Paul Conneally reads the just completed renga Twittering Birds as he walks around the bandstand in Queens Park Loughborough UK which he has just transformed into a poem into a renga bandstand. Less

Field recording of ‘A Circle of Fire’ read on completion of the renga – the first renga ramble . Renga Rambling – writing renga – a collaborative linked poem – whilst walking or drifting through a landscape – a process conceived by artists Anne-Marie Culhane and Paul Conneally 2007. OFF THE SHELF / GROW SHEFFIELD RENGA RAMBLE A Circle of Fire A twelve tone Junicho Renga Ramble in the season of autumn From Weston Park Museum to and on Crookes Quarry Allotments, Sheffield, 13th October 2007 this misty morning a scattering of beech nuts on the damp footpath a circle of fire choosing the middle way comfort fusion cooking Hing Wah’s fish and chips ‘ready to rumble’ skips piled high with stuff just ripe for recycling beer tainted under a winter moon fag stubs erect slow golfing over house clad hills I’m like a rubber ball I keep bouncing back to you loving hands tend myrtle olive, soft purple plums cherry coke in a greenhouse an amazing view the 21st century spreadeagled Shakespeare’s not here but prunus is I piss on the earth dew licks my steps fresh grown grass Nine Poets: Paul Conneally (master poet) Anne-Marie Culhane (host poet) Felicity Stout Nadine Wills Joseph Conneally Vanessa Senger Jenny Laird Andrea Allsopp Su Walker A Circle of Fire comes out of the first ever Renga Ramble – Sheffield 2007. Less

‘Memorial – Nuneaton’ a piece coming out of INVIGILATOR : NUNEATON (Pugh & Conneally November 2007) – it is a found audio clip that will form part of a mandala of hotspots that will play as people approach the memorial to George Elliot in Nuneaton & Bedworth’s George Elliot Memorial Gardens. During INVIGILATOR : NUNEATON artists Nikki Pugh and Paul Conneally discovered a town awash with memorials to George Elliot – despite millions of people knowing the work of Larry Grayson (an audience of 25 million every Saturday night in the late 70’s to early 80s) there is no civic memorial to Larry Grayson – perhaps this clip and the act it describes will serve as the official Nuneaton Council memorial to Larry – it says so much about the town at the time (mid to late 80s). Have things changed? The good news is that the people of Nuneaton and Bedworth still remember and love Larry and they voted to put his name on one of the Stagecoach bus company busses so Larry Grayson is going around the streets of Nuneaton picking up passengers… would be great if when the bus doors are about to close a recording of Larry singing his famous catchphrase song chorus “Shut that door!” was played. As to officialdom – a quick search of Nuneaton & Bedworth Council’s website results in no results for ‘Larry Grayson’ The site does have a lot of material celebrating George Elliot – a woman writer that passed herself off as a man. Less

Poet Simon Perril proposes that transliteracy might be a new cognitive tool or the recovery of an older one. Later at the Transliteracy Unconference in discussion with Paul Conneally, Howard Rheinegold and others he likens transliteracy pieces to bricollage which gets Conneally thinking about French DIY stores – Conneally later drops off at the Leicester B&Q DIY store and wanders the aisles for half an hour collecting his thoughts and various screws that ‘will come in handy’ During this drift he realises that he and Simon are destined to make something together – maybe a shelf. Less

Jemma Bagley and Brenda Seaton discuss The Sound of Water – a piece exploring the area of Thurmaston via a haiku hike led by artist / poet Paul Conneally and co-ordinated by Jemma Bagley of Charnwood Arts, Loughborough, UK. Words from the poems written during the psychogeographic drift – the haiku hike – will be engraved on to a series of sculptures by Richard Thornton in the new Watermead housing development. Less

Susumu Takiguchi – Chairman of World Haiku Club and Debra Woolard Bender in conversation with haiku poet Paul ‘Little Onion’ Conneally – who is not heard – in Loughborough UK. Reflections on what the haiku form is and what it means to them. Less