tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-46908542695686368402024-03-14T04:42:02.525-07:00Jen HadfieldEvents & Projects – Where I'm AtJen Hadfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14462642886365882978noreply@blogger.comBlogger151125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4690854269568636840.post-33769585533626176302015-11-28T06:04:00.001-08:002015-11-28T06:04:39.403-08:00Shetland poetry workshop with Jen Hadfield<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">for bee-eaters, swifts<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Short poems can be like a meditation: helping us focus
on where we're at right now, and on what's going on around us. They also make
good Christmas cards!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">We'll spend the afternoon reading, listening,
looking and playing with words in a focussed but informal atmosphere. New and
more confident poets all welcome. Bring outdoor gear for optional landscape
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">2-5.30, Saturday 5th December<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">venue t.b.c (probably Burra)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">16-yrs and up, 12 max.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">£20 for the afternoon<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Tonnes of bladderwrack washed up onto my local beach after Storm Abigail, full of smithereened plastic. In 40mph winds, I struggled along to another beach to watch the waves. I found the carcass of a young swan, a seal, and an unidentified marine mammal, perhaps a porpoise. Its skin was flensed away, and the blubber beneath was a mosaic of little chips of broken plastic. It's almost impossible to get your head around how much of this stuff is out there, chugging around the gyres like a great oceanic washing machine. We've got to sort this.Jen Hadfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14462642886365882978noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4690854269568636840.post-67207619938943892322015-04-29T08:14:00.001-07:002015-04-29T08:14:40.948-07:00New Shop on EtsyThe 'Dominant Species' limpets are now available to buy in my <a href="https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/230163895/porcelain-limpet-sculpture-with-led?ref=shop_home_active_1">Etsy</a> shop.<br />
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These ceramic limpet sculptures come from my exhibition 'The Dominant Species' in the Shetland Museum and Archives. Shape, thickness and density vary as the limpets are all made by hand using a thumb-pot method. Each limpet comes with a rudimentary LED light. Contact me for images of individual limpets so you can handpick your colony of glowing marine gastropods. They're keen to colonise new territory!<br /><br />https://www.facebook.com/TheDominantSpecies<div>
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Jen Hadfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14462642886365882978noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4690854269568636840.post-61970713664297469612014-11-18T12:42:00.003-08:002014-11-18T12:43:13.137-08:00Alex Salmond's Farewell Speech 'When Scotland was alive with ideas and debate, all Labour could demonstrate was timidity and fear'. Regardless of your feelings about Salmond, it's worth watching at least the first 9 minutes of his <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZ6mUDQYRmE">farewell speech</a>. Imagine, a politician whose own party aren't mortified by him. Actually, anyone who's sick of Westminster should watch or listen to the whole thing. Any of the folk who couldn't understand why Scots might even WANT to become independent should watch the whole thing.Jen Hadfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14462642886365882978noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4690854269568636840.post-36929311742978269662014-11-11T10:55:00.003-08:002014-11-11T10:55:55.336-08:00Dr Gavin Wallace Fellowship<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I'm really grateful to have been appointed the 2014 Dr Gavin Wallace Fellow hosted by Moniack Mhor. All the information about the fellowship and my planned project is <a href="http://www.creativescotland.com/what-we-do/latest-news/archive/2014/11/poet-jen-hadfield-appointed-as-2014-dr-gavin-wallace-fellow">here</a>, but expect some posts about flotsam and jetsam. I start in December. Can't wait.<br />
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<br />Jen Hadfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14462642886365882978noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4690854269568636840.post-54236672479012332582014-10-27T12:58:00.000-07:002014-10-27T12:58:14.615-07:00Shipping AIS Map<br /><br />this interactive map shows <a href="http://www.shetlandtimes.co.uk/widgets/">real time shipping around Shetland</a>. You can click on the boats and see where they're headed and what they're up to. Wherever we live is the centre.<br /><br />Scroll down to Shipping AIS Map<div>
