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David Rushmer
Biography
David Rushmer (b. 1965) was editor of pen:umbra magazine (1988-1991). Studied photography and art & psychology at University of East London 1995, and now works as a Library Assistant for the University of Cambridge. His artworks and writing have appeared in a number of small press magazines in the U.K., France and the U.S.A, and his artworks have been exhibited in Cambridge, London and Yokohama.
https://dar4353.wixsite.com/davidrushmer
Recordings
Bishop's Stortford, 2007
This recording was made on 7 February 2007 in Bishop's Storford, engineered by David Houssart.
- 'A Journey Through the Body' (for T. G.)
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- 'Lace of Shadows' (for D. H.)
- 'Locus Amorphous'
- 'O'
- 'Remains To Be Seen'
- 'Sound Asleep'
- 'The Hostage' (after Blanchot)
- 'The Oracle Bone'
Blanchot's Ghost
- 'Reflections of the Corpus' from Blanchot's Ghost
- 'The Disappeared' from Blanchot's Ghost
- 'The Duplicity' from Blanchot's Ghost
Blanchot's Ghost Part 2
The Family of Ghosts
Bibliography
Publications
- Circles (1988)
- Spine:Works (1989)
- Absence (with David Barton) (David Barton, 1990)
- Tone Poems (Writers Forum, 1990)
- Ut-Trance (Writers Forum, 1990)
- Sand Writings (Ion Press 23, 1991)
- Homage to Throbbing Gristle (Writers Forum, 1992)
- Love Letters to the Dead (1993)
- The Family of Ghosts (Arehouse, Cambridge, 2005)
- Blanchot’s Ghost (Oystercatcher Press, 2008)
- Remains to Be Seen (Shearsman, 2018)
Anthologies
- Verbi Visi Voco: A Performance of Poetry, ed. Bob Cobbing and Bill Griffiths (Writers Forum, 1993)
- In Blossoms Atop Reeds it Flares, ed. Chris Brownsword (Broken Compass Press: Sheffield, 2006)
- Sea Pie: a Shearsman anthology of Oystercatcher Press, ed. Peter Hughes (Shearsman, 2012)
- The Art of Typewriting (by Marvin Sackner, Ruth Sackner, and Steven Heller, Thames and Husdon. 2015)
Work online
- Greatworks, Moria, Poetry Library's Poetry Magazine Archive; 10th Muse #13, Angel Exhaust #16, Spine
Readings/Performances
- Insects Magazine, Sub-Voicive, Cambridge Series Poetry.
- 1991 'Absence: A Performance of Text' for tape, slides and body movement. Performed at Sub-Voicive, London
- 1994 'DistURBANce' physical theatre and multi-media performance with 3 other artists and industrial band Chemical Plant, London (2 performances)
- 2012 'Lost For Words': physical theatre with glass, ink, and noise. Performance in solidarity with Pussy Riot evening. Drama Studio, Faculty of English, Cambridge
Photo by Wang Bang
Sample Text
WRITING
writing
a
place
I go
feel you skin
around me
your eyes
the sky to sing
of death
fill the air
with your bones
clones of memory
"speaking
or
opening your mouth
in the rain
eternity
pours through you
your eyes
the sky to sing
of death
Reviews
Work quoted and briefly discussed in The Failure of Conservatism in Modern British Poetry by Andrew Duncan (Salt, 2003).
"the only prop allowed is the human body. This purism puts the surviving images under terrific pressure, which they adequately sustain..." Andrew Duncan, 'Living in Division and Shifting Sands', review of Sand Writings and related works appearing in Angel Exhaust #11.
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