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Yes that's from the same album: "20th Century Paddy – The Songs Of Shane MacGowan", due for release in November. Tom Waits is doing a cover of "Summer In Siam". Just heard the Springsteen cover, it's beautiful - he actually sounds a lot like early Tom Waits on this track.

Hey Pogue Mahone, I agree that his latest song "Boots on the ground" is certainly not his best, it sounds more like an outtake from Bone Machine. He's going to be covering a song of Shane McGowan for a tribute album due in November, that might be more interesting. The link you shared is a cover...

This issue of Amelia carries Bukowski's complete twelve-poem "Dark Night Poem" sequence (#1–#12). From checking the database it looks like nine of them appear nowhere else. Uncollected, with no book, no manuscript, and no other magazine appearance on record. Dark Night Poem #1, #2, #3, #4, #5...

I totally agree with you Hannah, I hear you. It's both a blessing and a curse. I use Claude for my work and it solves technical issues, but it only works after training, trial and error. It has nothing to do with truth or beauty as it has no soul nor a point of view, luckily a lot of humans...

Long Shot Vol. 4 (1986) arrived — and like Vol. 3, it isn't in the bukowskidb database yet, so this adds a missing issue. The Bukowski contribution runs pp. 105–112: four poems and a letter. None of the poems has a magazine appearance on record, so this is the first source logged for them. The...

Long Shot vol. 4 (1986) arrived in the mail today. It contained a poem by Tom Waits titled Rainville and a poem by his wife and songwriting partner Kathleen Brennan titled "The Knit Picker". Tom's poem contains lyrics from "Blow Wind Blow", a song that would appear on the album "Frank's Wild...

Hi and welcome! I'm a big fan of Tom Waits too. I recently found out that Waits and Bukowski had both published poems in two of the same issues of Long Shot magazine. Here are pictures of the Waits and Kathleen Brennan poems in Long Shot vol 3 (1984). Waits recited the Heartbreak Hotel poem when...

I've scanned my copy of "Charles Bukowski & Alpha Beat Press" (Alpha Beat Press, 1994) — the chapbook gathering Bukowski's appearances in Dave & Ana Christy's Alpha Beat Press magazines (Alpha Beat Soup, Cokefish, Bouillabaisse) across 1988–1994. It collects 18 poems, and a good number of them...

Eliot Katz and Dan Shot both have a couple of poems in there too. Katz has some of Bukowski's style and swagger in his poetry. There's a poem called "The race of the heart" that has Bukowski's symbolism in it (horse racing) yet still holds a style of his own. Dan Shot's poems are nice too, in a...

Long Shot Vol. 3 (1984) arrived in the mail and vol. 4 is underway. Also great that these issues have a few poems by Tom Waits in them. The book is a bit fragile so I made photo's rather than try to squeeze it onto the scanner. It isn't in the bukowskidb database yet, so this adds a missing...

Nothing wrong with a healthy dose of admiration and sharing great anecdotes... 😀 I really like the unpublished poem the sadness which sometimes pierces, by the way. For some reason it resonates and really moves me everytime I read it. It deserves to be published or get more readers imho.

I aaked Claude in which ways the database can be updated in one go instead of 400 times seperately for each poem, these are the options according to his answer: I've got direct UAB page-scan links for the Bukowski poems in The Wormwood Review — 406 of 407 with an exact page link, the rest...

I've scanned my copy of A Poet #5 (1983), which carries six Bukowski poems. Two appear to be uncollected with no other appearance on record — no book, no manuscript, no other magazine in the database. As far as I can tell, they only appear in A Poet #5: "War All The Time" (db #3860) — the poem...

Just put Claude to work again to create files that are easier to use for a database import, I really hope this contributes something to the forum and saves you time and work. I'll think about how we can use more of this to build on the database if you're up for it, if there are ideas just let...