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My first "published" writing was an Enid Blyton-Famous Five-style adventure story, Sand Island, in 1972. I wrote the story and illustrated it with coloured Texta markers. My aunt, the only one in our family with a typewriter, typed up the manuscript. And my father helped bind and cover the book. I was ten.A Good Story is a blog post from the Tall And True writers' website, written and narrated by Robert Fairhead.Read the post and see my illustrations on Tall And True: https://www.tallandtrue.com.au/blog/a-good-story-sand-islandPodcast website: https://www.tallandtrueshortreads.comEpisode 88, Finding Inspiration (also mentions Sand Island): https://www.tallandtrueshortreads.com/finding-inspiration/Support the podcast: https://supporter.acast.com/tall-and-true-short-readsBuy Robert's short story collections online:• Amazon Kindle: https://www.amazon.com/Robert-Fairhead/e/B086HZ36NM• Apple Books: https://books.apple.com/us/author/robert-fairhead/id1436773436• Rakuten Kobo: https://www.kobo.com/au/en/author/robert-fairheadPodcast Theme and Sound EffectsRoyalty-free music from Pixabay.com: Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 15 in D major, Op. 28 'Pastorale' – IV. Rondo. Allegro ma non-Troppo, performed by Karine Gilanyan.Sound effects licensed under Creative Commons 0 from FreeSound.org:• Typewriter: https://freesound.org/people/supersupernator/sounds/519622/• Sticky Tape: https://freesound.org/people/megashroom/sounds/390166/• Bell-Ping: https://freesound.org/people/Antimsounds/sounds/556049/• Happy Birthday Music Box: https://freesound.org/people/marianna-emma/sounds/516080/• Rowing: https://freesound.org/people/craigsmith/sounds/438846/• Waves Breaking: https://freesound.org/people/VMan533/sounds/575894/• Seagulls: https://freesound.org/people/plantmonkey/sounds/377107/• Speed Boat: https://freesound.org/people/craigsmith/sounds/438283/• Computer Keyboard: https://freesound.org/people/D4XX/sounds/567266/• TV Laugher: https://freesound.org/people/Evil_Ear_Recordings/sounds/524775/Production NotesTall And True Short Reads is produced using Audacity. Podcast episodes are recorded in Sydney, Australia, on the traditional lands of the Gadigal People of the Eora Nation.Acast Podcast Supporter PageSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/tall-and-true-short-reads. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
ONLINE 2024The King's Authority Over NatureMark 4:35-41Ben KnisleyMarch 17 2024 Scripture Outline (Mark 4:35-41) 1. Jesus and His Followers Cross the Sea (35-38)a. Wind and Waves Breaking into the Boat b. Jesus is Asleep 2. Followers Wake Jesus (38-39) a. "Teacher, do you not care that we are perishing?" b. Jesus Wakes and Rebukes the Wind and the Sea 3. Responses to Rebuke (39-41) a. Wind and Waves Become Calm b. Jesus Questions Their Faith c. Followers Wonder Who Jesus Is
Seg 1: Why is Earth being bombarded by mysterious intergalactic radio waves? Fast radio bursts are cosmic phenomena characterized by powerful bursts of radio radiation lasting around a millisecond. Guest: Dr. Katie Mack, Hawking Chair in Cosmology and Science Communication at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics Seg 2: Indigenous Artist from Manitoba Playing the Orpheum on Saturday night. A very influential artist is coming to Vancouver. William Prince, an Indigenous Artist from Manitoba, will be playing the Orpheum on Saturday night. Guest: William Prince, Indigenous Singer Songwriter. Seg 3: View From Victoria: What's in a budget? There was a lot of spending announced in the budget yesterday with a big bill at the end. We get a local look at the top political stories with the help of Vancouver Sun columnist Vaughn Palmer. Seg 4: Why is BC anticipating a deficit? The NDP's final budget before the upcoming provincial election focuses on increased spending, particularly in housing, to address affordability amid cost-of-living challenges. The budget anticipates a deficit of $7.9 billion in 2024/2025. Guest: Katrine Conroy, BC's Minister of Finance Seg 5: Does the government spending go far enough? The green party says that the budget doesn't improve essential areas like healthcare and education for the well-being of British Columbians. Instead, it sticks to the current state of affairs. Guest: Sonia Furstenau, BC Green Party Leader Seg 6: How do cranes work? A tower crane dropped its load onto a building under construction in Oakridge, resulting in one fatality. The person who died was on the ground level when struck by the falling load. Is there something wrong with our cranes? Our safety practices? Is this just a bout of bad luck, or is this normal? Guest: Lawrence Shapiro, Principal of Howard I. Shapiro & Associates Consulting Engineers and Author of “Cranes and Derricks” Seg 7: Pregame with the Whitecaps! We are back with everyone's favourite Whitecaps Coach, Vanni Sartini! He joins the show every Friday to break down the season of the whitecaps! Guest: Vanni Sartini, Coach of the Vancouver Whitecaps Seg 8: How history's biggest fraudulent art ring operated in Canada Renowned Canadian artist Norval Morrisseau, known as the "Picasso of the North" for pioneering the Woodlands School of Art, encountered a significant challenge to his artistic legacy due to widespread art forgery. Guest: Jordan Michael Smith, Award-Winning Journalist and Author of the Smithsonian Article, “The Biggest Art Fraud in History” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Finally, after a long break, Waves Breaking returns with this interview with Kamden Ishmael Hilliard. Kam generously shares their time with me to discuss their debut book of poems, MissSettl, out last year with Nightboat Books. We go in deep to discuss their thoughts around the sentence, modes of speech, writing poems within this current era of late-stage capitalism, and teaching students. Kamden Ishmael Hilliard was born in La Jolla, CA; their fam settled on O'ahu, Hawai'i. Kamden holds a BA in American Studies from the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa and an MFA in Poetry from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Kamden, a nonbinary Black settler who goes by Kam, works on issues of surveillance, race, queerness, contemporary art and American politics. They're thankful for support from The National YoungArts Foundation, The Davidson Institute, Sarah Lawrence College, and The UCROSS Foundation. Kam's writing appears in West Branch, The Black Warrior Review, Tagvverk, Denver Quarterly, The Columbia Review, and other publications. Formerly, they served as an AmeriCorps VISTA, held Maytag, Teaching-Writing, and Pfluflaught Fellowships at the University of Iowa, and were the 2020-2022 Anisfield-Wolf Fellow in Publishing and Writing at the Cleveland State University Poetry Center, a reader at Flypaper Lit, and a board member at VIDA: Women In Literary Arts. Kamden's website Kamden's Instagram Go buy MissSettl! Mentioned in the interview: Joyelle McSweeney Jayson P. Smith “Poem About My Rights” by June Jordan bell hooks Hoodie Allen (I'm sorry lol) Skee-Lo Punahou School Hawaii Iowa Writers Workshop and the Cold War James Baldwin Nene (bird) The nene population is on the rebound from its endangered status Beloved by Toni Morrison Huge plug for everyone to listen to the audiobook version of Beloved read by Toni Morrison herself. Find it on Libby! Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (film) My poem with Judge Doom in it is “After Saturn Ate His Own Kid” at the bottom of this page. West Side Story (film) Goodbye, Vitamin by Rachel Khong Kam's Anti-recommendations: Apocalypse Now (film) The Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad The Sandman (TV series) This show's Editor and Social Media Manager is Mitchel Davidovitz. The Sound of Waves Breaking is a clip of my cousin Ian and me (fake band name: Diminutive Denizens) doing a cover of “Dig My Grave” by They Might Be Giants. It's on this cover album of Apollo 18 if you want to listen to the whole thing. There are a bunch of other covers you can listen to there for free, including a very dumb skit my friend Greg and I did for one of the “Fingertips.” Greg's the host of the excellent podcast This Might Be a Podcast which I've also guested on many times. Check it out!
