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\u2019s 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\u2019d seen at Documenta, those calligraphic images wouldn\u2019t let me be. In response I wrote the poem \u2018Tabula Gratuloria\u2019 which helped me break through a lexical impasse…<\/p>\n
I sent the poem to Thomas and, in reply, he made the most extraordinary one-of-a-kind hand-crafted book…<\/p>\n
TO READ THIS ARTICLE CLICK HERE<\/strong>: Flying through<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n DAVID ANNWN<\/strong> 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\u2019s Cabaret<\/em>, (2008) \u2018Annwn\u2019s masterpiece\u2019 in a \u2018new mode\u2019. Geraldine Monk has written of the \u2018delicious abandon and undiluted energy\u2019 of his poetry. Also of note is his DADADOLLZ<\/em> (2010) collaboration with Christine Kennedy and his work with musicians Mick Beck and John Cowey. Details of\u00a0his poetry and critical writing on William Blake, David Jones, Ronald Johnson, Robert Duncan and others can be found at www.davidannwn<\/strong>.co.uk\/<\/a>. Recent publications include Thel-Time<\/em> (2010), (ed.) Dracula\u2019s Precursors<\/em>, (2011), and Gothic Machine<\/em>, (2011), <\/em>his major study of the literature of horror 1875-1910, film\u00a0and pre-cinematic technology, the first edition of which quickly sold out on publication. Alan Halsey has written: \u2018Gothic Machine<\/em> should be regarded as essential reading for a long time to come.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 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\u2019s work transfixed us: we found ourselves asking who had created these waterfalls and soaring windrows of letters, shapes so tactile […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2080,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false},"categories":[31,12],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/issue-3-final-logo8.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p42xiC-sw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1768"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1768"}],"version-history":[{"count":28,"href":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2385,"href":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1768\/revisions\/2385"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}