Music composed and produced by The Only Michael: http://www.theonlymichael.co.uk. 'Call & Response' poems recorded by Brian Lewis (June-August 2012). 'Call & Response' project co-curated by Paul Evans and Brian Lewis. Featured poets (not in order of appearance): Angelina Ayers, Matthew Clegg, Abigail Flint, Mark Goodwin, Rob Hindle, Chris Jones, Fay Musselwhite, Mary Marken, Andrew Myers, Ruth Palmer. See http://callandresponsehaiku.wordpress.com for more details.

Call & Response (The Only Michael mix)

'Swifts shape a fly-by, / their high, riotous piercings, / and one year’s shot past.'
Posted on Day 2 of Call & Response (@Callhaiku, 20-30 September 2012). Recorded in Crookes Valley Park, Sheffield, 13 July 2012.

Chris Jones: 'Swifts shape a fly-by...'

1: 'Listen: the cuckoo / has returned, the woods haunted / with her dark stories.'
2: 'The warbler is still, / head cocked at an old nickname. / Mother.  Mother.'
Posted on Day 7 of Call & Response (@Callhaiku, 20-30 September 2012). Recorded near Damflask Reservoir, Sheffield, 16 August 2012. 

Rob Hindle: Cuckoo / Warbler

'Blue to lead the way, / a beak for splitting currents / and smashing molluscs.'
Posted on Day 8 of Call & Response (@Callhaiku, 20-30 September 2012). Recorded in Broomhill, Sheffield, 1 August 2012.

Ruth Palmer: Ruddy Duck

'Jays on Winter Street / skaak and screech; pink as knuckles / in this flaying rain.'


Chris Jones: 'Jays on Winter Street...'

'a jenny wren gen / erates volts of song    the hedge / crack    ling quick hot notes'.
Posted on Day 9 of Call & Response (@Callhaiku, 20-30 September 2012). Recorded at Creswell Crags, Worksop, 14 June 2012.

Mark Goodwin: 'A jenny wren...'

'On the perfectly / Lateral branch, three blackbirds - / Three semi-quavers.'
Posted on Day 9 of Call & Response (@Callhaiku, 20-30 September 2012). Recorded in Broomhill, Sheffield, 1 August 2012.

Matthew Clegg: Blackbird

'Quietly goes fox / while from treetops robins sing / hiding in plain sight'.
Posted on Day 10 of Call & Response (@Callhaiku, 20-30 September 2012). Recorded in Sheffield city centre, 1 August 2012.


Fay Musselwhite: 'Quietly goes fox...'

'Whinchats flit and whirr, / throwing out short jags of song / to tether the air.'
Posted on Day 10 of Call & Response (@Callhaiku, 20-30 September 2012). Recorded in Crookes Valley Park, Sheffield, 13 July 2012.

Chris Jones: 'Whinchats flit and whirr...'

'A sliver of moon, / breeze whispering with the trees, / owl calls haunt the night.'
Posted on Day 11 of Call & Response (@Callhaiku, 20-30 September 2012). Recorded in central Sheffield, Friday 27 July 2012.


Mary Marken: 'A sliver of moon...'

'a woodpecker’s thuds / quickly repeated trickle / t h r o u g h w o o d e n d i s t a n c e'.
Posted on Day 11 of Call & Response (@Callhaiku, 20-30 September 2012). Recorded at Creswell Crags, Worksop, 14 June 2012.

Mark Goodwin: 'A woodpecker’s thuds...'

New bird-themed haiku by Sheffield poets. Two haiku were posted on Twitter (@Callhaiku) every morning during Sheffield University's Festival of the Mind (20-30 September 2012). Recordings of the poems were simultaneously uploaded to this SoundCloud page.

'Call & Response' poets:

Angelina Ayers
Matthew Clegg
Abigail Flint
Mark Goodwin
Rob Hindle
Chris Jones
Fay Musselwhite
Mary Marken
Andrew Myers
Ruth Palmer

Project co-curated by Paul Evans and Brian Lewis. This selection recorded, edited and sequenced by Brian Lewis, June-August 2012. See also http://soundcloud.com/longbarrow-press, http://soundcloud.com/7-wonders and http://soundcloud.com/moving-with-thought for further recordings by these and other poets.

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