tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3322202395412605012024-02-19T10:38:30.088+00:00art people placeJo Dacombehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09004622222088683415noreply@blogger.comBlogger144125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-332220239541260501.post-58049282561443166042024-01-20T15:51:00.008+00:002024-01-20T15:52:42.374+00:00Emerge<p>Following the success of our two performance evenings last year (<a href="https://jodacombe.blogspot.com/2023/01/tide-and-time-poetry-and-place.html">Time & Tide</a>), artist <a href="https://www.mitasolanky.org/" target="_blank">Saintly Amok</a> and I are<span class="break-words"><span><span dir="ltr"> planning a new live poetry and performance event in Leicester soon. Based on her meditative practice Mudras, and inspired by poetry from the latest issue of <a href="https://jodacombe.blogspot.com/2023/11/imminent-8-energy.html">Imminent</a>, we are creating a performance within a space filled with art, responding to the current season as we find ourselves emerging from these darker months. If you would enjoy a calming, meditative and contemplative space for an evening, do join us!</span></span></span></p><p><span class="break-words"><span><span dir="ltr"><br />Emerge - Friday 9th February 6:30-7:30pm - <a href="https://www.leicesterprintworkshop.com/" target="_blank">Leicester Print Workshop</a></span></span></span></p><p><span class="break-words"><span><span dir="ltr"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbZ3vTmIq7oKjdKXGET08ihhYS-6Ol6YDJlnNJnWXGENGnqVvMtSTD0QfpfvbvfINQJ3Rc4C3z8vAthLJyxRdzmdRiUCsmaHtJ9Elqp7LK8rxpceLtBhexkXk-h2DKLnKHoZujQI4ezg4rIBHQTSFAzXQhlRGwBpylaOU_YnjKUY1zVZSszjilXS4PN5U/s1904/emerge.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1342" data-original-width="1904" height="283" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbZ3vTmIq7oKjdKXGET08ihhYS-6Ol6YDJlnNJnWXGENGnqVvMtSTD0QfpfvbvfINQJ3Rc4C3z8vAthLJyxRdzmdRiUCsmaHtJ9Elqp7LK8rxpceLtBhexkXk-h2DKLnKHoZujQI4ezg4rIBHQTSFAzXQhlRGwBpylaOU_YnjKUY1zVZSszjilXS4PN5U/w400-h283/emerge.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /> <p></p>Jo Dacombehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09004622222088683415noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-332220239541260501.post-59018326405454426912023-11-27T11:46:00.002+00:002023-11-27T11:46:22.178+00:00Imminent 8 - energy<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVDyaPY9e-uOQlB_i8CHO4mfi4MfBx_P9dqpAyPztoa5gQ_ZoE18LAQg6UjvnlxRVX5_RtEp-HS1GtxrLeongjvCBNqEZThPtNIMQV9vp8q3XwI4YrWQ6qdIIVpTiuYAYWlLU-2UzBdoVTTtpWRXzkblQ6Mp5x4Oaqlwtghb00zGkNsaIHq4iT7Ke0G6k/s1590/IMG_0412.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1590" data-original-width="1512" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVDyaPY9e-uOQlB_i8CHO4mfi4MfBx_P9dqpAyPztoa5gQ_ZoE18LAQg6UjvnlxRVX5_RtEp-HS1GtxrLeongjvCBNqEZThPtNIMQV9vp8q3XwI4YrWQ6qdIIVpTiuYAYWlLU-2UzBdoVTTtpWRXzkblQ6Mp5x4Oaqlwtghb00zGkNsaIHq4iT7Ke0G6k/s320/IMG_0412.jpg" width="304" /></a></div><p></p><p>In the last year I have been grateful to have made contact with artists and poets who are new to me, and have now become part of the <i>Imminent </i>community. <i>Imminent </i>issue 8 is now available, and includes artist Sally Adkins for the first time, as well as <i>Imminent</i> regulars Saintly Amok, Peter Dent, Rupert M Loydell, Andrew Taylor and Chris Turnbull.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcpaVFuvKHc9mH9yBYrtv02X992LE0u_7oIapqhkC4udlf1-b7yibw37Krs30xZRxNVepcZpUE5PHQDBmeypYe8_skLFHSCz7yu7rufwNE-Tt1tcJjWtDpjCiXV2kbFsgpBF8ux2ClIxUKczM8obA807bNzfjJ8kr8NirZjfMYmkOJIjOlhLktgrm7mf4/s2016/IMG_0414.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2016" data-original-width="1512" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcpaVFuvKHc9mH9yBYrtv02X992LE0u_7oIapqhkC4udlf1-b7yibw37Krs30xZRxNVepcZpUE5PHQDBmeypYe8_skLFHSCz7yu7rufwNE-Tt1tcJjWtDpjCiXV2kbFsgpBF8ux2ClIxUKczM8obA807bNzfjJ8kr8NirZjfMYmkOJIjOlhLktgrm7mf4/s320/IMG_0414.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><a href="https://www.sallyadkins.com/" target="_blank">Sally Adkins</a> is an artist printmaker based in walking distance of the
River Derwent, on the edge of the Peak District in Derbyshire. Her current work explores, through print, the movement of river water, including two images that have been translated from her original etchings into riso prints for <i>Imminent. </i>Sally's work seems perfect for the zine, as she relates them through their titles to poetry, in this instance the work of <a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/alice-oswald" target="_blank">Alice Oswald.<br /></a><p></p><p>Sally inspired the conversation that I have aimed to create in the zine between writing and artworks, and led me to read Alice Oswald and write a piece informed by that and the other works in <i>Imminent</i> 8. Tying the works together is the idea of energy, an invisible force which runs through everything, through us and through the elements. Issue 8 explores ways of thinking about energy as a natural force and as an environmental concern.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dyhVpWK0E992vKX2bb8QfeXXickFZ66B5EgxHavpVQldTIa5xhdBEV5v4S5fYDw0ydtDXsPuujolMx5mwMmEA' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe> <br /></div><p></p><p>I have received a few more subscriptions for <i>Imminent</i> in the last few months, and messages from people who have become collectors of the zine, receiving every issue from when I started it in 2020. You can subscribe from my<a href="https://jodacombe.blogspot.com/p/shop.html"> shop page</a>.</p><p>You can also browse and buy issues that are still in stock from my <a href="https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/JoDacombeGB" target="_blank">Etsy shop.</a></p><p>Thank you for all your support, which helps keep the zine going. It is my labour of love and has built this wonderful community of artists and writers who regularly contribute. I'm also asked more and more to present, talk or perform at events, which I am happy to do, so <a href="mailto:dacombej@gmail.com" target="_blank">let me know</a> if you have an event you would like to invite me to!<br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Jo Dacombehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09004622222088683415noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-332220239541260501.post-65085733297146983222023-08-25T17:12:00.004+01:002023-08-25T17:13:55.070+01:00Time and Tide at SOCK<p>Artist <a href="https://www.mitasolanky.org/" target="_blank">Saintly Amok</a> and I have been asked to repeat our performance of <i>Time and Tide</i> at <a href="https://www.loughboroughtownhall.co.uk/sock_gallery " target="_blank">SOCK gallery </a>in Loughborough. <br /></p><p>We'll be performing in the SOCK gallery space (which is in Loughborough Town Hall) on Friday 8th September, 7:30-8:30pm.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzOMj4IuzjAD0Xph0SAcUuYUPbJZNVfm8VkweAYAiAedXGgQbsMAUZFGONY_82J7tM8wvPjZiBwy2pfgt9Gg6YJ1vRIEgUyikCl09QV-meNuXPjXQoBHRlUd1_02eJRhjFyM8rt4V_AGcVz7RldDjgGnvffreDwkzQ9BR4iOo15yosZguJuzLOMHj0WpU/s1570/Time%20&%20Tide%202%20Banner.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="626" data-original-width="1570" height="160" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzOMj4IuzjAD0Xph0SAcUuYUPbJZNVfm8VkweAYAiAedXGgQbsMAUZFGONY_82J7tM8wvPjZiBwy2pfgt9Gg6YJ1vRIEgUyikCl09QV-meNuXPjXQoBHRlUd1_02eJRhjFyM8rt4V_AGcVz7RldDjgGnvffreDwkzQ9BR4iOo15yosZguJuzLOMHj0WpU/w400-h160/Time%20&%20Tide%202%20Banner.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p><i>Time and Tide </i>was devised by Saintly and me as a result of the publication of her woodblock print in <a href="https://jodacombe.blogspot.com/2022/10/imminent-6-red-hot.html">Issue 6 of <i>Imminent</i> (the Red Hot issue)</a>. Jointly we wrote a piece inspired by the print, which then developed into a performance which we first performed at <a href="https://jodacombe.blogspot.com/2023/01/tide-and-time-poetry-and-place.html">Leicester Print Workshop in January</a>. In a subtly staged space, we invite an audience to sit between the to and fro of the tide of our words: we will read from the zine across the space, lead a meditation and respond to our audience's marks on paper. Each performance is unique in that it responds to the thoughts of those who attend. We have found the event to generate a calm and beautiful space for reflection.<br /></p><p>If you are in the area and looking for an unusual experience, we hope you will join us. Issues of<i> Imminent </i>will be available for sale.</p><p><br /></p>Jo Dacombehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09004622222088683415noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-332220239541260501.post-1735396259445558962023-06-11T22:13:00.001+01:002023-06-11T22:13:31.790+01:00Imminent Special Offers<p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7y6XhqcIbG-5wq6BQ7V_-7FqpH31s-5yKoSPRu76PWWtEg08z5EoUrrDZRvTy9wlJg1qDMgqpPLHwRBvUk-pdVcVN6Y4AYxa-PFpJF0F3zFL091ypo-x4_fnzR5Mc-yOQkgydOC-7AAsKdckdu0f-szGrn4jc6IYKWKLB0YDWv4Sa8VK3pENN3c1S/s3636/Imminent%204-6%20titles.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3636" data-original-width="1878" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7y6XhqcIbG-5wq6BQ7V_-7FqpH31s-5yKoSPRu76PWWtEg08z5EoUrrDZRvTy9wlJg1qDMgqpPLHwRBvUk-pdVcVN6Y4AYxa-PFpJF0F3zFL091ypo-x4_fnzR5Mc-yOQkgydOC-7AAsKdckdu0f-szGrn4jc6IYKWKLB0YDWv4Sa8VK3pENN3c1S/s320/Imminent%204-6%20titles.jpg" width="165" /></a></div>It's time to make some space in the store, so I am offering Issues 4, 5 and 6 of IMMINENT for a special price of £10 for all 3, while stocks last.<p></p><p><a href="https://jodacombe.blogspot.com/2021/09/imminent-4.html">Issue 4</a> is the orange issue, held together by ideas of time and landscape:
