{"id":3970,"date":"2016-02-23T21:00:07","date_gmt":"2016-02-23T21:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/?p=3970"},"modified":"2016-03-01T20:42:57","modified_gmt":"2016-03-01T20:42:57","slug":"chris-torrance-reading-at-chapter-arts-centre-feb-4th-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/3970\/chris-torrance-reading-at-chapter-arts-centre-feb-4th-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"CHRIS TORRANCE: Reading at Chapter Arts Centre Feb 4th 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Torrance has been an inspiration to many writers: the model of a\u00a0poet so single-mindedly dedicated to his craft, it&#8217;s as if poetry and human being had fused into one entity. His public readings, always meticulously planned and performed, often with the aid of a bottle of Chardonnay, seem to be all of a piece with this. It is obvious that, for him, a reading is never just a reading: it&#8217;s a significant existential moment (perhaps even, who knows? a cosmic one), worth taking seriously, worth worrying about and giving time to. We thought it would be a good idea to record a recent performance, so we set up the camera in Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff on the occasion of a launch of Slipping the Leash &#8211; a tri-cameral anthology featuring his own work and that of his long-standing comrades in poetry, Graham Hartill and Phil Maillard. Unfortunately the acoustic in the room is slightly echoey, so apologies for that.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/156417500?byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #339966;\">Chris Torrance was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1941. In the late 1940&#8217;s his parents took him down to Surrey. He helped edit the magazine <em>ORIGINS DIVERSIONS<\/em>, and his work began to appear in various little mags and anthologies. By 1970 he was living in a rural area of South Wales, just north of the coalfield, where he began his multi-volume series, <em>THE MAGIC DOOR<\/em>. From 1976 &#8211; 2001 Torrance ran an evening class &#8211; ADVENTURES IN CREATIVE WRITING &#8211; for U.C. Cardiff, from which emerged the group and magazine CABARET 246. Since the mid 1980&#8217;s, with partner Chris Vine working as HEATPOETS, he has created a series of CD&#8217;s of poetry and music. A large collection &#8211; <em>PATH<\/em> &#8211; is awaiting publication.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Torrance has been an inspiration to many writers: the model of a\u00a0poet so single-mindedly dedicated to his craft, it&#8217;s as if poetry and human being had fused into one entity. His public readings, always meticulously planned and performed, often with the aid of a bottle of Chardonnay, seem to be all of a piece [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4038,"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":[41,12],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/images-4.jpeg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p42xiC-122","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3970"}],"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=3970"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4021,"href":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3970\/revisions\/4021"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}