Eleanor Jackson is a Filipino Australian poet,
performer, arts producer, cyclist, writer, gal
about town, feminist, freewheeler, and
friend. One day, she is going to be an
ideas curator. Which basically
means, she will tell you
exactly what she thinks.
Until then, you’ll have
to read between
the lines.
what a fox
I’ve no idea which one of us I’m talking about. Maybe both.
Either way. I would like to cordially invite you to come and see Doubting Thomas and I reconvene for another bout of “he said she said” under the guise of DJ Thought Fox and MC Lady Lazarus as a part of Un-required Reading. In Sydney. The city of fear. 7 December. You may wish to come along because you know me, you live in Sydney now and I Catholic guilted you. This is a perfectly good reason.
But maybe you’d like to suggest your Sydney-sider friend came instead of you, because you already saw it at the Queensland Poetry Festival and kind of thought it was a standout of the festival, like Mr Ocean. Or maybe like Graham Nunn, you think that:
Thought Fox and Lazarus are captivating on the stage, their interaction crackling with energy. It’s the perfect poetry hair-of-the-dog to get the day kickstarted… intensely dark and joyous and I would kill to watch it all over again.
Perhaps you came along to the first time around of Un-required Reading, as a part of the incredible Brisbane Fringe Festival, and you were kind of thinking, like Zenobia Frost that this audio-visual remix of the poets Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath:
… is a rich, engaging, layered work. Plath’s and Hughes’ voices weave through Jackson’s sensual and Thomas’ eloquent poetics. Numerous lines stick out, and I jot many of them down (mostly illegible, in the dark): “Kiss me, and you’ll know how important I am.”
But it’s not just going to be Doubting Thomas and myself. There’s much more happening at the beautiful Hibernian House on 7 December.
Jade Oldfield and Candy Royalle (incredible winner of the Nimbin Poetry Cup this year!) are hosting this evening of inventive story making – featuring visuals, soundscapes and commentary ranging from the deeply personal, articulately obscure and the lovingly plagiarized. And we’re not just restricting you to Ted and Sylvia, we also have”
- Emily Grantham, a Sydney-based experimental sound artist, carving ethereal and visceral electronic landscapes. Featuring a special tribute to Sylvia Plath!
- Liv in(the)finite and Patch Sinclair aka Maia Sinclair-Ferguson unravel heart fibres into a film & spoken word collaborative tapestry: ‘Unwoven’
I’m extremely honoured to reconnect with Liv and Patch, whose collaboration on the BFF gig was skin-prickling. I’d be even happier if you came along too.
(photograph: Elleni Toumpas)
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Reblogged this on darkarsean and commented:
For a performance never to be missed. Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes like you will never forget them.