seasonal change, endurance walking, times of day, eons of land formation
and climate change.</p><p><a href="https://jodacombe.blogspot.com/2022/05/imminent-5-what-tide-does.html">Issue 5 </a>What the Tide Does is a collaborative issue in blue and yellow. The work is the result of a long distance conversation between me in England and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Hogg_(poet)#External_links" target="_blank">Robert Hogg </a>in Canada, which started in 2021 with swapping poems, books, stories and ideas between us.</p><p><a href="https://jodacombe.blogspot.com/2022/10/imminent-6-red-hot.html">Issue 6 </a>is the red hot issue, remembering the heat of the summer months, wild fires and record
temperatures, and welcoming the coolness amongst the autumnal colour.</p><p>You can order all three copies for £10 + p&p by clicking here.<br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgv9xnhFdn9JwHtAZMsiPCVsOFfD_zWR3xQ_OD3EfoMe-3PHMJ-lHsSvzYjElMGthK8RnXtOIPWZ8O--jF8lZWhaBQf0ngjx8J1HQEqNXErQ3XzjF4fVFQzt-ClcgK-DVXQcgZhQcr3oySa3LnFMdDSja74nPNXxvkIgvzZCbVur5FqhbvYIAx-Byja/s3738/Imminent%204-6%20LtoR.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1866" data-original-width="3738" height="160" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgv9xnhFdn9JwHtAZMsiPCVsOFfD_zWR3xQ_OD3EfoMe-3PHMJ-lHsSvzYjElMGthK8RnXtOIPWZ8O--jF8lZWhaBQf0ngjx8J1HQEqNXErQ3XzjF4fVFQzt-ClcgK-DVXQcgZhQcr3oySa3LnFMdDSja74nPNXxvkIgvzZCbVur5FqhbvYIAx-Byja/s320/Imminent%204-6%20LtoR.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> <p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOskfCMQq_ONq8NufkXxMAZqTAEVQWtYtHe7H_feC8P7iBoudTkrGBeQaZwrYCnkcD1PP8TACIDHHH9Yp6BUEm6DiuDU5ZrQmIT0Rh3axlkPre-yXajJUhA30K5aGluiTOrTo5dg55xIDefCVWR6itl_HgI6Qmi7CzlBoAQmZA-MAkpI8_6m_Jndae/s3394/Issue%207%20image.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3394" data-original-width="2386" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOskfCMQq_ONq8NufkXxMAZqTAEVQWtYtHe7H_feC8P7iBoudTkrGBeQaZwrYCnkcD1PP8TACIDHHH9Yp6BUEm6DiuDU5ZrQmIT0Rh3axlkPre-yXajJUhA30K5aGluiTOrTo5dg55xIDefCVWR6itl_HgI6Qmi7CzlBoAQmZA-MAkpI8_6m_Jndae/s320/Issue%207%20image.jpg" width="225" /></a></div><br />I'm also offering a gift of my miniature origami to the first 30 orders of Issue 7 (purple). You can order Issue 7 and other individual issues from my<a href="https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/JoDacombeGB" target="_blank"> new online shop, click here.</a><br /><p></p><p>Thank you for you support.<br /></p>Jo Dacombehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09004622222088683415noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-332220239541260501.post-20345831442956905422023-05-13T20:50:00.001+01:002023-11-05T11:27:27.302+00:00Imminent 7 folded<p> IMMINENT Issue 7 is folded and creased and being posted to readers.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyyasCfysh76ZH8KmAI7k6fUQsCH7PiqVpAPwYjnM-W1Y_Fyxa38Ltv4aFMcpFeFUO1AwB4fz-e5RASnRggf3Idijdv1SBMznhUcveJNZza0La6hFTovrJuEDjgR6NzKOYqrLl_pM_RawwB1c4Icu3KCfHz-ZbZFoq2p5DpD_yIyUbRfLsWu4iD4qK/s3394/Issue%207%20image.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3394" data-original-width="2386" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyyasCfysh76ZH8KmAI7k6fUQsCH7PiqVpAPwYjnM-W1Y_Fyxa38Ltv4aFMcpFeFUO1AwB4fz-e5RASnRggf3Idijdv1SBMznhUcveJNZza0La6hFTovrJuEDjgR6NzKOYqrLl_pM_RawwB1c4Icu3KCfHz-ZbZFoq2p5DpD_yIyUbRfLsWu4iD4qK/s320/Issue%207%20image.jpg" width="225" /></a> <br /></div><p>The very first issue of IMMINENT reflected on the material, including the paper that the zine itself is printed on, as you hold it in your hand. It set the tone for how I have thought about every issue, and with number 7 I'm carrying on exploring thoughts about paper and the link between the conceptual and the tangible.</p><p>Thanks to poems by Phil Hall, Deborah Tyler-Bennett, Peter Dent and Mark Goodwin, paper and folding are referenced in different ways. Some of the poems link paper to the natural world and phenomena. I've been playing with folding and origami myself for some time, which I have linked to the gifts of nature and (through the hand-made) the idea of people hand-working with material, bringing one closer to the connection with the material world, which I feel becomes more and more important to sustain. As a result, the first 30 orders of Issue 7 will receive a miniature, hand-folded gift from me.</p><p>I've also included a poem by<a href="https://www.jcniala.com/about-1" target="_blank"> JC Niala</a> that made me think about paper maps, and the relationship between enclosures on the land and colonial map-making. JC has travelled to over 45 countries and lived in 3 continents, gathering stories and performing poetry. Her work <i>Fences</i> is beautifully crafted to consider the cultural differences in thinking about land.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dy6pHPYfkskJy3GOnnJDyu2JagxjMDkyJFa45Sl_S9oxUMr9iWpeQnj_-77fp5sQXOgwJ4PHcaHblLyP9yYpg' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div> <p></p><p>Phil Hall has contributed an extract from his book <a href="https://www.beautifuloutlaw.com/product-page/the-ash-bell" target="_blank"><i>The Ash Bell</i></a>, described as a long poem sequence: anthems, letters, journals and aubades; ruminations, cloisters and promises; ogres and custodians.<br /></p><p>Mark Goodwin's latest chapbooks are: <a href="https://shorturl.at/wxH12" target="_blank"><i>to 'B' nor as 'tree'</i></a>, published by intergraphia; <a href=" https://www.hedgehogpress.co.uk/product/of-gone-fox-mark-goodwin-louis-goodwin-nikki-clayton-print-edition/" target="_blank"><i>Of Gone Fox</i>,</a> published by The Hedgehog Poetry Press, and you can read his short essay on poetics and place just published on <a href="https://brieflywrite.com/2023/05/10/mark-goodwin-the-person-end-of-the-poems-beginning/ " target="_blank"><i>Briefly Write</i>.</a> </p><p><a href="http://www.poetrypf.co.uk/deborahtylerbennettpage.shtml" target="_blank">Deborah Tyler-Bennett</a> promotes poetry nights most months at <a href="https://www.facebook.com/LoughboroughMicropub/posts/pfbid0mtq2is2jA5vEVPYJB5Sgpc9MYgfAdSeZ7Q8acnRNHQzPHuTego21TgmLTBNDH9jrl?__cft__[0]=AZXGVbKcM2eF_tII6urAY0xqHIMFGz2FultpAH-YcJyWZo5ga86KatxZ7ZOv01hzG92W21YnJk-qeS81OWVgwOfYh1MDSr1voo0fzbCH7wfZ9bmC_ZKjTnggOD8b4nmtL3kBsiPLx3gf2IDKIItDh8PnJeMGWFjcGCPbMapcrEJDPBvhkqWTroBDC1FmKmTg5ydomfExNml_gBxbnQTKqGoJ&__tn__=%2CO%2CP-R" target="_blank">T</a><i><a href="https://www.facebook.com/LoughboroughMicropub/posts/pfbid0mtq2is2jA5vEVPYJB5Sgpc9MYgfAdSeZ7Q8acnRNHQzPHuTego21TgmLTBNDH9jrl?__cft__[0]=AZXGVbKcM2eF_tII6urAY0xqHIMFGz2FultpAH-YcJyWZo5ga86KatxZ7ZOv01hzG92W21YnJk-qeS81OWVgwOfYh1MDSr1voo0fzbCH7wfZ9bmC_ZKjTnggOD8b4nmtL3kBsiPLx3gf2IDKIItDh8PnJeMGWFjcGCPbMapcrEJDPBvhkqWTroBDC1FmKmTg5ydomfExNml_gBxbnQTKqGoJ&__tn__=%2CO%2CP-R" target="_blank">he Needle and Pin</a> </i>in Loughborough, presenting readings by a wide range of poets in a relaxed small venue, which has included me reading from IMMINENT and I hope to do so again.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Dent" target="_blank">Peter Dent</a> sends me his work on paper. They arrive in the post, typed and hand-signed, often accompanied by a hand-written letter. Correspondence by Royal Mail is a lovely process when putting together an issue that thinks about paper and the tangible.<br /></p><p>As I read the issue page by page, links occur between poems and artworks, and I become aware of the page turning in my hand, and the central fold. I hope you will enjoy the experience too.</p><p>You can order IMMINENT Issue 7 from my <a href="https://jodacombe.blogspot.com/p/shop.html">shop page</a>, and the first 30 orders will receive a hand-folded gift from me. Thank you for your support.<br /></p>Jo Dacombehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09004622222088683415noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-332220239541260501.post-62021049993818868752023-04-23T12:19:00.003+01:002023-04-23T13:26:54.911+01:00Events imminent<p>I'm currently preparing the next Issue of IMMINENT to start posting out in May, which is exciting, and there's some great events by artist friends and poets coming up which could interest you. </p><p></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDWFKZDQbkxN6ItoH2rLric0cwIt_3pp_0bpBtA5vBdiTrZ34bEzLgCDTcug0PIqBhF5c1gHBBZ3YmyrJnRdHyBckvLHJKrXBG9xEa8Np0N5IKemvqfohTAplog7ImL-6sbtLsxNLNhjhyq9mEMbVJNvE0k1O9BIgLCubRRKU_06D6LpsoBnFyLc90/s1088/Saintly.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1016" data-original-width="1088" height="299" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDWFKZDQbkxN6ItoH2rLric0cwIt_3pp_0bpBtA5vBdiTrZ34bEzLgCDTcug0PIqBhF5c1gHBBZ3YmyrJnRdHyBckvLHJKrXBG9xEa8Np0N5IKemvqfohTAplog7ImL-6sbtLsxNLNhjhyq9mEMbVJNvE0k1O9BIgLCubRRKU_06D6LpsoBnFyLc90/s320/Saintly.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Image by Saintly Amok<br /></td></tr></tbody></table>IMMINENT contributor <a href="https://www.mitasolanky.org/" target="_blank">Saintly Amok </a>is holding a <a href="https://www.mitasolanky.org/n-e-w-s/seed-sankalpa-intention-ritual-primary" target="_blank">Seed Sankalpa</a> at Primary in Nottingham, on Sunday April 30th. Described as a seed planting workshop and Intention Ritual, the gathering takes inspiration from ceremonies carried out by rural farming communities to honour the land and bless seeds and tools for the coming season of cultivation. I've really enjoyed working with Saintly over the years, and her ritual / meditative workshops are beautifully calming and contemplative experiences. The workshop is free to attend but you need to book. <a href="https://www.weareprimary.org/whats-on/seed-sankalpa" target="_blank">Read more here.</a>
