Create at Salford has written this on tomorrow’s The Other Room –
Four of our 2012 MA Creative Writing: Innovation and Experiment alumni, including Nigel Wood, Jo Langton, Stephen Emmerson and Leanne Bridgewater, as well as current part-time student Richard Barrett have contributed to a new pioneering anthology called The Dark Would. Compiling work from over 100 international contributors, The Dark Would celebrates the continuum of language-based creative practice between visual art and poetry. This ground-breaking anthology features work from some of the most noted artists and poets alive today including Richard Long, Fiona Banner, Charles Bernstein and many more.
Commenting on the brilliance of this comprehensive anthology, contributing author and English and Creative Writing Senior Lecturer, Dr. Scott Thurston stated: “I hear The Dark Would as a plea to develop the cross-generic approach even further so that it incorporates more totally the whole gamut of the arts – to encourage conversations not just between artists and writers, but between musicians and sculptors, between dancers and poets, between film-makers and performers, and to ultimately break down these generic distinctions altogether.”
Following a sold-out preview at London’s prestigious Whitechapel Art Gallery, the editors and contributors of the language art compilation are eagerly anticipating their Northern launch event at Manchester’s Castle Hotel tomorrow 16th October at 7pm. Nigel Wood and Jo Langton will both be reading from a selection of their literary works at the event alongside Rogue Artists’ Studios’ Mike Chavez-Dawson, visual artist Carolyn Thompson and international artist and curator Laurence Lane.
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