{"id":6624,"date":"2018-10-14T12:31:14","date_gmt":"2018-10-14T12:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/?p=6624"},"modified":"2019-08-24T20:42:33","modified_gmt":"2019-08-24T20:42:33","slug":"5-guru-poems-by-christopher-barnes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/5-guru-poems-by-christopher-barnes\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Guru Poems by Christopher Barnes"},"content":{"rendered":"

(i)
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\nAn Unpaused Hour
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\nNine tings chase sanity.
\nOur guru twiddles
\nA crow\u2019s sequined wings.
\nPassions jump off wheezes,
\nDashed at the holdall\u2019s flames.
\nBreath-sucks gyrate the room.
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\n(ii)
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\nBar 64
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\nA Jagger-lipped ox
\nSmirks in its float-bowl.
\nThe lampstand\u2019s crimsoning.
\n\u201cQuirks,\u201d underbreaths our tiddly guru,
\n\u201cAren\u2019t without their suns\u201d.
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\n(iii)
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\nBreakfast Ritual
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\nOur guru tub-thumps Ouija learning
\nInto an atom that coggles.
\nThe rubber shark\u2019s dulceting
\n\u201cMack The Knife\u201d.
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\nThe Ground Of Being\u2019s egohood
\nWatusi\u2019s tailwards.
\nHigh-muckety, we TLC our sanctified protocols.
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\n(iv)
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\nFinancial Break, No Cheques
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\nThis megacosm flumps \u2013
\nAn undisplayable apparition.
\nWe\u2019re diluted by marvelment.
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\nThe journey\u2019s butt is an oblivion-fresh
\nString-puppet butterfly
\nThat coaxes dust
\nIn the attic of our mind fuzz.
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\nOur guru belches \u2013
\nA pixie\u2019s stage whisper.
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\n(v)
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\nThe Mediator\u2019s Art
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\nYou\u2019ve unfolded these Vanity Fair bodies
\nSpanning into destiny\u2019s lap.
\nPoppycock has no improving.
\nThighs of our guru\u2019s apostles
\nShall be gunked
\nBy Dolly, the sponge-puff mermaid.
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\nXanadu\u2019s here, well-earthed.
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\nIn 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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\n On Saturday 16Th August 2003 I read at the Edinburgh Festival as a Per Verse poet at LGBT Centre, Broughton St.
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\nChristmas 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.
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\nThe 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<\/strong>
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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… 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) <\/p>\n

 
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\nRobin Ouzman Hislop<\/strong> is Editor of Poetry Life and Times<\/a> his publications include All the Babble of the Souk<\/em> <\/a>and Cartoon Molecules<\/em> <\/a>collected poems and Key of Mist<\/em> <\/a>the recently published Tesserae<\/em> <\/a>translations from Spanish poets Guadalupe Grande <\/a>and Carmen Crespo visit Aquillrelle.com\/Author Robin Ouzman Hislop <\/a>about author. See Robin performing his work Performance (University of Leeds)<\/a> and his latest Collected Poems Volume at Next-Arrivals <\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

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(i)   An Unpaused Hour   Nine tings chase sanity. Our guru twiddles A crow\u2019s sequined wings. Passions jump off wheezes, Dashed at the holdall\u2019s flames. Breath-sucks gyrate the room.   (ii)   Bar 64   A Jagger-lipped ox Smirks in its float-bowl. The lampstand\u2019s crimsoning. \u201cQuirks,\u201d underbreaths our tiddly guru, \u201cAren\u2019t without their suns\u201d. … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6626,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,808,796,366,754,401,43],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6624"}],"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=6624"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7085,"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6624\/revisions\/7085"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}