Samuel Dowd trained at Chelsea College of Art and subsequently at Wimbledon College of Art in Fine Art Sculpture. In 2007 he graduated with an MA in Time-based Arts from Dartington College of Arts. He is currently based in London. Dowd’s films to-date are predominantly non-narrative portraits of both existent and imagined dwellings – exhaustively nuanced spaces – often populated by sculptural objects and, occasionally, somnambulist figures. This work is underscored by the will to inhabit moments of unmitigated experience: moments of making, being and becoming. Enigmatic encounters with forms, subjects and structures set against idealised settings and landscapes, not only in film but also manifest as sculpture, collage, text and photography. Dowd’s obsession is with the quest for ideal environments – the earthly paradise – as inscribed in the objects, furnishings, patterns and architectures of real and imagined tribes.  For POLYply 14 he will be screening his recent work, Bare Breath, shot on-location in Finland last summer.
www.samueldowd.info/

Robert Hampson has been actively involved in poetry – as poet, editor, critic, and facilitator – since the early 1970s. During the 70s, he co-edited Alembic (with Ken Edwards and Peter Barry), co-organised various poetry reading series in London, and ran ‘Saturday Courses’ with Eric Vonna-Michel and Ken Edwards at Lower Green Farm.   More recently, he has edited an occasional poetry magazine, purge. His early publications included ‘degrees of addiction’ (Share, 1975), ‘how nell scored’ (poet & peasant, 1976), ‘a feast of friends’ (pig press, 1982), ‘a human measure’ (hard-pressed poetry, 1989). His early poetry appeared, among other places, in both Cid Corman’s Origin and Alan Davies’s 100 Posters. In 2001, Stride published ‘Assembled Fugitives: Selected Poems, 1973-1998′. More recently, his long poem ‘Seaport’ has been re-issued by Shearsman and Veer has published the sequence ‘an explanation of colours’.

Mark Leahy is a writer, artist and curator operating among textual practices and performance. He works with the body as sensing and as affected, using language, models of perception, and objects of everyday use. Including spoken word, task-based actions, and song his performances address the male body as desired and as desiring, and the body as a site of inscription by others and by oneself. Recent live work includes ‘Voice Recognition’ at Chapter and Verse Festival (Bluecoat, Liverpool, Oct 2011), and participation in DIY8: Queer Eye Enquiry with Chris Goode (Sept-Oct 2011). ‘After Durer after Mantegna’, an emblem combining text and image, was installed in the Window Work series at DXDX Studios, Plymouth (Aug 2011). He has written texts to accompany work by other artists, including Teresa Grimaldi’s The Vacated Works (Isle of Wight, 2009), Katy Connor’s Pure Flow (Exeter, 2009), and ‘Aftermath’ for Deirdre Power’s project Brokenland (Limerick, 2011). Critical publications include essays in Performance Research and The Journal of Writing in Creative Practice; a chapter in The Blackwell Companion to Digital Literary Studies (2007); and an essay in The Salt Companion to John James (2010). Curated projects include ‘Public Pages’ for the conference Poetry and Public Language (University of Plymouth, 2007). ‘Swatches’, a poetry sequence was published by Acts of Language (December 2009), and texts have appeared in UK and US journals and online. Forthcoming publications include a performance text in Open Letter, a chapter on the poetry of Thomas MacGreevy, and a text on the work of artist Martha Winter. He was Director of Writing at Dartington College of Arts (2005-2007), and was MA Programme Leader at Dartington Campus, University College Falmouth (2007-2010). He lives in Devon, teaches part-time and supervises PhD students at University College Falmouth, and works freelance as an arts project manager.
www.markleahy.net

Nisha Ramayya will be screening a film about the Hindu goddess Tara, and making some annotations live. The film is part of ongoing  research into translation – of language, culture, and form. In this project photo and film documentation of West Bengal  is mixed with Tantra-based poetic rituals and organised around a variety of genres. It is part of an exploration into contemporary versions of ‘performing the goddess’ in feminist art/writing practice. I am at the beginning of my 2nd year of a PhD in Poetic Practice, supervised by Dr. Redell Olsen.