<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXCLXQ8RU03nR5W6o4lu6eNq0G8oXYfOpoIlr-9jDIwDxZ2qd7A2AumDird9c6ELVCMDjAYEG7feqnkwKCi8N87wx4VUS-aiTXYw6snvrtQEvE9sq_lWnwjgOy8NRfUVsHMQ3685RIICcW6F6vP7nRAqYiNHcOab3mvFT7w0S1AktlTZSXhkt3kPf8/s1464/CPS.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="980" data-original-width="1464" height="214" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXCLXQ8RU03nR5W6o4lu6eNq0G8oXYfOpoIlr-9jDIwDxZ2qd7A2AumDird9c6ELVCMDjAYEG7feqnkwKCi8N87wx4VUS-aiTXYw6snvrtQEvE9sq_lWnwjgOy8NRfUVsHMQ3685RIICcW6F6vP7nRAqYiNHcOab3mvFT7w0S1AktlTZSXhkt3kPf8/s320/CPS.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />The wonderful <a href="https://andyhopkinspoet.wordpress.com/poetry-symposium/ " target="_blank">Carlisle Poetry Symposium</a> is due to take place on 13th May. This annual event includes free workshops, speakers and poetry readings, open mic and a book table, with a range of poetry books and pamphlets available (including IMMINENT). The Symposium is a generous event, with all sales going directly to the poets to support their work. <a href="https://andyhopkinspoet.wordpress.com/poetry-symposium/ " target="_blank">Read more here.</a><p></p><p></p><p>Do attend an event to support the artists and poets if you can, and if you would like to support IMMINENT you can buy or subscribe on the <a href="https://jodacombe.blogspot.com/p/shop.html">Shop page at this link.</a></p><p>Thank you.</p><p></p><p></p>Jo Dacombehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09004622222088683415noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-332220239541260501.post-51239925055201124802023-04-16T17:05:00.001+01:002023-04-23T13:34:14.601+01:00Of Light: A Celebration of the Poetry of Robert Hogg<div class="separator"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1wIMtqt_sEFDAbCuiWwBxh1xCE7zsFDbuhbkWFciaX0vBl6_8nHgWCbZrcaKzjs0nnw_7KAHfkH-7BtvDH6Yn0dKkyApCn4XlvG2puKosWsM21ngtdE0gYpzU-LY1M17gNY_x_UyjOZTSV7yYy6wU5fp1ZETwavPY273miVRh6PZnxQMfVo-taFyn/s1170/RobertHogg.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1170" data-original-width="754" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1wIMtqt_sEFDAbCuiWwBxh1xCE7zsFDbuhbkWFciaX0vBl6_8nHgWCbZrcaKzjs0nnw_7KAHfkH-7BtvDH6Yn0dKkyApCn4XlvG2puKosWsM21ngtdE0gYpzU-LY1M17gNY_x_UyjOZTSV7yYy6wU5fp1ZETwavPY273miVRh6PZnxQMfVo-taFyn/s320/RobertHogg.jpg" width="206" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Robert Hogg (Source: Facebook Profile)</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr></tbody></table>Another reading of poetry in memory of poet and scholar Robert Hogg will take place on 27th April at Carleton University, Ottawa, where Robert used to teach. Guest speakers
will read poems from Robert’s 56+ year publishing career to celebrate his life and poetry.</div><p>Speakers include IMMINENT contributors Chris Turnbull and Phil Hall (Phil's poetry will appear in Issue 7 coming out next month), as well as Jennifer Baker, Natalie Hanna, Rob McLennan and Collet Tracey. <a href="https://carleton.ca/english/cu-events/of-light-robert-hogg/" target="_blank">Read more about this event and the speakers.</a><br /></p><p>Robert Hogg and I collaborated to make issue 5 of IMMINENT, which was published in his final year, 2022. <a href="https://jodacombe.blogspot.com/2022/05/imminent-5-what-tide-does.html">You can read more about Issue 5 What the Tide Does: Port Mann Bridge in my previous blog post.</a></p><p>One of Robert's colleagues at Carleton, Cameron Anstee, wrote a wonderful post about Robert and his poetry <a href="https://cameronanstee.com/2022/11/19/robert-hogg-1942-2022/" target="_blank">at this link.</a> The final photo of Robert illustrates exactly how I think of him: funny, intelligent, kind and open.</p>Jo Dacombehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09004622222088683415noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-332220239541260501.post-2382605698013866452023-02-05T10:29:00.000+00:002023-02-05T10:29:47.693+00:00Robert Hogg 1942-2022<p>It was with great sadness that I learned of the passing of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Hogg_(poet)" target="_blank">Robert Hogg </a>last November.</p><p>Robert contributed to <i>Imminent </i>a number of times and we collaborated from a distance to create <a href="https://jodacombe.blogspot.com/2022/05/imminent-5-what-tide-does.html">Issue 5 </a><i><a href="https://jodacombe.blogspot.com/2022/05/imminent-5-what-tide-does.html">What the Tide Does: Port Mann Bridge</a> </i>which came out last May.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjughglEss0emwbQGHtRrli9mYz7PNtHerOmimIF4Fd80vbCrj0WeHFV6LpEb6eqhL0vhCsf08ZWknHbB5qR56SzCtRKO-gd9gHn4G3-2qd7OFt2YcrAKXf_Ex65GL5E10eedBG5NX7dGjmhyQs0qilwN0yjE8AF7JvjY5-GBYmwSKRvH8ao_7nkS-S/s2480/ImminentIssue5cover.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2480" data-original-width="1748" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjughglEss0emwbQGHtRrli9mYz7PNtHerOmimIF4Fd80vbCrj0WeHFV6LpEb6eqhL0vhCsf08ZWknHbB5qR56SzCtRKO-gd9gHn4G3-2qd7OFt2YcrAKXf_Ex65GL5E10eedBG5NX7dGjmhyQs0qilwN0yjE8AF7JvjY5-GBYmwSKRvH8ao_7nkS-S/s320/ImminentIssue5cover.jpg" width="226" /></a></div>The issue published Robert's poem that he wrote in 1964 at the beginning of his career, with my images and Afterword created in response to the poem. The issue now seems to contain the sense of the span of his whole career. <br /><p>I never met Robert in real life, who I knew as Bob. Our correspondence floated between Canada and England, frequent emails which showed Bob to be humorous, generous and stoic. He was always encouraging and championing other poets, as well as genuinely interested in my work. He often asked me about my process and how I formulated ideas, which challenged me to describe in words my visual and often abstract way of thinking.<br /></p><p>Phil Hall, who is also an <i>Imminent </i>contributor, has alerted me to an evening of readings on 12th February in memory of Bob Hogg taking place in Vancouver. If you are near that part of the world, please do consider going along.</p><p>Thank you, Bob, for all that you did.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiX91m1J1K0d45uPQ_KM16e944JOn-Z4Ob-yBJrcjUayaZCycPzRAVb-SMP3sIm5lmkexc72Cycy4kxFBkyHvN2rSJXteURg_ookdWNdHng88ABRcIE4BQZVEGaUMvH9s6JWZL5n_IAq-OpHJwd8YACcZB_UU0WxKrxDw8gdz0EpyhHhk_CbUG2U-2/s1326/A%20Reading%20in%20Memory%20of%20Bob%20Hogg.tiff" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1326" data-original-width="1032" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiX91m1J1K0d45uPQ_KM16e944JOn-Z4Ob-yBJrcjUayaZCycPzRAVb-SMP3sIm5lmkexc72Cycy4kxFBkyHvN2rSJXteURg_ookdWNdHng88ABRcIE4BQZVEGaUMvH9s6JWZL5n_IAq-OpHJwd8YACcZB_UU0WxKrxDw8gdz0EpyhHhk_CbUG2U-2/w498-h640/A%20Reading%20in%20Memory%20of%20Bob%20Hogg.tiff" width="498" /></a></div><br /> <p></p><p><br /></p>Jo Dacombehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09004622222088683415noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-332220239541260501.post-47549820965407044882023-01-29T10:56:00.000+00:002023-01-29T10:56:06.107+00:00An evening of poetry & prose at the Needle & Pin<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMXf0RGfQ_I8tB1X0woTypQuGotsSnO3w9z6mbwecu6aEmhV3YHOL9TwemBE3rHyB8cCWZJujeXAKWDNmsKnPCfeMkuEaJH_ZEtUU6zlezOnElTYcv-lAzuaVzLNYtwOow9M29N1ubVj5CYmO3KQibuZBX2hWDdyBT9k6CpZbTIr_JEfCtCrmyGEK0/s1191/Needle%20&%20Pin.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1191" data-original-width="944" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMXf0RGfQ_I8tB1X0woTypQuGotsSnO3w9z6mbwecu6aEmhV3YHOL9TwemBE3rHyB8cCWZJujeXAKWDNmsKnPCfeMkuEaJH_ZEtUU6zlezOnElTYcv-lAzuaVzLNYtwOow9M29N1ubVj5CYmO3KQibuZBX2hWDdyBT9k6CpZbTIr_JEfCtCrmyGEK0/w318-h400/Needle%20&%20Pin.jpg" width="318" /></a></div><p>I'm delighted to have been invited to read from<i> Imminent</i> at the next Needle and Pin poetry night on Tuesday 7th February at 7pm at <a href="https://www.facebook.com/LoughboroughMicropub/ " target="_blank">Needle and Pin (micro-pub)</a>, The Rushes, Loughborough. Hosted by <a href="http://www.poetrypf.co.uk/deborahtylerbennettbiog.shtml" target="_blank">Deborah Tyler-Bennett</a>.</p><p>The evening also features poets from the East Midlands anthology <i>Where We Live</i> (by Angela Reddaway, Helen Sadler, Liz Nash and Jill Simpson).<br /><br />There will be an Open Mic and book table.<br />So do come along and feel free to pass the date on to your poetry friends.</p><p>The poetry night is a regular event at Needle & Pin, organised by Deborah Tylet-Bennett, who is planning more exciting poetry this year including from Andy Croft, North East poet and editor in chief of Smokestack Press.