Festival of New Writing in Aberdeen and North-East Scotland
1–30 September 2012
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Tractors and Pearls
Haworth Hodgkinson performs poetry from his new book in musical settings
Syllavethy Gallery, Montgarrie
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Admission by donation
Haworth Hodgkinson is a poet whose work takes him way beyond the printed page. An
experienced collaborator with performers from many disciplines, he understands that
poetry can be enhanced when it is combined sensitively with music, dance and visual
images.
This event is part of a tour in which he and John Mackie are launching new collections
from Malfranteaux Concepts, established in recent years as Aberdeen's leading poetry
publisher.
But this will be much more than a book launch. Haworth's Tractor Bastard,
a sequence of twenty poems beginning in geological time, taking a tour of the seasons
in Northern Scotland, then departing in cosmological time, will be presented in
the context of his own specially composed music played on a range of wind and percussion
instruments.
The evening will include a showing of Roller Ghoster, a video by Fiona Soe
Paing and Zennor Alexander inspired by the painting by Heather Wilson that appears
on the cover of Haworth's book. This painting is currently on show as part of an
exhibition of Heather Wilson's work at Syllavethy Gallery.
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Haworth Hodgkinson is a poet and playwright, composer and improvising musician,
whose work often involves collaboration with other writers, musicians, dancers and
visual artists, as well as solo performances combining poetry and music. He works
as a poet and musician with the multimedia Blue Salt Collective, and is the founding
director of North-East Scotland's New Words festival of new writing in performance.
Read more at
www.haworthhodgkinson.co.uk
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Tractor Bastard, Haworth Hodgkinson's second collection, contains twenty
poems selected from his recent solo shows.
"Witty, wry, surreal and biting by turns, Haworth Hodgkinson's writing and performances
stand out from the crowd. With their offbeat glimpsing, his poems press reality's
Refresh button. Haworth is a rare poet with a unique style. To see the world
anew, enquire within." (Eddie Gibbons, poet)
"What amazes me about Haworth's poetry is the breadth of his imagination. He emblazons
the everyday with extraordinary meaning from quirky quips in Cows to the
lyrical depth and beauty of A Dozen Words for Fog to the haunting tone of
Stone to Ice. His poetry embraces nature in all its forms whether comical,
sinister, beautiful or surreal. These poems will resonate with us long after the
page has been turned." (Catriona Yule, poet)
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Fiona Soe Paing is an Aberdeenshire electronica producer/vocalist, and works
in collaboration with New Zealand based animation artist Zennor Alexander. As Colliderscope
their audio-visual work has been broadcast and screened internationally, and audio
releases have included a Sound of The World compilation on Warner Music.
The four track EP Songs from No Man's Land was released in 2010, and a new
EP, Tower of Babel is to be released soon on Edinburgh's Black Lantern Music.
Read more at
www.colliderscope.com
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Roller Ghoster is an animated music video with music by Fiona Soe Paing and
animation by Zennor Alexander. The video and music were inspired by images from
the painting by Heather Wilson No Man's Land, which Heather in turn created
as a response to Fiona's No Man's Land music album, for the Art at The Lemon
Tree exhibition in Aberdeen in 2011. Heather's painting suggested a theme
of the cycles of death and rebirth, and was re-interpreted in the video as the "ride
of your life" — part roller coaster, part ghost train. The video forms part
of Fiona's audio-visual performance No Man's Land combining projected animation,
electronica soundtrack and live vocals, and was created with support from Creative
Scotland.
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North East Writers and its partner organisations undertake to produce
all events in the New Words festival as advertised, but we can accept no liability
for details that are changed due to circumstances beyond our control.
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Week 3
Thursday 13 September
6.30pm
Books and Beans, Aberdeen
Strap yourself in for readings from Kit Fryatt, Neil C. Young and Richard L. Anderson
Friday 14 September
7pm
Lastbus Works Canteen, New Pitsligo
John Mackie, Haworth Hodgkinson and friends perform poetry with music
Saturday 15 September
7pm
Syllavethy Gallery, Montgarrie
Haworth Hodgkinson performs poetry from his new book in musical settings
Week 4
Wednesday 19 September
7.30pm
Tin Hut, Gartly
Original stories and poems spliced with traditional songs and music
Thursday 20 September
6.30pm
Books and Beans, Aberdeen
Poetry, prose and song with Sheena Blackhall, Catriona Yule and Haseley Hinton
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