Purring Penny Parr

Maine Coon loungers

Welcome to Jawspring, the exhibition that is celebrating World Poetry Day on the 21st March by fusing Art and Poetry.

 

Today's poet is of the prose persuasion but has broken out of her comfort zone to dabble in the dark arts of the Haiku. Penny Parr is on the cusp of becoming a 'gun for hire' private tutor in her home town of Burton-on-Trent and putting to good use a pristine first class degree. Watch out for the Annie Oakley of French & German tuition on the Staffordshire highways. For her Jawspring inspiration she hasn't wandered further than her home environment and her two Maine Coon cats, Shanklin and Mystique.......

 

Feline instinct, grave purpose,
Tabby stalking prey.

Post slaps doormat-pounce!

 

Penny Parr's
Sushi Poem

We have printed her poem onto this model sushi and will be exhibiting it at the Village Hall Gallery from the 19th-24th March 2014. If you would like to join us, please send a haiku or poem (less than 80 characters) to me Alban at albanlow@hotmail.com or tweet  @albanart

Full details are on our submit poems page.

All these Sushi Laureates can be found on their designated page.

 
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Judith Parry - The Freeverse Pimpernel

Judith Parry
Releasing Poetry in Cheltenham
 courtesy of http://tellingstoriesblog.wordpress.com/

Welcome to Jawspring, the exhibition that is celebrating World Poetry Day on the 21st March by fusing Art and Poetry.

They seek her here they seek her there, Judith Parry your poems are everywhere. She is the Scarlet Pimpernel of poets, a woman who freely exhibits her works in unexpected places around town. She is currently releasing up to 100 postcard sized literary surprises into the wild. As you might know this type of guerrilla interaction is very close to our hearts, especially with a new magnetic street art exhibition around the corner in Bath. Late last year we were fortunate enough to capture Parry and contain her within four walls for the 'Art Jazzed Up' exhibition at The Shaw Gallery in Croydon. We're therefore very excited to pounce* on the lesser spotted Parry haiku and keep it in captivity, well, just until the exhibition finishes on the 24th March and then it will be released back into the public domain to fertilise our minds......

Young rose blooms bee strewn
Open petals beckoning
Pollination time

We have printed her poem onto this model sushi and will be exhibiting it at the Village Hall Gallery from the 19th-24th March 2014. If you would like to join us, please send a haiku or poem (less than 80 characters) to me Alban at albanlow@hotmail.com or tweet  @albanart

Full details are on our submit poems page.

All these Sushi Laureates can be found on their designated page.

 
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*No Judith Parrys were harmed in the act of poetry capture.

Mysterious Melody Clarke

Is this the real Melody Clarke?

Welcome to Jawspring, the exhibition that is celebrating World Poetry Day on the 21st March by fusing Art and Poetry.

It goes without saying that when you send out an 'Open Call' you are providing an opportunity for other creative people but for me it is also a broadening of experience and an opportunity to meet new faces. Although we have built a loyal group, where once unfamiliar faces have now become friends there is always a wild card in the pack. Melody Clarke is our joker. Usually I can track down their online profiles, attribute Twitter and Facebook accounts to them and start to build a past and a future. If I was a gambling man then I would say that our Melody Clarke was the head honcho at Beware of the Bull but then I could be talking poppycock. We'll let Clarke be the mysterious member of the Sushi Laureates and for her poem, 'Romancing the stoned' to do the talking.....

Smoke, musk, silk.

Touching soft skin.
‘Marry me,’ I murmur.
‘No,’ he said.

We have printed her poem onto this model sushi and will be exhibiting it at the Village Hall Gallery from the 19th-24th March 2014. If you would like to join us, please send a haiku or poem (less than 80 characters) to me Alban at albanlow@hotmail.com or tweet  @albanart

Full details are on our submit poems page.

All these Sushi Laureates can be found on their designated page.

 
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Wake up to Roshni Dhanjee

Roshni Dhanjee
courtesy of https://soundcloud.com

Welcome to Jawspring, the exhibition that is celebrating World Poetry Day on the 21st March by fusing Art and Poetry.

