Glasfryn Project

In Summer 2002, Lesley and I were on our way to see the Documenta 11 art festival at Kassel, Germany, when we dropped into a calligraphy exhibition at the Manna Kunsthuis in Bruges. One artist’s work transfixed us: we found ourselves asking who had created these waterfalls and soaring windrows of letters, shapes so tactile and dynamic flexing over pictorial space? We were told that these were images created by the American artist, Thomas Ingmire. After our return home, pace all we’d seen at Documenta, those calligraphic images wouldn’t let me be. In response I wrote the poem ‘Tabula Gratuloria’ which helped me break through a lexical impasse…

I sent the poem to Thomas and, in reply, he made the most extraordinary one-of-a-kind hand-crafted book…

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DAVID ANNWN is a poet and critic who lives in Wakefield, Yorkshire. He lectures for the Open University in Manchester and Leeds. John Goodby has called his poem-sequence Bela Fawr’s Cabaret, (2008) ‘Annwn’s masterpiece’ in a ‘new mode’. Geraldine Monk has written of the ‘delicious abandon and undiluted energy’ of his poetry. Also of note is his DADADOLLZ (2010) collaboration with Christine Kennedy and his work with musicians Mick Beck and John Cowey. Details of his poetry and critical writing on William Blake, David Jones, Ronald Johnson, Robert Duncan and others can be found at www.davidannwn.co.uk/. Recent publications include Thel-Time (2010), (ed.) Dracula’s Precursors, (2011), and Gothic Machine, (2011), his major study of the literature of horror 1875-1910, film and pre-cinematic technology, the first edition of which quickly sold out on publication. Alan Halsey has written: ‘Gothic Machine should be regarded as essential reading for a long time to come.’

View all: Issue 3, Junction Box | Posted on 29 May 2012 |