CYMA research mixtape

I’m into the research phase of my ACE-funded poetry project (working title CYMA) and wanted to share the many brilliant sources that are inspiring and informing me along the way. I’ll update this list over the course of the project.

Audio sources

Books and written sources

Poetry

  • Victoria Adukwei Bulley, Quiet (London: Faber, 2022)
  • Sascha A. Akhtar, The Grimoire of Grimalkin (Cambridge: Salt, 2007)
  • John Ashbery, Collected Poems 1956-1987 (Manchester: Carcanet, 2010)
  • Caroline Bergvall, Drift (Brooklyn, NY: Nightboat Books, 2014)
  • Basil Bunting, Briggflatts (Hexham: Bloodaxe, 2009)
  • Antony Vahni Capildeo, Like A Tree Walking (Manchester: Carcanet, 2021)
  • Jean-Luc Champerret, The Lascaux Notebooks, translated by Philip Terry (Manchester: Carcanet, 2022)
  • W. S. Graham, New Collected Poems (London: Faber, 2004)
  • Bhanu Kapil, Ban en Banlieue (New York: Nightboat Books, 2015)
  • Norman MacCaig, various individual poems
  • Lorine Niedecker, Collected Poems, edited by Jenny Penberty (Berkley: University of California Press, 2002)
  • Alice Oswald, A Sleepwalk on the Severn (London: Faber, 2009)
  • Alice Oswald, Falling Awake (London: Jonathan Cape, 2016)
  • Chloe Proctor, Terraforming (Broken Sleep, 2023)
  • Lisa Robertson, The Weather (Vancouver: New Star Books, 2001)
  • James Schuyler, various individual poems
  • John Yau, various individual poems

Non-fiction

  • Stephen Benson and Will Montgomery (eds.), Writing The Field Recording: Sound, Word, Environment (Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2018)
  • John Cage, Silence: Lectures and Writings (London: Marion Boyars Publishing, 1994)
  • Linda Cracknell, Writing Landscape (Saraband, 2023)
  • Steven Roger Fischer, A History of Writing (Bury St. Edmunds: Reaktion Books, 2001)
  • Cathy Lane and Angus Carlyle, In The Field: The Art of Field Recording (Uniform Books, 2011)
  • Michael Nardone (ed.), OEI #98-99: Aural Poetics, 2023
  • Pauline Oliveros, Deep Listening: A Composer’s Sound Practice (iUniverse, 2014)
  • Pauline Oliveros, Quantum Listening (London: Ignota, 2022)
  • Daphne Oram, An Individual Note: of Music, Sound and Electronics (Anomie Academic, 2016, reprint 2021)
  • Francis Pryor, Seahenge: A Quest for Life and Death in Bronze Age Britain (London: HarperPress, 2001)
  • Denise Riley, Time Lived, Without Its Flow (London: Picador, 2019)

Other

Visual, AV, exhibition and event sources

  • Kym Cox, Bubble Beats
  • Land Art Collective, soil chromatography workshop with Hannah Fletcher, April 2023, online
  • Richard Long, various works
  • Diemo Schwarz and User Studio, Dirty Tangible Interfaces