MATERIALS / MATERIALIEN are very pleased to announce the publication of:
WINDSUCKERS & ONSETTERS: SONNOTS for Griffiths
By Manson and Mendoza.
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WINDSUCKERS & ONSETTERS: SONNOTS for Griffiths is a collaborative project between Peter Manson & Mendoza in commemoration of Bill Griffiths (August 20, 1948 – September 13, 2007). The assemblage of ‘niners’ (nine sets of nine lines with nine syllables per line) uses, or responds to, text found in Fishing and Folk: Life and Dialect on the North Sea Coast (2008) & Pitmatic: Talk of the North East Coal Field (2007) compiled by Bill Griffiths.
Blue card covers, 48 pages, side-stapled.
Bill Griffiths was born in Middlesex and settled in Seaham, Co. Durham. Mendoza was born in Northumberland and settled in London. Peter Manson was born in Glasgow and settled in Glasgow.
You lose your light. spend all of your lives.
“endless doubtlessness, land-full / surprised-
ness”. unintelligible language.
eye-acute. “look at the sun rising...
unspeaking and becoming” light-like
sun-froth unGod. sun-needle gaze-blaze
erase death, and in-turn re-birth. this
land is gold. this coal is gold. this clan-
ship of miners is gold is gold is
Available to buy from http://material-s.blogspot.com/. Copies will also be available at Bill’s Big Birthday Bash: An Evening of Readings in Celebration of Bill Griffith, an event to be held at the Keynes Library, Birkbeck, London, on Monday 20th August, at which Peter Manson and Mendoza will read from the book. (http://blogs.bbk.ac.uk/artsresearch/2018/08/13/bills-big-birthday-bash/)
All best,
David and Lisa
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