Hi Roger. If the sheep have been in the sheep-dip then its a tanka?
Philip
>From: Roger Collett <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: The Pennine Poetry Works <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: Re: Mooving poetry - not a poem
>Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2002 22:23:27 -0000
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>A British poet has just done this with sheep, funded by Northern Arts.
>Would you believe that the results are called Haik-ewe!
>
>Roger
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>
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>From: "Gary Blankenship" <[log in to unmask]>
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>Sent: Tuesday, December 03, 2002 9:49 PM
>Subject: Mooving poetry - not a poem
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>Poets found in pastureJim Fitzgerald
>ASSOCIATED PRESS
>
>Published 12/3/2002
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> PURCHASE - Any artist can paint a cow, but Nathan Banks uses
>bovines as his canvas.
> Mr. Banks, 22, a student at Purchase College, painted single words
>(from "a" to "existential") on the flanks of about 60 cows near his upstate
>New York home, then let them wander around to see if they could
>compose poetry.
> Holsteins and Jerseys with names like Elsie and Maggie came up with
>phrases including "eccentric art," "performance as cow environment" and
>Mr. Banks' favorite, "organic conceptual art as poetry."
> One animal seemed especially inspired. With "away" written on her
>side, she broke loose from the herd for a while.
> The "Cow Project," with videotape and photos of the bovine bards,
>goes
>on display at the college Thursday.
> "The idea is that the artist sets up the situation and then it
>carries
>through on its own," Mr. Banks said in an interview last week.
> The entire three-day episode in mid-September was documented by
>Mr. Banks and a couple of dozen other students.
> "It was peculiar," said Gerry Ruestow, who let Mr. Banks use
>so-called
>tail paint, a harmless substance that eventually flakes off, on his dairy
>herd in Sidney Center. "Those art people tend to do things that are a
>little
>bit outside the box."
> Mr. Banks said the project cost him about $1,000 and he had to
>overcome a few obstacles. A half-dozen dairy farmers rejected the idea
>before Mr. Ruestow and his wife, Susan, agreed to let him use their Farm.
> "There was a big concern that the cows would be stressed and give
>less milk," Mr. Banks said. Mr. Ruestow said milk production instead
>increased slightly, "probably because the cows were a bit more active.
>The cows were as interested in the observers as the observers were in
>the cows."
>
>
>Copyright © 2002 News World Communications, Inc. All rights reserved.
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>Nov Sharon Svendsen at: http://gardawg.homestead.com/gardawg.html Writer's
>Hood at http://www.writershood.com/ Poets for Peace. ˇPoemas sí, balas no!
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