The power of the sea. Nature at its most fierce and beautiful, as big wave after big wave breaks.
Elizabeth Sandifer co-wrote the 33 1/3 book on Flood (with former guest Alex Reed) and is here to talk about a non-Flood song, "Become a Robot" from TMBG's 1985 demo tape and collected on Then: The Early Years. Hear us attempt to decipher one of the most bizarre songs in a career full of bizarre songs. We play the only live clip of this song in existence, and Greg, Cara and little Zinnia create the only cover in existence, recorded from Madrid. Episode edited by Avren Keating of the Waves Breaking podcast. Thanks Avren!
*Listen to the pre-episode introduction for a special "get well soon" message from the TMBP listeners.* OG fan Stanley Allen makes his first appearance on the show to remind Greg of the greatness of Rowboat Mayor, another My Murdered Remains track. They discuss music of all types that informed their fandoms of TMBG and ponder young Flansburgh's own fandoms of punk and post punk bands that could have steered the rowboat of his tastes, even so much later on in life when writing a song like this. We also hear two great custom covers, now also featured on the Covers by Order compilation to benefit the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. Go to our bandcamp to purchase and donate. This episode edited and mixed by Avren Keating of the Waves Breaking podcast. Thanks Avren!
Brit Nick Jackson finally makes his first appearance to talk about a tune far, far down on John Henry's tracklisting, "Out of Jail." We talk at length about how this song deserves more love, why the demo rules, why it should be played more live, and demonstrate the massive amounts of fan love for this song by rounding up a bunch of sweet covers, including Nick's own cover, which Greg jumped in on for drums. Episode edited and mixed by Avren Keating of the Waves Breaking podcast. Thanks Avren!
Iowan Rachel Jones makes her first appearance on the show to talk about the weird little old TMBG rarity "Birds Fly". We dig around to try and figure out the true age of this song, unearth the one and only live performance of the song, and get two custom covers including Rachel's own cover from the Purple Toupee comp! This episode (and the next 5) is edited and mixed by the amazing Avren Keating of the Waves Breaking podcast, because I'm in Spain!
In this episode, I spoke with féi hernandez about Hood Criatura, their poetry collection released in 2020. We also spoke about their incredible skills as an illustrator, and féi recommends some fantastic reads. féi hernandez (b.1993 Chihuahua, Mexico) is a trans, Inglewood- raised, formerly undocumented immigrant artist, writer, healer. They have been published in POETRY, Pank Magazine, Oxford Review of Books, Frontier Poetry, The Breakbeat Poets Vol. 4: LatiNext, amongst others. They are a Define American Fellow for 2021 and are currently the Board President of Gender Justice Los Angeles. féi is the author of the full-length poetry collection Hood Criatura (Sundress Publications 2020) which was on NPR's Best Books of 2020. féi collects Pokémon plushies. féi's website féi's instagram Purchase Hood Criatura Poets, books, etc. mentioned in this episode: Gloomy the Naughty Grizzly, anime series Sailor Moon, anime series Natalie Diaz's My Brother Was an Aztec Natalie Diaz's Postcolonial Love Poem Ambar Lucid and her song “Story to Tell” féi's illustrations Hood Criatura on Goodreads, Barnes and Noble, and Amazon. Go leave a review :) Editor and Social Media Manager: Mitchel Davidovitz The Sound of Waves Breaking is “Project - 3_30_21, 6.55 PM.wav” by bradygalp123
In this episode, I spoke with KB about their zine “A New Relationship to Pain,” their relationship to poetry, the pandemic, working as a poet and educator, and more. KB is from Stop Six, Fort Worth, Texas. They are a Black queer nonbinary poet, educator, student affairs professional, and lover of most plants/people. They want to be your friend as well as your reminder to think in abundance. They have words published in Cincinnati Review, Puerto Del Sol, Palette Poetry, and other equally pretty places. Their chapbook How To Identify Yourself with a Wound (Kallisto Gaia Press, 2022) won the 2020 Saguaro Poetry Prize and was written with support from workshops with Lambda Literary, In Surreal Life, The Watering Hole, The Hurston/Wright Foundation, The Speakeasy Project, and Winter Tangerine. They are currently a 2021 PEN America Emerging Writers fellow and an African American Leadership Institute - Austin fellow. When not on stage or in the page, they serve as Program Coordinator for the Gender and Sexuality Center at the University of Texas at Austin, Founding Executive Director of Interfaces, Co-Founder/President of Embrace Austin, and educator in various settings. Follow them on Twitter or Instagram at @earthtokb and access their exclusive teaching, writing, and other content at patreon.com/earthtokb. They live in Austin, TX where they’re writing books & trying their best. KB’s Zine “a new relationship to pain” KB’s Instagram KB’s Twitter Poets, books, etc. mentioned in this episode: Jericho Brown’s The Tradition Taylor Byas's poetry George Abraham’s "ars poetica in which every pronoun is a Free Palestine” (second poem on this page) Justin Phillip Reed’s "Leaves of Grass" Claudia Delfina Cardona’s “What Remains" Khalypso’s “You Really Seem to Think I’ll Miss You” The Sound of Waves Breaking is “DesertTexasT01” by Riabad Editor and Social Media Manager: Mitchel Davidovitz
