Murifri: 2022

Friday, 7 January 2022

How sweet this morning air in spring

How sweet this morning air in spring

How still this evening sea in shadow

How green this country day in summer

How human this strange god in heaven

How heavy this funeral sky in autumn

How sharp this ancient axe in battle

How alone this village dog in winter

How clear this western sun in memory

How sweet this morning air in spring

For the users of this blog...

I use this blog to help me write new poetry.

If the book is published, I delete the old blogs. Then I start a new series. But I may make a selection of the finished poems available in PDF form.

Archeus was written this way. I have deleted the old posts, but a substantial excerpt (the first of its four parts complete with graphics) is here.

Variant Lines was published March 2013 by Red Ceilings Press. It too first appeared on this blog. Get the PDF taster here.

Lives of the Saints mostly appeared on this blog first before it too was published by Red Ceilings Press.

Recent

VLAK 5

May 2015. I'm in it and so are many more.

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VALE

Created for the Digital Poetry and Dance event, Jan 31st 2015, at the Electronic Poetry Center (EPC).

There are two versions:

The colour version was chosen.

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Simon Howard (1960-2013) - A Tribute

Published online 29th April in Litter.

Simon was a poet and publisher. This is our tribute to him.

I have some poems in Sein und Werden's Oulipo edition. It is edited by Jason Rolfe. Lots of work in it. Do make a visit.

My 'Eutropius' poems (from Lives of the Saints) have been have published by the Hassle Press pamphlet series (edited by poet John Phillips). No weblink for this. He distributes them in pubs.

Past Events

Launch of 'Kenya' at Birkbeck, University of London, 15th December 2016. With Antony john and Johan de Wit, and Stephen Emmerson and Peter Larkin.

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Reading at the The Other Room, Manchester, 7th December 2016, The Castle Hotel. With Cathy Butterworth and Kerry Morrison .

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Reading at Capital Letters, London, 26th October 2016 at St Margaret's House Bethnal Green. With Antony john and Johan de Wit.

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The Blue Bus is pleased to present a reading of poetry by Cathy Weedon, Antony John, Laurie Duggan, matt martin, Johan de Wit and Wayne Clements on Tuesday the 16^th of June from 7.30 at The Lamb (in the upstairs room), 94 Lamb’s Conduit Street, London WC1. This is the 101^st event in THE BLUE BUS series.

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The Blue Bus has Johan de Wit, Antony John and Wayne Clements 16th September 2014 . From 7.30 at The Lamb (in the upstairs room), 94 Lamb’s Conduit Street, London WC1.

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The Blue Bus is pleased to present a reading by LLL, Wayne Clements and Juliet Troy on Tuesday 6^th August 2013, from 7.30 at The Lamb (in the upstairs room), 94 Lamb’s Conduit Street, London WC1.

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On the (im)possibility of a pure praise poem
Dom Sylvester Houédard (dsh), Aliki Braine,
Mark Dean, Anna Sikorska
21st June — 27th July 2013

Finissage: Friday 26th July 6 — 9pm
Performances: 6.45 — 8pm

In conjunction with SLAM Last Fridays, our closing event incorporates poetry readings and performances given in response to the work of dsh. Performers include Elizabeth-Jane Burnett, Wayne Clements, Harry Gilonis, David Miller and poetic duo 'Mmmm'.
RSVP: info@manandeve.co.uk

E-Poetry Conference Special Reading.

18th June 2013 at The Poetry Library with Loss Pequeno Glazier and Amaranth Borsuk (booking essential!).

22nd June: Wild Pansy Press
THE WILD PANSY PRESS GUIDE TO NEOMEDIAEVALISM
Portable Reading Room at the De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-on-Sea

Visual Poetics
(ended May 2013)

This exhibition, curated by David Miller and Chris McCabe, focused on the ways in which poetry has moved into a visual dimension in work by recent practitioners.

Saison Poetry Library at Royal Festival Hall, Tuesday - Sunday 11am - 8pm Free. From 11th Feb.

http://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whatson/visual-poetics-1000367

The Dark Would

Launch event 6th Feb 2013 at the Southbank Centre:

"A preview event for a new, pioneering anthology of text artists and poets 'The Dark Would', which includes work by over 100 contributors including Richard Long, Fiona Banner, Charles Bernstein and many more.

Join us for a set of readings and a panel discussion by artists and poets. Chairing the discussion and fielding audience questions is 'The Dark Would' editor Philip Davenport and curator Tony Trehy."
http://www.list.co.uk/event/339557-the-dark-would/

Birkbeck: Poetry and Revolution My paper is here.

Reading from Archeus, Tues 21st August 2012, Kraak Gallery

Done now but the video is here:

http://vimeo.com/48660599

Friday, 2 September 2022

Friday, 7 January 2022

How sweet this morning air in spring