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Jen Hadfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14462642886365882978noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4690854269568636840.post-16577290731576538582014-05-09T07:04:00.002-07:002014-05-09T07:04:42.897-07:00Reading with artist Anne Bevan in Aberdeen tomorrowTomorrow I'll be nipping down to Aberdeen for Mayfest and reading with Alan Spence, celebrating Orkney artist Anne Bevan's lovely exhibition. <a href="http://www.abdn.ac.uk/mayfestival/events/5090/">Things Unseen</a> is all about microscopic marine life.<br />
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The Sir Duncan Rice Library, University of Aberdeen, 3-4pm, 10th May 2014<br />
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<br />Jen Hadfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14462642886365882978noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4690854269568636840.post-29366692651200681992014-04-29T08:40:00.001-07:002014-04-29T08:40:10.178-07:00Online Event at the Poetry School next week<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Jen Hadfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14462642886365882978noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4690854269568636840.post-2519484726195734612014-04-17T09:57:00.000-07:002014-04-17T09:57:01.286-07:00Reading at 'Streams of Story', The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I'll be reading from <i>Byssus</i> at The Fruitmarket Gallery next Thursday, to celebrate Tania Kovat's new exhibition <i><a href="http://tania-kovats-oceans.com/">Oceans</a></i>. <div>
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'The exhibition begins with All the Sea (2012–14), a work made from the sea water collected from around the world by individuals who responded to a public invitation to help assemble the world’s sea water in one place. Decanted into 365 glass bottles, All the Sea takes the form of a library of bodies of water, from the Adriatic to the Yellow Sea. It also represents an archive of moments in time, recordings of 250 human experiences with – and most probably in – the sea, capturing in bottles a substance that otherwise slips through our fingers.'<div>
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Details <a href="http://fruitmarket.co.uk/exhibitions/current/talks-and-events/">here</a>, booking recommended.</div>
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Jen Hadfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14462642886365882978noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4690854269568636840.post-28806086316584571182014-04-10T07:55:00.000-07:002014-04-10T07:57:00.286-07:00With Paul Farley and Tim Dee in Unst...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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recording next Sunday's episode of <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b040h5p1">The Echo Chamber</a>.Jen Hadfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14462642886365882978noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4690854269568636840.post-31456908647253965882014-04-04T08:01:00.000-07:002014-04-04T08:02:40.494-07:00What happens in our brains when we look for and find wild food – can you help?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />I'd like to understand more about what happens in our brains when we go foraging for wild food. Why are hunting for and finding mushrooms, shellfish, berries exciting/compelling/satisfying? I'm assuming dopamine/oxytocin/reward centres may be involved…can anyone explain how it works? Can you recommend any reliable but not excessively technical reading? Please comment below if you can help!Jen Hadfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14462642886365882978noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4690854269568636840.post-11442433610330203722014-03-17T16:44:00.003-07:002014-03-17T16:53:39.071-07:00For the University of St Andrew's 'Loch Computer' project, I was asked to write a short text about my 'sense of the balance in (my) existence between remoteness and connectedness'<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 150%;">Remote is a function of our brains, not a geographical fact. Perhaps
we are longing for times when the world was flat and infinite and remote is
always just out of sight. It's only recently that 'how can a plane disappear?'
seems like a reasonable question. Living in Shetland I constantly meet the kind
of folk who yearn for the edge, yearn for 'remote', so much that they invent it
where it doesn't exist. Please take care. We're in trouble when we let 'remote'
mean something like forgettable (out of sight, out of mind) – especially if it's defined as such by people
with the power to exploit such a place.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I've tried to identify some of the things I think I need to be happy where I live. Company of compassionate, informed, egalitarian
and mindful folk. Company of makers and musicians and scientists and explorers.
