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Sodom / New Sodom @ Bandcamp

The 26-copy lettered limited edition of SODOM / NEW SODOM, releasing April 1st, is now available for pre-order over at my new Bandcamp page. There's a 15% discount code for Patreon sponsors, so if yer signed up there but missed the latest post, head over to get my wee thanks for all yer support. If yer not signed up there, well, I'll be looking to give my Patreon peeps such discounts on any

New Sodom

Bring me the
light the fire of angel's tongues

     in severed heads held high

     a burning halo in each fist

     a balanced scales of seraph skulls

     the murderers of my mother city

     Sodom's genocide avenged

Bring me the
light the fire the scorching curse

     of jackbooted archangel ethnic cleansers

     Gabriel and Michael

     still aflicker in their jaws agape

     as

Sodom / New Sodom

As promised, more details on this:









Bring me New Sodom! Bring it! Bring it on!     where shall we phoenix cuckoos     hatch in fire a city spilling out of us     weavework of nest wiring the world          Where?               Here!          Out of oblivion!               Sodom returns!

from "New Sodom"




Table of Contents



Sodom
Nec Spe Nec Metu
Sandy Hook
Your Nick Cave Break Up

From Scotland With Love Reading

From Scotland With Love from Hal Duncan on Vimeo.

From Scotland With Love

(For Joseph Charles MacKenzie)



MacKenzie, you poor man's McGonagall,

rank mediocrity of wank and shite

that Burns wid ca' a bawheid's doggerel,

Ah'll spit a rhyme for ye: Ye cannae write.



A decorated poet? Aye! A dick

drawn on yer foreheid wi an inky wid

be fine and fitting, a humungous prick

and fuckin big block capitals: NAE GUID!



Naw, wait! Fuck drawing! Wi black biro and

a

Coming Soon

Details presently.

New Sodom (view) from Hal Duncan on Vimeo.

New Sodom (view) from Hal Duncan on Vimeo.

On Identity Politics

If you're a Leftist even thinking in terms of "identity politics" you need to ask yourself: Would you lump all activism on homelessness, drug and alcohol related causes, mental health related issues, battered womens' shelters, LGBT youth kicked out of the family home, squatter culture, Roma and traveller issues, refugee housing, and suchlike as "indigency politics"? Would you then emblematise

The Butcher's Boy

Butcher's Boy from Hal Duncan on Vimeo.

A wee treat for Halloween! For access to hours more readings of stories & poems, sponsor me on Patreon for as little as a dollar. Sonnets! Scruffians! Sodomy! Stuff! All of it free to see to patrons, with downloadables available for a few more bucks, even collector's edition quarterly chapbooks for the true champions among yez. Step right up!

Testament

Praise for VELLUM:

"Overwhelming in its complexity, sumptuous in its recitation, this is a truly monumental work."

-- The Good Book Guide

What you have been taught, lover of the sublime, is a lie that made you live a lie...

In the 21st century, a scalpel slices bible pages, passages spliced to restore lost truth. In the days of King Herod, the messias rises, calling to black sheep: walk