Natural Burial Ground
It’s always a trip to have a new book coming out and I’m chuffed that Natural Burial Ground, my second collection of poems will be coming in March with Corsair.
Pre-order here.
It’s always a trip to have a new book coming out and I’m chuffed that Natural Burial Ground, my second collection of poems will be coming in March with Corsair.
Pre-order here.
It’s a genuine honour to have been asked to record a few poems for a page on the wonderful Poetry Archive, my page to be found here:
https://poetryarchive.org/poet/will-burns/
There’s so much great stuff on there, too, though, so have a good old root around…
Chuffed to be going along to Stony Words as part of the festival in January.
All info here.
I contributed some work to this hugely exciting inter-disciplinary collaborative project. Online screenings and more details below…
Re-Make, Re-model: Plastiktonez’ incredible reinterpretations of cherished popular music landmarks defy the nostalgic response.
Plastiktonez is a series of experimental investigations in sound, image and text created by artist Justin Wiggan and designer James Ockelford.
The project centres on the dramatic re-imagining, both musically and visually, of nine significant pop cultural artefacts in the form of well-loved and critically acclaimed albums.
It’s a project that has allowed Wiggan - an exploratory performance artist working at the interface of film and sound - to examine the role that nostalgia, memory and influence play in our understanding and recollection of popular music.
Each of the musical pieces that make up the Plastiktonez series have been de-constructed by Wiggan to a point where familiar signifiers and markers are almost completely obliterated - scoured away until the resonating values of the work surface only occasionally, acting as anchors in a completely new audio re-telling.
These newly transmuted works were then presented to 18 creatives who were asked to reflect and respond instinctively to what they were listening to and produce new written or visual elements to accompany the soundscapes. The creative outcomes, which differed widely in style and scope, further helped to re-make and re-model these pop-cultural landmarks, pulling them yet further away from their usual orbits, into new galaxies of existence.
The completed films, which are the culmination of the Plastiktonez project, have been created by designer Refold (James Ockelford). Each a stunning assemblage of the sounds, texts and images created through the process, these nine unique and transfixing interpretations resist the passive nostalgic response that typifies the instant playback hit of popular music and deliver something that feels almost entirely... new.
Showings of the films will take place online in September and October 2021. Visit plastikwonez.com to sign up to attend.
https://www.plastiktonez.com/
I’m teaching on a whole range of Creative Writing courses in Amersham and Chesham this coming term.
Come and get involved…
https://www.adultlearningbc.ac.uk/courses/creative-writing-for-improvers-f2ec113aamt12122/
https://www.adultlearningbc.ac.uk/courses/introduction-to-creative-writing-f2ec06aamt12122/
https://www.adultlearningbc.ac.uk/courses/creative-writing-for-beginners-f2ec116aamt12122/
https://www.adultlearningbc.ac.uk/courses/introduction-to-creative-writing-z4ec18aamt12122/
https://www.adultlearningbc.ac.uk/courses/creative-writing-for-beginners-part-1-z4ec19aamt12122/
I’m very excited to be running a regular series of workshops at the wonderful OmVed Gardens starting Tuesday 31st August. Details below:
https://www.omvedgardens.com/events/omved-poetry-group-with-will-burns-poet-in-residence/
The other dates are detailed here:
https://www.omvedgardens.com/all-events/
Very pleased that Our Bookshop in Tring will be along for our big bash in the pub on July 4th.
You can pre-order your copy of The Paper Lantern from them here, to collect on the day…
Of course we had to have a bit of a shindig at the actual pub that inspired The Paper Lantern, so we’ve got together with The Social Gathering to plan a one-day book festival type thing. Readings, poetry, a bookstall… it’s all there. Get involved…
Details here.
As strange as it is exciting to announce an actual, real-life book event…
I’ll be talking about The Paper Lantern at this first White Rabbit event at The Social, London on July 5th, alongside loads of other incredible writers. Get down there…
Ticket info here.
I’m psyched to be able to finally show off the cover of my debut novel The Paper Lantern…
Pre-order signed copies from the London Review Bookshop here.