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Interview with Melanie Manchot
‘Suffering becomes a beautiful thing – a story.’
Last month my friend and myself were interviewed by the artist Melanie Manchot about our experiences of being mothers of children affected by addiction. The interviews are included in the ‘The 12 Project’, a radio documentary, devised and produced in conjunction with Brighton’s RadioReverb.
The programme explores ideas around addiction and recovery through a range of creative practices, including poetry and story telling. For my part I talk about the stark reality behind the writing of ‘Zones of Avoidance’, my live literature production which won the 2013 Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry.
‘Zones of Avoidance’ is being performed at The Birley Centre, Eastbourne on 28 June 2016. It is part of Melanie Manchot’s major new exhibition, People Places Propositions, which includes the culmination of the UK tour for Twelve (2015), the artist’s acclaimed multi-channel video installation work exploring the intimate stories, rituals and ruptures of lives spent in addiction and recovery.
To listen to the broadcast: http://www.radioreverb.com/shows/12-Project-
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Guest blog post: Andrew Waterhouse and the seventh syllable, by Helena Nelson
Thanks Helen for taking the time to introduce us to Andrew Waterhouse and his work. I’m going to buy one of his books.
I am delighted to welcome Helena Nelson to continue our series on overlooked poets.
Andrew Waterhouse and the Seventh Syllable
Poets come and go. They enter your life with their poems. They get older. They die.
You don’t actively miss them. You move, as they say, on. Besides, you have poems of your own to write.
But sometimes it’s not so easy. You think of certain writers with pain and regret. You go back to their poems and there’s the poet, still inside the lines, circling round and round and looking out at you, like a goldfish behind glass. You want them to explain themselves, but the only explanation they can or will give is right here. Right here in the poems. And you still don’t get it.
Or this is how it is for me with Andrew Waterhouse, who died (it was a suicide) in 2001. I go back…
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SUNDAY 17TH APRIL 2016
Looking forward to welcoming Rosie Jackson to Tongues&Grooves!
ROSIE JACKSON
POET, WRITER AND WORKSHOP LEADER
MUSIC with LES KAZOOS D’AMOUR
OPEN MIC
Doors 7pm
Event 7:30pm – 10pm
£4
Rosie lives in Somerset where she runs workshops on memoir and poetry writing. After teaching at East Anglia, Bristol UWE, and other universities, she turned to writing and has run groups for creative writing in the UK and abroad. Her particular passions are exploring the links between writing and visual arts, and the role of creative arts in health.
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Zones of Avoidance in Eastbourne
NEXT PERFORMANCE The next scheduled performance for Zones of Avoidance is 28 June at The Birley Centre, Eastbourne, linked to a showing of Melanie Manchot’s video installation, Twelve, at Th…
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‘Zones of Avoidance’ – a live literature performance
What would your understanding be of a ‘live literature performance’? Is it the same, or related to ‘performance poetry’? Could any poetry, when read or recited in front of a…
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Next performance
Very much looking forward to taking Zones of Avoidance to Frome next month.
The next performance of Zones of Avoidance will take place at the Merlin Theatre, Frome, on 11 March, 2016.
Date/time: Friday 11 March, 7.45pm
Venue: Merlin Theatre, Bath Rd, Frome, Somerset BA11 2HG
Tickets: £10.50
Box Office: 01373 465 949
or available online from The Merlin Theatre »
Production photo by Nivine F. Keating
To see other videos from the production, click MEDIA »
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