What The Street Remembers (36)
Broo-do-do
Aaaaaaaaaah
Do-do-di-do
What?
*
Sharon
Jones whorls a voluminous skirt.
*
Ha-ha
make it up
I'm
not coming around
Chit-chit
Aah
haven’t seen it
*
Binky
Griptight poises heels
On
the frontier of the curb.
*
Ooom
ooom
Heway
lad
What
do you think?
It's
great
What The Street Remembers (37)
Is
that you?
Listen
Aah
like that
Drr-rrrrr
*
E.M.
Forster surreptitiously thresholds
The
gallery.
*
Pass
the glass for the machine
A
knaa
Will
he still not tell you?
Fat
bugger
*
John
Maynard Keynes flourishes a grip
Of
roses.
*
Der-dor
blang ooh ooh
Looks
like that thing
Mmm
dr-dr
B-loomp
doomp doomp
What The Street Remembers (38)
Bloody
soaking
I've
just put it away
Ha-ha-ha-ha
Who's
coming?
*
Colette
flounces at the chestnut stand.
*
Barum-doom-doom
There
she is
Looks
like another 20 minutes
Is it
hell
*
Peggy
Guggenheim finger-wiggles.
*
Chk-chk
chickatoo-chk
I
swear to you this time
Toffee
mouse
Not
today
What The Street Remembers (39)
Aah
that’s silly
Two
for a pound
Ilk
click pugh
*
John
Cage bends towards the intercom.
*
Bllee
ching
Somebody
wants
Tshak
Ap no
Sophie
Give
it a knock
*
Aaron
Copeland swings at a bluebottle.
*
There
isn’t the time
Wan
sing sem
Aa yi
He'll
be sixteen
What The Street Remembers (3)
Hello
there
Wraaak
What
for?
Use
the machine
Shreea
*
Christopher
Isherwood budges
Into
the terrace.
*
Ya
stupid you
It's
at the toon man
*
Stephen
Spender traipses
Round
a delivery van.
*
Uoorgh-ha
Di-da
di-da di-da
Let
me see
Will
you tell them?
Oooooh-aaaaah
In
1998 Christopher Barnes won a Northern Arts writers award. In July 2000 he read at Waterstones bookshop
to promote the anthology 'Titles Are Bitches'.
Christmas 2001 he debuted at Newcastle's famous Morden Tower doing a
reading of poems. Each year he read for
Proudwords lesbian and gay writing festival and partook in workshops. 2005 saw the publication of his collection
LOVEBITES published by Chanticleer Press, 6/1 Jamaica Mews, Edinburgh.
On Saturday 16Th August 2003 he read at the Edinburgh Festival as a Per Verse.
Christmas
2001 The Northern Cultural Skills Partnership sponsored him to be mentored by
Andy Croft in conjunction with New Writing North. He made a radio programme for Web FM
community radio about his writing group.
October-November 2005, he entered a poem/visual image into the art
exhibition The Art Cafe Project, his piece Post-Mark was shown in Betty's
Newcastle. This event was sponsored by
Pride On The Tyne. He made a digital
film with artists Kate Sweeney and Julie Ballands at a film making workshop
called Out Of The Picture which was shown at the festival party for Proudwords,
it contains his poem The Old Heave-Ho.
He worked on a collaborative art and literature project called How Gay
Are Your Genes, facilitated by Lisa Mathews (poet) which exhibited at The
Hatton Gallery, Newcastle University, including a film piece by the artist
Predrag Pajdic in which he read his poem On Brenkley St. The event was funded by The Policy, Ethics
and Life Sciences Research Institute, Bio-science Centre at Newcastle's Centre
for Life. He was involved in the Five
Arts Cities poetry postcard event which exhibited at The Seven Stories
children's literature building. In May
he had 2006 a solo art/poetry exhibition at The People's Theatre.
The
South Bank Centre in London recorded his poem "The Holiday I Never
Had"; he can be heard reading it on www.poetrymagazines.org.uk/magazine/record.asp?id=18456
In August 2007 he made a film called 'A Blank
Screen, 60 seconds, 1 shot' for Queerbeats Festival at The Star & Shadow
Cinema Newcastle, reviewing a poem...see www.myspace.com/queerbeatsfestival He has also
written Art Criticism for Peel and Combustus Magazines.
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