CLR5

£8 (UK) / €12 (EU) / $20 (ROW)

Featuring:

• Donald Barthelme
• Andrea Brady
• Lee Ann Brown
• Corina Copp
• Emily Critchley
• Ray Crump
• Katrina Forrester
• Susana Gardner
• Peter Gizzi
• Geoffrey Hartman
• Michael Haslam
• David Hendy
• Emma Hogan
• Helen Macdonald
• Valérie Mréjen
• Xie Qiong
• James Russell
• Eleni Sikelianos
• Linus Slug
• Timothy Thornton
• Catherine Wagner
• R.F. Walker
• Isabelle Ward
• Tomas Weber

Poetry is

In his ongoing video art work of “speaking portraits,” poet/artist George Quasha puts an impossible, but unavoidable, question before poets of all kinds and in many places: what is poetry? In response poets let us in on their private space of poetry definition. This intimate view of speaking faces, each filling the screen, shows how different it is for poets/artists to say what poetry or art is than for others (critics, historians, philosophers, viewers). For a particular poet, poetry may not only be an object, a thing historically defined, but something close to the core of one's life, perhaps even a singular event. Here we gain unique access to its nature in the person speaking.

via Ron Silliman