Spawning Klingon and Huttese

Hailey O’Gorman’s untitled poem version.

Hailey O’Gorman’s untitled poem version.

First year creative writing students taking the Writing as a Reader module at Falmouth have been exploring writing about, back to, from and responding to texts of all kinds (including written, spoken, the visual, aural, as well as poetry, fiction and non-fiction) including reversionary writing, collage, reviewing, adaptation, pastiche and parody, using texts as source material (literally and thematically), creative responses, as well as critical responses.

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This week they wrote collaborative Jerry Cornelius stories, using novelist Michael Moorcock’s open source character, and re-versioned poet Eileen Tabios’ poem ‘the Secret Life of an Angel’, itself a writing back to Jose Garcia Villa’s ‘Girl Singing’. The students’ work has been published online by John Bloomberg-Rissman, who published a book from the project, 1000 Views of ‘Girl Singing’, and Eileen Tabios has commented on the work and republished three of the texts, choosing to feature three in non-English languages: Huttese (language of Jaba the Hutt from “Star Wars”), Klingon, and Afrikaans.

Find Eileen Tabios here and John Bloomberg-Rissman’s blog Zeitgeist Spam here.


by FalWriting