Performance for The Oxford Italian Association, St Hugh’s College Oxford 31 January 2020, my last live event! I spoke about the Venice Biennale exhibition and my outdoor performance for it Codestones of Venice (Writers Forum London 1978) republishing it in a new format Codestones of Venice Revisited at this event. See TOIA Facebook page.
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Dr Niall Munro, Director of Oxford Brookes Poetry Centre kindly posted my leaflet advertising the book launch on 18 March 2020 of fromWORDtoART, browsing the Paula Claire Archive I had written about my Collection I intended to hold in a rented room in Rewley House OUDCE where I gave One-Day Schools in Concrete Poetry in 1988-91, then part-time at Oxford Poly 1991-1994. Government restrictions prevented it, so I ‘published’ it out of my Archive window with 3 blasts on my ramshorn to neighbours below – see photos in MAPmagazine Greg Thomas review.
Special Collections: Small Press Collections: see Poetry Store. Image: cover of my SEVESO (1977) a typewriter ‘text-ile’ seequence published by Cobbing’s Writers Forum. My three Catalogues, My Life in Poetry, fromWORDtoART browsing the Paula Claire Archive purchased in 2020. UCL Art Librarian tweeted (7 June 2019) photos of my British Library Performance. UCL is my alma mater, graduated 1960.
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MAP magazine Issue August 2020: The Poetic and Archival Practice of Paula Claire, review including 5 of my bw/colour illustrations by specialist in concrete poetry and allied fields Greg Thomas, see his Twitter account 25 August 2020.
Women in Concrete Poetry 1959-79 New York USA October 2020. Editors: Alex Balgiu and Monica de la Torre. Fifty female practitioners, including 5 of my works 1970-78. Copy sent for my Archive fromWORDtoART Oxford.
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SHOP: Limited Edition of 50 letterpress prints for sale with certificate of authenticity from 5 of the practitioners in their anthology Women in Concrete Poetry 1959-79, including my SEA SHANTY, a typewriter ‘text-ile’ 1971.
ZOOM book launch by the 2 editors featuring 5 practitioners, hosted by after8books, Paris of Women in Concrete Poetry 1959-79, 5 December 2020, 2 hours. It begins with me explaining why and how I created Sea Shanty (1971) published in SOUNDSWORD, Cobbing’s Writers Forum London 1972. Then ‘interactive voices’ joined in from all over when I began to improvise with the ‘score.’
www.argotistonline.co.uk. This site is now closed, please contact Jeffrey Side for further information.
Email interview posted December 2020 by Director Jeffrey Side about the history of my practice, perceptively questioned by fellow poet Giles Goodland who has visited my Archive (see my photo) several times and exchanged work with me. We shared an event at the late Albion Beatnik Bookshop Oxford in their Poetry Reading Month, November 2012.
