Projects
We Take Writing For Granted II April 10 - May 30 2024
A Second Step Wellbeing College/ Poem Brut Exhibition at Boston Tea Party, Cheltenham Road, Stokes Croft, Bristol BS7 8PE England, free entry. All artworks made by participants during a 6 week Poem Brut course run by Paul Hawkins.
2023 - current: On The Brink is an ongoing novel(la)-in-progress stemming from chaos, hyperfocus, artificial intelligence, disassociation, travel, memory lapses, disassociation & Adam Curtis films.
We Take Writing For Granted : May 24 - June 30 2023
A Second Step Wellbeing College/ Poem Brut Exhibition in Bristol, free entry. All artworks made by participants during a 6 week Poem Brut course run by Paul Hawkins, more details look here. Venue: Boston Tea Party, Cheltenham Road, Stokes Croft, Bristol BS7 8PE England
Oct 06 2023: NO POETRY DAY #3 - A ten year plan, works-in-progress
Postcards From Mental States is the title of a collaboration with Julia Rose Lewis which began in 2021. It was published in book form in 2023. A selection was published as Holding Patterns by the sadly-missed Beir Bua Press in 2021. A launch event & print exhibition took place at Eachwhat Studio, Bristol in April 2022. To purchase a copy of prints from the book, as well as the book LOOK HERE
Oct 06 2022: NO POETRY DAY #2 - A ten year plan, works-in-progress
June - Sept 2022: Artimental - six Poem-Brutish workshops held at Eachwhat Studio.
April 2022: Man Alive! Creative Writing workshops with Knowle West Men’s Group Man Alive! at Knowle West Media Centre, Bristol.
Nov 2021 - Feb 2022 Writer-in-Residence for Knowle West Media Centre & Bristol Ideas Working Class Writers Festival for more info look here
Aug 2021-Jan 2023: Eachwhat Studio a studio, exhibition, performance & community workspace in south east Bristol through HYPHA STUDIOS
Jan 2023: HANDSFREE Bob Modem’s deconstructions of Martin Wakefield’s renderings of Paul Elouard’s illustrations of Man Ray’s drawings (from Part 1 of Les Main Libres published by Steel Incisors
Oct 06 2021: NO POETRY DAY #1 - A ten year plan, works-in-progress
JAN 202 INSECT SLEEP UNDER BIRDSONG: a collaboration w/Peter Jaeger commissioned by Writers Centre Kingston in lockdown
PHOTO POETRY SURFACES June - Dec 2021 part of the Bristol Photography Festival 2021, curated by David Solo, Astra Papachristodoulou and Paul Hawkins. An exhibition, launch event and catalogue
Photo Poetry Surfaces (Hesterglock Press, 2021 look here
I was proud to have work included in a remarkable celebration of the work of Georges Perec, Postcards For Perec, curated by Linda Parr. The project has been exhibited in the following spaces and places throughout the world . . .
University of the West of England, Bower Ashton Library, Bristol, July - August 2021
University of Southampton, Winchester School of Art, September 2021
Bath Spa University, The Street Gallery, January 2022
Bristol Artists’ Book Fair BABE at Bower Ashton, April 2022
Cardiff University, Special Collections Library, May 2022 - January 2023
Architecture and Design Exhibition, Istanbul, Turkey, October 2022
University of Puget Sound, Collins Memorial Library, Washington, USA, November - December 2022
University of Essex, Special Collections Library, Colchester, February - April 2023
Eastern Mediterranean University, Famagusta, Cyprus, May 2023
Waverley Library, Sydney, Australia, July - August 2023
and featured in the following places:
Postcards for Perec featured by invitation in Bulletin No. 78 of the Association Georges Perec 2021
Postcards for Perec featured in ‘Patastrophe! #5 published by Surrealerpool, ISBN 9781910467220
Postcards for Perec reviewed in Printmaking Today, Vol 31 Winter 2022 Issue 124
Postcards for Perec, photo-essay published online in Axon Journal: Creative Explorations Text/ Page/Art 13-1 July 2023
Postcards for Perec ISBN 978-1-906501-21-1 is in the National Art Library, Victoria & Albert Museum, London and the Newberry Library, Chicago, USA
Cropped images of the postcards and the exhibitions are on Instagram, @postcards_for_perec.
A & B SIDES - Bob Modem made 13 scores. Small Things Happen read, improvised, played and recorded them in Lockdown Bristol, 2021. The A & B Sides album with the 13 scores is purchasable via Bandcamp look here
P & P (PATRICK COSGROVE & BOB MODEM) 2020 EARLY STAGE, WORK-IN-PROGRESS; A SHORT FILM / SOUNDTRACK COMMISSIONED BY POEM BRUT : SOUND(S), VERBAL & NON-VERBAL, SCRATCHES, SCRAPES, BOOMS & CLASHES, SOUND-MAPPING THOUGHTS, ELECTRICAL IMPULSES & MULCHED BRAIN-MECHANICS. DORMANT.