In this episode, I dive deep into one poem with its authors, Anaïs Duplan and imogen xtian smith. Tune in for our conversation about of art, love, and utopias. Anaïs Duplan is a trans* poet, curator, and artist. He is the author of a book of essays, Blackspace: On the Poetics of an Afrofuture (Black Ocean, 2020), a full-length poetry collection, Take This Stallion (Brooklyn Arts Press, 2016), and a chapbook, Mount Carmel and the Blood of Parnassus (Monster House Press, 2017). He has taught poetry at the University of Iowa, Columbia University, Sarah Lawrence College, and St. Joseph’s College. His video works have been exhibited by Flux Factory, Daata Editions, the 13th Baltic Triennial in Lithuania, Mathew Gallery, NeueHouse, the Paseo Project, and will be exhibited at the Institute of Contemporary Art in L.A in 2021. As an independent curator, he has facilitated curatorial projects in Chicago, Boston, Santa Fe, and Reykjavík. He was a 2017-2019 joint Public Programs fellow at the Museum of Modern Art and the Studio Museum in Harlem. In 2016, he founded the Center for Afrofuturist Studies, an artist residency program for artists of color, based at Iowa City’s artist-run organization Public Space One. He works as Program Manager at Recess. An's website An's Twitter An's Instagram imogen xtian smith (fka xtian w) is a poet & performer. Recent work is featured or forthcoming in Peach Mag, Cosmonauts Ave, the Rumpus, & WE WANT IT ALL: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics. They live in Brooklyn. imogen's Twitter imogen's Instagram Places, people, art, books etc. mentioned in this episode: We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics, ed. by Andrea Abi-Karam and Kay Gabriel An interview I did a while back with Kay Gabriel and the other editors of Vetch An interview I did with Andrea Abi-Karam Berl's Brooklyn Poetry Shop Take This Stallion An and imogen's Trans Oral History project Mohammed Zenia's Tel Aviv imogen's review for Tel Aviv for the Poetry Project Posthumous selected works of Wanda Coleman, Wicked Enchantments Bernadette Mayer's Midwinter Day Terrance Hayes Bahar Orang's Where Things Touch: A Meditation on Beauty Editor and Social Media Manager: Mitchel Davidovitz The Sound of Waves Breaking is "Gymnasium, Class Reunion in Distance" by ecfike. Meeting people in-person and hugging after a long period of time? I miss that and them.
In this episode I spoke with noor ibn najam about her recent work and writing process. they also discussed showing work to friends and skill-sharing. Sorry that the intro and outro audio is a little wonky this time around, but my interview with noor is still good. noor is a poet who teases, challenges, breaks, and creates language. she's received fellowships from Callaloo and The Watering Hole and is a recent resident of the Vermont Studio Center. her poems have been published and anthologized with DIAGRAM, ANMLY, The Academy of American Poets, the Rumpus, Bettering American Poetry, and others. her chapbook, PRAISE TO LESSER GODS OF LOVE, was published by Glass Poetry Press in 2019. noor’s website purchase Praise to Lesser Gods of Love noor’s Patreon Writers, poems, books, events mentioned in this episode: The Arab Apocalypse, by Etel Adnan noor's poem "questions arabic asked in english (colonial fit)” an interview of Douglas Kearney where he discusses compositional hierarchy “I am an artist and I'm sensitive about my shit,” a lyric from Erykah Badu ‘s “Tyrone.” Zong! by M. NourbeSe Philip “The Secret Name,” by W.S. Graham وسوس Arabic for "whispers of the devil in your ear" khaleel, artist and noor’s partner Qil, Astro-Black Metalbender behind the jewlery line BLACKMARZIAN Keziah Harrell, painter Jamal Jones on Twitter kiki nicole here’s an interview kiki and I recorded last year noor’s Skill Swaps The Sound of Waves Breaking is “Walking on Snow,” recorded by rivernile7. Editor and Social Media Manager: Mitchel Davidovitz
This month’s guest is Aeon Ginsberg. We dug into their recently published book Greyhound and also talked about PoBiz/Big Lit, death, and teeth poetry. Aeon Ginsberg (they/them) is an agender transfeminine writer and performer from Baltimore City, MD. They are the author of Greyhound, the 2019 winner of the Noemi Press Poetry Prize, and their work has been published in various magazines in print and online. Aeon is a Taurus, a bartending, and a bitch. Aeon’s website Aeon’s Twitter account Go get Greyhound! Writers, news, books, events mentioned in this episode: Aeon’s previous chapbooks: Until the Cows Come Home (Elation Press, 2016) Loathe/Love/Lathe (Nostrovia! Press, 2017) Yanyi has written an excellent article regarding PoMag’s “trans issue” and critiquing special issues in general: “Counting Tokens: Special Issues and the Theatre of Delay.” #BeyondSpecialIssue folio organized by jayy dodd Roy Guzman on what happened after their close reading of Toby Martinez de las Rivas’s published and fascist work "Titan / All Is Still" in PoMag’s Nov 2018 issue. PoFound statement about how they plan to reorient themselves and dismantle white supremacist practice in their organization. “Exclusive: The Paris Review, the Cold War and the CIA,” in Salon speCt! books open letter to PoFound at the wake of the COVID-19 crisis “MICA professor resigns after former student alleges misconduct, says she informed college two years ago,” in The Baltimore Sun. Isobel Bess (sorry for accidentally using her previous name!) Jamie Berrout Marxist Poetry Podcast Magpie Killjoy's I Pity The Immortal RBG's personal trainer doing push-ups in front of her casket Chen Chen Shazia Hafiz Ramji David Davis Kayleb Candrilli Chris, a Christine and the Queens album “Hello -- A Greeting From Nowhere” Anne Boyer's What Resembles A Grave Peach Mag Fargo Tbakhi's 12 World's Interrupted By The Drone Aeon made a Spotify playlist of songs that are in conversation with their book Anne Carson quote: "If prose is a house, poetry is a man on fire running quite fast through it." The Sound of Waves Breaking is this video Aeon sent me of Vin Diesel singing Rhianna. Editor and Social Media Manager: Mitchel Davidovitz If you want to get in contact with me, you can email me at wavesbreakingshow@gmail.com and/or message me @WavesBreakPod on Twitter.
I'm beyond excited to finally present to you all Part 2 of this series of Misc Trans episodes, where a group of trans folks talk about TMBG song lyrics they have personal connections to regarding gender identity themes. Our guest host is Avren Keating, who leads a roundtable discussion with returning guest Mari Morton, and first time guests Seymour Schmitt and Martha Riding. We discuss everything from hits like Snail Shell to obscure tracks like Impossible, and our guests provide a unique insight into the songs through their own lens. Dig it! Don't forget to check out Avren's own podcast, the wonderful Waves Breaking!
