IS THIS THE WAY THE UNIVERSE WORKS? (555 VERSES / 77 VERSES) by Gavin Wade, Paul Conneally
| Title | Is This The Way the Universe Works? (555 Verses / 77 Verses) |
| Author(s)/Editor(s) | Gavin Wade, Paul Connelly |
| Publisher | Set Margins' |
| Pages | 400 |
| Dimensions | 100 x 150 mm |
| Format | Softcover |
| Year | 2023 |
This is a performative book containing performative tanrenga poems to be read out loud. A tanrenga poem looks like a tanka, a five lined Japanese poetry form but it isn’t. It’s a conversation between a three line haiku like poem and a two line poem written by another writer in response, in this case British artist-curator Gavin Wade and poet Paul Conneally.
77 Verses (Is this the way the universe works?) is a collection of such conversations written in and of and out of the woods in Drenthe.
(555 Verses) is a collection of such conversations written in and out of Twitter from 2017–2023.
555 Verses: of plants from Triangle Garden, Birmingham.
The plants are outstanding examples of adaptation strategies in response to changes in environmental conditions including many cacti and succulents and bananas.
77 Verses: of plants and rocks from the wood in Bronneger (NL).
These include pines and oaks and hunabeds (prehistoric megalithic funerary monuments).
Try reading each verse out loud twice, and listen for the rhythms and cuts. Hear them and connect with the wood, the people that wrote them. Their lives. The past and the present. The future too.
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Title
Is This the Way the Universe Works? (555 Verses / 77 Verses)
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Authors / Editors
Gavin Wade, Paul Connelly
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Publisher
Set Margins'
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Pages
400
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Dimensions
100 x 150mm
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Format
Softcover
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Year
2023
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