The lightning tawny owl - spoken word

when buying some old photos I bought a bag of paper for collage. I used all the words except "kong". I wrote it out and punctuated it. Then I turned it into an alphabetical list - then I "poetised" the list - put into lines but still alphabetical. I left out one word: Kong
Below is a photo of the words of the 3 parts - and a mistake of the list that turned sideways looks - well you can see. I found it interesting to see how the three bits "looked" when recorded.
You will need to click on the photo as it is either small or escapes beyond the edges of the post...

 

 

 

 

I made the collage/image as a card for a dear friend's birthday

hello! P&P

made for Salon de Textes Edition 2
artists were asked to respond to recordings made by those who were performing on the evening of April 11th 2014
This is my response to Mark Leahy's hello! this is a test

Initially I turned the document into a book - tied with red silk ribbon and matching my own works based on Jane Austen's Pride & Prejudice.





this is a link to the document

now I have recorded it:

extracted from W.B. Yeats for John Sharkey

I read this at the event, after the funeral, at Canolfan Byd Bychan, Aberteifi


dedicated to John Sharkey: poet, writer, artist 1936 - 2014


Mindplay: an anthology of concrete poetry editor (Lorimer 1971)
Celtic Mysteries. The Ancient Religion (Thames & Hudson, 1975)
The Road Through the Isles (Ashgate Publishing, 1986)
Ogham Monuments in Wales (Llanerch Press, 1992)
Pilgrim Ways: Grand Pilgrimage to St.Davids (Ancient Landscapes, 1994)
Celtic High Crosses of Wales (Gwasg Carreg Gwalch, 1998)
The Meeting of the Tracks: Rock Art in Ancient Wales (Gwasg Carreg Gwalch, 2004)
The Medicine Tree: Traditional Healing in Wales from Prehistory to the Present (Llanerch, 2009)