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People are their own dreams by Sean Burn
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People are their own dreams by Sean Burn
30/3 refugees all this ravaged / city the lapis lazuli – most precious skies / spark sung cherry tree
/ stagger interrogations, lining up (in) headlights, hands surrender always / e-mocracy suicides,
uniforms change, militias ordered off shia streets / guerillas wounded by their very nature / in the
forbidden zones never enough paper / lit from below, exposed brilliant unders, burning on up /
entering the light half / kid hurling a ball repeatedly thru window
Taken from People are their own dreams
Published by Survivors’ Press 2011
Ed Simon Jenner
ISBN: 978-1-874595-33-5
sean burn has an international reputation as writer, performer and outsider artist. He’s active nationally in disability arts. Currently artist in residence for Celf o Gwympas and Oriel Beaumont, he was shortlisted for a DadaFest Disability Arts Award 2009 and Outside IN’s artist in residence to The New Art Gallery – Walsall – in association with DASH (Disability Arts Shropshire), ‘reclaiming the languages of lunacy’. This was the first of three residencies mainstreaming disability arts. His plays have been performed by Breaking Binary, CTC, First Draft, Free-thinking Festival (Radio Three), Gobscure, Half Moon, Maverick, Pegasus, Paines Plough, Queens Hall Arts, Under Construction, Weaver-Hughes Ensemble and Zeitgeist. His thirty poetry films receive many screenings worldwide, at Tate Modern and National Film Theatre Studios, London. Exhibitions / Installations/ Performances toured with Arcadea; Cesta, Czech Republic, DADA-South,Dash. The door (Birmingham Rep), Fotofeis and Grampian Hospital Arts’ Trust. Fold and Fred; Gulbenkian – Canterbury. Lit Up; Humber Mouth Festival. Interarte, Germany, Lancaster University and Lancaster LitFest. New Word Order; Odin’s Glow; Ovada; Platform 00000008; Shout festival, Stanley Picker Gallery, the Live Art Development Agency. His most recent of three CDs is Speaksong (with Gareth Mitchell). Skrev Press published a third full-length collection of his writing –Wings are GivingOut – in 2009.
Sean Burn was mentored by Survivors’ Poetry Director Dr. Simon Jenner.
