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1. Ì NEOMOMENTALISM Ì
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WORD OF THE
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StreatfieldTwelvetrees is the spent on the sunny banks of Little Train to My Heart —a tragic verse Podgson Bornway, Jeremy Tweefield Moon» ruthlessly destroys the concept
recognized leader of the NeoMo- Midden, afternoons on Doomsday play for eighty-eight bass voices. In and Oswald Mortimer who, together of a «lover’s Moon» and we are boldly
mentalist poets and artists whose Hill and delirious evenings in the analysis this work reveals much with Twelvetrees, formed the nucleus confronted with a «Mab’s Moon»
profound and exciting creations are shadow of Potters Wood. about the working of his inner soul of NeoMomentalism which, in these where martial trumpetings and the
beginning to reach out and influ- as is revealed by The 72nd Bass Voice: days of chaos and disorder, brings footfalls of robot armies are no lon-
Marrow, marrow forth form and substance from the
ence an increasingly large audience. Mozart Beware! ger dreams of science-fiction writers
Sparrow, sparrow abstractions of this distraught world. — and where does the left hand boot
Born in 1963 in the rural English The fog in your hair
village of Potters End, Streatfield Spam Ì belong? Where indeed! We dread to
The rose in your ear contemplate.
was raised in a cultural and artistic
environment sympathetic to his na-
It is interesting to compare this And the small winter THE POETICS OF Bornway, however, has always
short verse with another taken from In your sock shown a reluctance to talk about
ture. He attended St. Elmo's Parish
his later work Odd Ice (1987)
HODGESON BORNWAY
School in the neighbouring village Is a yesterday away his work and, in fact, rarely talks at
of Brimstone, where his intuitive Sparrow, sparrow The Moon has sung all. Nontheless, when asked by Ma-
From some other bel Dream, editor of Mom’s Weekly
inquisitiveness soon set him apart Marrow, marrow Melody Its clanking song.
Gossip what advice he had to give to
WINDSOR from the rest of his young contem-
poraries. It was here he discovered
Ham
His readings were invariably fol-
Where does the readers who wished to understand
left hand boot
GALLERY the writings of Edgar Bartholomew The discerning student will at
once recognize Dung’s influence in
lowed by the question: "How do
you achieve so much in so short a belong?
his poetry, he offered the following
advice:
presents Dung, The Brimstone Hermit, born
the earlier passage, but in the latter time?" His answer was simple: Bornway is an inspirational Let them read with the ear and
and bred in those same North Lon-
RON MEERBEEK we are keenly aware that Twelvetrees poet. His works are conceived in listen with the eye.
don marshes. I create in the eternal mo-
has at last found a personal brand of ment. While others live from one mo- the heat of the moment rather than This is a profound statement. At
the life of Karen The works of Dung profoundly
expressionism. being intellectually matured over a once it becomes apparent that Born-
influenced the young lad, and this ment to the next, I have achieved the
Book signing and art of living between moments! period of time. way is reversing roles and cunningly
is aptly illustrated in his first poem, By this time the awakening poet
exhibition of his series of He was already well established including the reader into the struc-
Messages on a Dark Night, written at had taken up residence in London. Thus is came to pass that Twelve-
paintings based on the book at The Three Jolly Firkins before the ture of his work. We must therefore
the tender age of six. His first home was a canvas shelter trees and his followers were dubbed
advent of NeoMomentalism, and it give the sight-texture of his poetry
5.30–10 PM under the shadow of Hammer- NeoMomentalists —those living in
His first book of poetry at the age was surely foreordained for Streat- more than a cursory examination.
smith Bridge but he later moved the New and Eternal Moment —
1234 Canterbury of ten was published by Pickpocket
to a small room above The Three field Twelvetrees to be drawn to I have left
and the movement as a whole
Victoria, B.C. Books titled Unbroken Voices. In
Jolly Firkins —a public house just a
drawn to this introspective dreamer my whittled leg.
gained considerable recognition in the Public Bar. The above poem
ronmeerbeek@blushing.com Here the Bunnies stone's throw from the north bank in the Hammersmith and Fulham I know not where
was the first of Bornway’s work that
Dance of the River Thames. Road areas. Their nightly meetings Twelvetrees became acquainted with I put it.
and Here he met the North Bank in the Public Bar of The Three Jolly and it is notable that he was moved Sometimes I ponder
Sing Crowd –writers, poets and artists of Firkins were truly eternal moments to make the following comments: on the muse.
