Category poetry
Weather, Whether Radar: the book
Written and published despite all the difficulties associated with Covid, the Institute collaborated with Ethical Midge to publish Redell Olsen’s remarkable book, Weather, Whether Radar: Plume of the Volants. This artist’s book offers glimpses of Olsen’s digital studio and portfolio of work as the winner of the DARE Art Prize, awarded by the University of […]
Anthology of Writing (For Robert)
Here at the Institute we’re only slowly emerging from the difficulties of coronavirus lock-down exhaustion and its various aftermaths. As we gather strength for new work, here’s a look back at one of our exciting publications, an anthology of writing gathered in honour of Robert Hampson and published jointly with the Poetics Research Centre, Royal […]
For Robert: An Anthology
An Anthology for Robert, June 2017 RHUL Poetics Research Centre Electric Crinolines Editions. https://indd.adobe.com/embed/f4f65fa1-970f-467f-8cd0-48405e21d73b?startpage=1&allowFullscreen=true
Smock
Hot on the heels of ‘Mox Nox’, the Institute of Electric Crinolines are delighted to announce the publication of Redell Olsen’s new chapbook, ‘Smock’. Printed in an edition of 200 numbered copies, with full colour printing of image and text through, the book is 28 pages long. The book is framed by an epigraph from Luce […]
Mox Nox
The Institute are delighted to announce publication of Redell Olsen’s new book ‘Mox Nox’. The book was handmade in an edition of 10 copies for BOOKMARE project 2, ‘of average sunlight’, currently on show in Kingsgate Studios, London. Set in Gill Sans and Copperplate, printed on Canelletto 160 and tracing paper, the edition features photosensitive adhesive […]
Poetry Reading
Peter Gizzi Redell Olsen Judith E. Wilson Drama Studio 8pm Monday 9th November 2015 http://redellolsen.co.uk/ http://www.petergizzi.org/ Free entry and refreshments Venue Judith E Wilson Drama Studio The Faculty of English, 9 West Road Cambridge, CB3 9DP + Google Map
lichen sayings
An unprecedented surge in votes for lichens has persuaded some here at the Institute that it might be worth sharing a few of the many proverbs, aphorisms and otherwise abbreviated sayings that make up lichen folklore. Drew Milne, curator of the Institute’s lichen research section, is currently applying for grants like it’s going out of […]
Film Poems…
Film Poems by Redell Olsen now available from Los Angeles: Les Figues Press. Contains the film poems: London Land Marks, Bucolic Picnic, Lost Pool, S P R I G S & spots and a Newe Booke of Copies. 25% off Today (code: FILM25) ! watch some of the films here. New Author Pic: Redell Olsen […]
Visual Poetics Exhibition: Cambridge
English Faculty Library, University of Cambridge Curated by Redell Olsen
Burnt Laconics Bloom
Poetry chapbook by Drew Milne from Oystercatcher Press now out. Included is ‘coo cow cowpers’, first glimpsed on these Institute pages. Asked about commitment to mixed metaphors and whether burnt laconics really do bloom, we at the Institute splutter: they do, they do, and then, as if more lyrically: I do, I do. At this […]
crinolines amid ruins
Drew Milne will read recent poems at: Daniel Blau Gallery. ‘….Recognition of the limits of pure poetry, and the necessary negotiation with impurities of language, literary form, cultural history, and contemporary sociality helps to make modernist poetics so restless, awkward, and interesting. If the ruins resemble the wasteland of a modern land-fill refuse site, there […]
Reactor Red Shoes launch reading
Drew Milne will be reading extracts from ‘Reactor Red Shoes’, by John Kinsella & Drew Milne, to launch the book at the Small Press Books Fair. The launch reading is at 4 pm, Saturday 16th November, Conway Hall, London. ‘Reactor Red Shoes’ is a collaborative poem: a statement appeared on Jacket2. The book will be […]
Lichen Strains: digital post card
Infinite Editions have just posted Drew Milne’s ‘Lichen Card’ (2013), as one in the series of their digital post cards to download and print. This is the first showing of Drew Milne’s LICHEN STRAINS project. Links: Inifinite Editions There’s also an index of all the many great things on the Infinite Editions site.
phonographies…
‘Phonographies’ Performance at the Nightingale Theatre in Brighton 30.08.13 (live and recorded voice, phonographs and film) See the video here Event organised by Katy Price. Wax cylinder recordings by Aleksander Kolkowski. Sound at the event by Drew Milne.
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