Shuffles Nervously

Eli Regan
Shuffles Nervously

"People dine, just dine, but at that moment their happiness is being made or their life is being smashed."

Chekhov

This is the essence of what I wanted to capture in my vignettes in 'Shuffles Nervously'. The feeling that with some rough sketches in seemingly mundane settings you can suggest whether a character is breaking or celebrating.

The images can be read as the places in between where the characters exist- a lone bench, abandoned warehouses, shadows, a path, a road, an allotment. Both the vignettes and the pictures exist as a series of observational, alluding sketches rather than definitive portrayals of the places and people.

The voices used for each vignette make the stories come alive. They lift them from being my own true if subjective experiences and become fictional and communal happenings.

Aphex Twin - Flim

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Untitled - Pete Regan

Atmospheric art film by Pete Regan, my brother. Melancholy in non-places. Beauty in the bleak:

I scrubs - E Regan (poetry pamphlet)

Hi all,

My pamphlet came out in May 2010. It was also the month I discovered I was pregnant, thus making me forgetful of all things poetry, and focused on baby.

If you're interested in purchasing it, here's the link:

http://www.erbacce-press.com/#/eli-regan/4540399102

and click either 'add to cart' or click on the cover image and order it.

Some lovely things writers said about it:

'Regan has studied photography, so she understands the urge to capture a moment that is charged with latent meaning, that balances on the tightrope of too much information and too little. She is, like a good photographer, alive to the minor malfunctions of the world, the anomalies that shape our lives much more than we realise. Her subjects are often trapped within a metaphorical frame, their lives trammelled by duty, convention, inertia. And yet still they dream, still they escape.

Not content to inhabit photographs, Regan also inhabits a photographer, becoming Diane Arbus in the throes of three photographic encounters. This brazen embodiment reveals the photographer’s duality: the urge to remain true to a situation, yet knowing it must be manipulated in the pursuit of that ‘truth’. Similarly, Regan gives herself licence to invent in the pursuit of her own truths.

Beyond the frozen moment, Regan is also a storyteller. Her poems offer oblique, fragmentary insights that can be rolled out into whole lives. But like all poets, and many photographers, she sifts her way through life in search, not of answers, but of laden questions. She leaves our heads full of pictures that have a life of their own' - Greg Leach, author of 'Twice Told Tales'

'Eli Regan writes highly original, filmic poems that explore the perspectives of outsiders. With great empathy she often constructs worlds through the voices of her protagonists; whether it is a Madrid prostitute, or a girl living in the slums of New York at the end of the nineteenth century. Regan gives voices to those denied a voice, and in doing so creates an alternative world that is genuinely subversive and compelling' - Amy McCauley, work has appeared in 'Rialto', 'Obsessed with Pipework', etc

'Regan's poems are equally concerned with eye and voice. Her interest in documentary photography gives her a striking way
into other people's lives, other people's stories.' - Michael Symmons Roberts, author of 'Corpus', broadcaster - Radio 4.