Dawn Scarfe presents subtle site-specific interventions and resonating glass sculptures that ask us to re-think and re-negotiate our impressions of our surroundings. Individual parts of her installations are encouraged to respond to each other or to enter into a dialogue with their environment. Dawn has recently exhibited at Q-O2 werkplaats Belgium, TONSPUR_passage MuseumsQuartier, Vienna, La Casa Encendida Madrid, Bios Athens, Café Oto, 176 Zabludowicz Collection and the Southbank Centre, London. She was awarded a PhD in Sonic Arts from Goldsmiths, University of London in December 2011.
www.dawnscarfe.co.uk

*NEWS FLASH:  Timothy will be unable to attend due to illness.*

Jeff Hilson‘s recent books include stretchers (Reality Street, 2006), Bird bird (Landfill, 2008) and In The Assarts (Veer, 2010). He also edited The Reality Street Book of Sonnets (Reality Street, 2008). Additional thoughts about the sonnet form can be found in The Cambridge Companion to the Sonnet (CUP, 2011,) in a ‘trialogue’ with Paul Muldoon and Meg Butler.  He teaches Creative Writing at Roehampton University and runs the Xing the Line reading series in London.

Simon Jarvis is the Gorley Putt Professor of Poetry and Poetics at the University of Cambridge. He has also taught at Newcastle, Cornell and Johns Hopkins. He works on the poetics of verse, and is currently completing a monograph on the poetics of rhyme for Cambridge University Press. His books include Wordsworth’s Philosophic Song (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007; reprinted, 2008); Adorno: a critical introduction (Cambridge: Polity Press, 1998; reprinted, 2003); and Scholars and Gentlemen: Shakespearean textual criticism and representations of scholarly labour, 1725-1765 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995).

Zoë Skoulding’s most recent collections of poems are Remains of a Future City (Seren, 2008) and The Mirror Trade (Seren, 2004). Her collaborative publications include Dark Wires with Ian Davidson (West House Books, 2007), a pamphlet/CD You Will Live in Your Own Cathedral with Alan Holmes (Seren 2009), and From Here, with Simonetta Moro (Dusie, 2008). She is a member of the collective Parking Non-Stop, whose CD Species Corridor, combining experimental soundscape with poetry and song, was released on the German label Klangbad in 2008. She lectures in the School of English at Bangor University, where she also holds a part-time AHRC Fellowship in Creative and Performing Arts 2007-2012, and she has been editor of the international quarterly Poetry Wales since 2008.

Fiona Templeton  is a poet and performance artist, and director of the New York-based group The Relationship, specialising in experimentation in language, relationship with the audience, and use of site.  She and her work have won awards and fellowships including New York Foundation for the Arts, the US National Endowment for the Arts, and the Judith Wilson Senior Fellowship at Cambridge. Her works include The Medead, a 6-part epic, L’Ile, a staging of the dreams of the people of Lille in the places dreamed of, You-The City, an intimate Manhattanwide play for an audience of one, Cells of Release, an installation in collaboration with Amnesty International. Current activities and interests include writing with the voice, the idea of co-creation between audience and art, ventriloquism in spatialisation of the speaking subject, a collaborative project The Eavesdroppers’ Choir, and new works with composers Samita Sinha (vocal) and Pamelia Kurstin (theremin). Books include You-The City (Roof), Cells of Release (Roof), Delirium of Interpretations (Green Integer), London (Sun & Moon), and Elements of Performance Art (with Anthony Howell).
www.fionatempleton.org
www.therelationship.org

Cut & Splice free launch event
http://www.soundandmusic.org/projects/cut-splice-gr%C3%BAndelweiser/events-0

Poetry as Score
Jürg Frey – Landschaft mit Wörtern (selection) (2003)
Manfred Werder – 2009/4
Michael Pisaro – A single charm is doubtful [harmony series no.14] (2004-6)
Antoine Beuger – Confidential Letter #7 (2011)

Performers: Antoine Beuger, Angharad Davies, Sarah Hughes, Tim Parkinson, Michael Pisaro, David Stent, Carol Watts and Manfred Werder.

