Sean Bonney
Biography
Sean Bonney's selected poems, Blade Pitch Control Unit, were published by Salt in 2005. Since then he has produced Document:Hexprogress, Black Water and an ongoing set of versions of Baudelaire. His work has been translated into French, Spanish, and Icelandic. He lives in London and edits the lo-fi press yt communication with Frances Kruk.
Poet's Note
These larger contexts do not exist out there on some periphery of social space, they pervade the interstices of all that is comprised by them, where unofficial parts of town are equal to unofficial knowledge. Negative alleys, buckled and unbuckled, circles of absurdity, hurtle-gulfs, abstract sounds and silence. Interference is the superimposition of two waves, usually correlated to the same frequency: different interpretations regarding the origin of the red pulp of the spleen (could be an enormous jail, or steeples and chimneypots stamping their complicated architecture against a vast sky of hair clamped into London's traps). Nature is a crack through which words watch us in colour, and the interrupting noise however momentarily freezes this, is the only carrier of truth right now, in scraps and litter and scratches, in weird odours of rose and musk, all of life's music entering us with an amorous murmur. Like getting a telephone call from the barricades, the Paris Commune.
External Links
Bonney's British Electronic Poetry Centre page
Video and audio files of Bonney reading at the SoundEye Festival, Cork, Ireland, 2005
Translations of Baudelaire at Onedit
Bonney's blog
Archive of the Now (includes information on and work by Bonney)
Test Recording
20 September 2007
Sean Bonney (41:45, info.)
Frances Kruk (35:05, info.)
Question and answer session (17:30, info.)