A Kiss On Both Cheeks

a kiss on both cheeks
by the station photo booth
ten years of winter
land masses collide
and push up mountains

from the tantwenga series
Paul Conneally & Gavin Wade
Febuary 2017

tantwenga are tanrenga written via Twitter 

EMI ANRAKUJI Untitled 455

EMI ANRAKUJI

Untitled 455 

2015

Exhibition: 1800 Millimètre

"Emi Anrakuji represents herself as an alchemist of images and a catalyst for daydreams and desires. The vignettes of jigsaw puzzle-like photographs of herself and others blur the boundaries between documentary and staged photography. Posing naked, clothed, or partially dressed, Anrakuji takes a uniquely obsessive interest in her own body. Her legs, arms, toes, lips and hair create arresting compositions and erotic ambience. Anrakuji's obsession with the human body is a result, in part, from her long periods spent hospitalized: after graduating from art school in Tokyo in the mid-1980s, she suffered a cerebral tumor that prevented her from making art for more than a decade. During her gradual recovery, she began to make block prints, then photographs."

More of Emi Anrakuji's work along with that from other cutting edge photographers and artists can be found at Miyako Yoshinaga.

The Miyako Yoshinaga gallery is in New York and is a 'must visit' art venue.

LOCATION & HOURS

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New York NY 10001-5511, USA

T: 212 268 7132

TUE – SAT 11am - 6pm

For August and holiday hours, please call or email at:
info@miyakoyoshinaga.com

Circle of Fire the World's First Renga Ramble Sheffield 2007

It's over eight years ago now since artist Anne-Marie Culhane and myself undertook the world's first ever 'Renga Ramble', CIRCLE OF FIRE, in Sheffield.

It was part of the Off The Shelf festival of reading and writing in October 2007 and with / for GROW SHEFFIELD.

Paul Conneally
November 2015

Mosquito At My Ear

Mosquito at my ear—
does he think
I’m deaf?

Kobayashi Issa

1763–1828

from The Essential Haiku: Versions of Basho, Buson, and Issa, edited and with an introduction by Robert Hass. Copyright 1994 by Robert Hass. Source: The Essential Haiku: Versions of Basho Buson and Issa (The Ecco Press, 1994)

Photograph: Paul Conneally, Loughborough, 2015

Morning Practice - The Agony and Ecstasy of Sumo Training in Japan

Morning Practice - The Agony and Ecstasy of Sumo Training in Japan
This is a wonderful and not to be missed exhibition of photographs by Francis Harrison.

The exhibition is put on by Charnwood Arts / Pixel & Grain at Charnwood Museum, Loughborough, UK and runs from the 7th of October to the 1st of November 2015.

Free Entry

Paul Conneally
Sept. 2015

The Banana Links

excerpts from
the banana links
paul conneally

(i)

in some ways the haiku today resembles the potato

before blight brought famine to ireland

(ii)

edible haiku are sterile mutants

new varieties cannot easily be produced by natural methods

(iii)

a haiku a day prevents a deficiency

which might increase the risk of stroke

(iv)

haiku a substitute for sweets and satisfy sugar cravings

(v)

your hands can benefit from haiku as well

(vi)

each haiku wrapped in foil and sold for a dime

'the banana links' are a dadaesque experiment

to see how truths about haiku might reveal themselves

through the manipulation of texts on or about bananas

Paul Conneally

Shuntaro Netsu of ホッチキス HOTCHKISS

Shuntaro Netsu of ホッチキス HOTCHKISS
Paul Conneally
Kings Cross, London
January 2015

Only The Moon by ホッチキス HOTCHKISS

RAVISHING A UNIVERSE FOR LOVE!

Ravishing a universe for love!

Artists Anne-Marie Culhane and Paul Conneally show Mothra (June 17 2014) as part of the ongoing Fruit Routes / EAT YOUR CAMPUS works at Loughborough University.

They will show the film in a popup cinema garden shed on an allotment garden on Loughborough University campus. The garden is tended by Loughborough Students Landscaping and Gardening (Our) Society.

The film will be followed by a night of trapping and viewing moths on the Fruit Route.

HER EYES ARE WILD

warmer than summer
underneath the haystack
the English tongue

she drinks beer
from the supermarket
in the town square
feeding potato-chips
to pigeons and sparrows

how far I've travelled to find 
one need replaces another

her dog growls
at midnight revellers
coming too close
as she sleeps soundly
in the shoe-shop doorway

the night in my hair
turns black
burning stars

paul conneally & debra woolard bender
from The Wordsworth Papers




Wordsworth after Pickersgill by Susumu Takiguchi

Our Parting Kiss

our parting kiss 

a mixture of salt 

and sweet peppers

Paul Conneally

A Cock's Crow

a cock’s crow
the farmer’s son and his girl
walking warm
out of the green stable
two young horses

Paul Conneally

From the tanka series After Fern Hill

The Wrestler's Top Knot

the wrestler's top knot 

falls loose 

paulownia leaf 

Paul Conneally

http://t.co/aYMV8jHS8T

Some Saint's Day

some saint’s day
the smell of bread from
a closed-up bakery

Paul Conneally

http://burnthewater.wordpress.com/2013/05/26/some-saints-day/

Photograph: Paul Conneally – Fayence – France

haiku poetry architecture wabi sabi shops food and drink photography