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SurVision
SurVision is an international English-language surrealism, surrealist poetry project, comprising an online magazine and a book-publishing outlet. ''SurVision'' magazine, founded in March 2017 by poet Anatoly Kudryavitsky, was a platform for surrealism, surrealist poetry from Ireland and the world. SurVision Books, the book imprint, started up the following year. SurVision Magazine SurVision published a biannual magazine of the same name, containing surrealism, surrealist poetry, including translations from other languages. The magazine has been noted for the range of its contributors, who have included both established and new writers from Ireland and other parts of the world. The ''Dublin Review of Books'' has called it "currently the only international magazine devoted exclusively to surrealist poetry."Tim MurphyOn the Waves of the Surreal ''Dublin Review of Books'', 1 April 2019. The Munich-based German-language ''Signaturen Magazine'' announced that they will be publishing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anatoly Kudryavitsky
Anatoly Kudryavitsky (Russian: Анатолий Исаевич Кудрявицкий; born 17 August 1954) is a Russian-Irish novelist, poet, editor and literary translator. Biography Kudryavitsky's father, Jerzy, was a Ukrainian-born Polish naval officer who served in the Russian fleet based in the Far East,Anatoly Kudryavitsky at The Parlour Review while his mother Nelly Kitterick, a music teacher, was the daughter of an Irishman from who ended up in one of 's |
Surrealism
Surrealism is an art movement, art and cultural movement that developed in Europe in the aftermath of World War I in which artists aimed to allow the unconscious mind to express itself, often resulting in the depiction of illogical or dreamlike scenes and ideas. Its intention was, according to leader André Breton, to "resolve the previously contradictory conditions of dream and reality into an absolute reality, a super-reality", or ''surreality.'' It produced works of painting, writing, photography, Theatre of Cruelty, theatre, Surrealist cinema, filmmaking, Surrealist music, music, Surreal humour, comedy and other media as well. Works of Surrealism feature the element of surprise, unexpected juxtapositions and ''Non sequitur (literary device), non sequitur''. However, many Surrealist artists and writers regard their work as an expression of the philosophical movement first and foremost (for instance, of the "pure psychic automatic behavior, automatism" Breton speaks of in the fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alison Dunhill
Alison Dunhill (born 1950) is an English artist and art historian, and also a published poet. Biography Born in London, Dunhill trained in Fine Art at the University of Reading under Sir Terry Frost and Rita Donagh. In the early 1970s she had a studio in Florence where she associated with some of the key figures in the Situationist International, including philosopher and filmmaker Guy Debord, the writer Gianfranco Sanguinetti and, later, the novelist and critic Michèle Bernstein. She presented some of her recollections of that time to an audience in Rio de Janeiro in 2015. Artistic career Dunhill is primarily a landscape painter and has also explored more abstract and semi-sculptural forms, including mixed media artworks inspired by the surrealist ideas of chance and the found object. For much of her artistic career Dunhill maintained studios in London but she now lives and works in King's Lynn, Norfolk. She has exhibited frequently; she is a Member of the National Society ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Kalamaras
George Kalamaras is an American poet and educator. He is Professor of English at Purdue University, Fort Wayne, Indiana, where he has taught since 1990. He has published nineteen collections of poetry, twelve of which are full-length, including ''Kingdom of Throat-Stuck Luck'', the winner of the Elixir Press Poetry Prize (2011), and ''The Theory and Function of Mangoes'' (2000), the winner of the Four Way Books Intro Series. His poetry has been described, as Surrealist. Personal life Kalamaras was born in Chicago and grew up in Cedar Lake, Indiana. He graduated from Indiana University Bloomington in 1980. He earned a master’s in English from Colorado State University and a PhD in English from University at Albany, SUNY. Between 2014 and 2016 Kalamaras was poet laureate of the American state of Indiana. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Noelle Kocot
} Noelle Kocot (born 1969) legal name Noelle Kocot-Tomblin, is an American poet. They are the author of nine full-length collections of poetry, including Ascent of the Mothers (Wave Books, 2023),'God's Green Earth'' (Wave Books, 2020)'', Phantom Pains of Madness'' (Wave Books, 2016), ''Soul in Space'' (Wave Books, 2013), ''The Bigger World'' (Wave Books, 2011) ''Sunny Wednesday'' (Wave Books, 2009), "Poem for the End of Time and Other Poems" (Wave Books, 2006), The Raving Fortune (Four Way Books, 2004) and 4 (Four Way Books, 2001) Career Kocot teaches part time at The New School in the creative writing program, and has also taught at the New Writers Project in Austin, Texas. They are a graduate of Oberlin College. Personal life Kocot was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, and now resides in New Jersey, where they are the poet laureate of Pemberton Borough. Kocot was hospitalized in 2000 at Bellevue Hospital, where they were diagnosed with bipolar disorder. They were marr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tony Bailie
Tony Bailie is a novelist, and journalist from Downpatrick, County Down, Northern Ireland. Works Tony Bailie is an Irish writer and journalist who, as of 2018, has published three novels and two poetry collections. His first novel, ''The Lost Chord'', published by Lagan Press in 2006, tells the story of a hard-living and enigmatic rock star called Gino Morgan who "disappears." Told from the perspective of a fellow band member the novel explores the impact the disappearance has on those who were closest to Gino and the chaos that comes back into their lives when rumours start to circulate that the singer is still alive and may be about to come out of hiding. Bailie’s second novel, ''ecopunks'', was published in November 2010. It has been described as "environmental parable for the 21st century". Its main character is an "ecowarrior" who becomes involved in campaigns around the world, in the jungles of the Amazon and Indonesia, and the nuclear testing grounds of the South Pac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helen Ivory