Like unsung fame, who he would delight of industrious creativity which re- Although four lines long, the poem And I wonder
Anything! and astound with his prolific poetic sulted in the first collective NeoMo- has extraordinary breadth —breadth
output. During this time he wrote mentalistic work The Fluent Glass. of Idea and Implication which reach
where the fuse.
these works we find poems where
the mood is lighter —where bold Duet in Suet; A Letter to Daddy; The Fluent Glass gave voice to far beyond the words themselves. The The emphasis of this work is di-
Two Ten from Potters End and Tube such new and urgent contributors as metallic significance of a «clanking rected towards the inner ear rather
cadences hark back to carefree hours

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LAMEN
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g lost Ì THE RITA INTERVIEW SILLYNESS OPINION AND Philosophy
e tranqu
il Where does Harsh Noise and an too many to list, but some favorites
in my collection are Death Walks in Volume one
g in th
decayin hall
obsession with silent and early talking
movie actresses meet? in The Rita
High Heels; Strip Nude for your Killer;
issue 3
yf estering Vice Wears Black Hoses and Case of the
of this, mrow Spring 2012
of course; installations by artist and
Scorpian’s Death.
sor musician Sam McKinley. Audio
u the e mpti-
see in yoess
textures and tonal structures merge SOAP: Where did the name The Rita
I n violently with dynamic spatial come from?
r off S oul. concepts, capturing tension,
of my fa e whe n Sam: I first started making Noise in
is the tim brain
imbalance and barriers in the
about 1996. The name of the project
This y interpretations of one man’s
the vo rtex of m perception of lust and longing.
The Rita is taken from the barge that is
dis solves used to take scientists up the Amazon
ones SOAP : Your first release on
chored b
in the movie The Creature from the
an
and my ed. Troniks Records, Bodies Bears Black Lagoon. I have an obsession with
ar e plough d Traces of Carnal Violence, is Gillman and I also wanted to have a
nce sai
Shultz o s of time influenced. What’s the first
clearly very heavily Giallo woman’s name for the project, so they
stream melded nicely.
that the hing Giallo film you saw and what
ed the soot
are inde hroat.
SOAP: Are you still involved in
aching t
are some of your favorite
of an l caern s European Horror films ? minimalist art and installations?
e disma
But in th st Sam: I still like to take copious notes
of my pa
Sam: I gathered a collection
and make the occasional plan for an
hope. of murder scenes from
I have no length favorites such as So Sweet
installation, but most of my energy
s tringent these days is expended in Harsh Noise.
And the ee, So Dead and Sergio
of thi s, my kn Martino’s Strange Vice of
Currently I am working with shark
m oved sounds of the Great White shark and
is far re Void.
Signora Wardh, which has
2-stroke motorcross engines, pounding
stract a great twisty plot and
The Rita
...cont... from Ab some grizzly black gloved
them flat and spreading them into
cascading walls of distortion. Ì
Ron Meerbeek
soap
razor murders, and used the better
than the outer eye and hastily
scenes as raw source sounds for Bodies The Rita is performing at The Art
rejects all that which is inconseque-
tial. We may therefore forgive his
Bare Traces of Carnal Violence. There’s Space, 130 Beaton St, Victoria, B.C. Neo Momentualism
NEOMOMENTALISM
April 29th and 30th.
social and private shortcomings, of
which he has many. It is clear that sudscriptions PUBLISHED BY BIGFOOT PRESS
his self imposed exile into a dark cor- Editor – Liza Dawson-Whisker
ner of The Three Jolly Firkins shows Graphics – Marlow Massicks
Name
Contributing Writer – Robin Dawson
strong anti-social tendances, but his Address
masterful interplay between the spo- Contact Information:
volume one
ken and the unspoken and his ability 21 Blake Street issue 3
to give roundness and meaning to Victoria, B.C.
Send to: SOAP @ 21 Blake Street V9Z 2H7 spring 2012
his pauses and pregnant silences, soap@netwicks.rocketmail.ca
cannot be condemned. Ì Victoria, B.C. V9Z 2H7