</p>Jo Dacombehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09004622222088683415noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-332220239541260501.post-34921321190717520582023-01-14T18:35:00.001+00:002023-01-15T09:39:16.102+00:00Time and Tide, Poetry and Place<p> I'll be reading at two events in the next few weeks in Leicestershire with some brilliant artists and poets.<br /></p><p><b><i>Time and Tide</i></b> will take place on <b>Friday 27th January </b>at <b><a href="http://www.leicesterprintworkshop.com/" target="_blank">Leicester Print Workshop</a></b> in Leicester's Cultural Quarter.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibPNclV3T4DGjfn1b39qCiGCnwg5jhHGLaG-m5rwsWOLl3me3EnhawLyv4XUfw6exuDuQFD8LFiNlxRxX05VW2B9FVMKcUf7MFWjX8GhpRxejH1AVF6nUzZLJ_h_D21k2YbeIiZyeq0OFilgfs5tLDXVRwi325B01V_D-ceUOg4Pm-P9M0AuQAWsAN/s1600/Tide%20&%20Time%20Banner.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="840" data-original-width="1600" height="210" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibPNclV3T4DGjfn1b39qCiGCnwg5jhHGLaG-m5rwsWOLl3me3EnhawLyv4XUfw6exuDuQFD8LFiNlxRxX05VW2B9FVMKcUf7MFWjX8GhpRxejH1AVF6nUzZLJ_h_D21k2YbeIiZyeq0OFilgfs5tLDXVRwi325B01V_D-ceUOg4Pm-P9M0AuQAWsAN/w400-h210/Tide%20&%20Time%20Banner.png" width="400" /></a></div><p>With <i>Imminent </i>contributor, artist <a href="http://www.mitasolanky.org" target="_blank">Saintly Amok</a>, we will present a live reading, followed by unfolding conversation exploring the themes of the latest 'Red Hot' issue of the zine, with a focus on the concept of tidal phenomena in the context of climate change. </p><p>Saintly Amok's <i>Red Tide</i> print exhibited is in the current LPW members show, and copies of the zine will be available to purchase on the night. You can read more about <a href="https://www.mitasolanky.org/redtide.html" target="_blank"><i>Red Tide</i> by clicking here.</a></p><p>I have known Saintly (aka Mita Solanky) for years and our work share many interests. We have often walked together in the Charnwood Forest and found new connections in our creative thinking each time. Saintly's work seeks to create a reconnection with 'nature' and the current human condition. In common with my work, her work spans multiple disciplines, drawing from her own personal embodied practices of yoga and meditation and influences from nature-based social and spiritual practice. Mita has an academic background in Particle Physics, and her art practice is a further exploration of understanding the human condition. I have always found her work to be beautifully sensitive to the nature of material, and she is deeply thoughtful and articulate about her concerns.<br /></p><p>On <b>Tuesday 7th February</b> from 7pm I'll be at <a href="https://www.facebook.com/LoughboroughMicropub/" target="_blank"><b>The Needle and Pin</b> </a>in Loughborough, along with poets <a href="http://www.poetrypf.co.uk/deborahtylerbennettbiog.shtml" target="_blank">Deborah Tyler-Bennett </a>and Jill Simpson. There will be poetry readings by me from <i>Imminent</i>, by Deborah, who organises the poetry nights, and from Jill who will be reading from her anthology. The common thread that links <i>Imminent </i>and Jill's work seems to be about place; Jill's anthology is set in Leicestershire with many images of place and ecology, which chimes with themes within <i>Imminent.</i> It will be interesting to see how our readings weave together. </p><p>I was delighted when Deborah, who has regularly contributed to <i>Imminent, </i>asked me to take part. Deborah and I have crossed paths many times over many years in various creative projects and it will be great to catch up with her again. Deborah is a brilliant poet and fiction writer, deeply empathetic, with a subtle sense of humour that I love and a very distinctive style. Jill I don't know yet, but as Deborah's choice I'm sure she will be just as interesting and can't wait to meet her!<br /></p><p>Both events are free and no need to book. I hope I might see you there.<br /></p><p> <br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><br /><p></p>Jo Dacombehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09004622222088683415noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-332220239541260501.post-73992059902176249812022-10-30T10:43:00.000+00:002022-10-30T10:43:12.654+00:00Imminent 6 red hot<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhV5E4-7DZL2AkFJFN8TaKwB3jrfNhvpkkX5mmgJDF4nhDZShvSs8AlIqW8irphYjjQXuqNOToQ9PM4ajU1NMCg0KRdnCMVgfq_tFPTUNuwNb7EjANYbiPwmhdY2alHwrg7y_4wLCVd2y59d6NzZ4Qu8zd-AOmxUamhSQnd0NuvYoWn9Z-fbHASK3WI" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="3666" data-original-width="2586" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhV5E4-7DZL2AkFJFN8TaKwB3jrfNhvpkkX5mmgJDF4nhDZShvSs8AlIqW8irphYjjQXuqNOToQ9PM4ajU1NMCg0KRdnCMVgfq_tFPTUNuwNb7EjANYbiPwmhdY2alHwrg7y_4wLCVd2y59d6NzZ4Qu8zd-AOmxUamhSQnd0NuvYoWn9Z-fbHASK3WI=w282-h400" width="282" /></a></div><br /><p>It's Autumn and Imminent 6 has arrived.</p><p>As the seasons turn red, we remember the heat of the summer months, wild fires and record temperatures, and welcome the coolness amongst the autumnal colours. Imminent 6 has a feeling of time passing, colours fading, changing light, and the knowledge embedded within the grains of a piece of wood or in the connections of an ecosystem.<br /></p><p>Imminent 6 is printed in red, with images by me and Saintly Amok, and poetry by contributors from both sides of the North Atlantic once again.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dxLesA446S7mW8vxqmLGyC_vyElwJ4oyCrzS37xCpcH1WuDXr0b22wK4MHrY7iLBSb_Jqxl6DsFUpdiJbYWtg' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div> <p></p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/ChrisCturnbul" target="_blank">Chris Turnbull</a>'s <i>notes from recently </i>respond to the lifelong knowledge of a Greek beekeeper. The poems take their own shape, working visually across and between pages as much as through the words. Chris has a fascinating ongoing project, <i>rout/e: poetry found in place</i>, which you can visit <a href="http://www.etuor.wordpress.com" target="_blank">at this link.</a><br /></p><p>Rupert M Loydell's <i>An Interpretation Beyond Understanding</i> inspired my own writing. I placed his poem in the centre pages where, in my imagination, it acts as an anchor around which the other pages circle. I thought about the understanding in our own bodies, and wrote a piece with Saintly Amok in response to the way she understood the knowledge contained in her woodblock. </p><p>You can read more of Rupert M Loydell's work in 2 free ebooks: <a href=" https://facqueuesol-books.jimdofree.com/answers-that-theory-does-not-allow/" target="_blank">Answers That Theory Does Not Allow</a> and <a href=" https://www.argotistonline.co.uk/FROM%20DIPSTICK%20APOCALYPSE.pdf" target="_blank">From Dipstick Apocalypse</a>. Rupert also edits <a href=" http://stridemagazine.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Stride magazine.</a> </p><p>Saintly Amok is holding a sharing knowledge event as part of her residency at New Art Exchange, Nottingham, on 1st December: <a href="https://www.nae.org.uk/event/saintly-amok-an-intime-gift-seed-sharing-event/" target="_blank"><i>An Infinite Gift, Seed Sharing Event.</i></a><br /></p><p> </p><p><a href="http://andrewtaylorpoetry.com" target="_blank">Andrew Taylor</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/kramawoodgin" target="_blank">Mark Goodwin</a> close the issue with writing that draws us into the next season but brings with us the memories of what has just gone. Andrew has a new book out with Leafe Press, <i><a href="https://www.leafepresspoetry.com/2022/09/northangerland-reversions-of-poetry-of.html" target="_blank">Northangerland</a></i>. Mark's latest chapbook, <i>to 'B' nor as 'tree'</i>, is just out with <a href="https://intergraphiabooks.wixsite.com/intergraphia" target="_blank">intergraphia books.</a> <br /></p><p>I hope you enjoy the warmth of this issue.</p><p>You can buy red Imminent 6, and past issues, online from the <a href="https://jodacombe.blogspot.com/p/shop.html">Shop page</a> of this blog. Thank you.<br /></p><p><br /></p>Jo Dacombehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09004622222088683415noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-332220239541260501.post-41140804226780040042022-05-15T09:21:00.004+01:002022-05-15T09:21:59.432+01:00Imminent 5 What the Tide Does<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUjAQHJTJQYBylQ2K4JNMFYV5VrbQh-KTB_0_FrGId5W4LgEJ4r_VHaPdiyrsJT3n08_VMZS9dZXBBPRq95F1isfb1hGsaQOVNmPiDbFLJYbv5tSBw1bDz5a5t3x_QQweKhOrG4QQf-WcSRx--d1o-psL8Ib0Rke705xN5fzySEMJpoNop0CpKUE6K/s2480/ImminentIssue5cover.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2480" data-original-width="1748" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUjAQHJTJQYBylQ2K4JNMFYV5VrbQh-KTB_0_FrGId5W4LgEJ4r_VHaPdiyrsJT3n08_VMZS9dZXBBPRq95F1isfb1hGsaQOVNmPiDbFLJYbv5tSBw1bDz5a5t3x_QQweKhOrG4QQf-WcSRx--d1o-psL8Ib0Rke705xN5fzySEMJpoNop0CpKUE6K/s320/ImminentIssue5cover.jpg" width="226" /></a></div>Imminent 5 is a collaborative issue. The work is the result of a long distance conversation between me in England and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Hogg_(poet)#External_links" target="_blank">Robert Hogg </a>in Canada, which started in 2021 with swapping poems, books, stories and ideas between us. When Robert sent me the poem that inspired this issue, I found that I read it again and again, each time finding more in the words, and it set me off on my own research and lines of thought. All this seemed worthy of creating an issue with just Robert's poem, and my images in response.