Writing in different modes and forms is a significant part of my practice. This extends through the making of texts intended for or arising as part of a performance, writing intended as a visual or physical publication, writing as a response to the work of other artists, developed to accompany an installation, or as part of a publication relating to their work. My writing includes reviews and catalogue essays, essays on poetry, on performance, and on the relations between poetry and visual art. The links will take you to selections from my writing. The giving of labels to kinds or types of writing is problematic, as is any attempt to sort or categorise genres of text. What is poetry? What is critical writing for, or what is it critical of? The terms offer a shorthand to differentiate writing modes, some of which sit across or between types, some of which are at home inside these fences.
A selection of writing is listed below, and a detailed list of publications can be found here.
Poetry and Performance Texts
- capes, folds, drapes (2023)
- At Sounds Like: 3 Projects (2021)
- 9×9: a set of poems under constraint (2020)
- Threaded Inserts, Drill Bushings and Locking Studs (2020)
- She Mick on JB’s Island (2019)
- Subject to Gesture (2017)
- in the key of (2015)
- his many voice(s) (2015)
- voiceover gestures (2015)
- Hello! This is a test. (2015)
- lengths and ends: six poems for Penzance (2012)
- Hand in Glove: sinister hand vested sable lozengy couped (2004 – 12)
- what remains and is to come (2011)
- Voice Recognition: A Play (after Gertrude Stein, William Shakespeare and Rolf Harris) (2011 – 12)
- #myLife Event {background (2011)
- Guaranteed Insurance (2009)
- Swatches: a sequence (2009)
- listen closer (2009)
- barbed gadlyngs (2008)
- figure : ground (2007)
Art Writing
- An action movie (for NW) (2015)
- a curiosity of nothings (2014)
- anamorphic trace: sensing doubleness in image and event (2014)
- Excerpt from Pursuing Pursuit (I am bound to follow) with Jack, John, Rock and Hard ([1987], 2012) (2012)
- Aftermath (a ballad) (2011)
- “Where stone is dark under froth”: Screening the datastream (2009)
- (E)vac(u)ated Spaces, a digression on some terms (2009)
- a(n) (always provisional partial) glossary of/for dissemination (2008)
Critical Writing
- Ground (2007)
- Private Public Reading: Readers in Digital Literature Installation (2007)
- what is it here now I can persuade you of? scraps towards a rhetoric of poetry performance (2005)
- Tina Darragh: Performing the Familiar Sentence (2004)
- ‘do it, and again do it.’: repetition, rereading, recognition in the poetry of Bruce Andrews (2000)