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NIC STRINGER
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A day that you happen to know
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FROM STEEL INCISORS
''an exploration of the very trapped human yearning for freedom. Nic Stringer holds up a dark digital mirror to a familiar canonical narrative.'' ReVerse Butcher
Music: we are instruments of inquiry
Music: we are instruments of inquiry
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In the half-light, soundtrack to A day that you happen to know recorded by Fractured Strings at Surrey Studios
''An intriguing mix of John Cage meets Tangerine Dream with a little bit of Nurse With Wound thrown in'' (Rupert Loydell, Stride Magazine)
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image: J'ai baise ta bouche © Nic Stringer
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Music: we are instruments of inquiry
Icebergs in Illulisat
Guillemot Press
HEMISPHERES
A DAY THAT YOU HAPPEN TO KNOW
and THE CREEL
https://www.guillemotpress.co.uk/
Faber & Faber
THE FORWARD BOOK OF POETRY 2019
Steel Incisors
PERSEPHONE
SPEAKING IN TONGUES (Visual)
THE MOUTH OF A LION (Visual)
Pamenar Press
TEMPORARY SPACES
(Editor & contributor)
Guillemot Press
HEMISPHERES
A DAY THAT YOU HAPPEN TO KNOW
and THE CREEL
https://www.guillemotpress.co.uk/
Faber & Faber
THE FORWARD BOOK OF POETRY 2019
Steel Incisors
PERSEPHONE
SPEAKING IN TONGUES (Visual)
THE MOUTH OF A LION (Visual)
Pamenar Press
TEMPORARY SPACES
(Editor & contributor)
https://www.pamenarpress.com/books
Valley Press
ANTHOLOGY OF PROSE POETRY
https://www.valleypressuk.com/
Broken Sleep Books
DEVASTATION SONGS (Anthology)
https://www.brokensleepbooks.com/
Crested Tit Collective
REWILDING (Anthology)
https://crestedtitcollective.com/
Poems and reviews have been published
in journals, including Stand, Magma,
Interpreter's House, Structo, Eborakon,
Under the radar and Tears in the Fence
Artwork from the project Some parts have
been removed is in Issue 69 of Magma
Interview by Euan Monaghan at Structo
https://structomagazine.co.uk/icebergs-in-ilulissat-a-conversation-with-nicola-stringer/
Review: Aubrey Beardsley at Tate Britain
https://ab2020.org/aubrey-beardsley-and-the-spirit-of-prog/
Review : Temporary Spaces
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Icebergs in Illulisat
Music: we are instruments of inquiry
Icebergs in Illulisat
In Disko Bay the growlers and the bergy
bits crack their knuckles, assemble
for the birth. It takes a musician’s ear
to separate the pattern–the falling notes
from echoes and returns, passed on
by the underside of waves. Not random
but arrhythmic, a natural if not melodic
measure. We call this an adventure,
a reason to travel, but remain
In Disko Bay the growlers and the bergy
bits crack their knuckles, assemble
for the birth. It takes a musician’s ear
to separate the pattern–the falling notes
from echoes and returns, passed on
by the underside of waves. Not random
but arrhythmic, a natural if not melodic
measure. We call this an adventure,
a reason to travel, but remain as abstract
as the lines of saturated blues and bone-dry whites, drifting together and apart.
image detail from Ataraxia © Nic Stringer