Antoine Beugerstudied composition with Ton de Leeuw at Sweelinck Coservatorium in Amsterdam 1973-78. In 1990 he began composing after an interruption of about 10 years. Two years later he founded Edition Wandelweiser together with composer/performer Burkhard Schlothauer. Since 1994 he’s been active with the conception and organisation of KLANGRAUM, a concert series at Kunstraum Düsseldorf. During the years 1995-2001 he was working together with visual artist Mauser as artistic director of “Werkraum”, Place for Interdisciplinary Artistic Events, Cologne. Since 1996 he’s been artistic director of edition wandelweiser records and since 2004 managing director of Edition Wandelweiser gmbh.

Jürg Frey developed his own language as a composer and sound artist with the creation of wide, quiet sound spaces. He has worked with compositional series, as well as with language and text. Some of these activities appear in small editions or as artist’s books as individual items and small editions. (Edition Howeg, Zurich; weiss kunstbewegung, Berlin; complice, Berlin). His music and recordings are published by Edition Wandelweiser. Jürg Frey is a member of the Wandelweiser Komponisten Ensemble which has presented concerts for more than 15 years in Europe, North America and Japan.

Michael Pisaro is a composer and guitarist, a member of the Wandelweiser Composers Ensemble and founder and director of the Experimental Music Workshop. His work is frequently performed in the U.S. and in Europe, in music festivals and in many smaller venues. He has had extended composer residencies in Germany (Künstlerhof Schreyahn, Dortmund University), Switzerland (Forumclaque/Baden), Israel (Miskenot Sha’ananmim), Greece (EarTalk) and in the U.S. (Birch Creek Music Festival, Wisconsin). Concert length portraits of his music have been given in Munich, Jerusalem, Los Angeles, Vienna, Merano (Italy), Brussels, New York, Curitiba (Brazil), Amsterdam, London, Tokyo, Austin, Berlin, Chicago, Düsseldorf, Zürich, Cologne, Aarau (Switzerland), and Several CDs of his work have been released by such labels as Edition Wandelweiser Records, Compost and Height, confront, Another Timbre, Cathnor, Nine Winds and others, including most recently “transparent city, volumes 1–4″, “an unrhymed chord”, “hearing metal 1”, “A Wave and Waves” and “harmony series (11–16)”. His translation of poetry by Oswald Egger (“Room of Rumor”) was published in 2004 by Green Integer. He is Co-Chair of Music Composition at the California Institute of the Arts near Los Angeles.

Manfred Werder is a composer, performer, pianist, curator. His work actualizes time and space by letting the world’s natural abundance appear. Performs throughout the world. Lives in situ. CD releases include 20092 (Heresy, A Coruña upcoming 2011); 20051 (8 CD-set, winds measure recordings, US, upcoming 2011); stück 1998 seiten 624-626  (skiti 06, Japan 2010); 20095 (Cathnor Vignettes series, UK 2010);20071 (futow, Kôbe 2010); 20083 (Im Sefinental, Edition Wandelweiser Records, Germany 2009); ein(e) ausführende(r) seiten 218-226 (Edition Wandelweiser Records, Germany 2006); and 20061 (skiti 01, Japan 2006).

Hear audio recording of pre-event talk here:
http://soundcloud.com/soundandmusic/poetry-as-score-with-antoine

Read review of the ‘Poetry and Score’ POLYproject  here:
http://www.thewatchfulear.com/?p=6160

Ryan Dobran is the author of Your Guilt Is A Miracle (Bad Press, 2008), Ding Ding (Critical Documents, 2009), and Confection (©_© Press, 2011). Shouts From OK Glamour is forthcoming from Mountain Press. He lives in Cambridge, UK.

Patrick Farmer is a sound artist who works with improvisation, scores and composition. Commonly referred to as a percussionist, Farmer will often enlist the help of a drum as a resonator for natural materials or for filtering field recordings. He has performed throughout Europe and America. He has forthcoming  residencies at Q02 in Brussels and MOKS in Estonia. In 2008 Farmer co-founded the record label Compost and Height, which focuses on free downloads of improvisation and field recording. His recordings have been released on Cathnor, Another Timbre, and Organised Music from Thessaloniki, amongst others. He is a member of Loris, and frequently performs with Dominic Lash.

