They have included one of my poems in a poetry Anthology published to raise money to rebuild a bookshop that was attacked last year. If you can, get a copy of Donate a Poem for Freedom, a campaign set up to raise funds for Freedom Bookshop after the 2013 firebomb attack.
The poets are a mix of the well known and the new, from award winners to students.
Posted by Joanne Dyer on Saturday, April 27, 2013,
One of my childhood heroes, Gibraltarian musician and composer Denis Valerga has written some beautiful arrangements for "No one can reach us here," Check it out!
After a very successful launch of "The Hollow Tortoise," we are very happy to announce that the first edition of the book published by Orion Contemporary is nearly sold out. It was a short edition but we did not expect so much good feedback and support. The last copies can be bought from the poetry page on this website.
I am now working on a new collection based on bedroom conversations concerning our experience of otherness and the Self. I am also busy running some new nights of music like Th... Continue reading ...
Videos edited by Oscar Sanchez Velasco featuring poems from the upcoming collection, "The Hollow Tortoise" and musical performances by Joe Wilkes, Simon Stanley Ward, Jason McNiff and Trent Miller.
Posted by Gabriel Moreno on Saturday, June 30, 2012,
Nick Murray talks to me about the poetry and music event on the 12th of July, Slaughtered Lamb and the upcoming poetry collection, "The Hollow Tortoise."
Our first night as hosts was an emotional, hilarious, profound, chaotic,
class, deranged and inspiring affair. It was Ben and Jack´s last stance and they opened the night and our senses as a duo. Their songs were like
an early trance of fine musicianship, raw emotion and dreamy landscapes. At one
point I looked beside me and saw Simon awestruck, his tongue sticking out like
a wounded animal. “That is truly awesome,” he commented. I couldn’t but agree.
We carried ourselves on to the s...
Posted by Joanne Dyer on Saturday, April 14, 2012,
I met Simon during an oneiric night of music and bewilderment and after
engaging in conversation and other forms of dissolution we decided to
jam, finding ourselves some hours later, in a recording session,
arranging a track for an album of covers for the musical blog, LA Voz
Telúrica (Spain). Above is part of our session.
Posted by Gabriel Moreno on Monday, March 19, 2012,
On the 14th of March I lived one of those dreamy nights of poetry which make it all worthwhile. Surrounded by the artwork of Orion contemporary's second ‘edition’ of Contemporary Printmaking, an exhibition promoting printmaking as an art form and celebrating the importance of the medium, I was drawn to become a better version of myself. Here are some of the poems written for the event.
Last Sunday, I was invited by the Women_Mujeres Spanish Film festival to recite some poems in the closing night! I was extremely happy to share some verses and celebrate the feminine side! I am what they the maenads made me! Here are some of the poems I recited.
Posted by Joanne Dyer on Sunday, February 19, 2012,
One of the first books I read at school was, "No one writes to the colonel" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. The book narrates the story of a retired soldier who spends his life waiting for a pension fund letter that will never come. I suppose this stuck in my mind and laid the founding stones of this little track recorded at my good friend's home-studio, thanks Paul.
Posted by Gabriel Moreno on Monday, February 6, 2012,
Chapter 1
The first thing he felt was the cold; the humid cold that penetrates your bones and camps there. No place
for fear. The millenary stones were emanating too fiercely. Jeremy thought they
must have been storing Mediterranean winters for hundreds of years to then
release the whole damn chill in a go. Damn stones! Damn Moors who built them!
Damn Brits who decide to erect a prison exploiting the remains of a Moorish
castle!
They could at least have raised new walls! -thought Jeremy.
Posted by Gabriel Moreno on Wednesday, January 4, 2012,
Colaboraciones de grupos emergentes del panorama Indie en España. La
compilación consiste en ocho temas basados en el título del Blog, “ La Voz
Telúrica.”
Song released in the album of the musical blog, “La Voz
Telúrica.” Eight bands from the emerging Spanish Indie scene collaborate in
this compilation CD with eight tracks based on the blog’s name, “La Voz
Telúrica.”
