It’ll be fun to run this course with London’s Poetry School this Summer! Offline and onsite writing. Taught asynchronously.
SONOSCURA digital release
how do i get / from a to b / from a to base /…
Text and Soundscape written, created and produced in response to the Spring’20 lockdowns.
Sound design Jamie Hamilton.
Just released by Cafe Oto’s digital label Takuroko.
Arts Practice Mentoring
PLACES AVAILABLE FROM MAY’21. Refresh your writing and art practice. Unpack what holds you back. Find new focus with your methods, content, concerns. Get production/pre-production advice. Revitalise your confidence and sense of purpose. My individual online mentoring provides a supportive and experienced environment for your creative output and development. Click here for more info!
Writing Intensives
Explore, share, work your work & ideas with others. My 2021 Writing Intensives are committed to nurture your creativity and networks during the long lockdowns. They wish to support and help expand your art practice in dialogue with others, and provide you with the confidence to explore deep connective methods as so many ways through isolation, conflict, and divisiveness.
VISUAL WRITING: project prompts, lines and collages, dream work – 10 March
COLLABORATIVE PROCESSES: project planning, shared resources, team building, co-authorship, – over 2 Saturdays 10 & 17 APRIL.
Some bursaries available. Join us!
Night & Refuge 2
Watch it here: Writing across languages with these great poets/performers:
Edwin Torres, Jessie Kleeman, Mandla Rae, Erin Moure, Gunnar Waerness.
Saved on YouTube. click on image.
Collective Poesy
The disruptive pleasures of Alisoun Sings. A review by Charles Theonia. Oct 2020. Jacket 2
Alisounation: “Re-sounding is the name of the game”
Resounding. Re-sounding. Resonance is the name of the game. A spinning riffing vocalising review exchange around Alisoun. By Kyoo Lee for Chinese Underground Literary Mag Spittoon Collective. With great additional links.
Night & Refuge
Delighted to be nominated at this established film poetry festival with our Night & Refuge film. I’ll post the festival link when it’s live. Film link here:
Newsletter: Some new approaches, Alisoun returns,
Dear friends, I hope you are keeping well, staying safe and sane wherever you’re at
“Love binds, love connects”
Review essay by Greg Bem. On Alisoun Sings and looking at links across the trilogy.
Rain Taxi, Fall 2020
Caroline Bergvall’s Poetics of Disorientation
“Poetry is an action, an activity and pursuit, moving through space and time with intention.” Essay by Rebecca Teich. The Poetry Project, #260 Spring 2020.
The Concrete World of Edwin Morgan
Online year-long Group Show celebrating the Scottish poet’s life and visual work through new pieces.
EM Foundation & National Poetry Library, London. My bits: A GIF text, a celebratory constraints poem.
Seen from Here: Writing in the Lockdown: Support the Trussell Trust UK
Great anthology of artists and writers. Ed. Tim Etchells & Vlatka Horvat. All proceeds go to Trussell Trust, UK Food Bank charity. My contribution: Together (keeping it) – pattern poem.
SONOSCURA
An immersive response to the inner and outer upheavals of the global COVID-19 lockdown. Premiere: Berlin Poesie Festival 9 June 2020. A Sonic Atlas Project.
Alisoun Sings – Part 2: Singing, Chaucer, Transhistoric English
Part 2 Digital Residency @Poets House. On the ballad, Chaucer, reclaimed English. 30 mins Talk w/ Illustrations, and Conversation with the wonderful Paolo Javier. Youtube.
An Evolution of Style in 3 Poets
A great read of Alisoun Sings by Marc Scroggins. Also looks at Erica Hunt and John Matthias. HYPERALLERGIC.
