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Just Met…A Summer Exhibition with David Hayward, Janet James and Mark Mawer

An event to look forward to in July. ‘Just Met…’ A Summer Exhibition at Rendcomb Manor with David Hayward, Janet James and Mark Mawer.

David Hayward: ‘The images in this exhibition reflect an interest in the delineations of shorelines – of air, water and land and of weather, geology and the detritus of tidelines.‘ http://www.david-hayward.com/

Janet James: ‘Sunlight on lakes and fjords, reflections, the icy lochs and the countryside that surrounds me are my inspiration.‘ http://www.janetjames.co.uk/

Mark Mawer: ‘No doubt it is hard to believe, but we have to believe many things we never saw.‘ Allusive inspiration from Twenty Years A-Growing by Maurice O’Sullivan. (markveremawer@hotmail.com)

The exhibition will be open 7th July – 9th July 2017.

Friday 7th July 2017 – Opening Evening 6pm-9.30pm
Saturday 8th July 2017 – 10am – 8pm
Sunday 9th July 2017 – 10am – 4pm

Rendcomb Manor, Cheltenham Road, North Cerney, Cirencester, GL7 7ER

Inquiries to Joan Davies at joan.sargent@virgin.net or 01452 812399

A donation from this exhibition will go to The Camphill Village Trust.

 

Plastic

The local MP came to visit today.

He played with his tie, in the half-empty boiling hot working class room.

Nobody offered him water.

He looked outside at the summery breeze and chewed his nails for an hour or so.

I tried to think of a question.

But all of them were already answered.

He paused and smiled at the camera.

I had a name-tag around my neck.

He had nothing.

I sat on a tree-legged small plastic chair.

He sat on a piece of cake.

Photograph: @John Stadnicki

Thought

Just before midnight, in the unpreventable moment

my mother woke up to give birth to me,

I jumped out and spilt her blood on the floor.

 

My first angry poem, scream at the top of my lungs,

in the pale room.

 

A dormant city blessed the muddy wreath above the cradle

and

asked me to keep the noise down.

 

Mother went back to bed.

 

The following day I learnt to

write on white walls with red letters.

 

Video

A City Preview – London on Thursdays

Poetry reading: Maria Stadnicka reading the poem City from the collection Imperfect published by Yew Tree Press, 2017. Poem published in International Times, January 2017.

Music: Katie McCue

Video footage: World War One Archive

Link

Collection of ‘Simple Nouns’ in International Times

The newspaper of resistance brings you a new text:

http://internationaltimes.it/simple-nouns/

Flash News – ‘Imperfect’ Book Launch – 19th May @Black Books Cafe, Stroud, 7.30pm

Front cover design: @Andrew Morrison

We had to stop the car several times.

Weeks of anxious waiting finally ended.

A new, small, wrinkled, bloody, placental book

Arrived.

It had a natural birth and I called it ‘Imperfect’.

The book launch will be on Friday 19th May 2017, at Black Books Cafe, Stroud. 7.30pm for 8pm start. Free entry.

The book is available for pre-order at mariastadnicka@yahoo.co.uk.

The evening will be a vibrant performance with poetry and music, featuring Maria Stadnicka, Adam Horovitz, Jay Ramsay, Katie McCue and ‘Souled and Healed’.

Yew Tree Press – Philip Rush

Design and printer – Andrew Morrison

The evening host – Jay Ramsay

Books, drinks, sounds will be available! Come along!

Exile

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Witness to a repeated history

in exile I learn a new language

facing the border control

at Heathrow Airport I wear my mother’s coat

ready for a winter of politics

when I need to

I keep my mouth shut I change my name

to look just like her

white and uncomfortable

the blinding sun has been washed and

smells of violets

people are happy

in such a beautiful land

nobody minds me

amongst

wrapped-well-packed boxes

brushing the dust off velvet cutlery

the only remains

of life before baptism.

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photographs: copyright@John Stadnicki, 2016