Clive Fencott (born 1952) is a writer and
sound poet
Sound poetry is an artistic form bridging literacy and musical composition, in which the phonetic aspects of human speech are foregrounded instead of more conventional semantic and syntax, syntactic values; "verse without words". By definition, sou ...
, a
performer associated with the
British Poetry Revival,
''New British poetries: the scope of the possible''
Hampson Robert; Barry, Peter. Manchester University Press . Retrieved 31 March 2011 and an academic.
Fencott was born in Lydney
Lydney is a town and civil parish in Gloucestershire, England. It is on the west bank of the River Severn in the Forest of Dean District, and is 16 miles (25 km) southwest of Gloucester. The town has been bypassed by the A48 road since 1995 ...
and began writing poetry in the mid-sixties while studying at art college. In 1974 he attended experimental poetry workshops at the Poetry Society organised by Bob Cobbing. From this he developed an interest in improvised vocal performance and went on to perform around Britain, Europe and the USA, particularly at sound poetry
Sound poetry is an artistic form bridging literacy and musical composition, in which the phonetic aspects of human speech are foregrounded instead of more conventional semantic and syntactic values; "verse without words". By definition, sound poetr ...
festivals. He later worked with Bob Cobbing, and also with cris cheek and Lawrence Upton
Lawrence Upton (born London 1949, of Cornish origins, died at home 16 February 2020), was a poet, graphic artist and sound artist, and director of ''Writers Forum''.
Upton was a performer, continuing and expanding the performance tradition of, ...
in the performance group ''JGJGJG'', of which he was a founder member.
In the 1970s and 1980s his work was published by small press companies such as: ''Writers Forum
Writers Forum is a small publisher, workshop and writers' network established by Bob Cobbing. The roots of Writers Forum were in the 1954 arts organisation Group H, and the ''And'' magazine that Cobbing edited. The writers' branch of Group H was ca ...
'', ''Pirate Press'', ''Underwich Editions'' and ''Bluff Books''; and magazines ''Rawz'', ''Poetry Information'', ''words worth'', and ''Pod''. In the early 1990s he began an association with Bill Griffiths, producing two co-written pieces for performance: ''The Dinosaur Park'' and ''Variations on the Life of Cuthbert''. Since then his writing has concerned extended poetic prose pieces.
In 1987 he moved to the North East of England to take up an academic post at Teesside Polytechnic (later Teesside University), where he has remained as a lecturer and a researcher in digital media
Digital media is any communication media that operate in conjunction with various encoded machine-readable data formats. Digital media can be created, viewed, distributed, modified, listened to, and preserved on a digital electronics device. ' ...
and video game theory
Game studies, also known as ludology (from ''ludus'', "game", and ''-logia'', "study", "research"), is the study of games, the act of playing them, and the players and cultures surrounding them. It is a field of cultural studies that deals with a ...
in the School of Computing. He received a PhD in virtual reality theory in 2003 and has over forty academic publications to his name.
Poetry and prose
*''The Legends of Jack O'Kent''; Gronc Press, 1978.
*''Blues, Roots, Legends, Shouts and Hollers''; Starborne Productions, 1980, (LP).
*''Cobbing and Fencott at Florida State University''; (Video online).
*''Non Hysteron Proteron''; Underwhich Editions, 1984.
*''The Dinosaur Park'' (with Bill Griffiths); Micro Brigade, 1992.
*''Variations on the Life of Cuthbert'' (with Bill Griffiths); Amra Imprint, 1992.
Academic publications
*Fencott, C. "A Methodology of Design for Virtual Environments" in ''Virtual Technologies: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications''; Information Science Reference, IGI, 2008
*Fencott, C. ''Perceptual Opportunities: A Content Model for the Analysis and Design of Virtual Environments''; PhD Thesis, University of Teesside, 2003
*Fencott, C. "Virtual 'Saltburn by the Sea': Creative content design for Virtual Environments" in ''Creating and Using Virtual Reality: a Guide for the Arts and Humanities''; Oxbow Books, 200
*Fencott, C. "Virtual Storytelling as Narrative Potential: Towards an Ecology of Narrative" in ''Virtual Storytelling: Using Virtual Reality Technologies for Storytelling''; LNCS 2197, Springer, Berlin, 2001
*Fencott, C. "Towards a Design Methodology for Virtual Environments" in ''Proceedings of the International Workshop on User Friendly Design of Virtual Environments''; York, England, 1999
*Fencott, C. ''Formal Methods for Concurrency''; Thomson International Publishers, London, 1996
References
External links
Clive Fencott web site
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1952 births
British Poetry Revival
Sound poets
Living people
English male poets
21st-century English male writers