With Joanne Ashcroft I created the poems of Matus Dobres. You can read more about him here.
Joanne Ashcroft has poems published in The Wolf and Litter. Her first pamphlet was published by Knives Forks and Spoons
press. She won the Poetry Wales Purple Moose Prize in 2013 and her pamphlet Maps and Love Songs for Mina Loy is
published by Seren. She is currently a research student at Edge Hill University where she is working on sound
rich poetry, which combines literary study, poetics and creative work. She writes: Sound-rich
poetry is fully aware of itself as an indissoluble union of speech and writing
working along a spectrum, with sound as its life force and to which every
aspect of the poem refers back.
She took part in the Mina Loy reading at Bluecoat here.
Recent poetic work, often outtakes of her PhD work, has
appeared in various magazines, and she is often asked to do readings (she and I
collaborated on a poem for my volume of collaborative fictional poems). She is
neatly ensconced as part of the Manchester
reading series Peter Barlow’s Cigarette.
She
often writes about sound rich poetry on her blog (see the blogroll to the right
of this post) and she is now one of the organisers of Peter Barlow’s Cigarette,
a Manchester
reading series.
She
has featured on Pages before, and
she and I may be watched reading our
Dobres poems, here.
There is no resultant ‘Europoem’,
but a variety of styles that reflects the collaborative nature of the poems’
production, the richness of a continent. The works range from the comedic to
the political, from the imaginatively sincere to the faux-autobiographical,
from traditional lyricism to the experimental. Accompanied by biographical
notes, the poets grow in vividness until they seem to possess lives of their
own; they are collected now in Twitters
for a Lark.
This collection marks a
continuation of the work I ventriloquised through my solo creation, the
fictional bilingual Belgian poet René Van Valckenborch, in A Translated Man (read an early account here;
the book is also available from Shearsman here )
All the collaborators are introduced at links available here.
All the collaborators are introduced at links available here.