In this episode, I had the opportunity to talk with Zefyr Lisowski about her book Blood Box. Zefyr Lisowski is a trans and queer writer, artist, and North Carolinian currently living in NYC. She's a Poetry Co-editor for Apogee Journal and the author of Blood Box, winner of the Black River Editor's Choice Award from Black Lawrence Press and forthcoming fall 2019; she's also the author of the microchap Wolf Inventory (Ghost City Press, 2018) and is a 2019 Tin House Summer Workshop Fellow. Zefyr's work has appeared or is forthcoming in Lit Hub, Nat. Brut., Muzzle Magazine, and DIAGRAM, among many other places; she's also received support from Sundress Academy for the Arts, McGill University, the New York Live Ideas Fest, and the 2019 CUNY Graduate Center Adjunct Incubator Grant for the arts. A 2018 nominee for the Pushcart Prize, she also goes by Zef. Zefyr Lisowski's website Go buy Blood Box! Media, artists, books, etc mentioned in this episode: Sharon Pollock's play Blood Relations Angela Davis's short story "The Fall River Axe Murders" Angela Davis's Bloody Chamber Lizzie Borden's film Born in Flames Lizzie (2018 film) Muriel Leung Joey De Jesus Jessie Rice Evans Cyree Jarelle Johnson's SLINGSHOT (and here's my interview with Cyree) Diana Khoi Nguyen's Ghost Of Johanna Hedva's "Sick Woman Theory" @Mx_ctrl is my Instagram handle, and...I definitely failed Inktober Samuel Ace/ Linda Smukler's Meet Me There: Normal Sex & Home in three days. Don't wash. Editor and Social Media Manager: Mitchel Davidovitz Sound of Waves Breaking is "Cicada Single" by Jedo.
This episode, I had the chance to speak with Cyrée Jarelle Johnson about their book, SLINGSHOT. Cyrée Jarelle Johnson (He/They) is a poet and writer from Piscataway, NJ. His work has appeared in The New York Times, Boston Review, Wussy, The Wanderer, Vice, Rewire News, The Root, and Nat. Brut among other publications. They earned an MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia University with support from Davis Putter Scholarship Fund. SLINGSHOT, his first collection of poetry, is available now from Nightboat Books. Development of the work was supported by Astraea Foundations' Global Arts Fund, Culture/Strike Climate Change and Environmental Justice Fellowship, and Rewire News Disabled Writers Fellowship. They tweet with significant queer millenial ennui at @CyreeJarelle Cyrée's website Cyrée's TED Talk "What is Autism Neutrality?" Authors and books mentioned in the episode: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha's Tonguebreaker and Care Work Kay Undlay Barrett's When the Chant Comes Britteney Black Rose Kapri's Black Queer Hoe Yanyi's Year of Blue Water The Sound of Waves Breaking was "Natural Disaster" by @davidthomascairns Editor, Social Media Manager: Mitchel Davidovitz Host, Producer: Avren Keating
The host of the Waves Breaking Podcast, Avren Keating, joins us to talk about podcasting poetry!Music by @BigProsody. Follow us @MarxistPoetry.
I had the opportunity to talk with S. Brook Corfman at AWP this year! S. Brook Corfman is the author of Luxury, Blue Lace, chosen by Richard Siken for the Autumn House Rising Writer Prize, and two chapbooks: the letterpress Meteorites from DoubleCross Press and the digital collection of performance pieces The Anima from GaussPDF. The recipient of grants and fellowships from Lambda Literary, the Vermont Studio Center, and the Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council, recent work has appeared in DIAGRAM, Indiana Review, Muzzle, The Offing, Territory, and Quarterly West (Best of the Net Nomination), among other places. Born and raised in Chicago, Sam now lives in a turret in Pittsburgh. S's website Luxury, Blue Lace Meteorites (chapbook) Writers, topics, etc, mentioned in the show: Collection of essays on Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria (ROGD) and why it's bad science I should not be surprised someone wrote a thinkpiece on The Little Mermaid as transgender figure Sarah Ruhl’s Eurydice A review of the version S. saw in Chicago Dawn Lundy Martin S recommends Discipline Mei Mei Berssenbrugge This episode's Editor and Social Media Manager is Mitchel Davidovitz The Sound of Waves Breaking is a field recording of kids playing at a park during the day by JohnnyBeCrafty
Hello, hello! Happy Spring! I'm here with another interview for you fine people. I had the opportunity to interview B'ellana Johannx aka Chloe Rose about their two upcoming chapbooks! B'ellana Johannx's gender is Rilke’s dark god: a webbed scrim made of a thousand roots drinking in silence. Also known as Chloe Rose, she/they are a fat, queer, femme, non-binary womxn-of-color living with disabilities and their cats Franz and Pepper in Tacoma, WA. Rose/Johannx has been published in The Wanderer, Dream Pop, and Aspasiology, with Pushcart and Bettering American Poetry nominations henny, so watch out! Tweet them about conlangs, antifa, witchcraft, and drag names @llanaandsuchas. If you are a faggot, you are her/their kin and they love you. May the peace of the Goddess and God be upon you. #SMIB B'ellana's website B'ellana's Twitter Writers, books, ideas, musicians mentioned: BBC News reporting on Fatbergs Cruising Utopia and Disidentifications by José Esteban Muñoz Raquel Salas Rivera Kolby Harvey In a Queer Time and Place by Jack Halberstam blackbox of butterfly goo Never Angeline Nørth, aka , aka Møss Høpe Ångel, fka Moss Angel the Undying, fka Moss Angel Witchmonstr, fka Sara June Woods, fka Sara Woods Infancy Gospel of Thomas Epimemetics / cultural mimetics: This Wired article from the 90s and also the more contemporary: Thomas Hobson and Kaajal Modi, “Communist Imaginaries and Queer Futures: Memes as Sites of Collective Imagination” coming soon as part of this anthology Beast Meridian while they sleep (under the bed another country) by Raquel Salas Rivera Cruel Fiction by Wendy Trevino Big Lucks Dream Pop Femmescapes zine The Faggots and their Friends between Revolutions by Larry Mitchell Sea-Witch by Never Angeline North Lizzo listicle about BLACKPINK "The Sound of Waves Breaking" is titled "Ghost Merkel Beat" by stanrams and made me laugh my ass off. This episode was edited and media managed by Mitchel Davidovitz
I'm back! Hello! I got to talk with Andrea Abi-Karam this time, and I had a blast catching up with them about their latest book "EXTRATRANSMISSION." Andrea Abi-Karam is an arab-american genderqueer punk poet-performer cyborg, writing on the art of killing bros, the intricacies of cyborg bodies, trauma & delayed healing. Their chapbook, THE AFTERMATH (Commune Editions, 2016), attempts to queer Fanon’s vision of how poetry fails to inspire revolution. Simone White selected their second assemblage, Villainy for forthcoming publication with Les Figues. They toured with Sister Spit March 2018 & are hype to live in New York. EXTRATRANSMISSION [Kelsey Street Press, 2019] is their first book. Andrea's Website Andrea's Twitter Spray Tan's bandcamp Rob Halpern's Music for Porn Jennifer Terry's "Significant Injury:War, Medicine, and Empire in Claudia's Case" (Andrea didn't specifically name this paper, but I felt it was relevant). Jasbir Puar's Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times Sister Spit Tour 2018 Equine Therapy for Military Veterans Nightboat Books Jasmin Gibson Don't Let Them See Me Like This Wendy Travino's Cruel Fiction Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore's Sketchtasy This episode's editor and social media manager was Mitchel Davidovitz. The "Sound of Waves Breaking" was Spray Tan's "SOLOSLUT."
