indd Sean
i've a little book on the go about those 70s London-based artist-led
co-operatives and collectives
to whit each had extremely interesting mags
i'd throw the pot-soc into that mix along with Camerawork, Four
Corners and ACME
and on the Writers Forum front it's worth adding that it is still
running, very successfully, with different
poets as conveners and it began as a collective in the Hendon Arts /
Group H (i'm being sketchy)
. . . certainly John Rowan was influential in developing the overall
feel and format . . . Nuttall too?
love and onwards
cris
On Aug 16, 2009, at 5:12 AM, Sean Bonney wrote:
> Hi everyone, I've just joined the list -
>
> I'd say the wide variety of very different poets who'd cite Writers
> Forum as
> important in their development show how little it was dominated by one
> particular 'aesthetic' or 'personality'. While Bob was most
> definitely in
> charge, his role, at least how I experienced it, was in making
> people aware
> of the wide variety of different approaches that are possible,
> including
> crossing the borders between different art forms. The connections
> between
> WF, the London Film-makers Co-op, London Musicians Collective etc
> haven't
> really been documented, for instance. Incredibly important as a non-
> academic
> environment in which to explore all sorts of things, and a vital
> place of
> encouragement for young poets to try things out. It still functions
> like
> that, as far as I'm aware.
>
> I think its an exception, tho. I've also had experiences with
> 'straight'
> workshops that were very bad. I'd find em very repressive and just
> get bored.
>
>> But, Chris, wasn't the Writers Forum dominated by the personality and
>> aesthetics of Bob Cobbing--or so I've heard. Apologies if I'm
>> mistaken.
>>
>>
>>> On Sat, 15 Aug 2009 13:54:50 -0400, cris cheek
>> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>>> the B I G exception to critiques of conventional workshop
>>> practice in
>>> the UK is Writers Forum.
>>>
>>> I've written quite a bit about it and so i won't repeat that . . .
>>> but it did provide an exemplary rejoinder
>>> in and of itself.
>>>
>>> xx
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> cris
>>>
>>>
>>>
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