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Sunday, March 08, 2026

Review of Eight Memoranda

Irish critic Billy Mills’s review of Eight Memoranda at Elliptical Movements:

https://ellipticalmovements.wordpress.com/2025/12/15/recent-reading-december-2025-a-bumper-yuletide-special/

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Poetry collections: Eight Memoranda (Adjunct Press, 2025), Tropospheric Clouds (Adjunct Press, 2020), The Muddy Banks (Ghost City Press, 2016), Future Blues (Salmon Poetry, 2012), Ancestor Worship (Salmon Poetry, 2007). Prose books: Death Trip: Iggy and the Stooges, 1972–74 (Reaktion Books, 2026), The Music and Noise of the Stooges, 1967-71: Lost in the Future (Routledge, 2022).
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Death Trip: Iggy and the Stooges, 1972–74

Death Trip: Iggy and the Stooges, 1972–74
(Reaktion Books, 2026)

The Music and Noise of the Stooges, 1967-71: Lost in the Future

The Music and Noise of the Stooges, 1967-71: Lost in the Future
(Routledge, 2022)

Eight Memoranda

Eight Memoranda
(Adjunct Press, 2025)

Tropospheric Clouds

Tropospheric Clouds
(Adjunct Press, 2020)

The Muddy Banks

The Muddy Banks
(Ghost City Press, 2016)

Future Blues

Future Blues
(Salmon Poetry, 2012)

Ancestor Worship

Ancestor Worship
(Salmon Poetry, 2007)

Some Poems Online

  • A Trans-Historical Interview between Poets (after the Irish text Immacallam an Dá Thuarad)
  • The Ewes at Imbolc
  • Two Poems at Trasna
  • A Triplex Unity
  • Three Poems at swifts & s l o w s
  • Owners
  • Tree Ogham
  • Between Two Fires
  • Palindrome: A Torpor / A Torrent
  • Palindrome IX
  • Under Green Light
  • Baseball
  • The Traitor’s Flag
  • Four Poems at Live Encounters
  • Two Poems at Rabid Oak
  • Four Poems at Empty Mirror
  • Six Poems at Empty Mirror
  • Two Poems at Anti-Heroin Chic
  • Horace Pippin, Holy Mountain IV
  • Homage to Muriel Rukeyser
  • Blues for Tomorrow
  • Six untitled poems from a series
  • Manifesto
  • Beautiful People
  • The Fluctuations
  • Submerged Town Reappears
  • Dithyramb
  • Bat
  • Three Poems at Anvil Tongue
  • At the Grave of Josh Gibson
  • Uptown, Pittsburgh
  • 1877 Point Bridge
  • Three Poems in Otoliths
  • Two Poems in Poets for Living Waters

Certain Items of Note

  • Begnal Interview by rob mclennan
  • Begnal Interview on WYEP, Nov. 2012 (audio)
  • Begnal-Edited Irish-Language Supplement on Free Verse site

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