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beforesilencewordbeforesilencesilence | Sally-Shakti Willow
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Utopia Now: Co-Creative Writing. December 10, 2015. Before there was word there was. Announce. . renounce. . denounce. . pronounce. . An ounce: an ounce of words in an. A drop let drop. Silent womb silent space birthing. Word into silent spaces where there were no words. before. I am this i am: not that. Peace Protest and Vigil. One thought on “ beforesilencewordbeforesilencesilence. Pingback: Starting is the half-part. Doing:being is all the rest. Sally-Shakti Willow. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Artist ...
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Liberature : Literature in the Form of the Book | Sally-Shakti Willow
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Utopia Now: Co-Creative Writing. Liberature : Literature in the Form of the Book. September 14, 2016. September 15, 2016. Based in Krakow, Poland, Katarzyna Bazarnik and Zenon Fajfer are creating, curating, documenting and theorising a literary revolution : Liberature. 8211; the couple have been prolific in producing, publishing and researching around this previously undocumented area of literary activity. Has published widely in academic contexts on Liberature, including the 2014. Un Coup de Des. The Li...
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Border : Crossing | Sally-Shakti Willow
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Utopia Now: Co-Creative Writing. July 10, 2016. July 8, 2016. At first we just look. Dense matting of human figures. Piled up motor vehicles. Scattered words on a barbed wire fence. The sweat of my bones breaking out of my ribs. My head a maze of jumbled trash. Then I know we have to run and we pick ourselves up from the dust of the road and don’t look back. Breath comes in short, airless gasps. Swallowing the sharp tang of blood, but we can’t stop. Not until we reach the border. In the silence my heart ...
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Forms of Protest | Sally-Shakti Willow
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Utopia Now: Co-Creative Writing. November 16, 2016. November 14, 2016. Our recent performance of. Was an opportunity to protest, express grief and solidarity, and turn to hope – on the night Donald Trump was confirmed as the President-elect of the US. As [Sub]Atomic, Joe and I performed extracts from. Words of protest included these from the poem Saille : Willow. Inside speech’s silent centre my [sub]atomic bomb explodes. Across my chest and abdomen, the quotation. Is written in menstrual blood. 8211; pu...
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Essays | Sally-Shakti Willow
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Utopia Now: Co-Creative Writing. In 2015 i completed an MA in creative and critical writing at the university of sussex, and now i’m studying for a practice-based PhD in utopian poetics and experimental writing at the university of westminster. So i’m offering them to you as a gift. as they are: unashamedly my words. As always, i welcome your comments and opinions. Just select ‘Essays’ in the drop down list of categories for your smorgasbord of delights…. The Unfinished Dream Published! Blog posts relati...
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Experimental Writing | Sally-Shakti Willow
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Utopia Now: Co-Creative Writing. My writing experiments with utopian consciousness. Key to utopian consciousness, for me, is that it is co-creative: we are co-creative beings. Experimental writers whose work i admire include: Gertrude Stein, Virgina Woolf, Ann Quin, Angela Carter, J.G. Ballard, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Robert Glück, Juliana Spahr, CA Conrad, Claudia Rankine, M. Nourbese Philip, Bhanu Kapil, Jennifer Cooke. See also: Ernst Bloch (1988),. The Utopian Function of Art and Literature. MA Creati...
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The Unfinished Dream Published! | Sally-Shakti Willow
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Utopia Now: Co-Creative Writing. The Unfinished Dream Published! October 30, 2016. Super happy to announce that The Unfinished Dream. Is now available as a brand new and exciting chapbook from Sad Press! Copies are 6 and can be bought via the website. Or in person at one of our upcoming performances:. Wednesday 9th November, 7.30pm at the Caroline of Brunswick, Brighton. Saturday 19th November 7.30pm at the Yoga Life Studio, Eastbourne. Https:/ sadpresspoetry.wordpress.com/our-books/. Follow me on Twitter.
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The Unfinished Dream | Sally-Shakti Willow
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Utopia Now: Co-Creative Writing. Experiments with these ideas and has developed into a collaborative project that keeps growing and shifting an unfinished and unfolding creative process. All elements of the project take as a starting point the following quotation from Cha’s 1982 book. May I write words more naked than flesh, stronger than bone, more resilient than sinew, sensitive than nerve’. Are now available from Sad Press. The physical object of the book is a central concern of. A copy of the Artist ...
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Straif | Sally-Shakti Willow
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Utopia Now: Co-Creative Writing. November 29, 2015. November 14, 2016. Write wound across my chest;. Scratches, marks in blood. Pull me screaming from the silence: word. Into this world of darkness. Of [my] flesh &. Calling [me] into being. Calling [me] from [myself]. Immediacy of [my] death. My] sang : [your] encre. And i see i am. The spaces in between. Your] page and [mine]. Blood is silence :. In its endless bloody violence. 11/11 Kali : Un Coup de Des. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Follow me on Twitter.
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