This month I got to talk to June Gehringer about her latest book. June Gehringer is the author of "I Love You It Looks Like Rain" (Be About It 2017), and "I Don't Write About Race" (Civil Coping Mechanisms 2018), the latter of which was the winner of Civil Coping Mechanisms's 2017 Mainline contest. She lives in Philadelphia and has more crushes than she can count. She tweets about it @june_gehringer, and if you're a press interested in her next book you can reach her at gehringercat@gmail.com . She's also an editor over at tenderness lit. I Don't Write About Race can be purchased here. Writers, presses, musicians mentioned in the show: Peyton Burgess Danez Smith Prairie M. Faul Sung Yim Naadeyah Haseeb glo worm press EVIL MTN jayy dodd p.e. garcia Alexandra Naughton Mitski Kristin Chang Hanif Abburraqib The Wanderer Zack Blackwood Editor and Social Media Manager: Mitchel Davidovitz The Sound of Waves Breaking
In this episode I got to speak to Chase Berggrun about their new book R E D (Birds, LLC, 2018). Their work has appeared or is forthcoming in POETRY, Pinwheel, PEN Poetry Series, Sixth Finch, Diagram, The Offing, Prelude, Beloit Poetry Journal, and elsewhere. They received their MFA from New York University. They are Poetry Editor at Big Lucks. Chase's website Chase's Twitter Go Buy R E D List of things and people mentioned in this episode: Bram Stoker’s novel Dracula Dodie Bellamy’s The Letters of Mina Harker Cathy Park Hong essay: “Delusion of Whiteness in the Avant-Garde” Joey De Jesus essay: “Goldsmith, Conceptualism & the Half-baked Rationalization of White Idiocy” Solamz Sharif essay “The Near Transitive Properties of the Political and Poetical: Erasure” Solmaz Sharif’s LOOK Matt Rasmussen’s Black Aperture Jos Charles’ feeld George Abraham: al youm: for yesterday & her inherited traumas Gala Mukomolova’s One Above, One Below: Positions and Lamentations Leslie Jameson’s The Recovering: Intoxication and Its Aftermath Tommy Pico’s podcasts Food 4 Thot and Junk The Parent Trap starring Lindsay Lohan and Lindsay Lohan Spongebob asexually reproducing Editor and Social Media Manager: Mitchel Davidovitz Sound of Waves Breaking
You may want to lower the volume, though the crashing sound of the wind and waves soothes me.
This month I got to chat with Kayleb Rae Candrilli. Kayleb is author of "What Runs Over," winner of the 2016 Pamet River Prize, with YesYes Books. "What Runs Over" is a 2017 Lambda Literary finalist for Transgender Poetry. Candrilli is published or forthcoming in Puerto del Sol, Booth, RHINO, Cream City Review, Hayden's Ferry Review, Adroit, Bettering American Poetry, Boaat Press, Vinyl, CutBank, Muzzle, New Orleans Review, and many others. They have served as the nonfiction editor of the Black Warrior Review and as a feature editor for NANO Fiction. They are now an Assistant Poetry Editor for Boaat Press. In 2015, Candrilli was a Lambda Literary Emerging Fellow in Nonfiction, and again in 2017 as a fellow in poetry. Kayleb is a Best of the Net winner and has been nominated for Pushcart Prizes (in prose and poetry) and for Best New Poets. They were also a 2017 recipient of a Leeway Art and Change Grant. Authors and music mentioned in this episode: Kayleb's website: https://www.krcandrilli.com Purchase "What Runs Over" here: https://www.yesyesbooks.com/product-page/what-runs-over-by-kayleb-rae-candrilli Nabila Lovelace "Sons of Achilles" https://www.yesyesbooks.com/product-page/sons-of-achilles-by-nabila-lovelace Shaelyn Smith "The Leftovers" http://www.csupoetrycenter.com/books/the-leftovers Jamie Mortara "GOOD MORNING AMERICA I'M HUNGRY AND ON FIRE" https://www.yesyesbooks.com/product-page/good-morning-america-i-am-hungry-and-on-fire-by-jamie-mortara Chase Berggrun "R E D" http://www.birdsllc.com/catalog/red Lynette Reeman: https://www.linettereeman.net Post-ironic bummer pop band Coping Skills: https://copingskills.bandcamp.com/album/worst-new-music Swedish EDM Kasbo: https://www.edmsauce.com/tag/kasbo/ The Sound of Waves Breaking is here: https://freesound.org/people/kickhat/sounds/328969/ This episode is edited by Mitchel Davidovitz. Mitchel Davidovitz is also the Social Media Manager. You can contact Avren on twitter @WavesBreakPod, and on Facebook at "Waves Breaking Podcast," and through email wavesbreakingshow@gmail.com.