Company of wild creatures doing their own thing despite us. Sometimes to give
up and go to the pictures. Good wireless speeds; mangos; an alternative place
to work than home, interrupted by people I do and don't yet know</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 150%;">Places you
can walk out of the view of houses. The ability to get to my family if I need
to. The possibility of elsewhere from time to time. People ever coming and
going, by cruise, research vessel, helicopter, pelagic ships and whitefish
boats, yacht, ferry, plane. And the world's junk washing up on our beaches. With
most of these needs satisfied enough of the time, where I live is not remote. Places
change and people's needs change, and so 'remote' is not an absolute – but what
'remote' is also not is a fixed geographical location.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">'A row of cottages called New Zealand – because they were so
far from anywhere – was built' (Tim Dee<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">,
Four Fields</i>) I was there, recently, as far from home as it's possible to
be. And found myself weirdly at home in a place somewhat like Shetland. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Colquhoun. Glenn can see Kapiti most days from the coast near his house, though
it disappears in fog, as Foula does, from my back yard. Jetlagged, I tried to
sleep on the warm deck of our cabin, but the ponderous footfall of a kleptomaniac
weka startled me awake. It dipped its beak into my mug of lukewarm tea. The
beach was covered in blazing oval mirrors – upturned iridescent paua shells. In
ten minutes at ten in the morning, my white Northern nape began to burn. I had
sort of forgotten about the hole in the ozone layer until I burnt underneath it.
We ate tough, gamey chunks of paua, fried in a bit of flour; a large kaka lurked
in the trees, ready to raid the cheese and biscuit platter. We worked our way
along a cliffside track through flax, bending back the stiff blades for each
other, and eventually reached – in older-growth bush, the ruinous whaling
station. Kakariki, powdery greenstone, that were prising seeds from flax pods,
shattered from the sharp leaves. And we saw kiwi and spoonbills; massive blue
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 150%;">The whole world grew out of here; the heart
of the whorl, though the globe has infinite such crowns. But as we packed the
trunk of Glenn's car again, back on the mainland, it was immediately as if we'd
never been there. Kapiti vibrated and fizzed, the same fictional blue as Foula.
The wind had picked up, and we'd narrowly missed an indefinite stay on the island,
or an expensive helicopter trip. It takes less than half an hour to get to
Kapiti but it's impossible to reach by boat when the wind gets up. The island
hovered slightly above the shattering sea, ready to plane off, like Laputa.</span></div>
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I wonder what long haul air travel across time-zones does to body, soul and mind. The world is a scalp with two crowns. Coming home go back in time and brush its fur the wrong way. Halfway between Melbourne and Singapore abandon hope of arriving ever. The guy in the seat behind me has unfairly long legs, and big feet which intrude into my footwell. I wake from a two hour sleep, find his feet between mine and kick them violently and deliberately until they retreat. Long legs and I avoid each others' eyes as we get off the plane in Singapore. Terrible to travel through the equator for the first time and not even get outside, which is why Changi is my new favourite airport: they let you smell the air. Upstairs and out into the cactus garden. It is midnight and 26 degrees. The sky is stifling, orange and smells like a wood-fired oven. Under the clear skies of Kapiti Island and the Tongariro Alpine Circuit, Orion was upended as if diving for pearls below the horizon. Here I couldn't find my way to a single constellation: the fainter stars obliterated in smog. I clapped the flask-shaped trunk of a ponytail tree. A friend of mine quotes a friend of hers: 'the soul travels on horseback'. So what happens while your soul is catching you up? Empty, you fill up like a well, mostly unmediated by language. For a while language is a almost purely sensual phenomenon: birds, places, rhythm, phonetic novelty and familiarity. (To 'whakapapa' is to 'redd up kin'. It's pronounced 'fokkapapa' or so, and was the name of the village I began my walk through the mountains.)<br />
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With big thanks to all the folk who put me up and in touch and showed me around: Frances Hendron and Robyn Marsack, Bill Manhire and Marion, Greg O'Brien and Jenny Bornholdt, Chris and all the students at the <a href="http://www.victoria.ac.nz/modernletters/">International Institute for Modern Letters at Victoria University</a>, Glenn and Olive and Amey, Dinah Hawken and Bill, James Brown, St Benedicts and St Catherine's Schools, <a href="http://www.radionz.co.nz/">Radio New Zealand</a>, <a href="http://www.unitybooks.co.nz/">Unity Books</a>, the nice folk I met on the Tongariro Northern Circuit and the <a href="http://www.shetlandwellington.org.nz/">Shetland Society of Wellington</a>!Jen Hadfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14462642886365882978noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4690854269568636840.post-54544375981366370762014-02-15T03:33:00.000-08:002014-02-15T10:28:28.151-08:00The End of the Runway (after NZ poet James Brown)<br />
