Philip Davenport makes poems out of shopping lists, fashion magazines, porn. His first collection Imaginary Missing People was published by seminal experimental press Writers Forum. Davenport's Vogue Divine series * modeled by transvestite artist Phil Sayers * was billposted throughout Manchester in 2002. In 2004 Davenport's Heart Shape Pornography series was handwritten onto hundreds of apples and exhibited at the Walker, Liverpool as part of the Biennial. In 2005, he helped curate the groundbreaking Bury Text Festival of poetry and text art. During this time he made a series of soundpieces from overheard conversations.

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