Today's poet brings us her rays of sunshine to cheer us up on another blustery and wet day here in the UK. Roshni Dhanjee is the Brighton based creative who comes to us via Geneva with her insightful creations. Known as Sunhoney in literary circles this Sussex student also has a whiff of the romantic about her. Not only does Dhanjee want to plant poetic seeds in our mind but also to leave her mark on the Perfumery Industry after gaining a BSC in Organic, Inorganic and Physical chemistry..............

violet in my dreams
 

but here you are real, yellow
 

and shades of daylight

 

Roshni Dhanjee's
Sushi Poem

We have printed her poem onto this model sushi and will be exhibiting it at the Village Hall Gallery from the 19th-24th March 2014. If you would like to join us, please send a haiku or poem (less than 80 characters) to me Alban at albanlow@hotmail.com or tweet  @albanart

Full details are on our submit poems page.

All these Sushi Laureates can be found on their designated page.

 
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Mark Carr - Mind. Hammer. Blow.

Mark Carr
Sushi Laureate

Welcome to Jawspring, the exhibition that is celebrating World Poetry Day on the 21st March by fusing Art and Poetry.

Today's Poet doesn't pull his punches, and why should he. Mark Carr has been round the block and experienced the inevitable ups and downs of an artist's life since completed his degree in 1984. Perfect for this international exhibition Carr has travelled extensively in North America, India and Australasia collecting cultural and personal influences which he has integrated into his work. His most recent and gripping artistic development is his rich repetitive film work, YES/NO being a case in point, where simplicity becomes a weapon in which to hammer our consciousness states. His Jawspring poem needs no introduction, it is what is.......

when depression grips
and inevitability falls
then all that’s gone
is as nothing.

Mark Carr's
Sushi Poem

We have printed her poem onto this model sushi and will be exhibiting it at the Village Hall Gallery from the 19th-24th March 2014. If you would like to join us, please send a haiku or poem (less than 80 characters) to me Alban at albanlow@hotmail.com or tweet  @albanart

Full details are on our submit poems page.

All these Sushi Laureates can be found on their designated page.

 
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Rolling with Natie Marie Davies

Natie Marie Davies
courtesy of http://letterboxd.com

Welcome to Jawspring, the exhibition that is celebrating World Poetry Day on the 21st March by fusing Art and Poetry.

Natie Marie Davies is a bright spark amongst the twinkling brilliance of the South Wales art community. A photographer, model and illustrator who is one of the many artists (in this exhibition alone) who has sprung from the Swansea Scene. Although she has exhibited three times recently in group photography shows it is her wonderfully idiosyncratic drawings that are addictive viewing. Take a walk through her imagination and discover wild wildings, roaming robots, beasties, terrors and lurkers at http://thismakesmylife.blogspot.co.uk/. Like Davies' JawSpring haiku expect a healthy dash of  humour from her beautiful mind too.........

Miso want sushi

Bad joke? I'm soysoy sorry

That's just how I roll

We have printed her poem onto this model sushi and will be exhibiting it at the Village Hall Gallery from the 19th-24th March 2014. If you would like to join us, please send a haiku or poem (less than 80 characters) to me Alban at albanlow@hotmail.com or tweet  @albanart

Full details are on our submit poems page.

All these Sushi Laureates can be found on their designated page.

 
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Leila Coward - Reflective waves

Untitled by Leila Coward
courtesy of www.leilacoward.co.uk/

Welcome to Jawspring, the exhibition that is celebrating World Poetry Day on the 21st March by fusing Art and Poetry.

Leila Coward is another of our Sushi Poets who doesn't let genre boundaries get in the way of her creativity. Apart from ceramics, painting, stained glass, weave, print, multi-media art and teaching with children, young people and adults she now reinforces her Poetry credentials with today's Jawspring offering. Coward is no stranger to literary gems, her Treeworks series combine porcelain and natural materials with a delicate literary surprise hidden within many of the artworks. "I chose the tree as a symbol of the strength of nature and the cycle of life." She explains, "The light inside it is a metaphor for the energy that exists in all-living things.". Today while the floods across the UK lap at our feet it is Coward herself that provides us with the light and the hope....................

Undulating waves,
Freedom within the deep blue,
Reflection of self.

Leila Coward's
Sushi Haiku

We have printed her poem onto this model sushi and will be exhibiting it at the Village Hall Gallery from the 19th-24th March 2014. If you would like to join us, please send a haiku or poem (less than 80 characters) to me Alban at albanlow@hotmail.com or tweet  @albanart

Full details are on our submit poems page.

All these Sushi Laureates can be found on their designated page.

 
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Paul Matosic - Graveyards of Stuff

Paul Matosic
courtesy of http://4art.com

Welcome to Jawspring, the exhibition that is celebrating World Poetry Day on the 21st March by fusing Art and Poetry.