Peter Larkin is the author of Terrain Seed Scarcity, (2001), and Leaves of Field (2006).  A new collection Lessways Least Scarce Among is due from Shearsman in 2012.  Recent work has appeared in Stride, Blackbox Manifold, Poetry Wales, Quarterly West and New Walk.  He has also contributed to The Ground Aslant: an Anthology of Radical Landscape Poetry (2011) An interview with Edmund Hardy is available at Intercapillary Space and another has appeared (with Matthew Hall) on Cordite.

Salomé Voegelin is an artist and writer. She is the author of Listening to Noise and Silence: towards a Philosophy of Sound Art, Continuum, NY, 2010. The book engages with the emerging practice of sound art and the concurrent development of a discourse and theory of sound. It seeks to immerse the reader in concepts of listening to sound artwork and the everyday acoustic environment, to establish an aesthetics and philosophy of sound and promoting the notion of a sonic sensibility. Other recent writings include an article on Morton Feldman in the Wire 324, February 2011 issue, and an essay on durational radio for Kunstradio ORF Austria. Her blog soundwords.tumblr.com writes the experience of listening to the everyday.

Gillian Wylde works with video, text and performance. Her projects respond to peculiarities of a site or a place, encounter and dialogue(s) and explore simple interconnections of agency. This leaky thing next to that leaking thing. Central within these processes of response are properties of the pathetic or cheapo, instances of featurelessness, nowotony and/or petty conjectures of the queer. Critical investigations of multivalent performance activities or forms of energy (such as mechanical, electrical, or chemical energy), the body (human or animal) in relation to the video camera are constants through most of the  work like maybe a savage smell or hairy logic. Her interests include: failure, mistakeology, happiness, normal nature, antediluvian dirt, pathetica aesthetics, pet assemblage, rude electricity, Fibonacci Feminisms, the WWW, on-goingness,  blurriness, performative assemblage, entanglement, colourings, textiness, cultural phenomena, negation, domestica, queer arrangements,  fleetingness, resemblances, animal reaction shots, burrowing, ur-language, film, noise, viral poetics, mediocrity, antagonism, the political and keeping fit with Jane Fonda and Donna Haraway. Click here for image.  See her website: 15minuteswithyou.org.uk/

James Davies most recent collection is Plants from Reality Street. He is editor of if p then q, former editor of the cult poetry object Matchbox, sometime collaborator with Simon Taylor as Joy as Tiresome Vandalism and is one of the organisers of The Other Room poetry night and website.

Sophie Mayer’s latest collection is The Private Parts of Girls (Salt, 2011). She is the author of The Cinema of Sally Potter: A Politics of Love (Wallflower, 2009) and a regular contributor to Sight & Sound. She contributed an essay on the state of relations between poetry and film to the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Contemporary British and Irish Poetry (ed. Peter Robinson).
www.sophiemayer.net

Drew Milne’s books of poetry include Go Figure (2003); Mars Disarmed (2002); The Damage: new and selected poems (2001); Bench Marks (1998); and Sheet Mettle (1994). He edits the occasional imprint Parataxis Editions, and has also edited Modern Critical Thought (2003); and, with Terry Eagleton, Marxist Literary Theory: A Reader (1996).He is the Judith E Wilson Lecturer in Drama and Poetry, Faculty of English,University of Cambridge.
http://drewmilne.tripod.com/

Redell Olsen’s publications include; Book of the Fur (Rempress, 2000), Secure Portable Space (Reality Street, 2004) and the collaboratively edited Here Are My Instructions (Gefn Press, 2004). From 2006 – 2010 she was the  editor of the online journal of How2, which publishes modernist and innovative poetry and poetics by women writers. See: http://www.how2journal.com. Recent work is available in Infinite Difference: Other Poetries by UK Women Poets (Shearsman, 2010) and I’ll Drown My Book: ‘Conceptual Writing by Women‘ (Les Figues Press, 2011) forthcoming. Her recent projects have involved texts for performance and film and include: Newe Booke of Copies (2009) and Bucolic Picnic (or Toile de Jouy Camouflage)’(2009). The Lost Swimming Pool; a site-specific collaboration was commissioned by the Creative Campus Initiative,  June 2010.  She has recently published articles on Frank O’Hara, Abigail Child and the relationship between contemporary poetics and the visual arts. She is a Director of the MA in Poetic Practice and a member of the RHUL poetics research group.