<br /><p></p><p>The to and fro of our email conversations echo the two and fro of the poem in Imminent 5: Robert Hogg's poem, <i>What the Tide Does - Port Mann Bridge</i> makes the main text of the publication. Inspired by this, and my own research of the Port Mann Bridge over the Fraser River in British Columbia, I created a series of images to accompany the poem, and put them together to create the fifth issue of Imminent.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dyg6Z-5XiZsD59hf5yN5F96RjCJHSAnoa0BWSBGlDTQu-k_1H78F8A88_QpeLwsSvlid30eyFPPAy7MuBuf4Q' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div> <p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisIwnUoFWBTCRbhWnUAQ2Q7IxCkQgTV8Su-jjGKv1-0q5z9YWOwMVmGZiFHhyXahGIbs9_BPbQjfsWEbK_D1reGp72UpV-MFJkFK0cnaN4HNcX_44WzLz2jMl4xA_zLhjS8LU-5HswcKgQKYmlbOdYepHjibzugCFyAXOX5PMPK9OCYVHmvwx9o-Kw/s3264/IMG_2610.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2448" data-original-width="3264" height="199" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisIwnUoFWBTCRbhWnUAQ2Q7IxCkQgTV8Su-jjGKv1-0q5z9YWOwMVmGZiFHhyXahGIbs9_BPbQjfsWEbK_D1reGp72UpV-MFJkFK0cnaN4HNcX_44WzLz2jMl4xA_zLhjS8LU-5HswcKgQKYmlbOdYepHjibzugCFyAXOX5PMPK9OCYVHmvwx9o-Kw/w265-h199/IMG_2610.jpg" width="265" /></a></div>Robert and I have reflected on the colours of the issue - I chose blue and yellow which, since I made that decision, has come to have another meaning worldwide in the light of the war in Ukraine. The colours were chosen for how they work together visually, and how they overlap to create a third colour, green - which can be achieved using the riso printing technique that I use for the zine. The first page of the poem talks about colours (colors in Robert's spelling! I chose to stay with the authenticity of the Canadian spelling rather than change it to my English), so it felt important that my first decision was about colour. The chosen colours can denote sky, water, sunshine, land - the colours of landscape. Some of my images intentionally bleed sky, water and land together, which, having read about the flooding of the fierce and tidal Fraser River, expresses how I think of it - a living, changing, yet ever constant force that shapes its land and the lives around it. All these ideas, and more, are woven into the issue.<p></p><p>Printed on recycled paper using plant based riso inks, I hope you enjoy the issue, which can be ordered from <a href="https://jodacombe.blogspot.com/p/shop.html">my shop page.</a> Imminent 5 is selling quickly, so do grab a copy while you can.<br /></p>Jo Dacombehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09004622222088683415noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-332220239541260501.post-86689956080663198832022-05-01T16:29:00.002+01:002022-05-01T16:29:59.438+01:00Fruit Routes in the Festival of Ideas<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I'm delighted to be making something for <a href="http://www.fruitroutesloughborough.com/" target="_blank">Fruit Routes</a> Loughborough again, the artist-led project to create an edible campus at Loughborough University. This year we are celebrating ten years of the project and it's part of the wider <a href="https://www.lboro.ac.uk/research/ias/programmes/festivalofideastransitions" target="_blank">Festival of Ideas: Transitions</a>. Details are in the flyer below - I hope some of you can join us.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3357" data-original-width="2480" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXARJRxAOy0jG1l8lTdiSHarXI4sBhl_D_ARlQKYqD3z4R51lI4tFsgCaRCs42NWsIvFPfYAcGUDeBSEE10MvL-mcI0yVMwuVax8jH59PTXo2S0hfaMoNkThWRnvDm6679OOzc2YAQWw1ephq56LZFNH43DpufSHJhfWMCxuXHLQ57rB5M1oyMobJD/w472-h640/fruitroutes10yearspdpg1.jpg" width="472" /></div><br /><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4os9NXFNWovL9qysjqoIgG9VAYZ15vmmZvgwSoYgzt-tEsj-kQ2uDvlrVoOipc__ts_pNIwKe5k3IcDreSAmu3OibcfUc1NJRzr9JAPiKgwJBH8wTcob-eAd5Vd_cZb7zas7ZaJc92w44Zyn_Oh09_sPtvWYjPzNtXtdm7zetjf7rcbRjXgQswkDn/s2480/fruitroutes10yearspdpg2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="996" data-original-width="2480" height="258" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4os9NXFNWovL9qysjqoIgG9VAYZ15vmmZvgwSoYgzt-tEsj-kQ2uDvlrVoOipc__ts_pNIwKe5k3IcDreSAmu3OibcfUc1NJRzr9JAPiKgwJBH8wTcob-eAd5Vd_cZb7zas7ZaJc92w44Zyn_Oh09_sPtvWYjPzNtXtdm7zetjf7rcbRjXgQswkDn/w640-h258/fruitroutes10yearspdpg2.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdBP4m3lJcbq1hdA7PFg-lkQSXSh56sn8uFYsISXKXQeJnHLiRFvBsIl0q-mF1ZtPFMAJiiiXHXsJI-GxDN4yxBNMl0LCILl31L7--Jm3pOKFAhvSrT1rBgFVyPLqt4fNOWRwzZIWp_UR2cTiB629vz7Ucq2Z8MOwpjZfW0sDlwQSMhYpOVJRFe3d0/s2480/fruitroutes10yearspdpg3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1739" data-original-width="2480" height="448" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdBP4m3lJcbq1hdA7PFg-lkQSXSh56sn8uFYsISXKXQeJnHLiRFvBsIl0q-mF1ZtPFMAJiiiXHXsJI-GxDN4yxBNMl0LCILl31L7--Jm3pOKFAhvSrT1rBgFVyPLqt4fNOWRwzZIWp_UR2cTiB629vz7Ucq2Z8MOwpjZfW0sDlwQSMhYpOVJRFe3d0/w640-h448/fruitroutes10yearspdpg3.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXZ8L9v5mJ1tEXHxld4Z9Oymq5HRwu1iMSQtNuGfBt5tK4k0pY-x1BPPDGCwT_wIEHKZXM_2FI6QyljDSF6TwgqBuiKKzlKSpZSWq9e0iXnW8GeapXfgtxp-d59g08LiAOmGF7dFxXl970meu015RbN0FEVGieXwByqKavsEa3PZQiyhmgfqXscUTD/s2480/fruitroutes10yearspdpg4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1379" data-original-width="2480" height="356" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXZ8L9v5mJ1tEXHxld4Z9Oymq5HRwu1iMSQtNuGfBt5tK4k0pY-x1BPPDGCwT_wIEHKZXM_2FI6QyljDSF6TwgqBuiKKzlKSpZSWq9e0iXnW8GeapXfgtxp-d59g08LiAOmGF7dFxXl970meu015RbN0FEVGieXwByqKavsEa3PZQiyhmgfqXscUTD/w640-h356/fruitroutes10yearspdpg4.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p><br /> </p>Jo Dacombehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09004622222088683415noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-332220239541260501.post-86342778819316851122021-10-09T15:54:00.001+01:002021-10-09T15:54:26.299+01:00Any minit<p>I wrote to <a href="https://www.trainwreckpress.com/a-quite-affair-vancouver-63" target="_blank">Robert Hogg</a> to let him know that copies of Imminent were on their way to him, over in Canada. He emailed back with a poem, which made me laugh, copied below. (Another of Robert's poems is included in Issue 4 of the zine, which you can order <a href="https://jodacombe.blogspot.com/p/shop.html">from my shop</a> for only £3).</p><p> <br /></p><p style="margin-left: 80px; text-align: left;"><b>Imminent 4 is imminent! (for Jo Dacombe</b><br /> <br />Any minit<br />in a mint<br />Altoids are<br /> <br />asteroids<br />one time<br />immanent<br /> <br />in Wales<br />now eminently<br />imported by<br /> <br />Wrigley<br />Canada<br />from who<br /> <br />knows<br />where<br />they'll fall<br /> <br />to my tongue so<br /><i>Curiously Strong</i><br />or so it says<br /> <br />on the tin<br />they could be made<br />in China or<br /> <br />Timbuktu<br />or simply fall<br />from stars<br /> </p><p style="margin-left: 80px; text-align: left;"><br /></p><p>All proceeds from the zine support the printing costs of the next one. There will be more from Robert in future issues that I'm planning, so do <a href="https://mailchi.mp/62718f5344ca/imminent" target="_blank">sign up for updates</a> or <a href="https://jodacombe.blogspot.com/p/shop.html">subscribe </a>to make sure you don't miss them. </p><p>Thank you for your support for the zine, for poets and artists who contribute, and for caring about the natural world.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-zUtioFCy4zs/YU9GF3_7H8I/AAAAAAAACCI/n_frrov9WfUUyoU6aXLto27r9CCTphIPQCPcBGAYYCw/s2048/Issue4image.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1441" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-zUtioFCy4zs/YU9GF3_7H8I/AAAAAAAACCI/n_frrov9WfUUyoU6aXLto27r9CCTphIPQCPcBGAYYCw/s320/Issue4image.jpg" width="225" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p>Jo Dacombehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09004622222088683415noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-332220239541260501.post-5816119632489560512021-09-25T16:48:00.003+01:002021-09-25T16:59:47.881+01:00Imminent 4<p><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-49xQnJdJ8_s/YU9DsfrVpBI/AAAAAAAACB8/7vcKsxKg8nEIKpjbz1P-m4QNgwTGx_JCQCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/Issue4image.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1441" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-49xQnJdJ8_s/YU9DsfrVpBI/AAAAAAAACB8/7vcKsxKg8nEIKpjbz1P-m4QNgwTGx_JCQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Issue4image.jpg" width="225" /></a></div><p></p><p>IMMINENT issue 4 arrives for October, printed in a peachy orange as the autumnal colours begin to appear.</p><p>The orange issue is held together by ideas of time and landscape: seasonal change, endurance walking, times of day, eons of land formation and climate change. Visit <a href="https://jodacombe.blogspot.com/p/shop.html">my blog shop </a>to order or subscribe.<br /></p><p>The poets included also have publications out currently, so you can visit more of their work at the links below.<br /></p><p>Phil Hall's latest chapbook, <i><a href="https://www.trainwreckpress.com/the-ogre" target="_blank">The Ogre,</a> </i>is by Trainwreck Press, and features Phil's artwork assemblages on the cover, which I find intriguing.<br /></p><p>Robert Hogg's chapbook, <a href="https://www.trainwreckpress.com/a-quite-affair-vancouver-63" target="_blank"><i>A Quiet Affair Vancouver '63</i></a>, also by Trainwreck Press, and of which I have a copy. The poem has a sense of time as the narrative unfolds gradually, and is set in the past with a photo of a very young Bob Hogg on the cover. I'm delighted to be working with Bob on a collaborative piece for a future IMMINENT.<br /></p><p>Gerrie Fellows has a poem that appears for <i><a href="https://www.gla.ac.uk/hunterian/visit/exhibitions/virtualexhibitions/thehunterianpoems/" target="_blank">The Hunterian</a> </i>and you can <a href="https://www.gla.ac.uk/hunterian/visit/exhibitions/virtualexhibitions/thehunterianpoems/gerriefellowspaysagemysterieux/" target="_blank">read it online.</a></p><p>And my good friend Mark Goodwin's<i> </i>first chapbook to be published in North America is <a href="https://www.middlecreekpublishing.com/erodes-on-air " target="_blank"><i>Erodes on Air, </i></a>where "<span class="color_14">we are invited into a landscape of stone and snow warmed through with wit <br />