Today's poet is the well known conceptual upcycler who downcycles his artistic creations on gallery floors around the world. Paul Matosic is the Nottingham based multimedia artist
whose installations use items that have been deemed useless and obsolete as a way of challenging Western consumerist attitudes. Although he creates comfortingly organised worlds, much like an architectural model or townscape, these worlds in reality are the graveyards of 'Stuff', littered with the tombstones of retail addiction. His conceptual eye helps transform detritus into topography and here for Jawspring he turns light into dark.....

if snow was black it would not matter if

 

you burned your mince pies.

Paul Matosic's
Sushi Poem

We have printed his poem onto this model sushi and will be exhibiting it at the Village Hall Gallery from the 19th-24th March 2014. If you would like to join us, please send a haiku or poem (less than 80 characters) to me Alban at albanlow@hotmail.com or tweet  @albanart

Full details are on our submit poems page.

All these Sushi Laureates can be found on their designated page.

 
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Becky Lowe - Metrological Zeitgeist

Becky Lowe
Courtesy of plus.google.com 

Welcome to Jawspring, the exhibition that is celebrating World Poetry Day on the 21st March by fusing Art and Poetry.

Swansea features once again in the creative circles of London as we inaugurate Becky Lowe into the Sushi Laureate roll of fame. Not only do we have Blue Plaque Poet Daniel Leek from said shores but also dream splicer Melanie Ezra in our ranks. Lowe is a journalist and peace activist whose work has been featured on Radio 4, been feted in pubs, clubs and bohemian gatherings along the Gower Peninsula and beyond. Despite her lofty reputation we are lucky that no matter how large or small the job at hand, her objective is always the same "clear, accurate and arresting copy, on time, to brief and to budget." Well, she should add topical to her CV because her sushi poem perfectly captures the metrological zeitgeist of 2014.

There is no silence

So absolute as the rain
Just before it falls

Becky Lowe's
Sushi Poem

We have printed her poem onto this model sushi and will be exhibiting it at the Village Hall Gallery from the 19th-24th March 2014. If you would like to join us, please send a haiku or poem (less than 80 characters) to me Alban at albanlow@hotmail.com or tweet  @albanart

Full details are on our submit poems page.

All these Sushi Laureates can be found on their designated page.

 
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The heavenly Jovana Mitic

Super Jovana Mitic
courtesy of  http://www.articurate.net

Welcome to Jawspring, the exhibition that is celebrating World Poetry Day on the 21st March by fusing Art and Poetry.

Today's poet has embraced the world and it's people have taken her to their hearts. Jovan Mitic is the Serbian artist who has been winning awards in her homeland this past year and making friends across the globe. London has embraced her charms most recently with an appearance along the Southbank in the 'Cardboard City' exhibition and a shortlisted artwork at 'Art Jazzed Up' in the Shaw Gallery, Croydon. At this point I would like to say the 'Sun has got his hat on and is coming out to play' but the only globular celestial body on display has been the Moon recently, who has emerged from London's dark January skies to start a little romance. It seems that it is not just mere mortals that are falling for Mitic's spell but heavenly bodies too.....................

Last night Moon was full.

 

One star was looking at him and

 

she saw you.

Jovana Mitic's
Sushi Poem

We have printed her poem onto this model sushi and will be exhibiting it at the Village Hall Gallery from the 19th-24th March 2014. If you would like to join us, please send a haiku or poem (less than 80 characters) to me Alban at albanlow@hotmail.com or tweet  @albanart

Full details are on our submit poems page.

All these Sushi Laureates can be found on their designated page.

 
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Ed Arantus - Erogenous Zone to Funny Bone

Ed Arantus'
Sushi Poem

Welcome to Jawspring, the exhibition that is celebrating World Poetry Day on the 21st March by fusing Art and Poetry.

Ed Arantus is not only an artist and activist but an all round good egg. As a regular visitor to my studio I have been lucky enough to witness his artistic talents first hand. He still remains a bit of mystery and it was with great surprise to receive a Haiku from him last week. He is no stranger to exhibitions and publications, it was his entry into the cutting edge Censored Zine of July 2010 that piqued my interest, alongside a few risqué photos too. Always playful, whether that be erogenous zone or funny bone, here he gives us his JawSpring haiku called Smug......

dotting my eyes

 

crossing my teeth

 

Tapping my knows.

