Every Mother's Son

As part of his ongoing TEXTAPEDIA piece artist / poet Paul Conneally presents 'The Definition of Transliteracy'.

This piece features a reprocessed recording of Prof. Sue Thomas talking about 'transliteracy'.

Conneally asks listeners to listen to the piece and write down any words, phrases and fragments that reveal themselves and share as comments here and by sending them to Little.Onion@ntlworld.com.

These will add to our understanding of what transliteracy might and could be.

Transliteracy:

torn marks
zeros and threes
seek people
repeat and repeat and repeat
the animal of all animals

Paul Conneally reads the renga Twittering Birds minutes after its completion as he walks around the bandstand in Queens Park - the 1908 bandstand now turned into a renga poem - its sides now adorned with cardboard placards with the renga stanzas written on them.

The poem was written with passers-by attending Loughborough's 'Picnic in the Park'. The artist describes the writing of the poem , which occured across 5 hours as 'a poetic intervention / performance'

It was commissioned by Charnwood Arts and Co-ordinated by Jemma Bagley.

Artist and Cultural Geographer Maurice Maguire in discussion with Paul Conneally at Snibston Discovery Park - a regenerated coal mine site - discussing the miles of mining tunnels that run under the North West Leicestershire landscape.

Maguire and Conneally collaborated on Maurice's 'Changing Landscapes' piece in Kings Norton last year - which saw them walking the line on the surface of a canal tunnel that passes under the Kings Norton housing estates - a different place - different tunnels - same enthusiasm.

Snibston Discovery Park:
http://www.leics.gov.uk/index/community/museums/snibston.htm

Artist / poets Anne-Marie Culhane and Paul Conneally conceived and led the first Renga Ramble. Exploring and area of Sheffield from near the city centre to its urban edge stopping at various points with the group to write the next verse of the renga.

Here is a recording of the first reading of the finished renga on organic gardening guru Richard Clare's allotment.

a plane travelling
to a foreign country
my cold ears

As part of 'The Sound of Water' project with Charnwood Arts children from Roundhill School in Syston - of the Borough of Charnwood in Leicestershire UK - learn about haiku and Japanese prints with poet / artist Paul Conneally - they then go out into the school grounds and surrondings to write their first haiku.

Here we hear them reading their haiku out - each haiku - as is tradition - read out twice - once then again when perhaps a deepening or settling might occur in the link bewteen listener, reader, poem and environment.

Artist / Poet Paul Conneally is sent out into the streets of Sheffield by artist Joshua Sofaer - armed with an ancient out of date map - to 'find employment' in the the currently being redeveloped city centre.

He ends up in Sheffield's most famous coffee house - Pollards.

Chairman of World Haiku Club Susumu Takiguchi and haiku poet Debra Woolard Bender in conversation with Paul Conneally (unheard) about the nature of haiku.

The conversation takes place at a Charnwood arts in Loughborough UK to judge the miniwords haiku competition.

Organic gardening guru Richard Clare in conversation with Paul Conneally talks about allotments in the 21st century. How it’s not really about growing cheap food but more about lifestyle and gardening as therapy.

This was recorded during the preparation for Abundance (artist Anne-Marie Culhane's work) in Richard’s greenhouse on his Sheffield allotment.

Here artist and educationalist Paul Conneally explains to Every Mother's Son why he feels supermarkets are not to blame for the UK's binge drinking problem - particularly amongst teenagers but that the supermarkets do have to step up to the mark on the pricing of alcohol.