================================================================== MANSON & MENDOZA – WINDSUCKERS & ONSETTERS: SONNOTS for Griffiths Published August 2018 ================================================================== |
 WINDSUCKERS & ONSETTERS: SONNOTS for Griffiths is a collaborative project between Peter Manson & Mendoza in commemoration of Bill Griffiths (August 20, 1948 – September 13, 2007). The assemblage of ‘niners’ (nine sets of nine lines with nine syllables per line) uses, or responds to, text found in Fishing and Folk: Life and Dialect on the North Sea Coast (2008) & Pitmatic: Talk of the North East Coal Field (2007) compiled by Bill Griffiths. Blue card covers, 48 pages, side-stapled. Bill Griffiths was born in Middlesex and settled in Seaham, Co. Durham. Mendoza was born in Northumberland and settled in London. Peter Manson was born in Glasgow and settled in Glasgow. You lose your light. spend all of your lives. “endless doubtlessness, land-full / surprised- ness”. unintelligible language. eye-acute. “look at the sun rising... unspeaking and becoming” light-like sun-froth unGod. sun-needle gaze-blaze erase death, and in-turn re-birth. this land is gold. this coal is gold. this clan- ship of miners is gold is gold isSOLD OUT. Recording: Mendoza. Production: Manson. Glasgow, August 2018. |