A really great job done by Mischa Foster Poole curating this reading series in Peckham. I had a great experience reading alongside Jen Calleja, Isabel Galleymore and some strong open mic poets. Completely relaxed and open vibe, everyone was really friendly and my reading, trying out some brand new poems I've written in the last month, when travelling, and then finishing with an interactive, conceptual twist, playing Jacques Brel while inviting people to write farewell messages to their own continent, seemed well received.
Reading at the launch of Coin Opera 2
I was very privileged to feature in the magical Coin Opera 2 anthology of video game poetry edited by Kirsty Irving and Jon Stone and their always beautifully rendered Sidekick books. Not only was the anthology full of great poets and poems but the whole enterprise felt fresh and valuable to me, this is what anthologies should be about, not a taxonomy but a commission, a chance for new work and collective community. I was even happier to get to read at the launch, held upstairs at the Four Quarters bar in Peckham, essentially the loft room of a fully functioning arcade. Pretty grand stuff.
Do buy the book here http://www.drfulminare.com/coinoperaii.php Here's my wee reading.
Do buy the book here http://www.drfulminare.com/coinoperaii.php Here's my wee reading.
the Wilder rise for the Wildermenn exhibition
The wilder sculpture is up! Go visit the http://www.house-gallery.co.uk/ or check out http://wildermenn.weebly.com/
Wildermenn exhibition at the House Gallery, Peckham
the
premiere exhibition of the Wildermenn collective, beginning December 18th
and closing just before Xmas, will take place at the House gallery in Peckham, London.
http://www.house-gallery.co.uk/
Wildermenn combines visual art, poetry, sonic art and sculpture into one wholly
collaborative art collective about urban transhumance. http://wildermenn.weebly.com/ https://twitter.com/wilder_menn The exhibition is curated by Gabrielle Cooper.
about Wildermenn: transhumance in the city, animalisms across four art mediums, wholly collective, fundamentally collaborative - the Wildermenn produce artworks that subvert and celebrate the rituals and rites which are essentially linked to that which is forgotten in the sprawl - fertility, procreativity, seasons, elements, creatureliness and death. Anthropomorphic modernist folk practise from cultures now unknown find form in sculpture, noise, performance, fragmented poetry and mud paint. about the exhibition: Wilder is a decomposing cathogan sculpture piece, which has been wholly constructed from the beach detritus that litters the banks of Thames and is the common quarry of mudlarking. A beast, the Wilder is a rotting, half animal, half vessel, castrated and jawheavy - assaulting the eyes, ears and nose, the mansize figure is a grotesque vision of what the city and it's river has spewed up realised in it's skeletal, lackadaisical glory.
A special
view and performance evening will take place on Thursday 19th, doors
opening at 7.30pm, entrance is free. It will be an unforgettable evening of
organic mush and destruction. Please come along, a poster attached.