On Tue, 2 Dec 1997 [log in to unmask] wrote:
> Thanks for your response, Tony. Doesn't answer, though,
> my question of how these artists use language, work
> "poetically", and if they don't who do.
I guess I'd like to know if there are any examples of real poet-artist
collaboration in recent times: I can think of occasions when one has come
along and utilised a pre-existing other, but that ain't collaboration as I
understand it (and as, for instance, poet-musicians collaborate in
performance terms).
Similarly, it seems to me that much of the textual incorporation which
occurs in & around britpack is disappointing - bit of a missed opportunity
- using text just as texture. Big generalisation! What's needed is a poet
/ artist combo with BOTH parties prepared to get involved in the other's
activity, rather than just take it off the peg. Perhaps someone knows of
one? Back in the '60s (eergh!) Hamilton's Newcastle pupils collaborated
with local poets to produce poster-poems, some of which worked well - but
that was then, as they say.
Collaboration is a difficult thing...
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