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i'm no advocate of petty vandalism unless it has artistic merit. a car antenna bent into a squiggle is fine. a car antenna just bent is a waste. popular music has been turned into a stage for individuals, masquerading as musicians, to attract significant others. the artform is secondary; reproduction- primary. if a poet was to write with urgency all the time, she would turn to stone. so, i let my hair grow the way it pleases, the wind is my gel, the finishing touches applied by breezes.
new works, both completed and in progress:
the banalisation of liverpool
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“ugliness, poor design, stupid waste”. the new build sought only to conglomerate existing structures, not to threaten. the new tenements, espousing inner city living, are bland reconfigurations of brick and mortar, indemnifying the unity of the moneyed. no architectural rebellion, no challenge to the skyline or the eyeline has been implemented, no liverpool revolution, only dash renovation to make room for transportation of citizens in and out of the city. the city must be rejected, it’s edifices denounced.”
the confusion of beauty
extract:
“if beauty cannot be denied completely, even in solitude, then we must bend the rules of beauty in order to begin the task of its rejection. beauty must be confined to the inanimate, so must the synonymic tree of beauty. it must not be turned on ourselves. aesthetics, the benefactor of beauty, must concern itself with the inanimate only. it has no right to concern itself with the living, unless it is comfortable with the maintenance of indignity.”
previously published in:
future publishing:
ongoing project:
3 films
a poetic triptych based on loss, potation and the demimonde.
film status: pre-production
film location: liverpool
music for film-2 & film-3 by lonelady, dirty three
lonelady
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“LoneLady is a rising star of the Manchester underground music scene whose emergence has caused a rare level of excitement and anticipation. Armed with a Telecaster, a 4-track and a drum machine LoneLady began recording her startlingly fresh music in the winter of 2004.”
dirty three
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“Dirty Three is an instrumental rock band, formed in 1993, in Melbourne, Australia by Warren Ellis (violin), Mick Turner (electric guitar), and Jim White (drums). Their music has elements of folk melody, rock energy, and 20th century classical music.”
film-2 narrated by rogan whitenails
rogan whitenails
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"Rogan Whitenails is a British poet and fabulist. He has had two idiosyncratic collections published: Failure Crawled up my Leg (1998, 2002) and Gravity is a Babe Lost in the Wood of Ubiquity (2005)."
film-3 narrated by the fug
the fug
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"the fug is a poet, writer, performer currently living in japan, who melds sharp, visceral vocal utterings with dingo-stealing verse."
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hurricaneforthesoul@hotmail.co.uk
listed as a new liverpool poet
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