Step into the haunting beauty of Snuff One's Glim the captivating chapbook where Alan Dunnett's poignant poetry intertwines with imagery from Livor Mortis Zine.
With echoes of Victorian mystique as both words and visuals delve into themes of cemeteries and death, crafting a unique exploration of the eternal dance between life and the afterlife.
Hand Numbered First Edition:
36 Pages (front to back)
Roughly A5 size
Original versions of poems and images
Limited to 25 copies
Cover printed on vintage effect 120gsm heavy paper
Title page of forthcoming chapbook:
Jessica Mookherjee's Judge's comments on the Glos Open Poetry Competition are now in:
Speaking 'of how... form works for and with the poem,' she says 'it doesn't need to be formal to have form' and gives 'Strict and Immovable' as one example 'where the collaged and fragmented nature of the form and word choices added so much weight to the subject matter.'
Here's a recording of 'Risk' made by the actor Jamie Martin with the support of ravens, Easter Monday 2022:
'Risk' appears on page p.22 of Mono (or p.27 according to bottom of page); bios at end; click on 'overview' at top, then click again on sought-for page:
The 8th annual Leicester Human Rights Arts and Film Festival invites
you to Poetry and Settled Status for All: Readings and Conversation,
an online evening featuring poems and short prose exploring themes that
include:
migrant, undocumented migrant and refugee experiences
the hostile environment, and
how, around the world, people are calling on governments
to give Settled Status, Indefinite Leave to Remain or citizenship to all
who need it.
The event takes place online on Saturday,
4 December 2021, from 6pm till 7.30pm.
The event is a preview of the anthology, Poetry and Settled Status for
All which is coming out from CivicLeicester shortly.
Other books CivicLeicester has published include Black
Lives Matter: Poems for a New World (2020) and Per terra e per
mare: Poesie per chi รจ in cerca di rifugio (2020, translated by Pietro
Deandrea).
The Leicester Human
Rights Arts and Film Festival is a grassroots festival
that aims to draw attention to human rights issues at home and
abroad. The festival starts on December 4 and runs through
to December 10. The festival also aims to draw attention to
Human Rights Day which is marked on December 10 every year
around the world.
The anthology, Poetry and Settled Status for All is coming out from CivicLeicester shortly.
Clytemnestra has been selected for this year's Film and Video Poetry Symposium https://www.fvpsociety.com/ More to follow.
'Better Not Take the Train', 'Fatale', and 'What is Right' will be appearing in the Horrorscope Press Horror Without Borders. Vol.2: Hidden Realms dark poetry anthology.
'It was weird to remember a time before she had lifted her face to the rain and seen that door, bruise coloured, waiting in the heavens. She kept the page, worn and faded now, with the word 'Power' written on it. It looked like someone else's handwriting. But then, as she reflected on rare occasions, it had been a different time... She'd not understood her own commitment to the business of living.'
The 2020 Film and Video Poetry Symposium has selected and announced Jenny Xueer Wan's film titled Assassin as an official selection by their platform:
Saturday, November 21, 2020 Program begins at 8:00pm.
MA'S BUTTON BOX (poet. Anshu Malviya, director. Anubhav Singh, India, 2020) THE SIREN'S SONG (poet & director. Thomas Longstaff, U.K., 2019) DIALOGUE WITH GEORGIA O'KEEFFE I: CHIMNEY ROCK (poet & director. Patricia L. Meek, U.S., 2018) THANK JOHNSON I'M WOKE (writer & director. Charles de Agustin, U.S., 2019) THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF BUZZ ALDRIN (animator. Avishkar Chhetri, poet. Bill Neumire, U.S., 2020) HELL YELLOW (media artist. Dean Terry, performance artists. Hannah Weir & Therefore, U.S., 2020) THE SCULPTURE OF PLACE AND TIME (khmer classical dancer. Prumsodun Ok, director. Tatsuhito Utagawa, Japan & Cambodia, 2020) HAIKU (poet & director. Martin Gerigk, Germany, 2020)
short intermission
WHAT MEMPHIS NEEDS (poet & director. Alexis Kraslovsky, U.S., 1991) RESPEK (poet. Kamari Bright, animator. Christina Perry, U.S., 2018) FARMLY (poet. Buddy Wakefield, director. Jamie DeWolf, U.S., 2019) ASSASSIN (poet. Alan Dunnett, director. Jenny Xueer Wan, U.K., 2019) THE BEZIER CURVE (poet & computer graphics. Jim Hall, U.S., 2019) BIRTH OF A POET (writers & directors. James Franco, Gómez Millán, and Zachary Lerschberg, U.S., 2019) PRINCE (poet. Lynn Breedlove, video artist. John Sanborn, U.S., 2020)
The Final Screening and Closing Remarks is approximately 100 minutes
The book is now available on Amazon and Kindle and soon Nook and other formats.
