The dead speaking
A collection of spoken poetry set to music with manipulated images of poets, made (and read) by Jim Clark. This video shows Siegfried Sassoon and his poem ‘Does it matter’. The photo manipulation is off-putting and can be distracting, but the spoken voice makes this site well worth a visit.
Shadows of giants
My wick grows dim
In this room, shining bright
Held tight, with shame
By shadows of giants.
I roll into a ball,
To wait,
For the final curl of my flame,
Just a miserable, slight flicker;
When my luck runs out.
(Julian Wigley (c)Â December 2008).
War and art
Where does the artist sit in schemes of war and bloody human failures?
Imaginary sea battle. Digital drawing by Julian Wigley (6th September 2007).
Poets:
FirstWorld War
Siegfried Sassoon . Link to some of his War poems
Munitions worker (c) Julian Wigley, 2007). Imaginary drawing of yellow skinned factory worker during the First World War. After reading Pat Barker’s Regeneration Trilogy
Soldier. (c) 2007. Julian Wigley
War
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Stumbling footloose
Rancid smoke
A rooster crows
To a friend
To a friend whose work has come to nothing
Now all the truth is out,
Be secret and take defeat
From any brazen throat,
For how can you compete,
Being honour bred,with one
Who,were it proved he lies,
Were neither shamed in his own
Nor in his neighbours’ eyes?
Bred to a harder thing
Than Triumph, turn away
And like a laughing string
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