Penn Kemp
Since 1966, sound/performance poet Penn Kemp has taught creative writing and sounding in arts festivals and conferences around the world. The League of Canadian Poets proclaimed her one of the foremothers of Canadian poetry. Born and raised near London ON, Penn received her Honours BA in English from UWO, her M.Ed from U. of Toronto, and many Arts Awards for her writing. Since Coach House published her first book in 1972, Penn has been pushing text and aural boundaries, often in participatory performance and new media. Among her publications are twenty-five books of poetry and drama, ten CDs of Sound Opera and Sound Poetry as well as several videopoems and Canada's first poetry CD-ROM: sample pennkemp.ca, mytown.ca/pendas/, http://myspace.com/pennkemp and mytown.ca/poemforpeace/. Through Pendas Productions, Penn edits and publishes poetry book/cd combinations, mytown.ca/twelfth/. Some of these CDs and interviews are archived on her radio show, chrwradio.com/talk/gatheringvoices. Updates are on mytown.ca/pennletters/.
New and Justified: Sound Poems
SIDE KICKS
sigh
sigh kick
sigh kick caws
sigh kick caws of
sigh kick caws of
sigh kick caws of this
sigh kick caws of dis ease
SIGH CLONES
sigh
sigh click
sigh click call
sigh click call
sigh click call eye
sigh click call eye D
sigh click call eye D as
SIDE SHOW
sigh
sigh an
sigh an ide
sigh an ide sue
sigh an ide sue a
sigh an ide sue a side
SEEK A PATH
pacts
pacts woe
pacts woe beast
pacts woe beast come
PAX VOBISCUM
U
U more
humour or
humour or less
humour or lesson
humour or less undo
humour or less undo what
humour or less undo what U
humour or less undo what U D
humour or less undo what U D sir
humour or less undo what U D serve
U
U re
U re see
U re see if
U re sieve
a
a chore
a chore till
a chortle or
a
bell
E
laugh
hour D fence
a gain st
all sere E us
un as sail a bull
man ooo vers
Ka!
caw calf
caw calf on
caw calf on knee
caw calf phony
res
reason
reason ate
reason ate thing
resonating
with
within
within the
within the mid
within the mid drift
spy
knell
I call
I doll um
I doll chat
I doll chat her
I doll chat her balks
I doll chat her balks is woo
I doll chat her box is woo den
I doll chat her box is woo den ven
I doll chat her box is wood den ven ear
a
a void
a void dance
ring
ring hall
ring hall low
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These are New and Justified variations of sound poems that have been published in Penn's Incrementally, book and cd, by Pendas Productions. More can be seen and heard on www.mytown.ca/pennkemp.