and Goodwin’s singular eye for the world and ear for its song", </span>by Middle Creek Publishing.</p><p>IMMINENT 4 also includes artworks by <a href="https://helenmgoodwin.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">Helen Goodwin</a>, <a href="https://www.peter-griffiths.com/" target="_blank">Peter Griffiths </a>and <a href="https://www.axisweb.org/p/jodacombe/" target="_blank">me.</a></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dwCGGY5ZAFVYQK_ji_dhfGTsI1ZJ9uNgZiBNCCMIbs4bBMgRDkMa9ymV6YzJi_XN_kJ_ZacrdRU5aS05HaA3w' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br /> <p></p><p>You can order a copy from <a href="https://jodacombe.blogspot.com/p/shop.html">my blog shop,</a> or subscribe to two issues per year, only £8.80 including p&p.</p><p>Thank you for your support.<br /></p><p><br /><i></i></p><br />Jo Dacombehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09004622222088683415noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-332220239541260501.post-35853805894635356532021-07-04T19:34:00.001+01:002021-07-24T13:49:44.234+01:00Imminent 1, 2, 3<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgY5zGrGNXgYIxmYQBme43E3NE1mO0YmkrkgyE5Bt1JRRq6Efmv84fJOneOErN0qfjHudTQl9yQHZ-X3sAdDRVSpWiRb231V8nVMmvDMBSBLVG_CnLEAH3-Mt8q4hwrLXygyFnbgUTG4b4/s2048/Issues1-3.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgY5zGrGNXgYIxmYQBme43E3NE1mO0YmkrkgyE5Bt1JRRq6Efmv84fJOneOErN0qfjHudTQl9yQHZ-X3sAdDRVSpWiRb231V8nVMmvDMBSBLVG_CnLEAH3-Mt8q4hwrLXygyFnbgUTG4b4/s320/Issues1-3.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />IMMINENT is the little zine I started in March 2020 as a response to concerns about nature and the environment. Numerous excellent artists and writers have contributed to date, and their generosity has kept my creative brain moving, for which I am most grateful.<p></p><p>Making the zine has become a process of reciprocity. Artists and poets have sent me their words and images, and gradually, as I sift through these wonderful gifts, themes and threads have emerged. I take these threads and respond to them with my own words and images, and eventually curate it all together into a small collection of creativity, woven together and presented in one dominant colour (the colour also suggested by the content) in a riso printed booklet.</p><p>I have loved making it, and loved the new connections it has enabled me to make with other artists and writers, many of whom I have only corresponded with and never met. I hope I will meet them all one day.<br /></p><p>I would love you to have the zine, and so I have made it as affordable as possible. The cost only covers the printing and distribution, the rest is made by generous creativity and the love of sharing. I hope you enjoy it.</p><p>Red - Issue 1 - the material world</p><p>Blue - Issue 2 - ice and water</p><p>Green - Issue 3 - the other-than-human</p><p>forthcoming is:</p><p>Orange - Issue 4 - landscape and time</p><p>I am also working on a collaboration with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Hogg_(poet)#:~:text=Robert%20Hogg%20%28born%20March%2026%2C%201942%29%20is,a%20Canadian%20poet%2C%20critic%2C%20professor%2C%20and%20organic%20farmer." target="_blank">Robert Hogg</a> from Canada, inspired by a poem he sent me. The zine is being created as a result of our correspondence between Canada and England, and will span time and distance, memory, imagining and journeys.</p><p>There are a few copies of Issues 1 and 2 left. You can purchase Issues 1-3 for £7+p&p or individual issues for £3+p&p.</p><p>Read past posts of this blog to find out more about each issue.</p><p>Thank you for reading.<br /></p><a href="https://jodacombe.blogspot.com/p/shop.html">PLEASE CLICK HERE TO VISIT THE SHOP PAGE TO ORDER</a><br />Jo Dacombehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09004622222088683415noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-332220239541260501.post-49574102220818385972021-04-23T16:00:00.002+01:002021-07-24T13:50:40.841+01:00Imminent green (Issue 3)<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-MU0UqHbftj4/YGhTEXP_OpI/AAAAAAAAB_o/pQv23a2piHAwziojExAJaL30oUyT6wKNACLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/Issue%2B3.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1499" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-MU0UqHbftj4/YGhTEXP_OpI/AAAAAAAAB_o/pQv23a2piHAwziojExAJaL30oUyT6wKNACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Issue%2B3.jpg" /></a></div>The Imminent green issue gives thought to wildness - not the remote kind of wild of the wilderness, but the everyday wildness that is all around us and bumps up against our domestic lives. Industrialisation has brought us to where we are, exploiting all that nature has to offer, and the issue considers the notion of slowing down, and how to re-wild whilst acknowledging that we cannot turn back time. Poetry by Deborah Tyler-Bennett reflects on the impact of our first childhood encounters with wild creatures; Gerrie Fellows wonders at the objects that creatures leave behind; Mita Solanky retires an industrial wheel from its place of work and returns it to nature. With other contributions from Penelope Shuttle, Carole Miles, Andy Postlethwaite, Chris Turnbull and me, Jo Dacombe, we hope you enjoy the May issue of Imminent green. <p></p><p>You can order the green issue below, or click subscribe for an annual subscription of two Imminent issues per year.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dwXYYV9rz3zOXEgKRs5CcmxJ1GQkL4rTv_SnwXsqvGzCUDSJHwqR6rFgb6X0l-A0qpHzITtAakB7KrrIH9osA' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br /><br /><p></p>
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The work that they submit I then curate in a way that creates a flow between each item, a forwards and backwards flow, with one item feeding another. I also create my own work, which is often a direct response to theirs. </p><p>In Issue 1 I wrote about the material, and I often think about the meaning of material, the stuff in the world that we make things out of and that we touch with our hands. The images published in Issue 2 were important in their use of material, either in the way that the images were made through material processes, or through their reference to water, which then further inspired my own thinking and the work that I produced to tie the collection together. <br /></p><p>Mary Hayes’ work, <i>Ice Cold</i>, was created using a solar plate printing method from an image of the surface of a rusty iron sculpture by Richard Serra. This image reminded Mary of ice floes that she had seen in Iceland, and the rising sea levels due to global warming melting the ice. I loved the idea that the image had been created from an iron surface degraded by water which then became an image redolent of ice melting, thus turning back to water.<br /><br />Mita Solanky’s work, <i>we all breathe the same sky</i>, is a chemigram, made using household chemicals on photographic paper. Through this process she felt that the work referenced the crises we are facing in having polluted our environment for so long.</p><p>Helen Goodwin's image is a photograph entitled <i>Shadowed Edge - Skipsea, East Riding of Yorkshire, where I once owned a small wooden chalet now lost to the sea.</i> The photographed shadow on the shore tells the tale of that which was once there but disappeared with the movement of water.<br /></p><p>I have been making microscopic photographs for a while now, in an exploration of material but also of things we cannot see with the naked eye. In response to Helens' image, I photographed watercolour paint on textured paper through a microscope, with a result that reminded me of a coastline, and referenced back to something I had written about in my book<a href="https://jodacombe.blogspot.com/2020/09/imagining-woodlands-book.html"> </a><i><a href="https://jodacombe.blogspot.com/2020/09/imagining-woodlands-book.html">Imagining Woodlands</a> </i>about what happens when coastlines are viewed at different scales. A sense of scale, as well as time (time is also referenced in Helen's image) are both themes that are significant in climate change.