'Between Clean Sheets': Twenga #8. (1st January 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Wade, Gavin; Conneally, Paul; Bolland, Emma; Francis, Tina; Goodall, Patrick; Hickin, Brenda; Kennedy, James; Parkin, Mathew; Raybould, Alison; Sidowski, Sid; Greslé, Yvette; Wade, Cathy
• Is Part Of: Journal of writing in creative practice. Volume 13:Number 1(2020)
• Page Start: 27
• Page End: 46
• Publication Date: 2020-01-01
• Subjects: Writing in art -- Periodicals; Composition (Language arts) -- Periodicals; Creative writing -- Study and teaching -- Periodicals; Technical writing -- Periodicals; Art and literature -- Periodicals; 808.06605
• DOI: 10.1386/jwcp.13.1.27_3
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1753-5190

Abstract

'Between Clean Sheets' is a 100-verse #Twenga written by twelve 'poets' over a 63-day period on Twitter. It is the eighth #Twenga led by Paul Conneally and Gavin Wade hosted by Eastside Projects (@eprjcts). #Twenga is a Renga (linked verse) – a 1000-year-old Japanese form of extended haiku written by multiple authors – written live on Twitter. It is an incredibly successful shared artform displaying complex and sophisticated ways of collaborating and organizing space, time and thinking. The 100 verses are written to a hyakuin schema, adapted by Wade from the schema suggested by Conneally for their seventh #Twenga, originally used by the poet Sōgi in his 'Solo Sequence of 1492'. The schema provides a theme for each verse such as Autumn, moon, love, equality and urgent actions. The themes provide an underpinning position and combine with a 'link and shift' reflection upon context, memory and imagination always written in the present.