Dream Diary Wednesday 30 April 1975

Wednesday 30 April 1975 

Dreamt that I saw Ian Richmond [Eco Party SU leader at UEA] and gang picnicking in Church Lane, Southwick.

            I talked for a while.

            Telling them that I live there.

 

Poem on Stride's Algorithmic Prayers: ‘Pumpkin McPumpkin Face’

Rupert Loydell invited a number of writers to submit a poem or prose poem or short text for publication in Stride magazine, online: Stride magazine, responding to this sculpture by Diemut Strebe, ‘The Prayer’.

It is an eternal generative AI Prayer Machine! (It shows how AI can be used creatively and originally, instead of programming it to write substitute human novels or visualise Trump as a Superhero, or other banalities.)  

 

More information at: https://theprayer.diemutstrebe.com/. There are videos of the sculpture at work and they are definitely worth looking at. In fact, you need to see it at work to see what the writers are responding to. Here's a video of one of its chanting parts:

There are various responses so far, including Rupert’s own, Algorithmic Prayers: Religious belief is a small installation | Stride magazine, Patricia Farrell’s  Algorithmic Prayers: The apparatus as designed | Stride magazine, and Ian Seed’s Algorithmic Prayers: the breath that has been | Stride magazine. They are being posted in March and April 2025. 

Now it’s my turn, and my poem may be read at Algorithmic Prayers: deliver us | Stride magazine. Here's a bit of it, read by me, with effaced FACE effect: 

 

This text, ‘Pumpkin McPumpkin Face’ I describe as ‘responding to The Prayer by Diemut Strebe: featuring some words and phrases banned by the Trump team and its algorithm.’ Here’s the first line: ‘Orange Pumpkin, deliver us from Activism McActivism Face.’

I like Rupert's invitations to participate in special features on Stride, or sometimes in pamphlet form, like this one: Pages: Nerve Damage ed Rupert Loydell now out (responses to Witkin).  

 

Dream Diary Wednesday 16 April 1975

Wednesday 16 April 1975

 

Big party along Croft Avenue [Southwick]. 

Tony there very drunk. I’ve just got back from Lee Harwood. Tony says listen. I do. It’s Duck’s Deluxe. The party is mainly in Dick’s garden. They are all around a table in garden, wearing suits. Gatecrashers aren’t. Joannie there. I talk. Eventually walking round with my arm around her. Some people laughing. Trying to free myself.

An introduction to the diary may be read here: Pages: Dream Diary 1975 Introduction to the project

Dream Diary Tuesday 15 April 1975

Tuesday 15 April 1975

 

Dreamt of the Poet of the Rood or Rood the Poet.

            ?

            !

            W.B. Yeats?!!

An introduction to the diary may be read here: Pages: Dream Diary 1975 Introduction to the project

Dream Diary Monday 14 April 1975

Monday 14 April 1975 

Sad. C.B. Cox dead. Sad. [probably not the literary critic, but a student of the same name]

 

Dream Diary Monday 7 April 1975

Monday 7 April 1975 

Maggie is haunted by Steve. She comes to me for protection from him.

An introduction to the diary may be read here: Pages: Dream Diary 1975 Introduction to the project