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My poems sk and Lambeth have now been published in Issue 69 of Tears In The Fence.

button up shirt collar
starched to a stiffness
ensuing past asphyxia

an elbow’s depth
he cannot swallow
life’s gristle   […]

Three lines from each. I don’t tend to submit multiple poems to publications, just because I feel that any links are cumulative rather than standalone in terms of my own writing. These poems will be featured as part of a collaborative project which will only come to light in the significantly far future. Lambeth is not the place, taken from a bus stop which is a place, but not.

The magazine is only available in print, so there isn’t a page I can link to with the full poems, but if you want 174 pages of creative content the option is there. You can find me on page 77, which makes me very happy as it seems like a nice number. Other pages I like are… actually there are too many. But names I recognise and would also recommend are Serena Mayer on page 26, Jazmine Linklater on page 45, and Lisa Kiew on page 169.

Find out more about the publication here.

Olga and I collaborated once more, this time for the opening night of the Phoetry & Photolit exhibition at Museum of Futures in Surbiton.

Some behind the scenes info: originally part of the performance involved the bear having something wrong with it and needing an operation. The something wrong was that when the bear’s stomach was pressed it produced the distorted garble of something that was presumably once a human voice. However when I tested the bear the night before, instead of warped vocals it clearly uttered I love you!, much to our dismay.

Essentially we had to overhaul the entire concept the night before. And so rather than the slightly sombre strangeness we had initially planned, it became something more visceral.

Following the performance I ended up having to reassure several people that the bear would be fine. Though I’m afraid I can’t say that he’s been stitched up yet, as there are a few more things he’s needed for. After that I intend to create something Ernesto Stewart-inspired, so that’s something to look forward to.

More information about the event, as well as videos of other performances from the evening, may be found here. Photograph taken by Alexander Kell.

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My poem idle is now up at Eunoia Review.

xxxxx images bear the (small)
x signature scent the chance
xxxxx encounter of a kindness
x it is necessary to surface

I don’t tend to do a lot in terms of where lines begin on a page as it’s something I’m still trying to become comfortable with, but I’m happy with how this turned out in the full version. This is also another poem that will be part of Immurement.

Read idle in Eunoia Review.

 

 

My poem frontispiece is now up at The Interpreter’s House.

a reliance on siagonology the study
of jaw bones its definitive edges somehow
secondary tonation in ink   […]

The poem will be featured in my forthcoming pamphlet Immurement. Issue 70 also contains work by Iris Colomb and Julia-Rose Lewis, so it was nice to be published alongside some poetry friends.

With thanks to editor Georgi Gill for his patience with my spacing specificity.

Read frontispiece on The Interpreter’s House.

I may have slipped through January’s publishing fingers but not through want of working.

* Currently finetuning the Immurement manuscript, which now exists formatted, though still a few months away from publication of course.
* I’m also working on some interview response questions, which is taking longer than it might for others as I am never asked anything, but it is nice to be asked.
* There’s a new collaborative project in the works that I am very excited to see the final result of.
* I’ve also been doing things for another collaborative project that is several years away from seeing the light of day for complicated reasons. One of the solo projects I’ve been working on might warrant the same classification actually…
* Also planning to start working on one of my three (four?) pamphlet ideas soon.

So, things are still happening behind the scenes. I’m going to work hard this year to create more things and hopefully get more things out there. I would put ‘do more events’ in there too, but I have far less control over that sort of thing and don’t want to promise myself things I can’t necessarily deliver, as much as I’d love to. But I endeavour to take any opportunity that comes to me and to create opportunities for myself wherever I can.

The third annual exhibition of visual literature at Museum of Futures in Surbiton will feature Poetry / Poetography / Photographic Literature. Held between February 21st and March 8th, I am happy to once again be co-curating under SJ Fowler and alongside other poets.

–  Submissions are open December 1st until February 10th

–  The exhibition is only open to those who can hand deliver their work, framed, to the Museum of Futures gallery on Wednesday February 20th 2019, in Surbiton.

–  The exhibition is for Phoetry, Poetography, Photopoems and Poetic Photography – that is visual works somehow exploring the intersections between the photographic and the poetic. This may involve texts with images, images with texts, the handmade, the digitally crafted, the collaged and the photoshopped. All understandings of the remit are welcome.

–  All submissions must be sent to museumoffutures[at]gmail[.]com with proposed works attached as jpegs. Three works maximum. Please include bio.

 

More information about the exhibition may be found here.