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Trance Form

So much fun to participate in a “listening practice” workshop with Nix Nihil featuring poems by Margaret Atwood, George Bowering, and me @ Spoken Web, University of Concordia, Montreal, Quebec. Here’s the link:
https://wetransfer.com/downloads/667a4381a841c5ffee0a1abe49d3043f20200617204137/530f1fda5efb743701c7e707d176937220200617204139/be99e8.

https://soundcloud.com/penn-kemp/penn-kemp-trance-form-live-at-u-of-a-february-18-1977-

“The workshop is called “Refining the Alchemical Ear,” and is hosted out of the University of Concordia in Montreal. This week’s theme will be “adept listening.” We will listen to 3 poems with mystical/magical forms or themes, ripped from reel-to-reel recordings of poetry readings captured in the 1970s, delivered by some Canadian heavy-hitters. Then, we (a bunch of academics, but also music/poetry lovers in general) talk about what we hear going on with the files. Hear readings about alchemy, spiritualism, Buddhism, and New Age philosophy. George Bowering, Margaret Atwood, and Penn Kemp (formerly Penny Chalmers) are the magical Masters from whom we will learn some new “tricks” of the poetic (and magical) trade.” https://spokenweb.ca/events/virtual-listening-practice-guided-by-nick-beauchesne/

Mine was a participatory long sound poem called “Bone Poem”, from Trance Form, all of which you can hear here: 

https://soundcloud.com/penn-kemp/penn-kemp-trance-form-live-at-u-of-a-february-18-1977-1

Soundly,
Penn