Be My Reader - Softcover

Finlay, Alec

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1848611072 ISBN 13: 9781848611078

Publisher: Shearsman Books, 2012

Synopsis

Be My Reader is a trove of texts made and found by Finlay over the past two decades, touching on philosophy, landscape, dance, football, travel and technology. Affectionate, celebratory and vulnerable by turns, it includes such key texts as his popular homage to Robert Creeley 'I Know A Poem', the long poem-mapping of the Wittgenstein Hut in Norway, and poems which emerged from art projects for civic spaces and landscapes, all interspersed with pitch-perfect renderings of off-key phrases overheard and chanced upon. Formally adventurous and restlessly curious, Be My Reader is a unique confluence of contemporary experimental and generative forms together with the lyric voice.

About this title

About the Author

Alec Finlay was born in Scotland in 1966. He is an artist, poet and publisher. He now lives and works in the North East of England. In 2002 he became the first BALTIC artist in residence. Most recently he has worked as an artist in residence at Yorkshire Sculpture Park, where he has been creating a series of art projects on themes connected with nature and contemporary culture - Avant-Garde English Landscape. He set up the Morning Star small press which publishes the Folios and the pocketbooks series. Recent books include Turning Toward Living (Platform Projects, 2004), Shared Writing (Platform Projects, 2005), Ludwig Wittgenstein: There Where You Are Not (Blackdog, 2006), Mesostic Herbarium (Platform Projects, 2004), Wind Blown Clouds (Morning Star, 2005), Be My Reader (Shearsman, 2012), and the pamphlet Question your Teaspoon (Calder Wood, 2012).

Edition details

• Publisher: Shearsman Books
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1848611072
• ISBN 13: 9781848611078
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 84