Cris Cheek

Cris Cheek

Cris Cheek is a British poet, artist, interdisciplinary performer and academic currently resident at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. Born in London in 1955, he lived and worked there until the early 1990s. One early influence was working alongside Bob Cobbing at the Poetry Society and the Writers Forum group of poets who met with regularity there. In 1981 he was a co-founder of Chisenhale Dance Space. Between 1994-2005 he was based in the most easterly English town of Lowestoft, before emigrating to the United States. His musical collaborations include Slant (a trio with Phillip Jeck and Sianed Jones). A large body of interdisciplinary performance writing was produced in collaboration with Kirsten Lavers under the author function Things Not Worth Keeping. He taught on the Performance Writing course (1995-2002) at Dartington College of Arts where he was a Research Fellow in interdisciplinary text (2000-2002). He lives on the plateau of the southwest Ohio River Valley, with his son.

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Bibliography

Cheek's creative works include:

  • a present (Bluff Books, 1980)
  • Mud (Spanner/Open Field, 1984)
  • Cloud Eyes (Microbrigade Ed., 1991)
  • Skin upon skin (CD, Sound & Language, 1996)
  • Stranger (Sound & Language, 1996)
  • Songs from Navigation (book+CD, Reality Street, 1998)
  • the church, the school, the beer (Critical Documents, 2007)
  • part: short life housing (The Gig, 2009)

His works have been published in various magazines, literary miscellanies and anthologies, including:

  • West Coast Line (Vancouver)
  • Open Letter (Toronto)
  • Kontexts (Amsterdam)
  • Boxkite (Sydney)
  • Reality Studios (London)
  • Poetics Journal (San Francisco)
  • The L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Book (Indiana University)
  • Conductors of Chaos (London)
  • Floating Capital (Connecticut)
  • Documents (Glasgow)

MC, CD and CD-R

  • Crayon (NY), Widemouth (Baltimore)
  • Little Magazine (Albany)
  • Balsam Flex (London)

Critical articles

  • "Reading and Writing: the Sites of Performance (http://www.asu.edu/pipercwcenter/how2journal/vol_3_no_3/bergvall/cheek-reading-writing.html)
  • On Bob Cobbing (British Electronic Poetry Centre, 2004)
  • Giving Tongue published in Assembling Alternatives: Reading Postmodern Poetries Transnationally (Wesleyan University Press, 2003)
  • Sky Tails: An Encryption of Dispersal published in Removed for Further Study: The Poetry of Tom Raworth, (The Gig, 2003)
  • Implicit, Additional Apparitions: Poetry, Performance and Site Specificity (The Cherry On the Top Press, 2002)

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