Michael Blackburn. Writer and artist. Poetry, performance, fiction, video, landscape, conceptual, broken books. Lincolnshire, UK.
Promo vid for my chapbook of poems, Big on the Hawkesbury, published by The Knives Forks And Spoons Press (2010). Featured poem is "Dante's House of Horrors (An Extract)".
A lumiere shot on the beach at Manly, Australia.
A Numbers Station video. This time I even freaked myself a bit. Semanal08 week 10.
A poem about a previous earthquake in Lincolnshire, in 1992. semanal08, week 9.
Traditional fire in the hearth. Out in the country. Week 8.
Lovely sesame toast and a cup of tea. Reading the FT to keep up with the fate of my millions. This could be a lumiere but I prefer it to run a little longer. Week 7.
A reading of a poem by Iain Crichton Smith, 'How Often I Feel Like You'.
The poet Brendan Cleary talks about the poetry revival in Britain during the 1980s and what inspired him to start 'The Echo Room', which became one of the seminal magazines of the decade. The anthology he mentions right at the beginning of the clip is 'In Dark Times', which is a selection of poems from the first 10 years of 'The Echo Room' . As such it is the most representative anthology of that time. And unfortunately out of print.The period from 1985 to 1995 witnessed a wide-scale, provinci...
Brendan Cleary reads three poems from a forthcoming collection from Tall Lighthouse Press. semanal08 week 4.