This month(ish) I got to interview Nat Raha! Nat Raha is a poet and trans / queer activist, living in Edinburgh, Scotland. Her poetry includes two collections countersonnets (Contraband Books, 2013) and Octet (Veer Books, 2010); and numerous pamphlets including ‘de/compositions’ (Enjoy Your Homes Press, 2017), '£/€xtinctions' (sociopathetic distro, 2017), '[of sirens / body & faultlines]' (Veer Books, 2015), 'radio / threat' (sociopathetic distro, 2014) and 'mute exterior intimate' (Oystercatcher Press, 2013). She's performed and published her work internationally. Nat co-edited the Radical Transfeminism zine, and is currently finishing PhD in on queer Marxism and contemporary poetry at the University of Sussex. http://sociodistro.tumblr.com (if you go here, there's pdfs of £/€xtinctions, the first edition '[of sirens...], and 'radio/threat') http://sociopatheticsemaphores.blogspot.com Ideas and writers discussed in this episode: Psychogeography Situationism Guy Debord Ivan Chtcheglov Sonic Youth My Bloody Valentine early Austerity 2011 England: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_government_austerity_programme The New York School Sean Bonney "The Commons" Nat Raha's essay "Transfeminine Brokenness, Radical Transfeminism" https://read.dukeupress.edu/south-atlantic-quarterly/article/116/3/632/129746/Transfeminine-Brokenness-Radical-Transfeminism Lauren Berlant's idea of "slow death" found in her book "Cruel Optimism" Verity Spott, "Click Away Close Door Say" http://www.contrabandbooks.co.uk/verity-spott/ Linus Slug, Mendoza, Tommy Peeps, Insect Librarian: ninerrors http://ninerrors.blogspot.com Jay Bernard: http://www.poetryinternationalweb.net/pi/site/poet/item/19397/29/Jay-Bernard Nisha Ramayya Frances Kruk Vahni Capildeo, Measures of Expatriation This episode was edited and social media managed by Mitchel Davidovitz The Sound of Waves Breaking is from CadereSounds, freesound.org
This month I had the opportunity to interview H. Melt about the anthology they've just edited: Subject to Change: Trans Poetry & Conversation. H. Melt is a poet, activist, and educator whose work proudly celebrates Chicago’s queer and trans communities. Their writing has appeared many places including In These Times, The Offing, and Them, the first trans literary journal in the United States. They are the author of The Plural, The Blurring and editor of Subject to Change: Trans Poetry & Conversation. Lambda Literary awarded them the Judith A. Markowitz Award for Emerging LGBTQ Writers and they've been named to Newcity's Lit 50 list, as well as Windy City Times' 30 under 30. H. Melt co-leads Queeriosity at Young Chicago Authors and works at Women & Children First, Chicago’s feminist bookstore. Writers, books and artists mentioned in this episode: Subject to Change anthology Joshua Jennifer Espinoza Christopher Soto AKA Loma Beyza Ozer Cameron Awkward-Rich Kay Ulanday Barrett Jay Besemer KOKUMO Troubling the Line anthology H. Melt's book The Plural, The Blurring H. Melt's website Women and Children First Bookstore Jesse Jacobs' work Crawl Space Sound of Waves Breaking: butter melting in a pan Editing and Marketing by: Mitchel Davidovitz WE HAVE SOCIAL MEDIA: check out our new facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/WavesBreakPod/ and our new Twitter account at @WavesBreakPod You can, of course, always reach me at wavesbreakingshow@gmail.com
This month, I had the pleasure of meeting Venus Selenite in person while she started her first leg of her #RehabYearTour. Venus is a Bettering American Poetry 2016 nominee, a 2017 Pink Door Fellow, and one of the most notable trans women of color interdisciplinary artists in the United States. She is the author of two books: trigger and the fire been here. She lives in Washington, D.C. and the internet. Venus's website Venus's Patreon trigger The Fire Been Here James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time Nameless Woman anthology Goddess X KOKUMỌ J Mase III Jamie Berrout Lady Dane Figueroa Edidi Her new book: For Black Trans Girls Who Gotta Cuss a Motherfucker Out When Snatching an Edge Ain't Enough Jayy Dodd Their new book Mannish Tongues Also, shameless plug for my interview with them back on Episode 10 What you can do to support trans artists of color (thread) The Sound of Waves Breaking is by Chris Lynn, a recording of voices in Washington, D.C. near the Jefferson Memorial. The editor is Mitchel Davidovitz, and the show is produced by me.
This month I speak with Raquel Salas Rivera from their residence in Puerto Rico. Raquel Salas Rivera es una poeta, traductora, ensayista y educadora puertorriqueña que vive y trabaja en Filadelfia. Ha publicado poemas, traducciones y ensayos en numerosas revistas y antologías; también ha publicado cuatro libros de poesía: Caneca de anhelos turbios (2011), oropel/tinsel (2016), huequitos/holies (2016) y tierra intermitente (2017). En el 2018, publicará el libro lo terciario/the tertiary con Timeless, Infinite Light. Actualmente, es editora contribuyente y traductora para The Wanderer. Si para Roque Dalton no existe revolución sin poesía, para Raquel no existe poesía sin Puerto Rico. Puedes aprender más sobre su trabajo si visitas raquelsalasrivera.com. Raquel Salas Rivera is a Puerto Rican poet, translator, essayist, and educator living and working in Philadelphia. They have published poetry, translations, and essays in numerous anthologies and journals, and as well as four poetry books: Caneca de anhelos turbios (2011), oropel/tinsel (2016), huequitos/holies (2016), and tierra intermitente (2017). In 2018, Timeless, Infinite Light will publish their fifth book, lo terciario/the tertiary. Currently, they are a Contributing Editor at The Wanderer. If for Roque Dalton there is no revolution without poetry, for Raquel there is no poetry without Puerto Rico. You can find out more about their work at raquelsalasrivera.com. Artists and other things mentioned in this month's episode The Wanderer César Vallejo Ángelamaría Dávila Nestor Perlongher Lezama Lima Severo Sarduy Julia de Burgos Manuel Ramos Otero Los nadaístas Quitapon beer Pedro Scaron’s El Capital PROMESA Colette Arrand Chloe Rose jayy dodd RE Katz Gaddiel Francisco Ruiz Rivera Caleb David Acevedo John Paul Kirkland Gegman Lee Mara Pastor Vara Liceaga Raquel Albarrán Xaviar Valcarcel Abdiel Echevarría Yolanda Arroyo Nicole Delgado Charles Theonia Jasmine Gibson Marc Anthony Richardson (Raquel notes that Year of the Rat was great) Angel Dominguez Moss Angel Witchmonstr Ginger Ko Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta Gabriel Ojeda Sague Kirwyn Sutherland CA Conrad Sophie Robinson José Raúl González (Gallego) This episode was edited by Mitchel Davidovitz and produced by me. The Sound of Waves Breaking is of the coquí hanging out at night, found on freesound.org