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Leaving Shetland on a stormy morning for Glasgow, on my way to New Zealand on the Scottish Poetry Library's <a href="http://commonwealthpoetsunited.com/about-commonwealth-poets-united/">Commonwealth Poets United</a> project. </div>
Jen Hadfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14462642886365882978noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4690854269568636840.post-79631665192447238472014-02-12T02:42:00.003-08:002014-02-12T02:42:40.916-08:00Jim MainlandJim Mainland – one of my favourite Shetland poets – appears in <a href="http://www.theislandreview.com/poetry-jim-mainland">The Island Review</a> today, including some desperately lovely translations of Holub, Milton and Les Murray into Shetland Dialect. His new pamphlet <i>A Package of Measures</i> is available now from Hansel Cooperative Press.Jen Hadfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14462642886365882978noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4690854269568636840.post-91582466647071774352014-01-18T04:31:00.000-08:002014-01-18T04:31:21.114-08:00Advance copy of Byssus...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Jen Hadfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14462642886365882978noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4690854269568636840.post-30986386148149450672014-01-13T12:45:00.000-08:002014-01-13T12:45:01.901-08:00Bearding the Mussel<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Jen Hadfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14462642886365882978noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4690854269568636840.post-60056014903882524232014-01-13T12:15:00.001-08:002014-01-13T12:18:59.973-08:00Byssus!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">It's not due out until mid-February, but apparently a finished copy of my third poetry collection, <i>Byssus</i>,<i> </i>is sitting on a desk in the Picador offices, about to be posted to me. Way too exciting! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>'Byssus' </i>means the strong fibres of what used to be known as 'sea-silk', that some bivalves, including mussels, use to secure themselves to their rocky homeplace. You can make yourself a tie out of it, apparently. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 150%;">Half-knowing what I
meant, I heard myself telling a friend this summer that the act of writing this poetry
collection had finally become a performance. I remembered then that that's
what it felt like before. It took the threat of publication – the real risk of finding
a reader – to stand a chance of making real work again.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;">And what was the work?
Camping on the rosy cliffs of the Lang Clodie. A cep-hunt on arctic terrain in the
north of Shetland. My recurrent dream, climaxing in the hectic extremes of the
Spring tides, about tugs-of-war with brawny spoots (razor clams). And wasn't
there something to try to say about puffballs?<i> </i>Hours lying on the banks
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is that while it dangles before us the possibility that we <i>might</i> 'get home' to such moments of animal absorption, our effort rarely
– thanks to pernicious habits of intention and self-consciousness – succeeds. This
book is trying very hard; in time, I'll see how many of these poems do actually
vibrate on the present tense's 'thin line'. (Gaspar Galaz)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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fashionable to speak of the liminality of islands, with people titillated by
the notion of them as World's End, a brink to teeter on; this world-view denies
that for island-dwellers, they can be the centre. I wanted to dig down into
this place, prospecting the infinitely-revealed complexities of 'home'.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><span lang="EN-US">Byssus</span></i><span lang="EN-US"> is, I
hope, an arched book: climbing through spring's maniacal flowering to summer's
zenith, declining to exhaustion, and a contemplation of how it batters us just to
live, learn, make and love. I have always fetishised the idea of home, and
perhaps, Shetland. <i>Byssus</i> is, I hope,