SECOND STEP WELLBEING COLLEGE 2020 - PRESENT RUNNING POEM BRUT WORKSHOPS FOR LEARNERS AT SECOND STEP BRISTOL’S WELLBEING COLLEGEHAVE A LOOK AT THE REMARKABLE NEW WORK MADE DURING THESE SESSIONS LOOK HERE
NEOPTICO COLLECTIV 2020 VARIOUS MEMBERS ONGOING FUTURE-FACING VISUAL POETRY
EACHWHAT VOL. 1 (KF&S Press, 2019) Poem Brut-sh collage & visual poetry
SECOND STEP BRISTOL 2020 - 2022 I CO-DEVELOPED & CO-DELIVERED A LIVED-EXPERIENCE LED TRAINING COURSE, STAYING ALIVE - SURVIVING PAIN, SUICIDE & SELF-INJURY FOR STAFF.
PLACE WASTE DISSENT & DIISONANCE 2017 ongoing collaboration with artist Steve Ryan. B & W, cut & paste, protest collage with voices [Hesterglock Press, 2019 2nd edition expanded paperback]
DOSTOYEVSKY WANNABE CITIES: BRISTOL 2019 anthology of writers and poets based in Bristol for the DW Cities Series. Editor and contributor [paperback]
GO SIFT OMEN AN ERASURE OF DON PATTERSON’S GOD’S GIFT TO WOMEN (KNIVES FORKS AND SPOONS PRESS, 2019)
RING MORE GACK (PENTERACT PRESS 2019) IMPROVISED SOUND MAPPING CURRENTLY OUT OF PRINT
GAN TEANGA (WITHOUT LANGUAGE CIRCA 2018) COMPRISING OF WORKS BY PAUL HAWKINS (ALSO KNOWN AS BOB MODEM) AND OTHERS - ONGOING
LOU HAM: RACING ANTHROPOCENE STATEMENTS PAPERBACK
MOTOR-RACING/CLIMATE CHANGE CUT-UP SLOGANEERING (A DOSTOYEVSKY WANNABE ORIGINAL,2018)
50 // FIFTY W/MICHAEL HARFORD - CONSTRAINED TEXT & COLLAGE COLLABORATION (HESTERGLOCK PRESS, 2018)
BURNING HOUSE PRESS 2018 GUEST-EDITOR, NOVEMBER. THEME: FACING UP TO THE FUTURE, TAKE A LOOK HEREFLEA 2018 - 2021 A COLLABORATIVE, ABSTRACT GRAPHIC NOVEL W/STEVE RYAN . . . DORMANT
POEM BRUT 2017 TO PRESENT - A MOVEMENT OF ALTERNATIVE UNDERSTANDINGS OF C21ST LITERATURE: EVENTS, EXHIBITIONS, PUBLICATIONS CONTINUED INVOLVMENT AS A WORKSHOP FACILITATOR, PERFORMER, ARTIST & PUBLISHER
DIISONANCE 2017 COLLABORATIVE ARTWORKS W/STEVE RYAN AS RESPONSES TO PLACE WASTE DISSENT; EXHIBITIONS, PERFORMANCES, ANTHOLOGY, ARCHIVED WEBSITE, ACE FUNDED PROJECT W/STEVE RYAN AND OTHERS (HESTERGLOCK PRESS, 2017)
ARCHIVE OF THE NOW SOME OF MY WORK ARCHIVED ALONG WITH MANY, MANY MORE LOOK HERE
THE SECRET OF GOOD POSTURE a pair of detourned pamphlets with Bruno Neiva (Team Trident Press, 2016)
ANATHEMA 2016 - 2019 Hesterglock Press, Sad Press & Moot Press curating experimental poetry events based at the Arnolfini Centre for Modern Art, Bristol
SERVANT DRONE a collaborative experimental poetry book made with Bruno Neiva (Knives Forks and Spoons Press, 2015
PLACE WASTE DISSENT (Influx Press, 2015) over 150 handmade pages of cut & paste protest collage from Claremont Road, London, paperback edition SOLD OUT
BOSCOMBE SUITE BOSCOMBE Dec 13, 2013 a live improvised soundtrack performance by the music room band to a film produced by Sarer Scotthorne
Split, a collaboration with artist Mark Lloyd
CLAREMONT ROAD (Erbacce press, 2013) “Self-medicated visions of entropy and sensual returns” Iain Sinclair
UNTOLD BOSCOMBE 2013-2014, locative community website
TRUCULENT ENIGMA Gnoua-influenced electronica album If This Is Your Best Shot Okra? [FREE DOWNLOAD] sampled and made on a cheap laptop in 2007 with Hester Glock
LE TEANGA (with language 1968 - 2018) works by Paul Hawkins & others
Paul has collaborated on recordings, performances, books &/or projects with Martin Wakefield, Steve Ryan, David Spittle, Michael Harford, Julia Rose Lewis, Bruno Neiva, Mark Lloyd, Sarer Scotthorne, Peter Jaeger, Andres Anwandtner, SJ Fowler, Bob Bright, John Ellis, Patrick Cosgrove, Sheer Zed, Rowan Evans, Hester Glock, Scott Lavene, Lucy English, Martin Kratz, Jacqueline Ennis-Cole, Astra Papachristodolou, Jonathon Mann, Emteaz Hussein, Jane Cartwright, Mali Clements, Bill Drummond, Second Step Bristol, Andrew McCutcheon, Run Logan Run, Doug Degnin, Dr Stuart, Greg Micelli, Bob Modem, POEM BRUT amongst others . . .