<br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmjNI9_nOf02DlziGVaH6GEWjSwPeEZn0MJ5_qMw92VMOUGNpxvpRinIURrytrGWBRQTzRsJnHsspmAphpgv_xgJxcZlL8zlebuC0sInwpA94jVXFpvQJ969KT1ZWP0_cO2Tx90h60R3Q/s2048/ice1hc.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1367" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmjNI9_nOf02DlziGVaH6GEWjSwPeEZn0MJ5_qMw92VMOUGNpxvpRinIURrytrGWBRQTzRsJnHsspmAphpgv_xgJxcZlL8zlebuC0sInwpA94jVXFpvQJ969KT1ZWP0_cO2Tx90h60R3Q/s320/ice1hc.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Ice Melting</i>, Jo Dacombe, 2020<br /><br /></td></tr></tbody></table></p><p>My own image, <i>Ice Melting, </i>(I'm showing two of the original images in this post) was made in response to the collection of poems and images represented in the zine, with those emergent ideas of water moving and transforming. I froze a block of ice and then photographed it as it gently melted over a day. Close-up again, the images are like landscapes or glaciers. My chosen image was then transformed again by the blue riso print process for the zine, which softened the image and gave it back the glow of blue that I wrote about in the glacier piece.</p><p>I have found the making of the zine a wonderful process, exploring my own ideas but also responding to the ideas of others. I haven't reproduced the work of the other artists here (to do so would not respect their copyright), but you can see the images I've written about in the current issue of the zine.</p><p><a href="https://jodacombe.blogspot.com/2020/11/imminent-issue-2.html">Click here to find out more about Issue 2 and to order a copy.</a>Jo Dacombehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09004622222088683415noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-332220239541260501.post-17439438778917889852020-11-15T15:06:00.002+00:002021-07-24T13:52:31.980+01:00Imminent Issue 2<p>Issue 2 of Imminent is now available - my little zine of contemporary art and poetry.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj19P-NN7bvvxne0B-hJEYRl0VHqONAAWys1SMXmxT9CJ10dFAlh1pi1WTu0RSk44BW3dH8eAkjnbkBDdK-EdbGZsQ1VsqGU4kQ4eA832eGzwPDnYlNDAFJn2Nxx-Cj7kgmKvV6797nm5A/s2048/Imminent+Issue+2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1480" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj19P-NN7bvvxne0B-hJEYRl0VHqONAAWys1SMXmxT9CJ10dFAlh1pi1WTu0RSk44BW3dH8eAkjnbkBDdK-EdbGZsQ1VsqGU4kQ4eA832eGzwPDnYlNDAFJn2Nxx-Cj7kgmKvV6797nm5A/s320/Imminent+Issue+2.jpg" /></a></div> <p></p><p>Lockdown 2 caused Imminent 2 to be delayed - just like Imminent 1 - but only by a couple of weeks this time, rather than months! This was a relief as the recent sense of seasonable change is the perfect time to launch the new issue.<br /></p><p>As the first frosts appeared and the wind strengthened, throwing rain at my window and flipping my letterbox flap, I grew impatient about the delay, knowing that the November Imminent heralded the coming of winter - beautiful poetry by Penelope Shuttle, Jim Caruth, Peter Dent and Rupert M Loydell, speaking of rain, snow, time and blue - I felt that this issue needed to be read within this span. Inspired by the poetry, and fluid images by Helen Goodwin, Mita Solanky and Mary Hayes, I wrote a piece about ice and water moving across the world. Water and ice is changing our planet and it's something I've been making work about recently, with my ongoing series of Future drawings - perhaps some of this will appear in a future issue.</p><p>How fitting too that the first issue opens with a poem by the wonderful Debroah Tyler-Bennett, A Charm for a Lockdown. This issue is timely and, I hope, will bring a little beauty to help you get through the darker months.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dws894hkpwVjw0rtYjmMosoXkb0c68JY8cVNacGSJuzd78iprJyAaL_jsXJXln_xWPEsl2q9_7Xbl7M6P9V_Q' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div> <p></p><p>Issue 2 can be ordered below. Includes contributions from Jim Caruth, Jo Dacombe, Peter Dent, Helen Goodwin, Mary Hayes, Rupert M Loydell, Penelope Shuttle, Mita Solanky, Deborah Tyler-Bennett.<br />
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Jo Dacombehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09004622222088683415noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-332220239541260501.post-64904852427562423212020-09-11T20:33:00.010+01:002020-10-11T17:31:29.276+01:00Imagining Woodlands book<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-WjNxbAZTtgc/X1vQGhkVjdI/AAAAAAAAB8g/MBih_b-ibHc_pDERxhs-koqviaCmYMKDwCLcBGAsYHQ/s978/cover%2Bimage.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="978" data-original-width="670" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-WjNxbAZTtgc/X1vQGhkVjdI/AAAAAAAAB8g/MBih_b-ibHc_pDERxhs-koqviaCmYMKDwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/cover%2Bimage.jpg" /></a></div><br />I am delighted to announce that the long awaited <i>Imagining Woodlands</i> book is now available.<p></p><p><i>Imagining Woodlands </i>is a collection of short essays as a culmination of a 2 year project exploring human perceptions of woodlands.</p><p><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-oYIdrtTUzCA/X1vQGwFl5nI/AAAAAAAAB8k/V_9UDl7g630kcqDVBKKvpw0HCcw5wolDgCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/img1.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1982" data-original-width="2048" height="197" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-oYIdrtTUzCA/X1vQGwFl5nI/AAAAAAAAB8k/V_9UDl7g630kcqDVBKKvpw0HCcw5wolDgCLcBGAsYHQ/w203-h197/img1.jpg" width="203" /></a>In 2019, I created an exhibition of pages from my sketchbook of experimental images I had been making for the project. Once up on the wall, I realised that the images needed to be seen in a different way. They needed a more intimate experience, perhaps to be held in the hand by its audience. I also felt I had stories to tell, and so a book format seemed the best way to make this happen.</p><p>And so I have created this book. The book reflects on my work with palynologist and archaeologist <a href="https://jodacombe.blogspot.com/2017/08/introducing-imagining-woodlands_23.html" target="_blank">Dr Suzi Richer </a>and literature researcher <a href="https://jodacombe.blogspot.com/2017/08/introducing-imagining-woodlands_24.html" target="_blank">Dr Freya Sierhuis</a> to discover cross disciplinary perceptions of woods and forests. The text also reflects on my thoughts and memories of woodlands, and includes my re-telling of two folk tales and images of the woodland experiments from my sketchbook. It also includes a generously contributed essay by Dr Sierhuis.</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiGGffi-caqG2lomAEMLvk6eG_ZkdFJW1DCftrppu6gytVx5jFlkhXkaGNZLXnjnOcj6YpNlPWm9xZ4T1K0mTQMqxB8LQGdFCx3iC09hjJdWzowoI9Y9PykshpPAeYi2ry9TbcE9sq1Kw/s2048/img2.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1969" data-original-width="2048" height="201" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiGGffi-caqG2lomAEMLvk6eG_ZkdFJW1DCftrppu6gytVx5jFlkhXkaGNZLXnjnOcj6YpNlPWm9xZ4T1K0mTQMqxB8LQGdFCx3iC09hjJdWzowoI9Y9PykshpPAeYi2ry9TbcE9sq1Kw/w210-h201/img2.jpg" width="210" /></a>The book can be pre-ordered below and will be posted out in about 2 weeks time. Thank you for your support.</p><p><br /></p><p>Imagining Woodlands<br />23cm x 15cm<br />92 pages including 26 full colour images</p>
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I am delighted to announce the launch of Imminent, a new zine publication that I have produced, now available.<br />
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<i>Imminent </i>is a collection of words and images by contemporary creative writers and artists around the UK. I invited creative people who I know and who I know are wonderful to contribute to this new venture with me, to create a small periodical of responses to our current environmental context.<br />
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In editing Issue 1, I discovered thematic groupings emerging from the generous contributions from artists and writers. Their interests have developed my own, so I have written an introductory piece that sets the scene for the first issue, on the physicality of material.<br />
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The zine will not exist online, because it needs to be a material thing. I believe that the experience of holding something in your hand that is tangible and has been produced from the world, and considering how that thing came to be, as well as our relationship with it, is part of the environmental connection that we need to renew in our current times.<br />
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<i>Imminent</i> has been produced in the most environmentally way that I could, using recycled paper and plant based inks, printed through a riso printer running on sustainable energy sources.<br />
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Issue 1 includes contributions from Linzi Bright, Jim Caruth, Jo Dacombe, Mark Goodwin, Mary Hayes and Andy Postlethwaite.<br />
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<i>Imminent Zine</i><br />
Issue 1 June 2020<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Enchanted 1</i>, Jo Dacombe 2019</td></tr>
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I am pleased to have a new article out, for <a href="https://climatecultures.net/" target="_blank">Climate Cultures</a>.
