Weeds grow where they want to; not where they're told to grow...
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Angela Keaton
NOTE: This book is printed on extra-heavy A4 paper.
Angela Keaton has had installations exhibited at Edge Hill University, Ormskirk, Lancashire, including demented retrospect (see page version) a work that had its Genesis in the sighting of a group of hot air balloons drifting over a university campus during a Creative Writing Conference, the co-location was too tempting an opportunity to miss. Lacking the finance to have her texts inscribed onto similar balloons, smaller helium versions were substituted and allowed to drift over the heads of the audience during a poetry reading in the university’s Rose Theatre.
The influences on her writing are evident in her work; amongst others, traces of Oulipo, the Language poets and Zen can be discovered but she makes of them something that differs from any and is distinctly her own. She speculates upon what it is possible to do with ‘language’ using that term in the widest sense and then does what is not, she experiments with the visual, sonic, textual and installation. For her poetry is not just about marks on paper it is a total sensory experience.
She has no intention in advance of writing a particular poem, it is only in retrospect that she discovers what she has created and can then share it with a ‘reader’ or spectator and allow them to interpret it as they will. Each work is a speculation on how her future poetry could be written, and perhaps, why?
A small number of signed copies are available; email alan@erbacce.com or erbacce@hotmail.com for details...
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Also by Keaton; an A5 chapbook:
It's simply impossible to do justice to Keaton's creative genius on these web pages. For her, poetry is a visual feast created to make the mouth water. We STRONGLY advise you to sample the most original gourmet poems you've ever tasted!
sure it’s a wonderful place
bare midriffs should not be shown
as snake slithers down mountain
bride kisses him not her husband
metal glints in sun baby has no arms
pigeons on parade in rainbow clouded paradise
shot in the pulpit hand clutching rosary
pavements weep birds sing
men argue then mumble intimidation
fishing rod seems inappropriate
flames licked charred rafters
pink tongues circle sensuously
yellow ribbon quake splits earth
pointed toes curl
star-pocked by bullets
small fish smile tails uplifted
limestone polished to marble over broken bridge
crane supports sky fashioned into trinkets
machine guns and cartridge cases
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Also by Keaton; another A4 chapbook:
NOTE: This book is printed on extra-heavy A4 paper.
quasi words
enjoy responses
taken yesterday
until indicative
optical portents
annul some
detailed focuses
grant hung-over
judges knowledge
later zymologists
xlograph clearer
versions before
noticing morphology
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