My Talk MESA 16 posted on Youtube colloquium Visual Poetry São Paulo
The organisers plan this year a hard copy catalogue and online text of all speakers’ presentations, making this biennial Colloquium a key research resource about international practitioners in the vast ever growing field of concrete visual sound performance poetries
SOUND POETRY COLLABORATIONS WITH XELIS DE TORO
Xelis originally from Galicia Northern Spain now based in Brighton is very active creatively with a particular flair for sound poetry. See videos on www.xelisdetoro.netHe came to my performance in Speaking Parts a Tribute to Bob Cobbing, Raven Row Gallery London (see entry 2015) and recently was successful in obtained a grant from Arts Council SouthEast for us to perform together by ZOOM and interview me about key works. We did this in November with invaluable technical help from film maker Paul Dutnall who will edit and post these items in the spring and provide a link. The piece I chose for us to perform together is NOT THE PAINTING BY GOYA – A THANKSGIVING, a shaped typewriter poem I created in 1987 that combines my experience of being shot at with an air rifle (luckily ‘they missed,’ a motif of the poem) when standing on my balcony admiring the new moon with teferences to the murdered poet Lorca’s unhappy destiny and Goya’s famous anti-war painting The Third of May 1808 of a freedom fighter facing the enemy’s firing squad.
Online Colloquium, São Paulo. 8-12 November 2021
Paula Claire will be speaking about “MY GESTATION OF LANGUAGE RESEARCH” on the 10th November 14.45 Brazilian time.
Thank You Speech for the Cholmondeley Award
Tweet by Society of Authors from Paula Claire’s video thanking the Judges for a prestigious Award for her lifetime of innovative poetry that has an international context.
Cholmondeley Award / Award Winners / Award Video
Musik und Text at Robert Schumann College
I was invited by Marc Matter who runs a course Musik und Text at the Robert Schumann College, Düsseldorf Germany to hold with his students a ZOOM session 2 hours 20 April 2021 discussing with my usual interaction the various techniques of my Sound Poetry. We finished with a big ‘voice stretch’ of Bob Cobbing’s exhortation “Own Your Voice” triggered by my iPen score. (Recording not allowed re privacy laws).
BROWSE COLLECTIONS features images of the text/textile bookworks of Amelia Etlinger: the VIDEO (46 mins) at the end was made by my husband Paul San Casciani of me showing 8 works Amelia gave me, some with fabrics I sent her to transform into her extraordinary artworks. Photo of me in my Archive with the works I show in the Video.
Iowa University Special Collections now houses the Sackner Archive indisputably the largest Collection of concrete/visual/sound poetry anywhere, assembled by Ruth and Marvin in Miami from 1978 onwards. They bought my work from Bob Cobbing, then from me. Corresponding from 1980, we met only once, see photo RSA vaults 2013. Iowa online database cites 143 items of mine including the book I sold them then.
catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/12170269
Princeton University Special Collections recently purchased a comprehensive collection I assembled, citing 90 publications and much documentation I provided, part of their British innovative poets focus.
Scottish poetry festival STANZA this spring hosted Greg Thomas’ article with illustrations on his special subject, concrete poetry. Some were printed on acetate and given away to be fixed on a window and looked through. Mine was SPRING 1970, an acrostic design for an enamelled glass panel. Read this acrostic from bottom upwards, it SPRINGS.
www.galeriasmunicipais.pt/en/information
Entretecido/Interlace – exhibition Pavilhao Blanco Lisbon: 26 artists working in textile-related artworks, curator Tobi Maier. My typewriter text-ile ENTWINE (1993, see image 2015 entry) included in the exhibition and documentary fanzine.
