{"id":7527,"date":"2020-12-02T16:09:14","date_gmt":"2020-12-02T16:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/?p=7527"},"modified":"2020-12-02T16:09:14","modified_gmt":"2020-12-02T16:09:14","slug":"horizontal-vision-poems-by-christopher-barnes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/horizontal-vision-poems-by-christopher-barnes\/","title":{"rendered":"Horizontal Vision & Poems by Christopher Barnes"},"content":{"rendered":"
(i.)\r\n\r\nHorizontal Vision\r\n\u00a0\r\n\u2026barrows to-and-froed.\r\nHagglers impressed, lurking.\r\nI corner nosegay oils,\r\nyou earmark\u2026\r\n\u00a0\r\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 *\r\n\u00a0\u2026tilt steamer\r\non disengaged hob\r\n10-15 minutes.\u00a0 Baste\u2026\r\n\u00a0\r\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 *\r\n\u00a0\u2026check-up.\u00a0 Paramedic eurekas\r\n-\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 something woefully awry \u2013\r\ndeduces tip-off\u2026\r\n\u00a0\r\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 *\r\n\u00a0\u2026metro expired at Wallsend,\r\nbus green-lighted\r\nan hour to cloud-gather,\r\nyou\u2019d never essentially\u2026\r\n\u00a0\r\n(ii.)\r\n\r\nEarth\r\n\u00a0\r\n\u2026peachy-keen upbeat guitar \r\nseesawed your hips.\u00a0 Taffrail clover,\r\ndribble\u2026\r\n\u00a0\r\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 *\r\n\u00a0\u2026rattle all footloose.\u00a0 Chip walnuts.\r\nGrease loaf tin\u2026\r\n\u00a0\r\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 *\r\n\u00a0\u2026ventured into Bronx Flea Market,\r\nbisected dummy\r\ncornered into a pin-stripe\u2026\r\n\u00a0\r\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 *\r\n\u00a0\u2026lick-and-promise miasma\r\nOverhauled drained instincts.\r\nOnly traffic faded\u2026\r\n\u00a0\r\n(iii.)\r\n\r\nFixations\r\n\u00a0\r\n\u2026in rag-order\r\nknee-highs yodelled,\r\nsingle-filing my alley.\r\nNo cur whined\u2026\r\n\u00a0\r\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 *\r\n\u00a0\u2026kibble, tooling rutty blade\r\nof mincer.\u00a0 Dissolve \u00bd oz\u2026\r\n\u00a0\r\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 *\r\n\u00a0\u2026Pegasus\u2019 foals vamoosed,\r\nso the knight\u2026\r\n\u00a0\r\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 *\r\n\u00a0\u2026we quick-timed hours.\r\nAn invisible\u2026\r\n\u00a0\r\n(iv.)\r\n\r\nNot Quite June\r\n\u00a0\r\n\u2026gabby-guts rooks\r\nair-cleared your nickname.\r\nEvening shade diffracted urgency\u2026\r\n\u00a0\r\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 *\r\n\u00a0\u2026groundwork panade.\u00a0 Turn out\r\nas for b\u00e9chamel, stargaze an hour\u2026\r\n\u00a0\r\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 *\r\n\u00a0\u2026wolfed my quill.\u201d\r\n\u201cWhat shall I do?\u201d\r\n\u201cTake advantage of a crayon\u2026\u201d\r\n\r\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 *\r\n\u00a0\u2026rule-breaking headaches spared,\r\nthough we blethered all\u2026<\/pre>\n
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\nBy Christopher Barnes
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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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\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)
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\nRobin Ouzman Hislop is Editor of Poetry Life and Times<\/a> ; You may visit Aquillrelle.com\/Author Robin Ouzman Hislop <\/a>about author. See Robin performing his work Performance (University of Leeds)<\/a><\/p>\n
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(i.) Horizontal Vision \u00a0 \u2026barrows to-and-froed. Hagglers impressed, lurking. I corner nosegay oils, you earmark\u2026 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 * \u00a0\u2026tilt steamer on disengaged hob 10-15 minutes.\u00a0 Baste\u2026 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 * \u00a0\u2026check-up.\u00a0 Paramedic eurekas –\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 something woefully awry \u2013 deduces tip-off\u2026 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 * \u00a0\u2026metro expired at Wallsend, bus green-lighted an hour to cloud-gather, you\u2019d never essentially\u2026 … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,796,366,754,401,43],"tags":[18,136,3],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7527"}],"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=7527"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7530,"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7527\/revisions\/7530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}