Chocolate has been selected for the Zebra Poetry Film Festival - 19th to 22nd November 2020 in the Kino in der KulturBrauerei in Berlin. Around 2,000 films were submitted from more than 100 countries.
Interrogation is an Official Selection of the Hong Kong Arthouse Film Festival 2020. I wrote and voiced it. Ivo Krankowski directed, shooting it on an iPhone.
21 films have been selected out of about 1,000. Interrogation will be screened on Monday June 22, 2020 between 7 and 11 PM at the Hong Kong Arts Centre, 2 Harbour Road, Wan Chai, Hong Kong.
Now entering its sixth year, the Hong Kong Arthouse Film Festival has evolved to have a physical presence in a premier setting - The Hong Kong Arts Centre (HKAC). As it approaches its fourth decade, the HKAC has become widely recognized as the prime arts and culture incubator in Hong Kong. HKAC strives to engage the community with art, focusing primarily on promoting contemporary art and culture in Hong Kong and abroad through exhibitions, art education and related programs.
Assassin has been selected for the International New York Film Festival. It's a semi-finalist in the Experimental category.
This will now be an online streaming festival; and because Assassin has a guaranteed screening, it will be screened again in New York next year for the 2021 festival.
'That's a wonderful diptych. It also touches in a subtle and oblique way on our present extraordinary dilemma.' - Bernard O'Donoghue
'That teetering between the safe quotidian and the troubling transcendent is so true of the human condition.' - Nicholas Bielby
'Interesting combination of 21st century and 30 AD. The Pope would hate it.' - John Biggs
Assassin will be screened at 6pm, Saturday March 14th (festival's Shorts Block 1) at Genesis Cinema in Bethnal Green, together with a few other shorts. Here are 3 stills. Please scroll down for more.
Also, Assassin has been awarded 2020 Best Rhythm & Poetry for Berlin Deadline at Berlin Underground Film Festival. It's an additional category awarding a different film every month.
2 stills from the forthcoming poem-film, Chocolate, directed by Victoria Ene, featuring Meagan Connolly, voiced by Mathias Swann.
'Shot in the Head' will appear in The Very Edge, a poetry collection published by Flying Ketchup Press in the spring of 2020.
Interrogation, a poem-film written and voiced by me, and directed by Ivo Krankowski, has won Best Experimental Film at the Verona International Film Festival 2019
Interrogation has been selected for The One Minutes Series 'Martians Send Videos Home'.
'Martians Send Videos Home' consists of 15 works by international artists and filmmakers. Together, the videos explore the concept of estrangement.
'Martians Send Videos Home' will be presented at the Power Station of Art in Shanghai (CN) 22 October- 24 November 2019. http://powerstationofart.com/en/
DISTRIBUTION
In November and December, the series will tour museums and cultural organisations. These are:
Betty Jane, Amsterdam (NL)
Dortmunder U (DE)
East China Normal University, Shanghai (CN)
Mu, Eindhoven (NL)
Museum Hilversum (NL)
Sandberg Instituut, Amsterdam (NL)
De School, Amsterdam (NL)
In November and December, the films will be posted on Instagram at theoneminutes_
Interrogation becomes part of The One Minutes Collection and will be preserved by The Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision.
Interrogation will be screened at the Get Smart Film Festival (short films made on smartphones or tablets):
Interrogation, a 1-minute poem-film directed by Ivo Krankowski and made on iPhones, will be screening in Houston on March 22nd - reelpoetryhoustontx.com
Interrogation is also a category semi-finalist for the Alternative Film Festival. Finalists will be screened in Toronto on March 18th - altff.org
All of the winning and commended poems are published in the competition anthology, The Blaze in Father's Breath, which is now available via the Festival's online shop.
'Witch' longlisted by Liz Berry for the Winchester Poetry Prize. The winners will be announced at a special prize-giving event at the Winchester Poetry Festival on Saturday 6 October 2018. Tickets for this event are free and can be booked via the Theatre Royal Winchester Box Office.