Allen Fisher is a poet, painter, publisher and art historian, lives in Hereford, UK. Emeritus Professor of Poetry & Art at Manchester Metropolitan University; over 140 single-authored publications of poetry, graphics and art documentation; exhibited in many shows from Fluxus Britannica Tate Britain to Lifting from fear King’s Gallery York. Examples of his work are in the Tate Collection, the Living Museum, Iceland and various private collections in United States of America, United Arab Emirates and Britain. His last eight books were Proposals: poem-image-commentary; Birds; Leans; Confidence in lack, essays; Singularity Stereo, Place; Entanglement; and Gravity. His recent tour of work has been under the banner Complexity Manifold in Albany, Buffalo, Cambridge UK, London, New York and Ohio.
http://www.allenfisher.co.uk

Ken Hyder was born and brought up in Dundee, Scotland – drums, percussion, voice, ektara, has been playing and composing music for over 40 years. In that time he’s produced over a couple of dozen albums of highly original material. He began playing jazz in Scotland before moving south to London where he played at the legendary Little Theatre Club – an avant garde haunt run by the late John Stevens. Hyder formed Talisker and went on to make six albums with this
pioneering and proto-type Celtic jazz group. In the 1970s he began moving away from jazz and into collaborations with musicians from different musical backgrounds including Irish, South African and South American players. Later, he became interested in exploring spiritual aspects of music with spiritual practitioners like Tibetan and Japanese Buddhist monks, and Siberian shamans. Scotland and Siberia are now the strongest influences in his current work.
http://www.myspace.com/kenhyderdrums

Justin Katko is the editor of Critical Documents and is doing a PhD on Edward Dorn at Cambridge. He has an MFA in Electronic Writing from Brown. His opera The Death of Pringle is forthcoming from Veer Books, and his poem Rhyme Against the Internet is forthcoming from Crater Press.

Christian Kerrigan
Christian Kerrigan is an artist who uses digital technology to make sculptures, installations, and drawings, which draw out an array of ideas about nature, technology and mortality. Using raw materials from the natural world merged with new technologies in computing and science, he creates work which resides in a subtle balance between life and death. Recent exhibitions include – ‘Examples to Follow!’ UferHallen, Berlin, ‘Instinct & Inspiration’, V&A museum, London, ‘Curiouser and Curiouser’, The Old Vic Tunnels, London and ‘Still Life’, London School of Economics. Christian was awarded Digital Artist in Residence at the V&A between January and June 2010.
http://www.christiankerrigan.com/

Marianne Morris founded Bad Press in 2002. Publications include: Commitment (Critical Documents, 2011); Tutu Muse (Fly By Night Press, 2008); A New Book From Barque Press, Which They Will Probably Not Print (Barque Press, 2006).

Christian Bök is the author not only of Crystallography (Coach House Press, 1994), a pataphysical encyclopedia nominated for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award, but also of Eunoia (Coach House Books, 2001), a bestselling work of experimental literature, which has gone on to win the Griffin Prize for Poetic Excellence. Bök has created artificial languages for two television shows: Gene Roddenberry’s Earth: Final Conflict and Peter Benchley’s Amazon. Bök has also earned many accolades for his virtuoso performances of sound poetry (particularly the Ursonate by Kurt Schwitters). His conceptual artworks (which include books built out of Rubik’s cubes and Lego bricks) have appeared at the Marianne Boesky Gallery in New York City as part of the exhibit Poetry Plastique. The Utne Reader has recently included Bök in its list of “50 Visionaries Who Are Changing Your World.” Bök teaches English at the University of Calgary.

