Adelle Stripe

North Sea Fishers and Fighters by Walter Wood 1911

Beyond the Silver Pit

November 29, 2015 by adellestripe

In late spring I started researching a new poetry project, inspired by a framed family tree in my grandmother’s hallway. She had spent 20 years of her life researching our family history in records offices, historical archives and libraries across East Yorkshire. I remember spending long afternoons with her, back in the 1980s, and often accompanied her as she flicked through reels of microfilm on big screens in darkened rooms. I was a bored child, whose task was to […]

Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: Adelle Stripe, Arts Council England, Beyond the Silver Pit, Curated Place, Dogger Bank, Enlighten Festival, Factory Records, Hull Daily Mail, Hull History Centre, Liverpool Street, Manchester Central Library, Matthew Gains Mudd, Nick Malbon, Russ Litten, Trevor Johnson

Resonators

November 25, 2015 by adellestripe

Scarlet Page’s new book Resonators is published this week. Over the last 24 months she has travelled the world on a personal quest to photograph the greatest guitar players in the world of rock. It’s an epic collection and includes some of the following legendary players: Albert Lee, Billy Corgan, Brian May, Chrissie Hynde, Dick Taylor, Graham Coxon, Hank Marvin, Jack White, Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page, Joe Walsh, John Squire, John Frusciante, Johnny Marr, Mark Knopfler, Mick Jones, Nile Rodgers, Noel Gallagher, […]

Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: Albert Lee, Billy Corgan, Brian May, Chrissie Hynde, Dick Taylor, Graham Coxon, Hank Marvin, Jack White, Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page, Joe Walsh, John Frusciante, John Squire, Johnny Marr, Mark Knopfler, Mick Jones, Nile Rodgers, Noel Gallagher, Paul McCartney, Paul Stanley, Paul Weller, Peter Green, Phil Manzanera, Proud Galleries Camden, Resonators, Robert Fripp, Scarlet Page, Slash, Steve Jones, Teenage Cancer Trust, Wayne Kramer, Wilko Johnson

Other People’s Bookshelves

July 11, 2015 by adellestripe

Ben Myers has written an article for Savidge Reads’ regular series on writer’s book collections, Other People’s Bookshelves. The pictures are taken in our office, and the books are a merged collection – something that he mentions as being “as significant a commitment as wedding vows. Once you combine book collections with someone it’s serious business.” Between the two of us we are a pair of insufferable bookworms. I hope you enjoy reading the piece and having a nosy […]

Categories: Books, Poetry • Tags: Adelle Stripe, Aleister Crowley, Benjamin Myers, Gilles de Rais, Other People's Bookshelves, Savidge Reads, Simon Savidge

Latete Atoto 08/03

March 5, 2015 by adellestripe

On Sunday 8th March tune in to NTS Live for Latete Atoto. I’ll be chatting to DJ Chloe Raunet aka C.A.R. for a special International Women’s Day broadcast. We’ll play a few records, have a chat about Akiko Yosano & Andrea Dunbar ~ and maybe read some poems if we have time. And plenty of larking about of course… NTS is an online radio station based in Dalston. It hosts a diverse range of live radio shows with the tagline ‘Don’t Assume’ that sums up […]

Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: Adelle Stripe, Akiko Yosano, Andrea Dunbar, C.A.R., Chloe Raunet, International Women's Day, Latete Atoto, NTS Live, NTS Radio

Big Weekend

February 13, 2015 by adellestripe

Big Weekend (a poem from my last collection Dark Corners of the Land) has been included in a new anthology PUSH: Best of the First Ten Issues. PUSH Magazine was founded by Joe England in 2013 and has since gone on to become one of the UK’s best-selling literary zines – with over 2000 copies sold in it’s first year of existence. It is ‘sold on the street literature’ – specifically outside West Ham United’s Football Ground and other London street venues. With it’s […]

Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: Adelle Stripe, Big Weekend, Dark Corners of the Land, East London Press, Irvine Welsh, Joe England, John King, Kit Caless, PUSH Magazine, PUSH: Best of the First Ten Issues., The Quietus, West Ham United