On YouTube: The Midas Touch, a film version of the poem, Good (Reason) For Brexit, which appeared in The New European Jan 2018, and in the Culture Matters collection A Third Colour by Alan Dunnett with images by Alix Emery, published May 2018.
The launch at Housmans on Thurs 24 May went well. There was no actual reading and the overall feel was of a party rather than a launch. (Readings with other Culture Matters poets will follow in the summer.) Instead, films made from the poems were screened, with headsets provided, while the music of Dungeness, Niobe, Pumajaw and Love, with their fractured, dystopian concerns, played.
'Assassin' will appear in Skylight 47, Issue 8. The launch takes place at the March Over The Edge reading at Galway City Library at 6.30 on Thursday 30th March 2017.
'Nothing To Declare' has won a Merit Prize in the Nottingham Open Poetry Competition 2016. The adjudicator Liz Berry - http://lizberrypoetry.co.uk/ - said:
'I think the poem is fine but the ending is stunning.'
Ann Course studied at the Royal College of Art and lives and works in London. Her films and sculptures have been widely screened and exhibited, including Tate Britain/Modern, Royal Academy, The New Art Gallery Walsall, Angel Row Gallery, Stroom Den Hague, Galerie Barbara Thumm, The Drawing Room, the Rotterdam Film Festival, Oberhausen film Festival, LUX gallery and the Whitechapel Gallery, London.
'The Dog's Tongue Dragged in the Dirt' appears in Culture Matters:
The Eyewear anthology launch (links below) went well. Readings were given to a packed room at The Camden Eye. 'Succour' was presented as 'Sucker' with Zaid El-Mousa playing the refugee. The poem was directed by Jess Walker.
Wake (Mark II) has won a Fame'Us International Film Festival Bronze Award:
Judged by Kelly Davio, Senior Poetry Editor, Eyewear Publishing LTD, and Todd Swift, Series Editor.
Modeled on the famous United States competition, the first annual Best New British and Irish Poets competition was open to any poet of British or Irish citizenship and/or U.K. or Irish residency who has not yet published or will not publish a full-length collection prior to 1 June 2016. Poems submitted for consideration could have appeared in print before, or in a pamphlet, but not online. Poets about to have full collections out from Eyewear Publishing, including Ben Parker and Maria Apichella, were ineligible for inclusion.
It includes Lenin's view (in a paragraph) of Kant [materialism/idealism]; and Mike Quille's regular poetry selection, including two I've written - 'Instruction' and 'The Third Colour' - plus an anti-war essay by Magdalena Thompson focussing on Byron's 'The Eve of Waterloo'.
'The Third Colour' will appear in Emmylou Books' latest anthology, a booklet called Is There A Poem Sweet Enough? It'll be on sale soon from Campaign Against Arms Trade (www.caat.org.uk): 020 7281 0297/enquiries@caat.com. £5.50 incl p & p
'Brother and Sister', from a 3-sonnet set called 'Once Upon a Time', will be appearing in issue 37 of Brittle Star - http://www.brittlestar.org.uk/ - the launch of which will be at 6.30 pm for 7 on 14 Oct at the Barbican Library in London.
I'll be reading 3 or 4 poems. Entry is free, but space is limited. The Library can be contacted on 020 7638 0569 for tickets - Barbican Library, Silk Street, EC2Y 8DS.
'Tuning Into The Slow Time' will be appearing in the St Cross 50th Anniversay anthology:
Sub Specie Aeternitatis has appeared in Pennine Platform 73. It consists of 3 poems: 'Promise of Eternity', 'Ancient Mars', 'Bubbles in Boiling Water'.
2 poems will be appearing in Dream Catcher 29.
'Atrocity' appears in the Communist Review (Number 70, Winter 2013/14). Articles include Graham Stevenson's ' General Strikes' and a round table discussion: 'Building the Fight Against Austerity'.
3 more poems in the Civil War series can be found here:
Will be reading 'Down by the River' in Nottingham on Saturday 24th November. It's been awarded Joint Third Place in the 2012 Nottingham Open Poetry Competition. The Adjudicator was Bloodaxe editor Neil Astley.
The event is from 7 till 9. Other poets in the book include Heathcote Williams, Michael Horovitz, Mario Petrucci, Andy Croft, Judith Kazantis, Valerie Laws, Ian Parks, Ira Lightman and Jeremy Reed.
The Poetry Library's poetry magazines site www.poetrymagazines.org.uk will soon include some of my work previously published in Poetry Salzburg Review.
