Edith Sitwell, eccentricity and sounds – new writing challenge!
Deadline: Sun 1 Jun 2014
As part of the celebrations for the Edith Sitwell Festival 2014, lecturer Charles Mundye discusses the poet’s life and work, and sets two intriguing and inspiring writing challenges
This anniversary year affords us an opportunity to revisit Sitwell, Thomas, and the musicality of their poetry, to revel in its sound and to think how, more broadly, poetry and music can come together in a variety of different ways.
The challenge
If you enjoy poetry, performance and multimedia:
Produce a short sound recording and/or video (maximum 3 minutes) of some performed interaction between music and poetry. You might well be inspired by the technique and/or subject of Façade, as a version of early twentieth-century rap, Sitwell style. You may wish to produce a collaboration or perform alone, to improvise with a wheelie bin or track down a 10-piece brass band. The choice is yours!
If you prefer ‘pen and paper’ alone:
Write a poem about some aspect of eccentricity. Please feel free to interpret eccentricity as widely and eccentrically as you dare. You should pay particular attention to the musical aspects of your text, the rhythm, rhyme, assonance and alliteration of the words, and attempt to create as concentrated and intense a music as you possibly can.
For more information and to get involved
Additional Information:
Location: National Region(s): UK
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