poetry Archives - Trebuchet

Barbershop Boor (2022) 1m x 1m oil on canvas by Michael Eden.

Goya in Time-Based Media (Reflecting on the summer of 2024)

15/08/2024

Excoriating and insightful, painter and poet Michael Eden reflects, in verse, on the machinations of the mob....

The Discipline of Inspiration: An Interview with Samuel Andreyev. Part Two

27/06/2022

An interview with composer and educator Samuel Andreyev. Part two....

The Discipline of Inspiration: An Interview with Samuel Andreyev

20/06/2022

An interview with composer and educator Samuel Andreyev....

DIGI FILM LOOKBOOK ON HEAD BYRON1-HENNESSEY

We Will Not Be Lovers – Hennessey

16/07/2020

Dark Electro-pop with a epic vocal turn. In 2020 it appears electroclash has been given a shot in the arm. Hennessey - We Will Not Be Lovers. Video Exclusive....

Uncommon Errors, Quiet Faces in the Screaming Crowd

20/08/2018

Trebuchet talks to SiKth's Mikey (Mikee) Goodman on creating visions in sound....

Adam, ‘Ad ‘Em: Science Asks What Makes Poetry Work

04/12/2017

What gives poetry its aesthetic appeal? ...

Requiem4Grenfell – Images and Verse

15/08/2017

Scenes of community, hope, defiance and care from the wreckage of Grenfell...

Where is the Duende? Frack Language, Frack Self

22/05/2017

When we frack language, we tear apart the core of self...

Words, Phrases and Sentences: The Connective Tissue of Humanity

04/02/2017

Poets strive to map the beauty and terror of existence. You have never been alone....

Have An Imaginative Christmas

25/12/2016

Famine, War, Greed. We can fix this. Just add a more rigorous imagination....

Blasted Feminism: Group X, Wyndham Lewis, and Women

07/12/2016

Not one to court populist acclaim, Wyndham Lewis looked upon feminism with a mixture of admiration and scorn...

We Are Infinite Song: Consolations of the Soul

02/12/2016

As 2016 enters its final phase, remember: we are as much infinite song as we are earthen flesh...

Wyndham Lewis, Grayson Perry, David Baddiel and Masculinity

14/11/2016

With power comes reponsibility, as Wyndham Lewis (and Spiderman) knew well. Art is power, not voyeurism....

Mantra for Fulfilled Living: Battling distraction, addiction and domination

20/04/2016

Be weak, for strength in a violent world is an ignoble tool...

When All is Dark, Have Faith in Night

07/01/2016

By a poetic descent into the underworld, one is confronted with truths that only can be revealed in darkness....

Of Short Cinema and Semiotics: PoetryFilm

05/01/2016

PoetryFilm: image, text and sound techniques in very experimental forms...

Tonight! Punk, Poetry, Politics: Mike Doughty, Hoxton Underbelly

28/10/2015

Mike Doughty hits the stage at the Underbelly, Hoxton, tonight....

The Carnival of Consumerism and its Tawdry Trinkets

03/10/2015

How sensation replaces experience in the Late Capitalist Empire...

Powerlessness, Anxiety and the Political Tides: A Coping Strategy

07/08/2015

We build a structure of false consciousness… that we, often, mistake for our convictions, and tragically mistake this dismal dwelling for the whole of existence....

Small of Stature, Great of Nature

02/07/2015

The diminutive are spurned, scorned, defamed and relegated to the margins....

Does the Devil Have the Best Tunes?

19/06/2015

Passion at every level, from personal trauma, hit and run thrill and love, to the way the world is moving: its cruelty, its pains and pleasures....

Language games across the checkmate of infinity

07/04/2015

These are not really poems, that's why I put the word poem in inverted commas in the title. ...

Every myth is a memory, formed through complex layers of tellings through time.

21/01/2015

OE: Orpheus and Euridice: For the next half an hour music and poetry weaved in and out of each other in a richly discursive mesh of words and sounds, sometimes obscuring and at other times refining...

Scott Laudati : Hawaiian Shirts in the Electric Chair [Poetry]

11/12/2014

Between the suburbs and the city, and all that they stand for in Laudati's oeuvre, there is the ever-present fear not of age itself, but of fading away rather than burning out...

Tom De Freston : The Charnel House [Book]

08/12/2014

One of the major successes of de Freston's imagery lies in the fantastically delicate positioning of the horrible and the harrowing with the everyday...