My latest poetry review for Stride Magazine is of Endangered Sky by Kelly Grovier and Sean Scully:
'This book began in April 2021 when, while visiting the Bahamian island of Eleuthera with his wife and son, the artist Sean Scully began drawing on his iPhone as he sat on a balcony. The new medium enabled him to work with the rhythms of his stacks of abstract colour but in fresh, new and impressionistic ways.
Excited by this new development he shared, by email, one of these new works with his friend, the cultural critic and poet, Kelly Grovier. Grovier, equating the electric greens and phosphorescent yellows of Scully’s drawing, to the plumage of the Sun Parakeet, about which he had just been reading, responded with a poem about the endangered South American conure. Quickly, the two friends realised the possibility for a collaborative project that would meditate, visually and verbally, on a crisis about which both are passionately concerned: the vanishing beauty of the world’s imperilled bird population. Endangered Sky is the result.'
'This book began in April 2021 when, while visiting the Bahamian island of Eleuthera with his wife and son, the artist Sean Scully began drawing on his iPhone as he sat on a balcony. The new medium enabled him to work with the rhythms of his stacks of abstract colour but in fresh, new and impressionistic ways.
Excited by this new development he shared, by email, one of these new works with his friend, the cultural critic and poet, Kelly Grovier. Grovier, equating the electric greens and phosphorescent yellows of Scully’s drawing, to the plumage of the Sun Parakeet, about which he had just been reading, responded with a poem about the endangered South American conure. Quickly, the two friends realised the possibility for a collaborative project that would meditate, visually and verbally, on a crisis about which both are passionately concerned: the vanishing beauty of the world’s imperilled bird population. Endangered Sky is the result.'
My interview with Sean Scully for Artlyst can be read here and my preview of Scully's The 12 / Dark Windows here.
My other reviews for Stride include a review of two poetry collections, one by Mario Petrucci and the other by David Miller, a review of Temporary Archive: Poems by Women of Latin America, and a review of Fukushima Dreams by Andrea Moorhead. To read my poems published by Stride, click here, here, here, here, and here.
Stride magazine was founded in 1982. Since then it has had various incarnations, most recently in an online edition since the late 20th century. You can visit its earlier incarnation at http://stridemagazine.co.uk.
I have read the poetry featured in Stride and, in particular, the work of its editor Rupert Loydell over many years and was very pleased that Rupert gave a poetry reading when I was at St Stephen Walbrook.
Rupert Loydell is a poet, painter, editor and publisher, and senior lecturer in English with creative writing at Falmouth University. He is interested in the relationship of visual art and language, collaborative writing, sequences and series, as well as post-confessional narrative, experimental music and creative non-fiction.
He has edited Stride magazine for over 30 years, and was managing editor of Stride Books for 28 years. His poetry books include Wildlife and Ballads of the Alone (both published by Shearsman), and The Fantasy Kid (for children).
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My other reviews for Stride include a review of two poetry collections, one by Mario Petrucci and the other by David Miller, a review of Temporary Archive: Poems by Women of Latin America, and a review of Fukushima Dreams by Andrea Moorhead. To read my poems published by Stride, click here, here, here, here, and here.
Stride magazine was founded in 1982. Since then it has had various incarnations, most recently in an online edition since the late 20th century. You can visit its earlier incarnation at http://stridemagazine.co.uk.
I have read the poetry featured in Stride and, in particular, the work of its editor Rupert Loydell over many years and was very pleased that Rupert gave a poetry reading when I was at St Stephen Walbrook.
Rupert Loydell is a poet, painter, editor and publisher, and senior lecturer in English with creative writing at Falmouth University. He is interested in the relationship of visual art and language, collaborative writing, sequences and series, as well as post-confessional narrative, experimental music and creative non-fiction.
He has edited Stride magazine for over 30 years, and was managing editor of Stride Books for 28 years. His poetry books include Wildlife and Ballads of the Alone (both published by Shearsman), and The Fantasy Kid (for children).
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Mary Gauthier - Mercy Now.