as it is for a mussel, my holdfast in such wild water. <o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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Jen Hadfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14462642886365882978noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4690854269568636840.post-10194843097664528382014-01-07T06:43:00.001-08:002014-01-07T06:43:31.280-08:00Bill Manhire<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Looking forward to my poetry exchange with NZ poet <a href="http://www.bookcouncil.org.nz/writers/colquhoun.html">Glenn Colquhoun</a> this Spring – with the <a href="http://spl.org.uk/">Scottish Poetry Library</a> – I'm reading Carcanet's <i><a href="http://www.carcanet.co.uk/cgi-bin/indexer?product=9781857549768">Twenty Contemporary New Zealand Poets</a></i>. This, from Bill Manhire, made me smile and rang bells all over the place:<br />
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Jen Hadfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14462642886365882978noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4690854269568636840.post-12037398061762185542013-10-07T09:27:00.003-07:002013-10-07T09:46:08.515-07:00Poetry Events in Manchester this week<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I'll be in Manchester this week for two events with <a href="http://www.manchesterliteraturefestival.co.uk/">Manchester Literature Festival</a> and <a href="http://www.manchestergalleries.org/">Manchester Art Galleries</a>. On Thursday 10th October I'll be <a href="http://www.manchesterliteraturefestival.co.uk/events/a-highland-romance-poetry-performance-270">performing a new poetry commission</a> inspired by (and in reaction to) paintings in the Manchester Art Galleries exhibition 'A Highland Romance - Victorian Views of Scottishness'. Thanks to Manchester Literature Festival for inviting me to take on this very interesting commission...which threw up the possibility that Victorian Views of Scottishness might not be so very different from contemporary ones (see prevalence of Highland Cows). On Saturday 12th I'll be tutoring a day-long <a href="http://www.manchesterliteraturefestival.co.uk/events/a-highland-romance-poetry-workshop-278">workshop</a> in the gallery exploring ekphrasis – poetry inspired by visual art. We've got a beautiful big studio and lots of materials to play with, so I'll be curious to see if participants are interested in exploring the materiality of language.Jen Hadfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14462642886365882978noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4690854269568636840.post-75146861362836758072013-10-06T05:57:00.000-07:002013-10-06T05:57:25.866-07:00'There are tidal zones'I'm posting this new poem from Bergen writer Kristian S. Haeggernes' forthcoming collection, <a href="http://www.cappelendamm.no/main/katalog.aspx?f=1106&isbn=9788202423315">Urne</a>, because I love it, and because it includes a sidelong reference to limpets. In Norwegian, the word for 'limpet' translates as 'elbow-snail'. Lovely.<br />
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<b>There are tidal zones</b><br />
in me as well. At low tide<br />
the crabs scuttle sideways<br />
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over my diaphragm Waving<br />
overgrown claws that take over<br />
control of my arms<br />
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when I dance I prefer<br />
to dance alone At high tide<br />
my elbows come loose<br />
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wandering off to eat<br />
dreams off of my skin<br />
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I prefer to sleep alone<br />
I don't want anyone to see me<br />
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where I am most myself<br />
Submerged in my own breath<br />
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Written & translated by Kristian S. Haeggernes.<br />
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Jen Hadfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14462642886365882978noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4690854269568636840.post-45127321905759152932013-09-23T06:29:00.003-07:002013-09-23T06:29:48.394-07:00Limpets far and wide<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The limpets of The Dominant Species (as photographed by Susan Timmins) are incredibly proud to appear on the cover of Bergen poet Kristian Haeggernes' new collection, <a href="http://www.cappelendamm.no/main/katalog.aspx?f=1106&isbn=9788202423315"><i>Urne</i></a>.Jen Hadfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14462642886365882978noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4690854269568636840.post-30111966935386580272013-09-19T05:23:00.001-07:002013-09-19T05:24:57.646-07:00T S Eliot Prize 20th Anniversary Tour tonight<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I'm reading in Oldham tonight as part of the Poetry Book Society's <a href="http://www.poetrybooks.co.uk/projects/42/">T.S.Eliot Prize 20th Anniversary Tour</a>. Bad things about this: I've got the cold. Good things about this: I get to hear Ian Duhig, Jane Draycott and Shamshad Khan and check out the new tram line to Oldham. I love trams and undergrounds mostly because of the maps with coloured lines, my favourite being the Mexico Metro. Glasgow's Clockwork Orange also has a special place in my heart for its intense olfactory experience.Jen Hadfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14462642886365882978noreply@blogger.com0