Blog - Literature
Tesco Delivery Man, from shielder to non shielder
November 17, 2020 - by Liz BentleyThis Tesco delivery man didn’t want to be photographed, nevertheless, I showed him my blog and photos of many of his colleagues which he enjoyed. Because of lockdown, delivery men aren’t allowed into houses to help with shopping so I sit on the piano stool by the door and take ...
hyena in petticoats
November 16, 2020 - by gobscureonline exhibition / screening / album - from 19 nov, 7pm commissioned by together 2020 disability history month festival - film, online exhibition, e-zine of art / writing / activities because mary wollstonecraft wz bad, rad, bi, mutha, internationalist, feminist before the word, a writer & mad - she, disabilities included ...
Hope and Pray
November 15, 2020 - by Bryony ParsonsThis year has been challenging, The coronavirus has hit home, Having to wear masks, Standing two meters apart. How long will this go on for? Being glared at for coughing, Having to sneeze into your elbow, waiting for the shops to re-open. Oh, how I wish life would return back to normal, No one knows what normal is anymore, All ...
Access Contextualised
November 11, 2020 - by Richard DownesA collection of 17 poems compiled as a contribution to UK Disability History Month. The compilation seeks to broaden the brush usually applied to access. Whilst access remains a key issue it has to be seen, in my opinion, only as a part of wider issues derived from approaches to experience ...
Juice; Slap
November 6, 2020 - by Richard DownesFor Yoko’s Body Sound Tape Piece. Yoko your body sounds are kinder than mine, more curious too, though I have some good ones. Here I revisit a one off incident (well, twice is more than enough really) before going back to the violence of special school and then saving a concern for ...
I blame Marcel…
November 5, 2020 - by GiniMarcel Duchamp wanted to change the way we think about art, claiming to make work for the brain rather than mere pleasure for the eyes. Duchamp might only have sought to throw a spanner into the art establishment to shake up the whole concept of art, but I wish he had ...
Masked Tesco Delivery Man suggested I hold something phallic
November 3, 2020 - by Liz BentleyEvery year, my parents and my sister would go on our annual family holiday and stay in a caravan in Cromer, Norfolk. One year, the Gibbons family joined us for a day. The Gibbons had three children, two girls the same age as my sister and I, and a younger ...
This panto bites
October 29, 2020 - by GiniNo one in my family is mentioning the C-word. As festive season creeps closer, those of you who remember pantomime will no doubt be wondering how on earth you will cope without it this year I have astonishingly good news. You won’t have to! 2020 is the year the whole nation is invited ...
For What We Are About To Receive
October 27, 2020 - by Richard DownesI attended a class on Ritual once, listened to definitions, added lines of my own in order to make a prose piece. I have reviewed it. I have pointed out the errors. I have used it, used it again and used it afresh. This is for what you are about ...
Black Widow 6
October 26, 2020 - by Richard DownesLate comers to ‘Black Widow’ may wish to go back to the start which began here.He rolls a five. Calls Spring Onions. Spring’s not in. Cheese is absent. Names of bands roll around his head. The Real and the Invented. He listens to his voices. Wondering as he does ...