UNTITLED by Sarah-Clare Conlon and Robert Sheppard is published in Blackbox Manifold 31

UNTITLED by Sarah-Clare Conlon and Robert Sheppard is published in Blackbox Manifold 31. We’d like to thank the editors for taking our fugitive piece in from the cold salt-spray. 

Sarah-Clare and I collaborated as part of the special Eurovision European Poetry Festival in Liverpool, about which I wrote here: Pages: The Liverpool Camarade at Open Eye Gallery : May 2023: the videos of my collaboration with Sarah-Clare Conlon (robertsheppard.blogspot.com). There’s a video of our original performance there too, but I include it below too.) That post describes the evening, and links to previous events in the series, in which both of us have played our separate and earlier parts.

I’m pleased to say that the text of ‘Untitled’ (I know!) is now published in the latest edition of Blackbox Manifold. This is a magazine I have been published in before, and you will find excerpts from the series ‘Flight Risk’ as well as most of my re-versions of the sonnets of Mary Robinson, but I don’t want to overload this post with links, so here’s just one to the Robinson: Pages: My 'Tabitha and Thunderer' is published in Blackbox Manifold (robertsheppard.blogspot.com)

Here is the link to our ‘Untitled’: Blackbox Manifold - ConlonSheppardBM31 (sheffield.ac.uk)

Here is the video of Clare and I reading the poem at the Open Eye Gallery, down on the docks in Liverpool, a venue which almost forced upon us the theme of ‘Riverine Thoughts’ or ‘Riparian Observation’, to use two quotations from the poem that we might have used as titles. I’m glad we didn’t!

 

 Here's the video: Robert Sheppard and Sarah-Claire Conlon : EPF 2023 - Liverpool Camarade at Open Eye - YouTube

Set up your machine to follow the text and watch the video. WE may get the chance to perform it again, and will, we’ve agreed.

 Just to repeat, there are lots of links to other collaborations and to my critical writings on collaboration, via that first link above.

 The editors of Blackbox Manifold are pleased to announce the launch of the 31^st issue of the journal:

https://blackboxmanifold.sites.sheffield.ac.uk/

featuring poems by Kyle Booten, Daragh Breen, Mark Byers, Sarah-Clare Conlon & Robert Sheppard, Hannah Copley, Michael Farrell, Adam Flint, Charlotte Geater, Paul A. Green, Oli Hazzard, Nicki Heinen, Doug Jones, Joshua Jones, Jee Leong Koh, Jazmine Linklater, Steve Noyes, Simon Perril, Flo Ray, Rahul Santhanam, Geoff Sawers, Kashif Sharma-Patel, Gary Sloboda, Jedediah Smith, Adam Stokell, Kenny Tanemura, John Wilkinson. 

 Adam Piette reviews Kelvin Corcoran and V.R. "Bunny" Lang. Zoë Skoulding reviews Ágnes Lehóczky. John Wilkinson reviews David Grundy & Sabeen Chaudhry.

 

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Locating Sarah-Clare Conlon: Freelance Writer & Editor:  @wordsnfixtures | @sarahclareconlon . Her latest poetry pamphlet Lune is now available. See her books here: cache-cache & Marine Drive & Using Language. Locating Robert Sheppard: email: robertsheppard39@gmail.com  (don’t use the Edge Hill email); website: www.robertsheppard.weebly.com Follow on Twitter (or X): Robert Sheppard (@microbius) / Twitter  latest blogpost: www.robertsheppard.blogspot.com.