{"id":33949,"date":"2011-01-25T06:30:04","date_gmt":"2011-01-25T06:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/?p=33949"},"modified":"2011-01-25T07:17:54","modified_gmt":"2011-01-25T07:17:54","slug":"two-poems-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/two-poems-18\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Poems"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Holly Pester.<\/p>\n

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Holly Pester reading at the Icelandic embassy on Friday November 26th as part of the Maintenant<\/em> Icelandic poetry weekend of readings.<\/p>\n

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\nABOUT THE AUTHOR<\/strong>
\nHolly Pester<\/strong> is an experimental sound poet undergoing practice-led research at Birkbeck, University of London in ‘Speech and the Archive in Intermedia Poetry’. She is currently investigating the sound aesthetic of the ‘radio-voice’ and the poetic sensibilities of analogue sound.<\/p>\n

Holly Pester regularly performs her poetry at art and literary events in the UK including 2009’s Serpentine Gallery Poetry Marathon, 2010 Ledbury Poetry Festival 2010 and the upcoming Text Festival 2011 in Bury. Examples of work and processes can be found at www.hollypester.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\"hollypicture\"People can get either defensive or carried away around labels. I dig \u2018em. I like thinking up new ones that mix-match media; Speech Poetry, Voice-driven Poetics, Intermedial Sound and Performance Poetry. But I’m not scared of just \u2018poetry’. That’s mine too. \u2018Avant-garde’ seems to be used quite territorially, in antagonism to the \u2018mainstream’, like laying down the battle ground. And I’m guilty of using it in that way. But it is originally a military term so I suppose that’s fine. I’m wondering if you mean that there’s a discrepancy between the doing of avant-garde\/experimental cross-genre practices and the reception or categorisation of them? I think the blurrings, the cross-overs, the intermedias and the hyphenated labels are important to both, as long as they don’t get stuck. They’re something that need to stay transient \u2014 and naturally seem to – for the sake of the work and its connectivity…<\/p>\n

By Holly Pester<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[484,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-maintenant","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33949\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}