover!

Who did that?

Check it out right HERE

The Glasgow Review

2010-06-15T21:43:00.002+01:00

Two poems here:

Smile Be Wary

Twilight Candles

The Glasgow review is filled with poetry, articles and art so please do take the time to browse their site. Also note worthy there is David McLean, whose work never ceases to astound me.

ANGELIC DYNAMO

2010-06-15T21:29:00.001+01:00

My poem Stone Mad is up on Angelic Dynamo.

Take a LOOK

Dog Horn Publishing

2010-06-11T16:38:00.002+01:00

Ladies and Gentlemen!

THE WOLF IS OUT!

GET IT HERE

Breadcrumb Scabs Issue

2010-06-07T14:54:00.002+01:00

Got a poem called "Lying There" in Issue 18 of Breadcrumb Scabs. Available from LULU.com

HERE

Check out their Website

HERE

Lit Up Magazine

2010-06-07T14:47:00.001+01:00

Lit Up Magazine have published an art/poem of mine entitled "Closing Time" HERE

2010-05-20T21:50:00.002+01:00

2010-05-20T21:45:00.002+01:00

My first novel is out as POD from Lulu.

GET IT

HERE

2010-04-28T17:17:00.002+01:00

DARK HORSES

Dark Horses are

galloping

across the European quilt

kicking up clods

of pounded earth

the colour of blood

palaces of dust

for empires of rust

the aerial leeches

sucking up

each cultured tomb

buttress walls of fortress mind

buttery dawns of sunshine

island neo-acropolis

necropolis

the cracks are trees

the forest grows

Get ready for the WOLF!

2010-04-11T09:25:00.003+01:00

Here is the cover of my debut novella.

I designed the artwork and layout, though this isn't the finished article.

POLLUTO

2010-04-02T08:07:00.002+01:00

Here's a review of Polluto 2 by a happy customer.

You can hit the Polluto website here

Ganglion

2010-04-01T06:49:00.002+01:00

That's a damned fine word isn't it?

Here are some links to work that was published a number of years ago in Jeremy Hilton's FIRE magazine.

Don't Flow

Fine Day

Illustration

Eleutheria - Scottish Poetry Review

2010-03-11T09:42:00.002Z

This is a link to Eleutheria. They have some of my artwork and poetry here. Some good work there too.

Eleutheria

More Noise

2010-02-28T17:36:00.001Z

I've put another couple of posts here (spoken word and some music).

Tongue Tied

2010-02-21T13:54:00.004Z

I've recently added more things to my Noise and spoken word section - Ah - to hell with it! I'll put this here too.

A short but amusing animation I made today entitled Tongue Tied:

Neon

2010-02-11T13:32:00.002Z

I have two pieces published with Neon. The mag has a very nice look. There's a lot of good work in there.

Go there

The Future Starts now!... no NOW!... no...

2010-02-02T18:14:00.002Z

I've always been fascinated by animation. And by that I'm talking the world beyond Disney and Manga.

There's so much gutsy stuff out there (the likes of Jan Svankmajer especially). I am drawn toward the grotesque and the weird.

So Here is my first 23 second Stop motion animation. The whole thing concocted in an ad-hock and spontaneous manner on my living room table. Stills were taken using my Nikon D60.

The sound track is a recording of a local Greek Orthodox chapel. How the cat got in there I don't know.

Enjoy:

Recently published

2010-01-02T10:02:00.002Z

Here are two links for flashes of mine that have been published of late.

They are:

No One (and the IT) - at WeirdYear

And

Lug's Luck - at Everyday Weirdness

Please check out these sites as they publish a lot of good work.

The Wolf Stepped Out

2009-12-09T04:05:00.002Z

The news isn't so great.

Because of financial difficulties DOGHORN PUBLISHING have had to downscale their operations. This means The Wolf Stepped Out will be available as PRINT ON DEMAND only for the foreseeable future.

Please visit their site for further details.

Hallo

2009-12-09T04:00:00.002Z

This is the blog of Dave Migman - an artist and writer whose work fluctuates between hard-nosed reality and hallucinogenic mythology.

I messed around with the format a number of times but decided it is best to keep it simple. A single blog with links and information.

As work gets published I will add links to the side bar.

Okay. Here goes...