Ed Arantus
Orange Peel Artist

We have printed his poem onto this model sushi and will be exhibiting it at the Village Hall Gallery from the 19th-24th March 2014. If you would like to join us, please send a haiku or poem (less than 80 characters) to me Alban at albanlow@hotmail.com or tweet  @albanart

Full details are on our submit poems page.

All these Sushi Laureates can be found on their designated page.

 
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Stella Tripp - Painting with words

Stella Tripp -Word Artist
Courtesy of www.artspaces.co.uk

Welcome to Jawspring, the exhibition that is celebrating World Poetry Day on the 21st March by fusing Art and Poetry.

My first encounter with Stella Tripp's artwork was at the Nottingham Light Night festival in 2011 and since then I've been fortunate enough to exhibit alongside her and see a wave of new work break onto the UK Art scene. This well travelled artist is based in Exeter but spent many a year teaching and painting in the USA where she gained her MA and MFA, and held a Graduate Fellowship at South Illinois University. It is the recent development of words entering her artwork that has captured my attention. For years Tripp found the use of words difficult and felt happier using colours and shapes to express the universal language of art. Three years ago she embarked upon a series of 'Word Paintings" and now it seems she cannot read a book without identifying a word that looks as if it should be made into a painting. Her Jawspring poem turns the tables once again, this time conjuring mental images with her words......

days lengthening towards a sharing feast of raw recycled moments

Stella Tripp's
Sushi Poem

We have printed her poem onto this model sushi and will be exhibiting it at the Village Hall Gallery from the 19th-24th March 2014. If you would like to join us, please send a haiku or poem (less than 80 characters) to me Alban at albanlow@hotmail.com or tweet  @albanart

Full details are on our submit poems page.

All these Sushi Laureates can be found on their designated page.

 
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Diane Taber - Lyrical kisses

Diane Taber
courtesy of www.dianetabermusic.com

Welcome to Jawspring, the exhibition that is celebrating World Poetry Day on the 21st March by fusing Art and Poetry.

Today's Poet brings a touch of glamour to the Jawspring exhibition. Diane Taber is the Buffalo (NY, USA) born singer-songwriter who has notched up an eye-watering list of collaborations with many a Jazz icon. Despite being a frequent traveller on the North American live music circuit it was at home that her love of music developed. Taber's father was a singer and it was the way he delivered a lyric and the magical story it possessed that inspired her at the age of 5. Now is the time for her talent to truly blossom, she has cast off the yoke of other writer's lyrics and has become a wordsmith in her own right (More Than One Ingredient, 2013). Looking in her current playlist I see she has one eye on our London Jazz world (George Crowley and Kit Downes) but it is with pleasure that we return our gaze across the Atlantic and revel in her poetic talents.......

Or, will your smile
be like a kiss I'll want
to taste forever

Diane Taber's
Sushi Poem

We have printed her poem onto this model sushi and will be exhibiting it at the Village Hall Gallery from the 19th-24th March 2014. If you would like to join us, please send a haiku or poem (less than 80 characters) to me Alban at albanlow@hotmail.com or tweet  @albanart

Full details are on our submit poems page.

All these Sushi Laureates can be found on their designated page.

 
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Flying high with Bright Redgrave

Bright Redgrave
courtesy of www.victoriaredgrave.co.uk

Welcome to Jawspring, the exhibition that is celebrating World Poetry Day on the 21st March by fusing Art and Poetry.

Today's poet is an alchemist, an experimenter and cerebral adventurer. Bright Redgrave is the nom de plume or alternative identity of the artist Victoria Redgrave. As a creator she is Interior Design's errant sibling, chewing up controlled spaces and spitting out conceptual sculpture and performance art. If you are lucky enough to be drawn into one of Redgrave's worlds then be prepared to have your beliefs and identity encouragingly challenged. Her ideals and ethos are in tune with us here at Jawspring with an interest in incorporating recycled and reused materials in her work. On a personal level I am drawn to her written work, particularly her 'A Road' anthology, that charts a journey through mental illness, physical pain, spiritual awareness and the inquisitive nature of the human condition. Here is her elevating poem for the JawSpring exhibition......

Souls Journey

 

One day

One way

Open mind
Open sky

Fly

Bright Redgrave's
Sushi Poem

We have printed her poem onto this model sushi and will be exhibiting it at the Village Hall Gallery from the 19th-24th March 2014. If you would like to join us, please send a haiku or poem (less than 80 characters) to me Alban at albanlow@hotmail.com or tweet  @albanart

Full details are on our submit poems page.

All these Sushi Laureates can be found on their designated page.

 
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