Author Archives: Holly Pester

(awake and lie)

awake-and-lie-poster projection text

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live live

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shark ball dad

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lupin

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she story

He nodded and she knew she Noddded and she knew she was He knodded and she new she was allowed on the bus and she knew she was he nodded and she knew she was allowed on the bus Nod nod and she new she was A loud on Dead and new she Allowed on [...]

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pulmonic air

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interview piece

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Is

This essay operates over three stratums, incorporating the minefields and complexities inherent to determining artwork. In this particular case the defining, describing and situating of the work must all be told in first person. It seems necessary to dismantle this “I” that will be talking to “you” the reader, who can remain homogeneous if you [...]

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Srry – Multimedia Performance Piece

Audio-visual version of Srry Live performance of Srry (London Poetry Systems Launch Night, The Flea Pit, London 22/05/08)

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Collaborations and Impositions

When I make some writing out of someone else’s workWhen writing a response to a work by another writer I have to enter the world of that work or poem or text. I like to step into the language of that poem or piece of text and turn it against itself. This does not simply [...]

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Expected Back Everyday

EXPECTED BACK EVERYDAY EXPECTED BACK EVERYDAY EVERY SECOND EXPECTING ALL OF IT EXPECTED EVERYTHING IS A-WAITED PAUSED AND FRETTED ANYTHING CAN COME NEXT CONNENEXT ONLY ONE IS A-WANTED B RR R R R R R R R R R RR R R RRING INTERRUPTED NOW CARRY ON ALONG WET STONES TO THE CRUNCH THAT’S EXPECTED [...]

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statement making

When I write, as I do, line by line, each line is a singular item and enters the page in the sequence it will stay in and is largely unalterable once it is fixed onto the page. I do not own them or have them pre-assigned to a pre-planned structure. I write words not poems [...]

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doctor Dr Mabuse

The undercurrent the detached voice. The mad doctor’s hand moves compulsively and as compulsively they give him a pen. And as compulsively they give him a sheet of paper. And now he is writing. Soon the marks become words and soon they can be read as sentences. Soon the sentences are pages of thought. Compulsively [...]

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about yows

“It’s really weird that you should have happened across that one. I’ve always felt really weird about it. In fact I think I’ve deleted it from my documents because I can’t find it! I’d always thought it was just ridiculous and I should never show anyone, but I had this weird affection for it and [...]

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race yourself before the walls cave in

only be sorry for a second walls only for a second be sorry for an order for walls only for a moment be a sorry soul for a second in the walls only for a walls be active for a walls Walls be only one more than walls be one and only only for a [...]

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