Contains three Shaun Belcher Poems including 'Rivers I have visited'
Featuring stories by Clare Brown, Michael Pinchbeck, Roberta Dewa, Marilyn Ricci, Karen Jardine, Peter de Ville, James K Walker, Georgina Lock, Pascale Quiviger, Anthony Cropper, Richard Pilgrim and Jonathan Taylor, poems by Martin Stannard, Rosie Garner, Derek Buttress, D.A. Prince, Alan Baker, Sheila Smith, Deborah Tyler Bennett, Shaun Belcher, Sue Dymoke, Robert Hamberger, Robin Maunsell and Pat Marum, texts and photographs by Graham Lester George, documentary film-maker Jeanie Finlay's 'Goth Till I Die', John Lucas translating Baudelaire, a history of Nottingham Writers' Studio, reviews, comments and much more. Catching the spirit of the East Midlands in a handy anthology with a picture of a man sitting on a duck on the front.
Sorley Maclean, Raymond Carver, Tess Gallagher, Norman McCaig, David Jones, Basil Bunting, John Burnside, Ted Hughes, Maura Dooley, Ciaran Carson, William Neil, Charles Tomlinson...etc etc
“Liked most of the artwork except the Shaun Belcher works as I felt my 5 year old could do better paintings that that. I couldnt see the point in it.”
Anonymous comment on Lincoln show
”Belcher is different again, here showing rough cartoons whose hero is Moogee the Art Dog, wandering through the minefield of the contemporary art establishment. The cartoons are openly hostile rather than merely satirical, the tickboxy culture brutally castigated by Belcher’s spleen probably deserving such a good savaging “
MARK PATTERSON, Nottingham Evening Post ‘TYPO’ show review 20.10.06
“… Shaun Belcher, a freelance journalist. Belcher also provides all the lyrics for the record. His writing seems steeped in the nostalgic melancholy of Woody Guthrie or even Thomas Hardy and works very well in a peculiarly English way.”
(Trailer Star Moon Over The Downs CD) AMERICANA-UK.COM
“He’s an impressive and authentically steeped writer and deservedly gets an equally impressive if largely little known roster of contributors to interpret his material.”
(Trailer Star CD) MIKE DAVIES, NETRHYTHMS UK
“Belcher cannot be accused of nostalgia or pastoral myth-making but is as vituperative in tone as Larkin”
RAYMOND FRIEL, SOUTHFIELDS MAGAZINE.
..the poems… individually and cumulatively preserve aspects of identity and genealogy rooted in a particular soil and way of life.. …an underlying humaneness.”
STEWART CONN (POET, PLAYWRIGHT )
Born Oxford, England, 1959
Oxford Polytechnic Foundation Art & Design 1977-1978
Hornsey College of Art : B.A. Fine Art 1978-1981.
Derby University Postgrad. Cert. in Arts Practice 2007-2008
Had series of successful London painting exhibitions through 1980’s and art used on record sleeves for WEA Records and Creation Records.
Moved back to Oxfordshire 1989 -1992 and worked in downland to create the ‘Chalk Downs ‘ set of drawings.
Exhibited at The Rocket Press in 1991 alongside Ray Howard Jones, Robin Tanner and Edward Bawden
(Rocket Press now Rocket Gallery, London).
Moved to Edinburgh 1994 and created ‘McThistle’ suite of etchings at Edinburgh College of Art 1994-5.
Moved to Nottingham U.K. 2002
Trained as teacher at Nottingham University (P.G.C.C.E) 2004
Currently living in Nottingham and now multimedia lecturer at Trent University, freelance web designer and practicing digital artist.
Published poet (see Writing website) and performing songwriter (Songwriter website) and music reviewer see Flyinshoes Music.
Multimedia Lecturer Trent University 2007 -
Specialist research areas:
Web design, digitally constructed identities, contemporary theory, counter-narratives, psychogeography, Ali*, collaborative/community networks. (*Artist’s Led Initiatives)
PUBLICATIONS
1996 'The Ice Horses' - A Shore Poets
Anthology.
(Scottish Cultural Press, Edinburgh)
POETRY READINGS
2008 LOWDHAM BOOK FESTIVAL: Staple magazine launch
2001 BACKROOM POETS, OXFORD : With W.N.Herbert & Joe Butler.
2000 FIRE MAGAZINE reading Highgate London with various writers associated with Fire.
2000 LEDBURY POETRY FESTIVAL : Three Oxford Poets with Giles Goodland 1999 SOUTHFIELDS MAGAZINE
READING : Magic Cafe, Oxford with Richard Price & Giles Goodland.
1996 SHORE POETS : Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh with John Purser & Gillian Ferguson.
1993 DIDCOT FESTIVAL : Didcot Library with fellow Didcot poets Jonathan Davidson & Greg
Sweetnam.
1992 SLOWDANCER 28 : Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham with Kirsty Gunn and Mark Robinson
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The next two Salt Margins at The Whitechapel Gallery are unmissable. Hope to see you there!
Thursday 2 August
Luke Kennard Laura Forman Adam Green The Ex-Men
At 26 Luke Kennard is the youngest ever nominee for the Forward Prize for Best Poetry Collection. He reads from The Harbour Beyond The Movie, his outstanding
second book. Lazy Gramophonite Adam Green reads from Satsuma Sun Mover, a surreal coming-of-age tale. Generation Txter Laura Forman performs poems about Bon
Jovi (yes!) and Battersea Power Station. Plus music and spoken word from Glasgow-based duo The Ex-Men. Doors 7pm, free entry. Produced in association with
Salt Publishing.
Thursday 20 September
Melanie Challenger Eleanor Rees Chris McCabe Songdog
Salt poets Eleanor Rees (Andraste's Hair) and Melanie Challenger (Galatea) have both been nominated for this year's Forward Prize for Best First Collection.
Which is reason enough to come and hear them read. Like Eleanor, Chris McCabe is a Salt poet and a Liverpudlian. His collection The Hutton Inquiry is a
powerful examination of language under pressure. Musical refreshment is provided by the excellent Songdog, led by playwright Lyndon Morgan.
JUNCTURE is in search of the Bohemian Intelligensia. We hope that we're your type.
Check us out-- a collaboration of 50 of our time's finest artists in story, drawing and song, featuring Vernon Reid, DJ Spooky, Carl Hancock Rux, Jonathan Lethem... CHECK OUT SAMPLE STORIES ON OUR BLOG, MUSIC ON OUR PAGE, DRAWINGS AT JUNCTURE.TV.
Songs on the CD based on stories in the book. Drawings based on stories are in the book.
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Spring is sprung, and so has the Spring Issue 2007 of The Smoking Poet, online now! Fiction, non-fiction, poetry, cigar and book reviews, links and resources for writers, and an interview with Ingrid Hill, author of "Ursula, Under."
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