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John Siddique


http://www.johnsiddique.co.uk/ - reads at the launch of The Naked Muse Calendar - at Kraak Gallery Manchester


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Andrew McMillan


http://www.saltpublishing.com/books/anth/9781907773105.htm - http://www.nawe.co.uk/DB/young-writer-profiles/andrew-mcmillan.html - reads at the launch of The Naked Muse Calendar - at Kraak Gallery Manchester

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Alexander Hutchison


http://www.alexanderhutchison.com/ - reads and sings at the launch of The Naked Muse Calendar - at Kraak Gallery Manchester


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Longfella (Tony Walsh)


http://longfella.co.uk/ - performs at the launch of The Naked Muse Calendar - at Kraak Gallery Manchester

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Naked Muse Newsletters



During the development and final publishing of the calendar we produced a excellent Newsletter to keep the 40+ artists and supporters, it featured essays articles and personal reflections of the process and manufacture of this calendar. We are providing the calendar for download using an ad fly If link this form of advertising link helps us pay for the website.
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Naked Muse Newsletter No.1


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"…The Naked Muse 2012 calendar came into existence as an idea, born one cold January night while watching over my three year old son as he slept. He was diagnosed with type one diabetes in August 2010, aged two. As I spent another sleepless night monitoring his blood sugar levels through hourly checks, I decided I wanted to do what I could to raise awareness about this life threatening auto- immune disease, and raise funds to support research into a cure…"


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Naked Muse Newsletter No.2


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"…When Adam first suggested the idea of the calendar, I laughed but then I started to think about it. It struck me that whilst there are plenty of images (both written and visual) of the virile, Byronic male poet, celebrated for his lustiness and wild, passionate ways, fed by the source of his “muse”, there is no such image for the female poet. Yet, if, as this image perpetuates, sexual desire, passion, transgression and beauty are all food for the poetic soul, then surely the female poet is as capable of being creatively fired up by the male muse?…"


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Naked Muse Newsletter No.3


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"...The roof leaks golden brown dust, like the sugar deadly for your diabetes.


I have been writing a series of elegies for my aunty Rita who died from kidney failure in September 2001. This was a complication caused by her diabetes..."



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Naked Muse Newsletter No.4


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"...We are all aware of the culture of the male poet as the lothario (and this does apply exclusively to male poets). Handsome and strangely irresistible, he stalks our collective psyche as the aloof writer immersing himself in nature, expressing himself only in pained sonnets. In 2008, Tom Mole published ‘Byron’s Romantic Celebrity: Industrial Culture and the Hermeneutic of Intimacy’ in which he describes the impact of Byron on our prototype of the male poet. It is the ingredients of Byron’s ‘brand’, Mole argues, that we attribute stereotypically to the male writer. These liminal pan-poets maraud their territories, polygamous and virile. Their muses are many and heavy are their influences. It is easy to think of the Don Juans that have followed and been stamped as Byronic figures; Dylan Thomas, Ted Hughes, Ernest Hemmingway... To a certain extent, it would be very difficult to invert this perception and attribute these same qualities to the female writer and moreover, celebrate her for it. The female is still very much the one that is gazed at…"




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Naked Muse Newsletter No.5


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"...There is not much dialogue on beauty in popular culture. There is a lot of marketing, and branding which we adopt styles and fashions from, but there is little discussion of actual beauty. When it comes to the idea of male beauty there is even less so, and the representations tend to fall into one of two depicted types…"




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Naked Muse Newsletter No.6


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"...Django was a gift to us. When he was finally born, on a snowy night in January, at home beside the fire, I held him in my exhausted arms and honestly, I felt terrified by the love I felt, so overwhelming was it, so huge the task ahead. I also knew that I would do anything and everything to keep him safe and that I would exchange my life for his in a heartbeat. As I nursed him, I held him close to me, singing to him, telling him stories, showing him the new world growing just as he was. The days went by. We watched him grow, learn to talk, to crawl, to explore and share in his discoveries. He was bright and funny and gentle…"





...the most tasteful naked calendar in the history of naked calendars... (Deutsche Welle, World Link)
Deutsche Welle, World Link
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