Ana Eulate's 'Kinds of White', which Ana translated from the Spanish with me, will be released on the Meridian label towards the end of this year as part of a set of 8 songs which set various poets. The composer is David Power. The performers are Paul Carey Jones (Baritone) and Ian Ryan (piano) and they were recorded at the National Centre for Early Music in York by Dr Jeremy Wells of the York University Music Technology Department.
'The Big Reach' will be included in the 2012 Norwich Writers' Circle Anthology.
'Let In' has been accepted at the Motion International Festival in Cyprus. The Festival is between 23rd and 24th March - Cyprus. Here's the link to the festival programme. 'Let In' is under the Experimental / Video Art Section.
'Let In' has been selected for the 24 Hour Nuremburg Film Festival. It's being held in Krakow, Poland from December 9th to 10th: http://www.nonstopfilm.info/
John Biggs and Catherine Tang have retained the Macbeth bit I had in the 3rd edition of Teaching for Quality Learning at University. The 4th edition is out now: http://www.mcgraw-hill.co.uk/html/0335242758.html
'Let In' has been selected for this year's Kenya International Film Festival and will be playing on Sunday 23rd Oct at the Alliance Francaise at 9:45.
'Let In' has been selected for exhibition and will be shown in the Walthamstow International Film Festival which runs from the 3rd to the 11th of September at five venues around Walthamstow Town Centre.
'A Little After Dark' and 'Charon' will appear in 65/1, the autumn issue of Assent.
Dream Catcher 24 launch on Thursday July 7th at Pages Bookshop in Hackney, 7pm with poets
Myra Schneider, Chris Hardy, Alan Dunnett, Patrick Drysdale and Mike Lyons and Paul Sutherland
The issue is an extraordinary blend of national and international writing, from Turkey, Nigeria, Ireland, USA, and from the UK. Well-known authors such as Graham Mort, Myra Schneider, Tony Roberts, Ian Parks, Mario Susko Micheal Henry and Chris Hardy are featured and Abigail Morley (short-list for the Forward Prize Best First Collection, 2010).
Humorous stories from the USA; translation of Ingeborg Bachmann, excellent artwork and reviews of such writers as the Australian Sandy Fitts and UK poet, Josephine Dickinson.
Dream Catcher is as much fiction as poetry, as much national as international. It knows no barriers or borders. It aims for diversity and excellence, to encompass all subjects and all forms of writing to represent the contemporary world's cultural mix. Contemporary Writing for Contemporary Readers
Three poems appear in Poetry Salzburg Review No.18. 'I Saw You Again' is in The Oxford Magazine, No.306. Other contributors include Geoffrey Hill and there are articles on climate change, sustainability and the Browne Report:
The next issue of Assent will be a new look double issue and will be launched at QUAD (Arts Centre in the middle of Derby) at 7 on Thursday 7th October. This will feature a reading from Bernard O'Donoghue, supported by two other poets (CJ Allen and me) who appear in the issue. SOLD OUT.
'Decision' appears in the Norwich Writers' Circle Open Poetry Competition Anthology 2010:
'I Saw You Again' has been highly commended by the Yorkshire Open Poetry Competition (adjudicator George Szirtes).
'On The Other Side' was commended by the Nottingham Poetry Competition (Adjudicator Penelope Shuttle) and now appears in The Rialto, no.69, the '25 Years' issue:
Beggars and The Last Race appear in the competition anthology The Ver Prize 2009. The adjudicator was John Whitworth and the poems were heard at the Maltings Arts Theatre in St Albans on 4th July 09:
A Bed for the Long Night came 3rd in the Torbay Poetry Competition, part of the festival. The organiser is Patricia Oxley who also edits Acumen. These recordings (my voice) produced by David Angus:
Many thanks to Anna Andresen and David Angus for providing a voice for the Hamlet poem. They have also done In Bed With Macbeth, which follows straight after.
Pinstripe Hype will soon be releasing their EP called Class. Ugly can be heard here.
Pinstripe Hype are:
Andy Preston | Guitars and vocals
James Peters | Bass
Zaki Orbell | Vocals
Rob Murphy | Drums
Rhodri Pazzi-Axworthy | Keyboards
I have a bit in John Biggs' revised edition of Teaching for Quality Learning at University, which he has written with Catherine Tang. He is a novelist as well as an educationalist and can be visited at:
Good to see Kevin Fegan very active, not just as a playwright of standing but as a poet, currently being published by Five Leaves. We gave some poetry readings together, through East Midlands Arts, about 15 years ago.
These competitions include vignettes:
