ISSUE#7. THE LAST WOLF IN ENGLAND: a manifesto [RESPONSES to Jeffrey Robinson's Romantic Manifestos Manifest]
THE LAST WOLF IN ENGLAND: a manifesto
Responses to Jeffrey Robinson's Romantic Manifestos Manifest
Mercure or Hilton?
There’s room in every doorway.
The wolf going on, going far, returning from eternity, remains nowhere.
If you stay out of the way the English
leave you alone
but they’re busy-bodies
& if you’re dangerous, they’ll send marksmen
with bows of burning gold.
(Davenport & others 2022-24)
ABOVE
Untitled, Jon Sarkin
Ink on card
Image courtesy Henry Boxer Gallery
This issue of Synapse International is dedicated to Jerome Rothenberg
1931-2024
The first chapter of Synapse ISSUE#7 is a manifesto sequence that speaks to outsider-dom and the living, radical edge of Romanticism.
The Manifesto respondees include:
BELOW:
Untitled, Noviadi Angkasapura
Ink on paper
Image courtesy Henry Boxer Gallery
BELOW
WOLFISMS sketchbook, Liz Collini, 2023
The first chapter of Synapse ISSUE#7 is a manifesto sequence that speaks to outsider-dom and the living, radical edge of Romanticism.
Our title is from The Last Wolf in England poems, which Phil Davenport co-created with people experiencing homelessness in North West England, invoking the wolf at the door. These pieces fold out into a larger landscape: Jeffrey Robinson's re-radicalised Romantic Manifestos, inhabited by works from contemporary language artists and poets.
The Manifesto respondees include:
Noviada Angkasapura, Erica Baum, Susan Bee & Charles Bernstein, derek beaulieu, Nick Blinko, Liz Collini, Felipe Cussen, Allen Fisher, Susan Howe, Patricia Farrell, Simon Patterson, Rachel Blau Du Plessis, Jessica Pujol Duran, Mehrdad Rashidi, Kay Rosen, Jon Sarkin, George Widener, Cecilia Vicuña, Cerith Wyn Evans, George Quasha
[NB Some respondee pages in progress]
[NB Some respondee pages in progress]
Circling wider in Chapter 2 are essays, including several in memory of Bob Grumman the visual/maths poet whose mathemaku and number poems speak to Neo-Liberalism in language it might finally understand.
And in Chapter 3 we revisit The Dark Would language art exhibition and anthology, marking its decade of existence with an essay from Carol Watts, interviews with Charles Bernstein and Jerome Rothenberg, exhibition photos, re-versioned works and such.
BELOW:
Untitled, Noviadi Angkasapura
Ink on paper
Image courtesy Henry Boxer Gallery
BELOW
WOLFISMS sketchbook, Liz Collini, 2023
Ink, paper, tracing paper
(responses to texts by Davenport, et al)
1 x WOLFISM
The withered leaf
must fall from the tree
for our feet to fall /
step closer to the edge.
(Davenport & others 2022-24)
(responses to texts by Davenport, et al)
1 x WOLFISM
The withered leaf
must fall from the tree
for our feet to fall /
step closer to the edge.
(Davenport & others 2022-24)
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