ROGER PHILIP DENNIS ROGER PHILIP DENNIS POET AND ARTIST
ROGER PHILIP DENNIS ROGER PHILIP DENNIS POET AND ARTIST

WYLDE HISTORY

20003 - 20023

PAT FLEMING & THE FIRST BOOKS

Wylde was founded in 2003, and initially run, by Pat Fleming, a founder member of the Dartmoor Moor Poets which is a community of poets based in and around the Dartmoor area.
Originally the purpose of Wylde was to publish the Moor Poets' Collection of Contemporary Poetry From Dartmoor. Moor Poets 1 duly appeared in July 2003.

Moor Poets then took over their own publishing (with many other volumes following,) and there was a Wylde quietus until 2012, when Wylde published Ian Royce Chamberlain's stumble into grace. This is a collection of 50 poems, with cover colloagraph image and several small linoocut illustrations by Anita Reynolds. 

For more details or any remaining copies, contact Moor Poets (website), and email Ian Royce Chamberlain at ianroyce(at)btinternet.com as Wylde holds no stock of these two books.

Wylde was then again inactive until, Pat deciding to leave Dartmoor to return to her home in Tasmania, Wylde was passed on to Steve Day in 2022.
Pat did not, however, leave the country until she had given her enthusiastic endorsement to the first book under the new management, Invocations and Portraits. 

This collection is a co-operative collaboration by Steve Day and Roger Philip Dennis, of paired poems.  It had its launch reading in the Ashburton Friends Meeting Room in January 2023.

THE INVOCATIONS AND PORTRAITS EXTRAVAGANZA -  part of the Ashburton Tinners' Moon Festival in Ashburton Arts Centre, May 2023 

Two photos, one of man in red hat and pink coat & shirt and rd trousers with a microphone and book, and another photo of two dancers in performance with bunting above and pat of a piano to left and audience in front
Roger reading and Steve on percussion; Miguel Valentini and Anna Kushnerova dancing.

Steve Day, although not listed as a musician in the poster above, spent much of the time on drums & percussion when not performing poetry.

Following the Extravaganza, selections from some of the poems read were re-interpreted visually by Roger Philip Dennis in a film-poem SNIPS.

This is not a recording of the performance itself, and does not use the same visuals as the actual Extravaganza.

The following are selected examples of the visuals displayed for each poem during the actual EXTRAVAGANZA performance:

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