A ŚORT SPEL – Art, poetry, translation and a new way of spelling

Observer, interview, 2015: "Artist in search of the mystery figure." Photo: Andy Hall.

About Artists: LYNETTE YIADOM-BOAKYE

Clasics in Ñspel: THE DEAD MAN WALKING, by Thomas Hardy

Clasics in Ñspel: THE DEAD MAN WALKING, by Thomas Hardy

Guardian, 2011: "Lots of reading goes into my pots. My own way of making things comes out of a great deal of thinking about literature." Photo: Eamon McCabe.

About Artists: EDMUND DE WAAL

Clasics in Ñspel: THE DARKLING THRUSH, by Thomas Hardy

Clasics in Ñspel: THE DARKLING THRUSH, by Thomas Hardy

Guardian, 2016: "Forward prizes reveal shortlists of poems from 'the age of migration'." Photo: Georgia Popplewell.

About Poets: CHOMAN HARDI

Independent*, interview, 8 May 2015: "interview: 'I don’t have any choice over this: it's what I was born to do." Photo: Frantzesco Kangaris.

About Artists: ANTONY GORMLEY

Tate Britain: Self-Portrait c.1799, Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775-1851. Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest, 1856.

About Artists: J.M.W. TURNER

Guardian, interview, 2011: "My Family Values." Photo: Ken McKay.

About Poets: PAM AYRES

Powmz fṛm Uncl Arʈr: UNSOUND MIND

Powmz fṛm Uncl Arʈr: UNSOUND MIND

Independent (Paywall): Preview of 2016 exhibition at Dulwich Picture Gallery: "Artistic 'genius' who died in obscurity goes back on show in London."

About Artists: WINIFRED KNIGHTS

Guardian, August 2014: The Saturday Poem: "Mammy Dozes." Photo: Phyllis Christopher.

About Poets: COLETTE BRYCE

Elephant: studio visit, March 2018. Photo: Benjamin McMahon.

About Artists: EVA ROTHSCHILD

From Czech: GOOD LUCK by Karel Čapek

From Czech: GOOD LUCK by Karel Čapek

Guardian, 2012: "The 16-year-old who infiltrated the art world – in pictures." Photo: Josh C. Wright.

About Artists: ALBERT IRVIN

Poetry Foundation: Photo: Caroline Forbes.

About Poets: LEONTIA FLYNN

About Artists: RICHARD DADD

You Wanted a List: Interview, 2020

About Artists: LAURA EL-TANTAWY

About Poets: GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS

Irish Examiner, 2012: "Dorothy Cross explores her childhood in Cork in her two new art books."

About Artists: DOROTHY CROSS

The Atlantic*, 2013: 'The Hyperrealistic Sculptures of Ron Mueck'

About Artists: RON MUECK

Fṛm Đ Gardịn: Give me a cheerful amateur like Bill Bailey over a joyless perfectionist any day

Fṛm Đ Gardịn: Give me a cheerful amateur like Bill Bailey over a joyless perfectionist any day

Phaidon, 2020: "Cecily Brown takes on English country life in her new Blenheim Palace show"

About Artists: CECILY BROWN

Five River Poets: "Alison Brackenbury talks Ayres & Ashbery, kittens & wolves." 2017

About Poets: ALISON BRACKENBURY

The Observer, 15 November 2015: "Paula Rego, 80: ‘Painting is not a career. It’s an inspiration’." Photo: Antonio Olmos

About Artists: PAULA REGO

Scottish Herald, 2016: "Meet Rachel Maclean: The candy-coloured nightmare world of artist to represent Scotland at Venice 2017." Photo: Craig Gibson.

About Artists: RACHEL MACLEAN

About Poets: PATIENCE AGBABI

Bloodaxe Books. Photo: Mark Lanigan.

About Poets: ROBYN BOLAM

Independent, 2013: "In the studio: Anna Barriball." Photo: Teri Pengilley.

About Artists: ANNA BARRIBALL

Guardian, 2018: "Seamus Heaney’s family on life with the great poet: ‘He was always just Dad at home'" / Photo: Eamonn McCabe.

Clasics in Ñspel: THE CURE AT TROY [chorus], by Seamus Heaney

Guardian, 2018: "The Executor by Blake Morrison review – a novel with poetic vision." Photo: Murdo Macleod.

About Poets: BLAKE MORRISON

Matthew Arnold

Clasics in Ñspel: DOVER BEACH, by Matthew Arnold

Huff Post, interview, 2015

About Artists: JASON deCAIRES TAYLOR

About Poets: GEOFFREY HILL

Guardian, obituary: "Artist who recorded English buildings, towns, villages and landscapes."

About Artists: MALVINA CHEEK

Clasics in Ñspel │ THE WAR OF THE WORLDS │ H.G. WELLS

Clasics in Ñspel │ THE WAR OF THE WORLDS │ H.G. WELLS

Guardian, 2020: Interview: 'Henceforth I’m solely preoccupied with being a merchant of joy.' Photo: Aiden Harmitt-Williams.

About Poets: CALEB FEMI

Guardian, 2016: "Francis Crick portrait unveiled to honour breakthrough DNA work." Photo: Johansen Krause.

About Artists: ROBERT BALLAGH

Poems / Photo: Derek Adams.

About Poets: PASCALE PETIT

About Poets: PENELOPE SHUTTLE

Guardian, 2020: "Forward poetry prize goes to ‘audacious, erotically charged’ The Air Year."

About Poets: CAROLINE BIRD

Guardian, 2015: "Adrian Henri and the painter-poets who turned the Mersey Beat into an art." Photo: ICA.

About Artist-Poets: ADRIAN HENRI

Observer, 2014: "Glasgow-based artist Corin Sworn on learning Italian, listening to poems and being amazed by Shanghai." Photo: Alan Dimmick.

About Artists: CORIN SWORN

All the Artists' Newsletter articles about or relating to Hurvin Anderson. Photo: Vanley Burke.

About Artists: HURVIN ANDERSON

Observer, interview, 2013: "I couldn't hold down a job. That's why I became an artist'." Photo: Suki Dhanda.

About Artists: GARY HUME

Guardian, Interview, 22 November 2015. Photo: Katherine Anne Rose.

About Artists: HEW LOCKE

ŚECSPIR’Z SONITS

ŚECSPIR’Z SONITS

Clasics in Ñspel: The little Love-god lying once asleep – William Shakespeare’s Sonnet 154

Clasics in Ñspel: The little Love-god lying once asleep – William Shakespeare’s Sonnet 154

Clasics in Ñspel: As fast as thou shalt wane, so fast thou grow'st - William Shakespeare's Sonnet 11

Clasics in Ñspel: As fast as thou shalt wane, so fast thou grow’st – William Shakespeare’s Sonnet 11

Clasics in Ñspel: Who will believe my verse in time to come - William Shakespeare's Sonnet 17

Clasics in Ñspel: Who will believe my verse in time to come – William Shakespeare’s Sonnet 17

Clasics in Ñspel: But wherefore do not you a mightier way - William Shakespeare's Sonnet 16

Clasics in Ñspel: But wherefore do not you a mightier way – William Shakespeare’s Sonnet 16

Clasics in Ñspel: Not from the stars do I my judgement pluck - William Shakespeare's Sonnet 14

Clasics in Ñspel: Not from the stars do I my judgement pluck – William Shakespeare’s Sonnet 14

Clasics in Ñspel: O! that you were your self; but, love, you are - William Shakespeare's Sonnet 13

Clasics in Ñspel: O! that you were your self; but, love, you are – William Shakespeare’s Sonnet 13

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