Helen Ivory (born 1969) is an English poet, artist, tutor, and editor. Career Ivory is a poet and visual artist. Her sixth Bloodaxe Books collection is ''Constructing a Witch'' ( 2024), a Poetry Book Society Winter Recommendation. In 2024 she was awarded a Cholmondeley Award. Co-judge Moniza Alvi says of her work: "Helen Ivory, a highly individualistic poet and visual artist, conjures a world that is both magical and sharply real." Ivory edits the webzine Ink Sweat and Tears and teaches online for National Centre for Writing In 2020 she became Versopolispoet and has work translated into Ukrainian, Polish, Spanish, Croatian and Greek. In 2019, she was named as one of the EDP's 100 Most Inspiring Women. ''Fool’s World'', a collaborative Tarot with the artist Tom de Freston (Gatehouse Press), won the 2016 Saboteur Best Collaborative Work award. A collection of collage/mixed-media poems entitled ''Hear What the Moon Told Me'' was published in 2016 by Knives Forks and Spoo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ciaran O'Driscoll
Ciaran O'Driscoll (born 1943) is an Irish poet and novelist born in Callan, County Kilkenny and living in Limerick. Biography Ciaran O’Driscoll lives in Limerick. He worked as a lecturer for the School of Art and Design at the Limerick Institute of Technology before he retired. A member of Aosdána, he has published nine books of poetry, including Gog and Magog (1987), Moving On, Still There (2001), and Surreal Man (2006). His fourth collection, The Old Women of Magione, was translated into Italian in 2006, and a Selected Poems in Slovene translation was published in 2013. A poetry collection, Angel Hour (2021), is his most recent publication. Liverpool University Press published his childhood memoir, A Runner Among Falling Leaves (2001). His novel, A Year's Midnight, was published by Pighog Press (2012). His novella The Golden Ass (Limerick Writers' Centre Publishing, Limerick, 2024) Work His work has been featured in special Irish issues of European literary journals an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elin O'Hara Slavick
elin o'Hara slavick is an interdisciplinary artist, poet, professor, curator, critic and activist. She began teaching in the department of art at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1994, where she held the titles of distinguished term professor, associate chair and director of graduate studies. Sheis currently the Artist-in-Residence in the College of Health Sciences, UC, Irvine. She was the Huntington Art and Research Fellow at Caltech in 2022. Career Slavick received a BA from Sarah Lawrence College and a MFA in photography from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her work has been exhibited internationally in both solo and group exhibitions. Her published books include ''Bomb After Bomb: A Violent Cartography'' (with a forward from Howard Zinn) and ''After Hiroshima'' (with an essay by James Elkins). She was once represented by Cohen Gallery in Los Angeles. In 2018, she has published a chapbook of Surrealist poems entitled ''Cameramouth'' (SurVision ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Janet Hamill
Janet Hamill (born July 29, 1945, in Jersey City, New Jersey) is an American poet and spoken word artist. Her poem "K-E-R-O-U-A-C" was nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and her fifth collection, titled ''Body of Water'', was nominated for the William Carlos Williams Award by the Poetry Society of America. Her first collection of short fiction, titled ''Tales from the Eternal Cafe'' (Three Rooms Press, 2014), was named one of the "Best Books of 2014" by ''Publishers Weekly''. Early life and education Hamill was born on July 29, 1945, in Christ Hospital in Jersey City, New Jersey. She spent her first five years in Weehawken, New Jersey, then moved to New Milford, New Jersey, in 1950. In 1963, she entered Glassboro State College, now Rowan University, in Glassboro, New Jersey, where she earned a BA in English in 1967. At Glassboro, Hamill met lifelong friend and collaborator, musician and poet Patti Smith. Smith and Hamill were both considered campus outcasts and beatniks, but b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patrick Deeley
Patrick Deeley (born 1953) is an Irish poet. Patrick Deeley was born in Mullagh, Loughrea, County Galway County Galway ( ; ) is a Counties of Ireland, county in Republic of Ireland, Ireland. It is in the Northern and Western Region, taking up the south of the Provinces of Ireland, province of Connacht. The county population was 276,451 at the 20 .... His poems have been widely published and anthologised in Ireland and abroad over the past forty years, and translated to French, Italian, Spanish and other languages. He has received awards, including the inaugural Dermot Healy Poetry Prize and the 2019 Lawrence O'Shaughnessy Prize for Poetry. His works of fiction for younger readers include ''The Lost Orchard'', winner of the Eilís Dillon Award in 2001. His bestselling memoir, ''The Hurley Maker's Son'', was published by Doubleday Ireland/Transworld and shortlisted for the 2016 Irish Nonfiction Book of the Year Award. He formerly worked as a primary school principal in Dub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patrick Chapman
Patrick Chapman (born 1968) is an Irish poet, writer and screenwriter. Chapman's first published work was ''Jazztown'', released in 1991 by Raven Arts Press. This was followed five years later by ''The New Pornography'', a collection of poems described as "darkly humorous" by ''The Irish Times''. His story collection, ''The Wow Signal'' (Bluechrome Publishing ) was published in 2007. He also wrote the ''Doctor Who'' audio drama, ''" Fear of the Daleks"'' (Big Finish, 2007). Based on his own published story of the same name, he wrote the short drama film ''Burning The Bed'', which starred Gina McKee and Aidan Gillen. ''Burning The Bed'' was a prizewinner at the 2004 Worldfest film festival in Houston, Texas and was also named Best Narrative Short at the DeadCENTER Film Festival in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Chapman has also written five episodes of the children's television series, Garth and ''Bev'', for Kavaleer Productions. This aired on RTÉ in 2009 and Cbeebies in 2010, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
