From February – August 2012 I’m poet-in-residence at UCL’s Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience. I’ve set up a blog to document it: see The Vox Lab for notes, thoughts on journal articles, drafts of poems, videos and links, as well as guest posts by scientists and other writers. I’ll also be organising a number of public events throughout the residency, so please sign up to the mailing list on the homepage if you’d like to stay informed.
A NEW ANTHOLOGY from Penned in the Margins, exploring unusual formal devices in poetry. Contributors include Christian Bok, Emily Critchley, Nathan Jones, Ira Lightman, Hannah Silva, Chrissy Williams etc. etc. I’ve got a couple in there too.
Read it here: Runners and Risers
Herbarium is an anthology of poems and songs written by 55 poets celebrating and exploring the contemporary resonances of medicinal plants and herbs for the Urban Physic Garden.
Herbarium has now sold out, but you can go to this WEBPAGE to watch videos of the poets who read at the launch night on the 22 July below, or click on individual poems to read or listen. Thanks to Steve Fowler for filming and to Wayward Plants for all their support.
New artists’ commissions, including my collaboration with Townley & Bradby. READ MORE
On Tuesday 2nd August we’re launching the first publication by Special Works School at the Maharishi Store in Soho, London. Here’s what it’s about:
During the First World War, a corner of Kensington Gardens was fenced off from public access and turned into a replica of Flanders, filled with trenches, shell holes, fake trees and decoy tanks. It became the home of the Special Works School, established by the Royal Engineers as a place to teach, display and experiment with new techniques of camouflage. Following the end of the First World War, the Camouflage Park was dismantled – but did it ever really go away?
The Special Works School was refounded this year, as a collective of artists, writers and designers who want to engage critically with this secret history. On 2nd August we publish our Preliminary Report, which gathers together field observations, speculative proposals, historical images and capsule essays.
With contributions from: Tom Chivers, Simon Elvins, Lily Ford, Synnove Fredericks, Alex Haw, The Henningham Family Press, Manu Luksch, Mike Massaro & James Trefor-Jones, Vahakn Matossian, Sophie Nield, Christian Nold, Mark Pilkington, Heather Ring, James Wilkes, Hannah Wood, Patrick Wright and Liam Young.
Performed with Sally Davies. Filmed by Steve Fowler.
Saturday 18 June: reading with Mila Haugova, Colin Herd, Tamarin Norwood, Marcus Slease, Ivan Štrpka, Jonty Tiplady, Michael Zand and me.
Rich Mix, 5-47 Bethnal Green Road, London E1 6LA
7pm
Free
On 6th and 7th August I’ll be doing a performance with artists Townley and Bradby as part of Lincoln Art Programme’s live art weekend. We’ll be in Chambers Farm Wood with walkie-talkies…