{"id":6200,"date":"2021-01-30T11:27:14","date_gmt":"2021-01-30T11:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/?p=6200"},"modified":"2021-10-23T13:26:00","modified_gmt":"2021-10-23T13:26:00","slug":"cris-cheek-the-ghost-in-the-lake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/6200\/cris-cheek-the-ghost-in-the-lake\/","title":{"rendered":"Cris Cheek: The Ghost in the Lake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is not in the slightest a new story,<\/p>\n<p>And the following text of it has been derived to<\/p>\n<p>substantial degrees from books<\/p>\n<p>printed and published in the year 1639<\/p>\n<p>of the western Gregorian calendar.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBe careful what you get good at\u201d True Detective, \u201cNothing grows in the right direction\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The death of slithering evidence<\/p>\n<p>The death of ignorance<\/p>\n<p>The death of obeyance<\/p>\n<p>Death of adequate words\u2014death of precarious kisses<\/p>\n<p>The arrests of death and the idea of that stranger<\/p>\n<p>Who fears nothing but leaving<\/p>\n<p>To the gate-keeping great contrivers of massacre, who, in a thunder of horsehair and duck under wheel blisters for want of sense ought much to muck no thanks&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4>To read the full text:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/The-Ghost-in-the-Lake.pdf\">The Ghost in the Lake<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>cris cheek<\/strong>\u00a0is a documentary poet-writer, sound composer and photographer who\u00a0worked alongside Bob Cobbing and Bill Griffiths with the Consortium of London Presses as printshop manager in the mid 1970s to run a thriving open access print shop for\u00a0<em>little press<\/em>\u00a0poets. In 1981 he\u00a0co-founded a collective movement-based performance resource in the east end of London at Chisenhale Dance Space, exploring performance among\u00a0choreographers, musicians and artists to make collaborations based in embodied movement. cris taught Performance Writing at Dartington College of Arts (1995-2002), played music with vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Sianed Jones and turntablist composer Philip Jeck as\u00a0<em>Slant<\/em>, collaborated on\u00a0site-responsive works about value and recycling with Kirsten Lavers under the author-function\u00a0<em>Things Not Worth Keeping<\/em>\u00a0from 1999-2006 and has been a professor of poetry at Miami University in Ohio since 2005. Teaching across disciplines in Affect, Assemblage, Network Theory and Performance Studies cris lives in Cincinnati and London. Most recent publications are\u00a0<em>pickles &amp; jams<\/em>\u00a0(BlazeVOX Books, 2017)\u00a0<em>fukc all the king\u2019s men: the tower and a few beasts living in its rubble<\/em>\u00a0(xerolage, 2018) and\u00a0<em>Out cold in the library 1<\/em>\u00a0(Dusie, 2019).<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is not in the slightest a new story, And the following text of it has been derived to substantial degrees from books printed and published in the year 1639 of the western Gregorian calendar. &nbsp; \u201cBe careful what you get good at\u201d True Detective, \u201cNothing grows in the right direction\u201d &nbsp; The death of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6319,"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":[58,12],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/images-2.jpeg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p42xiC-1C0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6200"}],"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=6200"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6312,"href":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6200\/revisions\/6312"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glasfrynproject.org.uk\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}