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The piece draws on many of the themes I have been writing about for the forthcoming book <i>Imagining Woodlands. </i>It reflects on the way that we use language and mapmaking to describe our relationship with the natural world, specifically woodlands, and the effect this has on our perceptions.<br />
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You can read the post here: <a href="https://climatecultures.net/in-the-elements/othering-woodlands/" target="_blank">Othering - on Woodlands, Maps and Language</a><br />
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I am indebted to editor <a href="https://markgoldthorpe.net/" target="_blank">Mark Goldthorpe</a> for working with me
on this piece. As a result of his suggestions, I have started to think
about new ways of using words to describe landscapes. I have also been inspired by some poetry that I have been writing, as part of a <i>Twenga</i>
group - writing <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renga" target="_blank">Renga</a> poetry as a collaboration on Twitter. Run by
artists <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Conneally" target="_blank">Paul Conneally</a> and <a href="https://www.bcu.ac.uk/art/about-us/our-expertise/our-staff/gavin-wade" target="_blank">Gavin Wade</a>, Twenga is inspiring new ways for me to
think about writing. It's also just a lot of fun! Anybody can
join in - read the current Twenga by searching for #twenga on Twitter.<br />
Meanwhile, work on <i>Imagining Woodlands</i> continues, for which I am currently developing ideas for images to accompany a chapter written by <a href="https://jodacombe.blogspot.com/2017/08/introducing-imagining-woodlands_24.html" target="_blank">Dr Freya Sierhuis</a>. I'm very excited to bring all these ideas to fruition and I hope to make the book available in 2020.<br />
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Thanks for following.<br /><i></i>Jo Dacombehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09004622222088683415noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-332220239541260501.post-47116296177190486452019-06-02T18:11:00.001+01:002019-06-02T18:11:12.986+01:00Woodland InstinctsI have been thinking about the way we respond instinctively to wooded environments, and how they affect us both in a sensorial way and psychologically.<br />
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This week I will visit the University of York once more, as part of the Imagining Woodlands module, when students will present their own work inspired by the series of lectures and workshops that they have attended over the previous months.<br />
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In April I ran a workshop as part of the module for the second year running. The workshop takes place in St Nick's Nature Reserve, a 20 minute walk from the University. Having run this for the second time, it became clear to me that there was something inherent in some of the spaces that were influencing the students' responses.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFLGvp37_RzR_1hVrZoQZY-gt7Z7rltQWnu5UjlvuZ7xtv5TLDepS_1BoK5nC5LepzRESB2j4wSzLh-zWAcfmfFINs23k4QXX8fRQV7xe0qgmshiUbO4HQVCLYo8aHNcCyPsicJ9yV3wA/s1600/drawing.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFLGvp37_RzR_1hVrZoQZY-gt7Z7rltQWnu5UjlvuZ7xtv5TLDepS_1BoK5nC5LepzRESB2j4wSzLh-zWAcfmfFINs23k4QXX8fRQV7xe0qgmshiUbO4HQVCLYo8aHNcCyPsicJ9yV3wA/s200/drawing.jpg" width="150" /></a>In my workshops, I lead the students through a few exercises that aim to bring them into a quiet state of mind and begin to connect with their sensory responses to the woodland space. We walk in various meditative ways and begin to make modest creative responses. This, I hope, warms them into responding directly to the woodland environment in an instinctive and physical way. Having done this, I then ask them to go off and find a space to create something of their own inspired only by what they can find in the woods. <br />
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Their responses to two spaces in particular caught my attention. The first was a densely wooded area with a narrow, worn path which takes you through a cool and dark space, so thick with growth that, even on a bright day, it is shaded and has an air of mystery about it. Last year and this year, both groups of students who created work in this area seemed to respond similarly: they both created smaller, almost hidden works that you had to scramble into small spaces to see. They were secretive sculptures, modest in scale, and created for only one or two people to find, and not viewable by a large group. They both had an element of magic about them too, with a feeling of fairy or folk lore about them, responding to the spirits in the woods or the miniature creatures that might live there but we never see.<br />
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<a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-VCk0EJkvPik/XPQAFd5H-ZI/AAAAAAAAB1I/ouCb0f9OhjIDk86_Eoi6pxewgoBuS4BZQCEwYBhgL/s1600/constructing.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1094" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-VCk0EJkvPik/XPQAFd5H-ZI/AAAAAAAAB1I/ouCb0f9OhjIDk86_Eoi6pxewgoBuS4BZQCEwYBhgL/s320/constructing.jpg" width="218" /></a>The second space, by contrast, was a clearing in the middle of another densely wooded area, but which had large structural trees with low down, strong branches or multiple trunks. Again, both years the group of students who ended up in this space responded to those structures by building into them with other loose sticks that they found around the space. The results were abstract but also huge in scale, quite possibly requiring some climbing to achieve their outcome!<br />
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It was fascinating to me that both these spaces had inspired in both groups of students responses with such strong similarities, even though the students themselves were quite different in character from one year to the next. They were both picking up the same strong feelings from those spaces and working with the environment itself, listening to its suggestions and responding physically in really appropriate ways.<br />
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<a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-gVCzPcnTkCM/XPQAGJ8D1OI/AAAAAAAAB1I/SS6hgrjk7rw1ZNYWEo2RCl-8sqjjDBkPQCEwYBhgL/s1600/axe.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="826" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-gVCzPcnTkCM/XPQAGJ8D1OI/AAAAAAAAB1I/SS6hgrjk7rw1ZNYWEo2RCl-8sqjjDBkPQCEwYBhgL/s320/axe.jpg" width="165" /></a>The other creation that I enjoyed was by a group of students who found a large stick. How many of us have picked up a stick, one that is pleasing to hold, that is just the right size to be held by a human comfortably. Again, responding instinctively, the students used rudimentary tools around the woods to make a split in the wood, attach a flatter piece at its head, and wind it with weed. They used tools to create a tool. When they spoke about the piece, they said it was an axe, made from the wood itself, but possibly something that could be used to cut the wood too. It was a symbol of both construction and destruction, as it also had the potential to become a violent weapon. They spoke of the dual ideas of humans as builders but also destroyers, and how our relationship with nature can be either. Humans, the tool makers, building but in doing so, taking from nature's own constructions.<br />
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Again, I loved how these ideas had come from something as simple as picking up a stick, and how the instinct to create tools had led to this philosophising. I can't wait to see what they have been thinking about since and what they will present this week.<br />
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Thanks to the University of York for inviting me, to St Nick's for being generous hosts and to Suzi Richer for the photos in this post.<br />
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<br />Jo Dacombehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09004622222088683415noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-332220239541260501.post-78105455489981615822019-05-29T18:02:00.000+01:002019-05-29T18:02:20.200+01:00Bradgate Park Excavation Open Day<a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-1DEy-X4H8ls/XO66fgg5TkI/AAAAAAAAB0s/TjX_6RLNlPcPDLgdbHq2z9y8SiFcgBsxACLcBGAs/s1600/P1100170.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1068" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-1DEy-X4H8ls/XO66fgg5TkI/AAAAAAAAB0s/TjX_6RLNlPcPDLgdbHq2z9y8SiFcgBsxACLcBGAs/s320/P1100170.jpg" width="213" /></a>I will be taking part in the Bradgate Park Excavation Day on 29 June, with the University of Leicester and the Bradgate Park Trust. I hope you can join us to discover more about the park and the progress of the archaeology Fieldschool excavations... it has certainly uncovered some surprises!<br />
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<a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/391155414949865/" target="_blank">Click here to link to the event on Facebook.</a><br />
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<br />Jo Dacombehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09004622222088683415noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-332220239541260501.post-24118599836785432232019-03-16T13:18:00.001+00:002019-03-16T13:18:25.181+00:00Bone Landscapes<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Future Fossil 3</i>, 2019</td></tr>
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I am very pleased to have written my first piece for Climate Cultures, a website that posts "creative conversations for the Anthropocene". My post is inspired by a series of new drawings that I am currently making, called "Future Fossils".<br />
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<a href="https://climatecultures.net/environmental-change/bones-landscapes/" target="_blank">You can read Bone Landscapes at this link.</a><br />
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