Frances Kruk is a contemporary Polish-Canadian poet living in London, UK. Recent writing can be found in journals such as Damn the Caesars, Sous les Pavés, onedit, fhole, ditch, and HOW2.  Publications include A Discourse on Vegetation & Motion (Critical Documents, 2008), dig oubliette (yt communication, 2006) and clobber (yt communication, 2006).  She has exhibited visual work and performed solo and collaborative poetry, music, and interdisciplinary projects in various parts of Canada, USA, Cyprus, Ireland, and the UK. She has edited the occasional micropress yt communication with Sean Bonney.
http://darkmucus.blogspot.com/

Dan Scott is an artist based in Kent and London. He has been working with sound since he was a teenager and recently completed an MA in Sound Arts at the London College of Communication, gaining a distinction.  His sound works explore time, memory, modes of listening and the uncanniness of everyday sound.  Recent projects include Field Recordings of former South London Windmills, Radio Yesterday (for Resonance FM) and Ridley Road Phonetic Cover Version (forFormContent Gallery). Upcoming projects include exhibitions and concerts at Speculum Artium Festival in Slovenia, a residency at Binaural in Portugal and MOKS in Estonia.
http://danscott.org.uk

Emmanuelle Waeckerlé was born in Morocco and now lives between London and St Yrieix la Perche in France where she is part of the small team running the centre des livres d’artistes. Her practice explores language and connecting issues of place and identity. Recurring themes are – the relationship between body voice and identity – thelimitations of translation – poetics of survival and resistance. She is a Reader in Photography and artists books at University for the Creative Art in Farnham, and co-founder / codirector of bookRoom research cluster for which she has set up bookRoom press. Through her continuing commitment to both education and practice based research she tries to foster new enquiry across and between Photography, Performance artand Book art, developing along the way collaborative projects both at local and international levels, in academic and non academic contexts.Work in private and public collections including Bibliotheque Nationale de Paris, the V & A, and Poetry Library in London
www.ewaeckerle.com
www.thebookroom.net 
www.cdla.info

Lydia White is a writer and singer based in Trieste, Italy. Lydia’s work seeks to explore poetics through voice, sound, the body and performance. A graduate of the MA in Poetic Practice, Royal Holloway, Lydia’s most recent practice has emerged from an investigation into her own training as a classical singer within a postmodern context. Previous work, such as ‘Song in Cycle’ (www.openned.com) and collaborations with composer Tom Lane (‘Singspiel’, http://www.asu.edu/pipercwcenter/how2journal/archive/online_archive/v2_4_2006/current/london/white_index.html) draw her writing and interest in performance and the body into dialogue with music. Video and book art works such as ‘Thump’ and ‘Lying Places’ have also explored notions of the body and space. As a singer, Lydia has been a choral scholar at St. Martin-in-the-fields and performs regularly in concerts and recitals across the UK and Italy. She is currently studying with Laura Antonaz and Jessica Cash.

Peter Cusack, based in London, works as a sound artist, musician and environmental recordist with a special interest in acoustic ecology. Projects range from community arts to research into the role that sound plays in our sense of place. His project ‘Sounds From Dangerous Places’ examines the soundscapes of sites of major environmental damage.
He produced ‘Vermilion Sounds’ – the environmental sound program – for ResonanceFM Radio, London, lectures on ‘Sound Arts & Design’ at the London College of Communication and was recently a Research Fellow on the multidisciplinary multi-university ‘Positive Soundscapes Project’. CDs include ‘Your Favourite London Sounds’ (Resonance), ‘Baikal Ice’ (ReR), ‘Favourite Sounds of Beijing’ (Subjam).
http://favouritesounds.org

Maria Fusco is a Belfast-born writer, editor and academic, based in London. The Mechanical Copula, her first book of short stories, has recently been published by Sternberg Press, Berlin & New York (2010). She writes for a broad range of international magazines such as: Art Monthly; dot dot dot; Frieze; Metropolis M, and has recently contributed to books including: Judgment and Contemporary Art Criticism, Vancouver: Fillip & Artspeak (2010); A Manual for the 21st Century Gallery, Just What Is It That Makes Today’s Institutions So Different, So Appealing?, Köln: Koenig Books & London: Whitechapel Gallery (2009) and Hey Hey Glossolalia, New York: Creative Time (2008). Maria is Director of Art Writing at Goldsmiths, University of London, and is the founder/editor of The Happy Hypocrite, a journal for and about experimental art writing. She recently devised and organised Cosey Complex, a one-day event at the ICA in London, speculating on the possiblities of Cosey Fanni Tutti as methodology. She was the inaugural Critic-in-Residence at Kadist Art Foundation, Paris (2008-9) and the inaugural Writer-in-Residence at Whitechapel Gallery, London (2009-10). Maria is currently working on a novel, Sailor, about a vervet monkey and a Hi-Power Browning pistol, and on a screenplay with Austrian artist Ursula Mayer for the feature film Gonda.
www.mariafusco.net

