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SurVision
SurVision is an international English-language surrealist poetry project, comprising an online magazine and a book-publishing outlet. ''SurVision'' magazine, founded in March 2017 by poet Anatoly Kudryavitsky, is a platform for surrealist poetry from Ireland and the world. SurVision Books, the book imprint, started up the following year. SurVision Magazine SurVision publishes a biannual magazine of the same name, containing 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 German translations of the best poem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Surrealism
Surrealism is a cultural movement that developed in Europe in the aftermath of World War I in which artists depicted unnerving, illogical scenes and developed techniques to allow the unconscious mind to express itself. Its aim 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, theatre, filmmaking, photography, and other media. Works of Surrealism feature the element of surprise, unexpected juxtapositions and '' 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 automatism" Breton speaks of in the first Surrealist Manifesto), with the works themselves being secondary, i.e. artifacts of surrealist experimentation. Leader Breton was explicit in his assertion that Surrealism was, above all, a ... [...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). Work His work has featured in special Irish issues of European literary journals and anthologized on several occasions. Eamon Grennan, writing in The Irish Times, called ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philip Hammial
Philip Roby Hammial is an Australian poet, publisher, editor, artist and art curator. His achievements include thirty-five collections of poetry, thirty-four solo sculpture exhibitions, and, acting as the director/curator of The Australian Collection of Outsider Art, twenty-six exhibitions of Australian Outsider Art in five countries. Hammial's significance to Australian poetry has been recognised by the Australia Council, which awarded him a Senior Writer's Fellowship in 1996, an Established Writer's Fellowship in 2004 and the Nancy Keesing Studio at the Cité internationale des arts in Paris in 2009. Literary and artistic career Hammial has published thirty-six collections of poetry. He is also the editor with Ulli Beier and Rudi Krausmann of the seminal "Outsider Art in Australia". As at August, 2020 he has had 438 poems published in 134 journals in 17 countries. His work has appeared in 36 poetry anthologies in seven countries. In 2006 he edited "25 poetes australiens", the ... [...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''. Life Born in Christ Hospital in Jersey City, Hamill spent her first five years in Weehawken, New Jersey, then moved to suburban New Milford, New Jersey in 1950. In 1963, she attended Glassboro State College (now Rowan University) in south Jersey, where she earned a BA in English in 1967. It was at Glassboro that Hamill met lifelong friend and collaborator, musician and poet Patti Smith. Both considered campus outcasts and beatniks bonded over art and rock n’roll on the staff of the Avant, the campus literar ... [...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 was primarily a landscape painter in her earlier career, and later 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 othe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patrick Deeley
Patrick Deeley (born 1953) is an Irish poet. Patrick Deeley was born in Loughrea, County Galway "Righteousness and Justice" , anthem = () , image_map = Island of Ireland location map Galway.svg , map_caption = Location in Ireland , area_footnotes = , area_total_km2 = .... 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 is the recipient of a number of 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 Eilis Dillon Award in 2001. His bestselling memoir, 'The Hurley Maker's Son', was published to wide critical acclaim by Doubleday Ireland/Transworld and shortlisted for the 2016 Irish Nonfiction Book of the Year Award. He formerly worked as a ... [...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, and h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Boyle (poet)
Peter Boyle (born 1951 in Melbourne, Australia), is an Australian poet and translator. He has published more than a dozen collections of poetry, including ''The Blue Cloud of Crying'' and ''Coming Home From the World''. Boyle has also published translations of Federico García Lorca, Luis Cernuda, Eugenio Montejo, César Vallejo, Pierre Reverdy, and others. Bibliography * ''Ideas of Travel'', Vagabond Press, 2022. * ''Notes Towards the Dreambook of Endings'', Vagabond Press, 2021. *''Enfolded in the Wings of a Great Darkness'', Vagabond Press, 2019. *''Ghostspeaking'', Vagabond Press, 2016. * ''Towns in the Great Desert'', Puncher & Wattmann, 2013 * ''How Does a Man Who Is Dead Reinvent His Body? : The Belated Love Poems of Thean Morris Caelli'', Exeter, Devon (County), England : Shearsman Books, 2008. * ''The Transformation Boat'' 2008, River Road Press. * ''Reading Borges and Other Poems'' 2007, Picaro Press. * ''Museum of Space'', University of Queensland Press, 2004. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adam Aitken
Adam Aitken is an Australian poet. Early life Australian writer Adam Aitken was born in London in 1960. He spent his early childhood with relatives in Thailand, and was educated at a convent in Malaysia, then a school in Perth Western Australia, before his family moved to Sydney, Australia in 1969. His father was born in Melbourne and as a young man worked as a copy-writer and advertising executive, then re-trained as a landscape architect. He was a respected ceramics critic and in the early 1970s was an activist in the Anti-Vietnam War Moratorium movement. His mother is Thai and worked in the Samuel Taylor Factory in Sydney, then as an interpreter. Career Aitken began writing in the mid-1970s and majored in English and Art Film History at the University of Sydney. He has also completed a Master's in linguistics and a Doctorate in Creative Arts from the Centre for New Writing, University of Technology, Sydney. His doctoral thesis was titled "Writing the hybrid: Asian imaginar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Poetry Ireland
Poetry Ireland ( ga, Éigse Éireann) is an organisation for poets and poetry, in both Irish and English, in the island of Ireland. It is a private nonprofit organisation that receives support from The Arts Council of Ireland and The Arts Council of Northern Ireland. It was founded in 1978 by John F. Deane and is based in Parnell Square, Dublin. Its thirtieth anniversary in 2008 was celebrated by events all over Ireland culminating in an event at the Irish College in Paris. Director The current director is Niamh O'Donnell. Before her, the Director was Maureen Kennelly, who has since been appointed as Director of the Arts Council of Ireland. Their predecessors have included Joe Woods, Theo Dorgan and Rory Brennan. Board * Ciarán Benson (Chairperson) Professor Emeritus of Psychology University College Dublin * Olwen Dawe, policy analyst and consultant * Peter Fallon, poet, editor and publisher * Joan McBreen, poet * Christine Monk, cultural publicist * Joe Moreau, Managing Part ... [...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 fifth Bloodaxe Books collection is ''The Anatomical Venus'' ( 2019), which centres on women and otherness. She has co-edited with George Szirtes ''In Their Own Words: Contemporary Poets on their Poetry'' Salt 2012. She edits the webzine Ink Sweat and Tears and is a lecturer for UEA/ National Centre for Writing online creative writing. In 2020 she became Versopolispoet and has work translated into Ukrainian, Polish and Spanish. ''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 Spoons Press. In early 2019, SurVison published a chapbook of predominantly surrealist poems titled ''Maps of the Abandoned City''. Reviewing it in London Grip magazine, R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