This month I had the pleasure of interviewing Ching-In about their recent publication, recombinant. We got to talk about archive, language, history, and gender. Ching-In Chen is the author of The Heart's Traffic (Arktoi Books) and recombinant (Kelsey Street Press) and co-editor of The Revolution Starts at Home: Confronting Intimate Violence Within Activist Communities (South End Press; AK Press) and Here is a Pen: an Anthology of West Coast Kundiman Poets (Achiote Press). A Kundiman, Lambda, Watering Hole and Callaloo Fellow, they are part of the Macondo and Voices of Our Nations Arts Foundation writing communities. Their work has appeared in The Best American Experimental Writing, The &NOW Awards 3: The Best Innovative Writing, and Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics. They are a senior editor of The Conversant and poetry editor of the Texas Review. They serve on the Executive Board of Thinking Its Presence: Race, Advocacy, Solidarity in the Arts as the Director of Membership and Social Media. www.chinginchen.com Have a listen, spread the word! Artists and works mentioned in this episode: Ching-In's book recombinant Ching-In's book The Heart's Traffic The Peabody Essex Museum's collected artifacts of the basket and fan Milwaukee lynch mob information Cheng Chui Ping aka "Sister Ping" Golden Venture Disaster Michael Lin's artwork at Peabody Essex Museum I Was Born with Two Tongues Tyehimba Jess's Olio Syncopated Sonnets Kunidman Cathy Linh Che Wo Chan Jai Arun Ravine Trish Salah conference: Thinking as Presence, creative writing, race and the arts. CFS! The Sound of Waves Breaking this week is from Jon Jang and the Pan-Asian Arkestra's "Night in Tunisia," just in case you're curious. This episode was edited by Mitchel Davidovitz, whose sound project you can find here on bandcamp
While I was on the East Coast to attend/table AWP, Tyler Vile and I got the chance to meet up with each other in D.C.'s Green Lantern bar to talk poetry and punk. The photo for this month's episode was taken just after our interview. Tyler Vile is a writer, performer, and activist from Baltimore, MD whose novel-in-verse, Never Coming Home, is available on Topside Press. She is a member of the Baltimore Transgender Alliance leadership team and the vocalist in a punk band called Anti-Androgen. Her interactive poetry zine, Hassidic Witch Murderer is available on her website. She aspires to one day become the world’s greatest transsexual yenta. Artists/Bands Mentioned in the show: Tyler's Wesbite Never Coming Home Hassidic Witch Murderer Anti-Androgen's bandcamp Cat Fitzpatrick Punk Globe Cpunk or CripplePunk movement the Sidebar Media Pigs the Germs Jayne County Ginger Coyote Operation Ivy The Fags Raped (UK band) Minor Threat Black Flag Marginal Man Government Issue John Stabb John Berry The Slickee Boys Iron Cross the Twats Mischief Brew Bad Brains G.L.O.S.S. Venus Selenite Lady Dane Figueroa Edidi The Baltimore Transgender Alliance KOKUMỌ Kay Ulanday Barrett The Sound of Waves Breaking this week was a demo version of "FUCK THE WOLVES" by Anti-Androgen.
It was such a gift to speak with emerging-talent Aristilde Kirby for this month's episode! Aristilde Kirby is a twenty-five year old lesbian trans-woman poet and songsmith originally from Bronx, NY, but now resides from Carrollton, GA. She is a UGA Master Gardener. She is working on a chapbook entitled [bitácora total bust] and an EP entitled [LA POESÍA DEL CANTE JONDO], which will be out sometime in future recent history, hopefully. Authors, artists, and books mentioned in this episode: Aris's twitter account Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge Jamie Berrout's translation of Esdras Parra's Este suelo secreto/ To Be Human Once More Frederico Garcia Lorca's Poema del cante jondo Trans Women Writer's Collective website Kay Gabriel's "Untranslating Gender in Trish Salah's Lyric Sexology Vol. 1" The name of the woman whose name escaped Aris's mind was we were talking about Aris's recent publication was Ralayzia Taylor. You can donate to her YouCaring for her to help cover medical expenses, food, and secure housing. Vetch Journal Nina Chaubal has been released! You can still help her cover lawyer fees! Peachy Parade / ピーチー・パレード Allen Thomas Void Scrolls I Frida Palacios No Name's Telefone Mitski's Puberty 2 The Sound of Waves Breaking is Aris's poetic soundscape "Opaline Y Hyalite" which you can find here at her bandcamp. Editing was done by Mitchel Davidovitz.
This month’s interview is with none other than Jayy Dodd! In this episode we talk about their work in other genres of art and critique, compensation for labor, and their newest chapbook, [sugar in the tank]. [sugar in the tank] can be found here Jayy Dodd’s website “All my exes look like mass murderers” Jayy as an editor Jayy as a graphic designer Jayy as Social Media manager Donate to Jayy for their work here and here Georgina Arroyo’s website The Shade Journal, issue 1 Langston Hughes’ “I, Too” “Hyel’s Zumbi” Tafisha A. Edwards Morgan Parker Danez Smith Joshua Jennifer Espinoza Luther Hughes The Sound of Waves Breaking is Lucille Clifton reading her work “blessing the boats,” a poem I return to often in this post-election climate.
I am so honored to get to speak with Vita E. Cleveland about her recent chapbook Dedications. The conversation, of course, wanders toward her percussion expertise, musings on art's intersection with activism, slut shaming in activist circles, and more. Notes of Poets Mentioned in this episode: Vita E's tumblr Vita E's youtube Vita's new ebook, Dedications Saul WilliamsJ Mase III Regie Cabico Kavindu Ade awQward Talent Agency TaneshaNicole Tyler's performance at TED Talk Timothy DuWhite CeCe McDonald giving a talk at the Humanist Hall Dane Figueroa Edidi Ashleigh Shackelford Capturing Fire 2016 Kay Barrett Kit Yan Venus Selenite Linette Reeman Nik Moreno Edited by: Mitchel Davidovitz, whose experimental audio work you can check out at his bandcamp. "The Sounds of Waves Breaking" was Vita E's drum solo "Clave." You can listen to the entirety of "Clave" at her SoundCloud page. Transcripts forthcoming.