Anna Lawrence is a poet, illustrator, musician, and current student of the MA Poetic Practice course. She has a BA in English Literature and Creative Writing and her interests lie in sound art, mythology, cartography, spatial theory. Her recent work explores the relationship between narrative and space, using sound and text. In 2004 she founded the Cavick House Cartography Society which aims to truthfully map and document areas of Norfolk where other previous attempts have failed. She is currently collaborating with landscape artist Henry Anderson Brown (http://www.henryandersonbrown.co.uk) to create a collection of site-specific words and images and is also in the process of illustrating a bilingual children’s book.
www.soundcloud.com/anna-lawrence

Johan Thom (b1976) is a South African artist currently based in London.  He uses video, installation and performance to create performative, material links between the human being and their surrounding environment. His works are often confrontational and darkly humorous, seeking to confound the viewers’ sense of space, order and stability. Thom has participated in numerous group exhibitions/ art-projects at venues such as ‘Performa 2010′ in Slovenia, ‘.za: New Art from South Africa’ at the Palazzo delle Papesse, Sienna Italy,  (2008), the Canary Island Biennale curated by Atonia Zaya (2006), the Belgrade International Theatre Festival (2006), the Rotterdam Film Festival (2006), the Venice Biennale (2003 & 2005). He has had a number of solo exhibitions including ‘Violence and Happiness’ at Iwalewa Haus in Bayreuth, Germany (2010). Thom is currently based in London where he is completing a PhD at the Slade school of Fine Art through a Commonwealth Scholarship. He is currently investigating materiality (understood in a Neo-Darwinian sense) as a framework through which to re-consider the relationship between artistic practice, the individualand our cultural-natural surroundings.
www.johanthom.com
http://johanthom.com/performances/recital-201011/

Carol Watts lives in London. Her poetry includes Wrack (Reality Street Editions, 2007), chapbooks When blue light falls (Oystercatcher, 2008, 2010), this is red (Torque Press, 2009) and brass, running (Equipage, 2006), and alphabetise, a book of prose chronicles exhibited in the Text Festival in 2005, now an eBook (Intercapillary Editions). A new collection, Occasionals, is forthcoming from Reality Street in 2011. Her recent work also involves mixed media – photography, drawing and collage. Horrid Massacre: A Récit, a sequence told through shopping receipts, is currently online in part at Ekleksographia. In 2009 she worked with choreographer Kate Johnson and film maker Roswitha Chesher on a live voice/dance collaboration, In the Fold at the Laban in London. She co-directs the Birkbeck Centre for Poetics and is director of the Voiceworks project.

Jow Walton is the editor of Sad Press. His books include Pox Rocks, On Knowing No-One, On Being Motionless, On Eating Nothing, On Waiting Forever, On Personal Flickering, (with Posie Rider) On Unfurling Parasols and Other Rosy Domes, On Randomness and Rhyme, (with Justin Katko) On Slavery and Fags, On Curving and Wideness, (with Jow Linsley) On Rabies and Sex, Rope: A Fiction, and (with Yolanda Tudor-Bloch) How to Find an Amazon Kindle in a Kinder Surprise.  He lives in Scotland.
http://www.sadpress.wordpress.com

Johanna Linsley is currently working on a PhD in Performance at Queen Mary, University of London. Her performance, text and audio projects have been presented by the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York, the Victoria & Albert Mustum in London, the Ontological-Hysteric Theater (NY), the Volksbuhne Theatre (Berlin), Humboldt University (Berlin), Queen Mary, University of London (London), Rhode Island School of Design (Providence), the Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art (Peekskill), and on WKCR 89.9fm. In New York, she co-founded the non-profit documentary arts organization UnionDocs. She graduated from Smith College.
http://jhlinsley.net/

