Many thanks for the list below. They are all writers I don’t know. They’re
the kind I like best as it suggests endless possibility. Presumably the
books are available from Coracle?
I’ll try to write something on the European festival if possible. It’s
mostly music but guess that many playing there will come out of a European
Surrealist/Dada background (Faust, henry Cow, etc) via a commitment to
collectivism and be committed to cross overs between art forms (hence the
stunt cyclists). Zoe will be doing a short set of her ‘city poems’ with
musical additions, and some musicians are also threatening to join in our
set, which also features films that we have made. As well as reading with
Zoe I’m going to do a short set on my own using just the human voice (my
own) and ‘reading’ from a book of my own poetry. The cutting edge of
experimentation.
I’ve got the new CD from Ectogram (one of the bands playing there) released
by Ankst records (www.ankst.net) on my player now. Ethereal vocals mixed
deep into very dense layers of sound. Completely absorbing.
Can you quote some of the Parsons?
ian
I'm also reading Clere Parsons' EIGHT POEMS. His "The Winter Sunlight
Splashes With Pale Gold" makes me feel like I've discovered a fellow
spirit.
I just hope he's real. Dead I can take. Just let him be real.
Also I BUILD MY TIME (gorgeous red book, very respectable looking,
mellow fat pages): "a collage built on texts by Kurt Schwitters").
Well I can't tell you how much I like this. Except to say I'm
toppling off my chair just flicking through it.
I am the bak,
I chissel lak,
I griffel taaler,
I am the Maaler.
You are the feudinn,
You chissel tinn,
You griffel turkey
You are the purkey.
I also have Anna Moeglin-Decroix's LITTLE BOOKS & OTHER LITTLE
PUBLICATIONS (short essay), Tim Robinson's OLWEN FOUÉRÉ IN 'THE BULL'S
WALL' (a long time ago, around the time I interviewed Joan
Armatrading, Olwen Fouére was in a play of mine at the Project Arts
Centre in Dublin, she's a performer hard to describe as I now discover
trying to describe her: molten, smoky, incandescent, unique, rigorous,
courageously self-disciplined -- Tim Robinson says "An actress known
for the mysterious gift of
presence") Robinson's film, which I haven't seen, derived from an
invitation "to provide a text for a performance by Olwen Fouére on
some theme to do with Artaud's visit to the Aran Islands."
I also have FIVE POEMS by Hamish MacLaren, which has thick sturdy
pages almost like board.
All these books are from Coracle Press, Simon Cutts' and Erika Van
Horn's amazing enterprise based in Ballybeg, Co. Tipperary. I got
them in return for some books of mine Simon sold at the SoundEye/Vinyl
Festivals in Cork:
yet another glorious offshoot of that glorious week.
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