In this month's episode, Jay Besemer and I talk about his recent book, Chelate, along with other topics, including: living with chronic illness, our relationship with nature, sci-fi, poetry comics, and time. Books and things mentioned in this episode: Jay's Tumblr Samuel Delany's Babel-17 Petra Kuppers' essay in Transgender Studies Quarterly Oliver Baez Bendorf's poetry comics Clover manga Bianca Stone's poetry comics Warren Craghead III's poetry comics Theme Music is by Bahati Kiro Music throughout is by Chris Zorn Transcripts forthcoming from Amir Rabiyah The Sound of Waves Breaking is the ambient noise of Terok Nor from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
In this episode I talk with Cameron Awkward-Rich about his approaches to poetry and theory, and the poetry in his new book Sympathetic Little Monster. Cameron has published poems in The Journal, cream city review, Muzzle Magazine, Hobart, The Seattle Review, The Offing and elsewhere. He is a Cave Canem Fellow, a poetry editor at Muzzle Magazine, and currently a doctoral candidate in Modern Thought & Literature at Stanford University. Cam is the author of the chapbook Transit (Button Poetry, 2015) and his debut collection, Sympathetic Little Monster, was published by Ricochet Editions in 2016. Go check out Sympathetic Little Monster, its a wonderful collection. Writers who were mentioned in the shout outs: James Baldwin's essay "Here Be Monsters" Aracelis Girmay Ari Banias Danez Smith Franny Choi Sam Sax Justin Phillip Reed Fatimah Asghar Aziza Barnes Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib The Sound of Waves Breaking this week is the sound of opening an attic, as found on freesound.org
In this episode I have the pleasure of interviewing the current editors of Vetch: A Magazine of Trans Poetry and Poetics: Kay Gabriel, Stephen Ira, Liam O'Brien and Rylee Lyman. We talk about their approaches to putting the journal together, their insights into transgender poetics, and touch on the archival of transgender/gender-variant art. There's a huge reading/viewing list for this episode. Explore all the trans art! Vetch (obviously!) http://vetchpoetry.co.vu/ Lilith Latini http://topsidepress.com/author/lilith-latini/ Merrit K’s podcast http://woodlandsecrets.co/ and DBZ fanzine Badman: http://pinebark.tumblr.com/post/131704442142/badman-a-dragon-ball-zine and INTERNET MURDER REVENGE FANTASY https://a-dire-fawn.itch.io/imrf Trace Peterson http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poets/detail/trace-peterson succubus in my pocket can be purchased here: http://eoagh.com/?p=2486 Cat Fitzpatrick http://topsidepress.com/author/cat-fitzpatrick/ Kay Gabriel’s essay on Trish Salah’s Lyric Sexology Vol. 1 https://www.academia.edu/22511089/Untranslating_Gender_in_Trish_Salahs_Lyric_Sexology_Vol._1 which will soon be released in TSQ*: https://www.dukeupress.edu/TSQ-Transgender-Studies-Quarterly Aristilde Kirby https://twitter.com/motjustine Maxe Crandall https://maxecrandall.com/ Trish Salah http://www.thefeministwire.com/2013/12/3-poems-by-trish-salah/ Aiyanna Maracle (who just recently passed away): http://indianacts.gruntarchives.org/video-day-1-keynote-panel-1.html http://nomorepotlucks.org/site/death-in-the-shadow-of-the-umbrella-aiyyana-maracle/ Donate to help archive Aiyyana’s work here: https://www.gofundme.com/2bwu25ks Mirha-Soleil Ross http://zagria.blogspot.com/2014/09/mirha-soleil-ross-1969-sex-worker.html#.Vy0US_krI2w Xanthra Phillipa MacKay http://www.citr.ca/2015/11/20/from-the-citr-archives-17-64288/ Manuel Arturo Abreu’s essay Transtrender: A Meditation on Gender as a Racial Construct http://blog.newhive.com/transtrender-a-meditation-on-gender-as-a-racial-construct/ Hal Schrieve https://twitter.com/hal_schrieve The Sound of Waves Breaking for this episode is a clip from Season 4 of DBZ "Goku's Special Technique."
In this interview I get a chance to talk with Joy Ladin. We talk about her latest book Impersonation, how her relationship to poetic language changed as she transitioned, the use of persona in poetry, the early Modernists, and trends in trans & gender-variant poetry. Joy's website is: joyladin.com. GO BUY IMPERSONATION IT'S GREAT. Email me at: wavesbreakingshow@gmail.com Theme music by Bahati Kiro, transition music by Chris Zorn. The Sound of Waves Breaking is from the Nasa's new collection of space sounds up on Soundcloud. It's Chorus Radio waves from within Earth's atmosphere.
National Gallery of Australia | Audio Tour | Turner to Monet: the triumph of landscape
By the early 1830s Turner was a regular visitor to the seaside town of Margate, on the eastern tip of the county of Kent, about seventy miles downriver from London. Turner’s first introduction to Margate came in the 1790s, when the place was essentially just a small fishing town, but it had since become a bustling resort that Londoners could reach effortlessly by steamboat in half a day. The geographic setting is remarkable, benefiting from a magnificently open prospect over the sea to the north and east, which allegedly induced Turner to claim that the skies in this area were among the loveliest in Europe. In addition to this natural prospect, the attractions of Margate were somewhat unorthodox for Turner, stemming from his clandestine relationship with Sophia Caroline Booth (1798–1875), a young widow, who was initially his landlady and subsequently his mistress and muse. From the windows of Mrs Booth’s lodging-house, near the harbour quay, Turner was able to watch the arrival and departure of the London steamers, a couple of which formed the subject of a painting he displayed at the Royal Academy in 1840 Rockets and blue lights (close at hand) to warn steamboats of shoal water.1 The basic composition of that work was anticipated by a study, Waves breaking on a lee shore c. 1840, which is a pair to the work exhibited here.2The studies focus on the shore on either side of Margate harbour; in this case looking back from the west to the light tower at the end of the protective outer wall, which is created as a dull silhouette by the later application of a lighter area of whitish grey paint around it. As in even his earliest depictions of the sea, Turner sought to give his painted representation dramatic textures that replicate, and seemingly act as a substitute for, the movement of water. Both of the Margate studies are painted with such expressive vigour that it has generally been assumed they may have been direct observations of the rolling sea, capturing the surge of the waves as they splay upwards into flying crests, before crashing on the beach. Though Turner evidently did make plein air studies in pencil and watercolour at Margate, the impracticalities of working in oils, while witnessing such fast-changing weather conditions, make it unlikely that this picture would have been painted in the same way. This makes the apparent spontaneity and directness of his images all the more impressive, especially his vivid attempts to provide an impression of the sea in motion, at a time before the introduction of photography enabled artists greater opportunity to dissect the underlying principles of movement more precisely.3] Ian Warrell 1 Martin Butlin and Evelyn Joll, The paintings of J.M.W. Turner, rev. edn, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1984, cat. 387; collection of Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown. 2 Butlin and Joll, cat. 458, collection of the Tate; Ian Warrell (ed.), J.M.W. Turner, Washington: National Gallery of Art, 2007, cat. 133, where re-dated from c. 1835 to c. 1840. 3 For a more qualified appraisal of Turner’s depictions of the sea, see Christiana Payne, Where the sea meets the land. Artists on the coast in nineteenth-century Britain, Bristol: Sansom & Co., 2007, p. 49, notes 31, 60.