Mark Dean has been exhibiting his video and sound works since 1992. These are distinctive in their use of modulated loops, based on fragments of appropriated film and popular music, and in their intense focus on human experience. He received a Paul Hamlyn Award for Artists in 2009 and in July 2010 was ordained in the Church of England.
http://tailbiter.com

Sophie Robinson was born in 1985.  She has an MA in Poetic Practice, and is currently completing a practice-based PhD in Queer Phenomenology and Contemporary Poetry at RHUL.  Her first book, a, came out from Les Figues press in 2009.  Her work has been included in several anthologies including Infinite Difference: Other Poetries by Women in the UK (Shearsman 2010), Voice Recognition: 21 Poets for the 21st Century (Bloodaxe 2009) and The Reality Street Book of Sonnets (Reality Street 2008).  She is currently poet in residence at the V&A.
http://www.sophierobinson.blogspot.com

Tim Atkins is the author of many books of poetry, including 25 Sonnets from The Figures, and Horace from O Books. In the last year, Crater has brought out Petrarch; If p then q, 1000 Sonnets; Oystercatcher,Honda Ode (a Japanese translation of On The Road), and Barque has this week brought out another volume called Petrarch. Editor of the international poetry journal onedit, London correspondent for American poetry magazine Lungfull!, and father of Koto & Yuki, Tim’s next book, consisting of plays, cartoons, and poems, is to be called The Tim Atkins Annual and is due out next year.

Peter Manson lives in Glasgow.  His books include Adjunct: an Undigest and For the Good of Liars (both from Barque), Between Cup and Lip (Miami UP Ohio) and Before and After Mallarmé (Survivors’ press).  His website, “Freebase Accordion”, is at www.petermanson.com

Jooyeon Park’s art practice, consisting of poetry, film, video, and installation, often uses language as a main axis to address issues concerning a poetics of displacement, especially the impossibility of translation between cultures and histories. Her recent exhibitions include ‘Your Bright Future’ at Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, U.S.A. (2009-10); ‘Annual Report’ at Gwangju Biennale, Korea (2008); ‘Platform Seoul: I have nothing to say, and I am saying it’ at ArtSonje Centre, Seoul (2008); ‘One Fine Day’ at Rodin Gallery, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul (2007); ‘Top Floor’ at Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Centre, Istanbul (2007); ‘LYBSY’, Akiyoshidai International Art Village, Yamaguchi, Japan (2005). Her forthcoming exhibition ‘Materialized Memory’ at Total Museum of Art will travel to Istanbul and Amsterdam later this year.

Caroline Rabourdin
Caroline Rabourdin is a French architect living in London. She is currently undertaking a PhD at Chelsea College of Art and Design, provisionally labeled ‘Spatial translations between Paris and London: On Place, Bilinguism and the ‘Situatedness’ of Language”. Since graduating from the ENSAIS (1999) and the Bartlett School of Architecture for her M.Arch (2001), she has worked in various architectural offices in Paris and London. She has taught architectural design at the Ecole Speciale d’Architecture in Paris with Sir Peter Cook and interior design with Kate Davies at Chelsea College of Art and Design in London. She is currently part-time lecturer in BA Architecture at Greenwich University, (www.atelier10.wordpress.com).  Her research interests include language, in particular bilinguism and translation, as well as space theory, phenomenology and spatial representations. She is also the editor/designer/writer of www.noarchitecture.org. For POLYply 7 she will be presenting a piece of writing entitled ‘Translations of a Dandelion’.

David Rule’s practice comes from a hunch that most of what happens is worth preserving. Every day tends to be his material. In the past year he has shown work at artists’ book fairs in London, Cardiff, Birmingham and New York and exhibited at The Woodmill, Quare Gallery and Stoke Newington International Airport. His works are in the collections of Centre de Livre d’Artiste and The Saison Poetry Library. He recently co-founded covered in toner (www.coveredintoner.com) for the distribution of self-published material and is assisting the launch of bookRoom Press (www.thebookroom.net), the expansion of an established research cluster investigating photography on the page at University for the Creative Arts, Farnham.
See also:  http://www.davidrule.co.uk/