Posted by Joanne Dyer on Saturday, October 8, 2011,
Estos días, Omicrón publica una
plaquette con diez de mis poemas titulado, "El árbol de mi
muerte". Los poemas están dedicados a diez personas que me han ayudado en
la literatura y en la vida durante los últimos cinco años. Sin duda han habido
muchos otros y otras que me ayudan y me ayudaron en su momento. A esos les
dedico mis pensamientos. Aquí os dejo una muestra de mis intentos de
versificar pensamientos y intuiciones. Espero que no os desagrade.
Posted by Gabriel Moreno on Saturday, April 16, 2011,
Reproduced as published in The Gibraltar Chronicle - Thursday 7th April, 2011.
Gabriel Moreno’s Identidad y Deseo(Identity and Desire) represents his collected poems written
between 2006 and 2010.The poems
contained in this impressive volume range over a wide number of topics; they
express his tentative exploration of the poetic tradition he inherited as a
bilingual Gibraltarian, culminating in his more recent poems where he has
achieved a clear sense of his own artistic identity.
Posted by Gabriel Moreno on Saturday, March 5, 2011,
My first phone interview, actually my first interview full-stop, enjoy it might be the last!! Jonathan Sacramento asks me some questions on my book, "Identidad Y Deseo." Aired on Gibraltar Radio on Friday 4th March.
Posted by Gabriel Moreno on Monday, February 28, 2011,
The book, "Identidad y Deseo," a collection of my five books of
poetry published in Barcelona is now available for purchase at Book
Shops in Gibraltar. Bell Books, now known as Midtown Books, Bell Lane is
the first destination!!
If anyone is interested in getting a copy, just pop by!!!
Posted by Gabriel Moreno on Saturday, February 19, 2011,
Roco Allstar and his quest for unique musical and artistic talent come together in the acclaimed Music Critique blog, La Voz Telúrica. Reaching more than 6000 monthly visits from all over the world, it has become a favorite amongst Indie listeners searching for new talent, interviews, concert information and knowledgeable unbiased opinions on the world of Indie music in Spain and the world. This week La Voz Telúrica kindly reviewed my new work in progress: All the things that we did wrong b... Continue reading ...
Posted by Gabriel Moreno on Saturday, February 5, 2011,
Nuevo
tema esta vez en colaboración con el proyecto "Se lo dije a la
noche", del poeta burgalés
(castellano) Juan Carlos García Hoyuelos, adaptando a la canción una de
las poesías en inglés, cuyo título es "Two coffees", traducida
por Charles Durante, a petición del Government of Gibraltar (Ministry
of Culture). El nuevo trabajo será publicado en abril, 69 poesías escritas en
castellano y todas traducidas por un transcriptor diferente a las
distintas lenguas ibéricas (portugués...
Posted by Gabriel Moreno on Wednesday, September 1, 2010,
I have always had the impression that there
are two main roads to artistic enlightenment: one consisting of stoic
containment and asceticism and the other requiring you to indulge in all
possible means of excess. Being 33 years of age and having exceeded, by six
years, the age for a fulfilling and momentous creative outburst through
unfiltered abuse and debauchery...
Posted by Gabriel Moreno on Saturday, August 28, 2010,
Every one knows that in order to write a
good song one must inhabit, at least for a short spell, a rainy country. I was
rather upset at first, England is quite dry in July but fortunately the August
showers brought the world back to its place and I found myself there, behind
the window-pane embraced to my Japanese Takamine, listening to the tears of the
Nordic Gods ...
Posted by Gabriel Moreno on Monday, July 26, 2010,
Like in any
other small business sector, musical promotion aims for the expansion of the
market of potential customers. Those of us involved in the insane venture of
music, flock the social networks, clubs and other areas of human interaction
with leaflets, posters, blogs, mp3s and any other forms of self-advertisement.
Due to the expansion of the Internet and other...
Posted by Gabriel Moreno on Sunday, July 25, 2010,
We are what we seem and also what we do. London is a fascinating place
for listening and playing music, everyone is into it, everyone knows
England could not have survived without music. As I went into the
Powers Bar and saw the posters of Billy Bragg, Luca Bloom and Iggy Pop
I knew I was in the right place and I knew perhaps that night I could
be who I had dreamt to be. Potentiality was augmented through the vibe
of a space for drunks and music-lovers.
The first song I played was wish Impos... Continue reading ...
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