Annie
I'd certainly check out that bpNichol site. And follow up to The Four
Horsemen, of which he was a member....
Doug
On 22-Jan-06, at 5:15 PM, Annie McGann wrote:
> I would just like to say that on our creative studies program at Bath
> Spa University, in script writing, poetry studies in English and
> poetry studies as part of the creative writing program, we constantly
> make reference to visual art both in writing in response to visual art
> and in response to ideas in conceptual art and we look at the history
> of ekphrasis. Richard Long certainly features in my teaching when it
> comes to thinking about poetry and landscape. We also touch on the
> experimental and the avant garde. In fact I was going to ask the
> poetryetc. community what they considered to be the crucially
> important areas of experimental poetry that I should introduce to my
> students as part of a performance poetry module I am teaching on. I
> have my own ideas but I know that the experts are right here :-) I am
> starting with the Tin Bishop so where do you think I should go from
> there?
>
> Best wishes
>
> Annie
>
>> From: Alison Croggon <[log in to unmask]>
>> Reply-To: Poetryetc provides a venue for a dialogue relating to
>> poetry and poetics <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: Re: Richard Long at SFMOMA
>> Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 10:47:17 +1100
>>
>> On 23/1/06 9:19 AM, "Stephen Vincent" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>> >
>> > In fariness, I guess we can also count multiples the number of
>> writers who
>> > have no literacy around the visual! It's probably the sad irony of
>> so many
>> > art programs in the way they exclude literature study from their
>> > requirements, and, reciprocally, the way creative writing programs
>> remain
>> > blind to visual literature, let alone the history of music, avant
>> garde
>> > innovation, etc.
>>
>> Very interesting post, Stephen; what an interesting sounding event.
>> Your
>> comments make me think of all sorts of things.... It must be in the
>> zeitgeist - this lack of curiosity about other disciplines is
>> something
>> George Hunka has been talking about on his blog in relation to theatre
>> (check out his post at
>> http://www.ghunka.com/index.cgi/Theater/Miscellaneous/narrative.html
>> ) and I
>> must say it's an issue that troubles me sometimes, in both theatre and
>> poetry, the art forms I am most familiar with. Not that one can be
>> conversant in all art forms, and there are certainly huge holes in my
>> knowledge about everything, including poetry and theatre...
>>
>> Also, I'm researching Paul Carter at the moment, who pioneered
>> "spatial
>> history" with his book The Road to Botany Bay, and can't help
>> wondering if
>> Richard Long has any connection to that - Paul Carter is a visual
>> artist as
>> well as a writer (Ruark has collaborated with him) -
>>
>> All best
>>
>> Alison
>>
>> Alison Croggon
>>
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>
>
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