Poetry & Art Fans, here's a date for your diary as part of the Poetry In The City festival.

Performance at Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
Saturday 13 May 2006, 2.30-4.30pm

The Walker performance premieres new works by Philip Davenport and Tony Trehy. Davenport’s “Constellation of Luminous Details” is collection of found poems made from overheard conversations. Trehy’s “50 Heads” is a meditation on language and control. Improvisational sound artist Ben Gwilliam will record both performances and process the words using the gallery space as a sound resonator. Trehy and Davenport work to revitalise poetry as experimental art that is as attentive to the space in which it occurs as to notions of language and expression.

Philip Davenport explores the space between poetry and visual art, often in collaboration with artists, designers, and musicians. His Imaginary Missing People poems, made by collaging missing persons notices with his own diaries, were bill-posted in Manchester, London and Brighton in the period 1998-2001 as part as various art exhibitions and published by Bob Cobbing’s experimental press Writers Forum in 1999. In 2002 Davenport collaborated with transvestite artist Phil Sayers to make the Vogue Divine poster poem series, bill-posted throughout Manchester. His collection Heart Shape Pornography – poems ‘reclaimed’ from porn – were handwritten onto hundreds of apples as a commission for Liverpool Biennial 2004. Throughout 2004, Davenport was Poet in Residence at Bury Art Gallery where – as well as writing poems – he co-curated the Bob Cobbing retrospective for groundbreaking text art/visual poetry Text Festival.