The latest issue of Staple Magazine, themed around the connections between writing, music and the spoken word, is now available, with more information on our new website: http://www.staplemagazine.co.uk
The ability of music to conjure memories and past events is well known, and the connections between writing, performance and the sound of spoken words means poetry, fiction and music are deeply entangled.
In Staple 72 we gather together works that take music and musicians as subject matter, including extracts from Richard Skinner’s reimagining of the afterlife of the composer Erik Satie, Jeanette Leech’s forthcoming history of Acid Folk music and Chris Sparkes’ inventive tale of itinerant musicians in Paris and London.
We present these alongside richly aural lyric poetry by Charles Bennett, John Stuart, Lynne Wycherley and Eireann Lorsung, and short stories by Neil Campbell, Jonathan Taylor, Michael W Thomas and Paul Brownsey, each showing music’s deep roots in our everyday lives.
We also present a feature on 17 recordings by writers, from TS Eliot and John Betjeman to such lesser known items as Ronald Duncan’s cycle of seasonal poems with accompaniment by the BBC Radiophonic Workshop’s David Cain, Joan Baez’s versions of poems by Henry Treece, and Louise Bennett’s 1950s Folkways recording of the Jamaican Alphabet.
With all this, plus the usual array of poems, short stories and reviews, Staple 72 offers a fresh take on a familiar territory and helps to collapse the divide between page and performance.
Price: £10 single issue (185pp)/Subscription £25 for 3 issues UK/£35 overseas, FREE P&P.
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Posted on February 6th, 2010 by staplemagazine
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