RALPH HOYTE
DEATH!
and
neo-ROMANTICISM
Here once soared Somerset, arc to shining arc,
With no let, or hindrance.
‘You are standing on the bed of an underground river’
That hole in our lives opens out, what was intimate to rock,
secret, lies naked to sun’s gaze:
sixty feet under, I hear skylarks
.
- 'Literary Archaeology': Exploring the Lived Environment of the Enslaved: working with 2 archaeologists & 6 other writers and Josie Gill, Lecturer in Black British Writing, University of Bristol [BLOG HERE]
- 'Romancing the Gibbet' working with Steve Poole (University of the West of England), Michael Fairfax (artist/musician) and Phill Phelps (coder/audio engineer) to make GPS-triggered app located at hangings and gibettings in the Georgian west country
- ANTICLINE GPS-triggered soundscape now at Salisbury Arts Centre!
My work divides into
- poetry as a live-art (or 'declamatory poetry')
- sculptural (or 'spatial') poetry including soundscapes
- geo-located work see SATSYMPH
- unclassifiable (and long may it stay so)
Bristol (UK)-based
live-art poet, spatial poet & GPS-poet
CURRENT WORK
Step- in Stone multi-artist artscape, Autumn 2015
Ralph Hoyte- Declamatory poet is my Facebook page; check for more current news / interesting things etc. Please LIKE the page.
"Never forget what I believe was observed to you by Coleridge, that every great and original writer, in proportion as he is great or original, must himself create the taste by which he is to be relished."
(William Wordsworth)
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