{"id":4584,"date":"2015-09-06T16:27:23","date_gmt":"2015-09-06T16:27:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/?p=4584"},"modified":"2020-10-26T19:23:00","modified_gmt":"2020-10-26T19:23:00","slug":"box-kick-poems-by-christopher-barnes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/box-kick-poems-by-christopher-barnes\/","title":{"rendered":"Box Kick Poems by Christopher Barnes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Box Kick 16<\/p>\n

\u2026Floor crosses bag-of-tricks magnetrons
\nAnd peripherals\u2026<\/p>\n

Worker Ant No.11 kinks labels.<\/p>\n

\u2026Floor crosses bag-of-crunchbollock sRmg8TtA@o
\n?dA pip<Her2sla<\/strong><\/p>\n

Box Kick 17<\/p>\n

\u2026Skin-tight between word counter
\nAnd duplicator
\nWith the setback hesitation graft\u2026<\/p>\n

Worker Ant No.12 cocks a wheel to shifty.<\/p>\n

\u2026Skin-tight between word counter
\nAnd tracklouse
\nH6.W cK,,,sB tat\u201d9hsi0&<\/strong><\/p>\n

Box Kick 18<\/p>\n

\u2026Propelled to welder\u2019s inhaling confines
\nBridged with a sprung hose\u2026<\/p>\n

Worker Ant No.13 grafts contraptions.<\/p>\n

\u2026Propelled to welder\u2019s railpogo NiFs7ne\u201d
\ngib.(4r Hit- + sUn:p4 soH<<\/strong><\/p>\n

Box Kick 19<\/p>\n

\u2026Tiptop channel manoeuvres
\nFor harmonious user reflex\u2026<\/p>\n

Worker Ant No.14 dribbles acid
\nOnto the keyboard.<\/p>\n

\u2026Tiptop channel manoeuvres
\nMarksmash #Hois2%!rA sUr\/ xeR8&E<\/strong><\/p>\n

Box Kick 20<\/p>\n

\u2026Dinky tangible circumference,
\nSit-back predicaments
\nIn running flexibilities\u2026<\/p>\n

Worker Ant No.15 jigsaws the pod.<\/p>\n

\u2026Dinky tangible circumference,
\nSit-back blundertrue N+nNir:]v eX3b_T,f7iii<\/strong><\/p>\n

In 1998 I won a Northern Arts writers award. In July 200 I read at Waterstones bookshop to promote the anthology ‘Titles Are Bitches’. Christmas 2001 I debuted at Newcastle’s famous Morden Tower doing a reading of my poems. Each year I read for Proudwords lesbian and gay writing festival and I partook in workshops. 2005 saw the publication of my collection LOVEBITES published by Chanticleer Press, 6\/1 Jamaica Mews, Edinburgh.
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\nOn Saturday 16Th August 2003 I read at the Edinburgh Festival as a Per Verse poet at LGBT Centre, Broughton St.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I also have a BBC web-page www.bbc.co.uk\/tyne\/gay.2004\/05\/section_28.shtml andwww.bbc.co.uk\/tyne\/videonation\/stories\/gay_history.shtml <\/a>(if first site does not work click on SECTION 28 on second site.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Christmas 2001 The Northern Cultural Skills Partnership sponsored me to be mentored by Andy Croft in conjunction with New Writing North. I made a radio programme for Web FM community radio about my writing group. October-November 2005, I entered a poem\/visual image into the art exhibition The Art Cafe Project, his piece Post-Mark was shown in Betty’s Newcastle. This event was sponsored by Pride On The Tyne. I made a digital film with artists Kate Sweeney and Julie Ballands at a film making workshop called Out Of The Picture which was shown at the festival party for Proudwords, it contains my poem The Old Heave-Ho. I worked on a collaborative art and literature project called How Gay Are Your Genes, facilitated by Lisa Mathews (poet) which exhibited at The Hatton Gallery, Newcastle University, including a film piece by the artist Predrag Pajdic in which I read my poem On Brenkley St. The event was funded by The Policy, Ethics and Life Sciences Research Institute, Bio-science Centre at Newcastle’s Centre for Life. I was involved in the Five Arts Cities poetry postcard event which exhibited at The Seven Stories children’s literature building. In May I had 2006 a solo art\/poetry exhibition at The People’s Theatre why not take a look at their website ptag.org.uk\/whats_on\/gallery\/recent_exhbitions.htm <\/strong><\/p>\n

The South Bank Centre in London recorded my poem “The Holiday I Never Had”, I can be heard reading it on www.poetrymagazines.org.uk\/magazine\/record.asp?id=18456
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\nREVIEWS: I have written poetry reviews for Poetry Scotland and Jacket Magazine and in August 2007 I made a film called ‘A Blank Screen, 60 seconds, 1 shot’ for Queerbeats Festival at The Star & Shadow Cinema Newcastle, reviewing a poem…see www.myspace.com\/queerbeatsfestival<\/a> On September 4 2010, I read at the Callander Poetry Weekend hosted by Poetry Scotland. I have also written Art Criticism for Peel and Combustus Magazines. I was involved in The Creative Engagement In Research Programme Research Constellation exhibitions of writing and photography which showed in London (march 13 2012) and Edinburgh (july 4 2013) see
\nwww.researchconstellation.co.uk\/<\/a> . I co-edit the poetry magazine Interpoetry
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Box Kick 16 \u2026Floor crosses bag-of-tricks magnetrons And peripherals\u2026 Worker Ant No.11 kinks labels. \u2026Floor crosses bag-of-crunchbollock sRmg8TtA@o ?dA pip<Her2sla Box Kick 17 \u2026Skin-tight between word counter And duplicator With the setback hesitation graft\u2026 Worker Ant No.12 cocks a wheel to shifty. \u2026Skin-tight between word counter And tracklouse H6.W cK,,,sB tat\u201d9hsi0& Box Kick 18 \u2026Propelled … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2998,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,43],"tags":[18,136,3],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4584"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4584"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7498,"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4584\/revisions\/7498"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}