Akiko Yosano: Sweet is the Taste of Tears

December 4, 2014 by adellestripe

During the summer of 2014 I worked with publisher Michael Curran (Tangerine Press) on a new selection of tanka poems by one of the most famous and controversial poets in Japanese literature, Akiko Yosano. Aged nineteen, Akiko Yosano (1878-1942) fled to Tokyo from her sleepy hometown of Sakai to join her lover Tekkan, poet and editor of the journal Myojo. Akiko wrote him adoring letters and poems, even threatening suicide if he didn’t divorce his wife. This formed the basis of Akiko’s […]

Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: Akiko Yosano, Cairn Almond, Cappelbaum's Lament, Chapbooks, Heroin Haikus, Katazome-Shi, Michael Curran, Mick Guffan, Midaregami, Myojo, Sick Fly Publications, Stanley Cooperman, Sweet is the Taste of Tears, Tangerine Press, Tangled Hair, Twenty Six Letters Scattered Sorted Loved & Unleashed, Weldon Kees, William Wantling

Weekend Other World

August 24, 2014 by adellestripe

On October 25th 2014 English Heretic & Exploring the Extraordinary present the Weekend Other World conference at the Cinema Museum in Kennington. They have gathered some of the finest researchers, curators and artists ‘in the field of extraordinary experience and outré culture’ to look at music, film and fiction form magical, cosmological and anthropological perspectives. Speakers include Dr James Riley, Will Fowler, Dr Hannah Gilbert, Gyrus, The Quietus, Unearthing Forgotten Horrors, Evie Salmon, Jack Hunter and Andy Sharp. Derek Jarman’s […]

Categories: Books • Tags: 21st Century Occult Rock, Andy Sharp, Apiary Studios, Cinema Museum, Derek Jarman, Dr Hannah Gilbert, Dr James Riley, Electricity and Nature, English Heretic, Evie Salmon, Exploring the Extraordinary, Gyrus, In the Shadow of the Sun, Jack Hunter, Matthew Shaw, Megalithic Drone, Teleplasmiste, The Quietus, Unearthing Forgotten Horrors, Weekend Other World, Will Fowler

Filmpoem Festival

June 12, 2014 by adellestripe

If you happen to be in Belgium this Saturday, or Antwerp – make sure you head along to Filmpoem Festival (part of Felix Poetry Festival) at FelixPakhuis. Bad Blood, my film/poetry/music collaboration with Martha Jurksaitis & C.A.R., has been selected as part of this year’s programme. It has had quite a life of its own. It also appeared at the Berlin International Director’s Lounge in February. Filmpoem have worked in partnership with The Poetry Society to bring poetry-films of ten winning entries (a top […]

Categories: Books, Music, Poetry • Tags: Alastair Cook, Antwerp, Berlin International Director's Lounge, C.A.R., Cherry Kino, Chloe Raunet, David Harsent, Felix Poetry Festival, FelixPakhuis, Filmpoem Festival, Helen Mort, James Norton, John Glenday, Luca Nasciuti, Marc Neys, Martha Jurksaitis, Maxime Coton, Michael Symmons Roberts, The Poetry Society

Vulgar Reality

February 18, 2014 by adellestripe

Whilst rummaging through the Local Studies archive at the newly opened Bradford Library I discovered a review of Rita, Sue and Bob Too, written by Hilary Mantel for The Spectator in 1987. Bonkers in Bradford is a particularly caustic reading of Alan Clarke’s film, and shows Mantel’s attitude to Andrea Dunbar and the North of England at full throttle. Her assumption that northern women walk in a certain way was rather offensive to the many elegant ladies I’ve seen perusing the […]

Categories: Film&TV • Tags: 1987, Alan Clarke, Andrea Dunbar, Bonkers in Bradford, Bradford, Brafferton Arbor, Buttershaw, George Costigan, Hilary Mantel, Michelle Holmes, Rita Sue and Bob Too, Royal Court Theatre, Siobhan Finneran, Thatchers Britain With Its Knickers Down, The Arbor, The Spectator

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