“I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (1925) It is a memorable line in The Great Gatsby. The heroine — Daisy — wants her daughter to be a beautiful little fool. This series title “Blanc Cassé” means the broken white in French traditional colour. There is no … [Read more...]
geographies by Mark Young
The visual geographies are manipulated art works, sometimes derived from the actual place named, sometimes not. They're aligned with the text poetry produced under the same umbrella title, but reference Australia rather than the rest of the world, & are less concerned with depicting "some essential weirdness of the 'global' info-capitalist culture we're all trying to survive … [Read more...]
Eight found-word collage poems by J.I. Kleinberg
These visual poems are from an ongoing series of collages (1900+) built from phrases created unintentionally through the accident of magazine page design. Each contiguous fragment of text (roughly the equivalent of a poetic line) is entirely removed from its original sense and syntax. The text is not altered (except for the occasional deletion of prefixes, suffixes, or … [Read more...]
Pre Word: ego is dead. Visual poetry by Nico Vassilakis
Chocolate, Cigar and Orange Pekoe: visual poems by hiromi suzuki
I am collecting old postcards in tins. Tins are boxes emptied of souvenirs such as chocolate candies, cigars, and tea leaves. Old postcards are purchased at my secret store in Tokyo. By the way, I have never been to Bern, Rome or Yellowstone. However, I am enjoying a journey around the world by making collages with old postcards. And my collages have remaining scents of … [Read more...]
Letter Wheels by Nico Vassilakis now available
Timglaset has just published a large format artist's book containing nine of Nico Vassilakis' letter wheels. It's limited to only 60 copies and is available now from Timglaset for €10.00. From the afterword by Nico Vassilakis: Where letters are conterminous Where a letter neighbors another Where letters detach from the word they're caught in Where letters only huddle and … [Read more...]
Visual poetry by Sheila E. Murphy
sophie anne edwards: Ice Poems
These poems were co-created with ice along the Kagawong River. A sheet of ice had broken off the bank and dropped into the river, leaving an exposed, flat ice ridge. I stood on the separated ice shelf below, shifting with the moving river, and penned the words with water-based ink. The ice did its thing. … [Read more...]
JUNCTION by Robert R. Thurman
Beyond the Moment: visual poetry by hiromi suzuki
There are old postcards and ephemeral photographs in my collection. Mediocre sceneries are in monochrome pictures. Anonymous people who were photographed are saying from the past, ― I am here ―. This series of visual poetry is made with old postcards. To say precisely, I will first photograph old pictures with a digital camera and output them. Photographs will be output leaving … [Read more...]
Visual poetry by Richard Biddle aka (bid)
The place where someone’s waiting for me: visual poetry by hiromi suzuki
These collages have been made on screen prints which I printed several years ago. When I found the prints, just as if I read the old letters from the old friends, I felt a nostalgia. ― I miss you. ― Mom's stew is the best. ― Now I'm on a homeward-bound ship. So I will write the first line to meet them again. … [Read more...]
Visual poetry from The City of Dreadful Night by Andre Bagoo
For life is but a dream whose shapes return — James Thomson, The City of Dreadful Night These pieces are excerpted from Andre Bagoo's The City of Dreadful Night, a sequence of visual poems published by Prote(s)xt, Bristol, in May 2018. They are inspired by James Thomson's poem of the same name, first published in … [Read more...]
Visual poetry by Cam Scott: Spools/Burrs (for Clark Coolidge)
Influenced by copy art and zine making, my work uses the copier or scanner as a means of drawing, often adapting, or 'quoting,' a source of conceptual significance. In this, a nostalgic practice of the hand is allied to the borrowed rhythms of an all-but-outmoded means of mechanical reproduction. Excerpted here are two suites of elaboration and compression respectively, … [Read more...]
3 visual poems by József Bíró
Joy of Water: visual poetry by hiromi suzuki
There is Tamagawa Aqueduct under the Daitabashi Station near the town where I live. The name of the place “Daitabashi” comes from "Daidarabotchi” as a giant in Japanese folklore. Daidarabotchi's huge footprints are said to have created lakes and ponds. I searched for historical materials of underground water in Tokyo, walked by side of the springwater and creeks. When I … [Read more...]
Burger Burglar: visual poetry by hiromi suzuki
They were just hungry. They didn't want diamonds, naturally, they didn't hope glittering money in their pocket. They ran through the town and ordered chicken burgers at the counter of diner. Burger with plenty of mayonnaise. “I have always wanted to write a book that ended with the word 'mayonnaise.” ― Richard Brautigan … [Read more...]
The seasons: visual poetry by hiromi suzuki
The seasons are similar to a Merry-Go-Round. On the beach during the winter, a chill breeze reminds the wagon a cry. It's an ecstatic scream of delight in the summer. … [Read more...]
Visual poetry by József Bíró
Visual Poetry by Drew B. David
I'm interested in pushing the envelope, if that's possible in this day & age. I've been most influenced by the visionary genius, Dick Higgins, a major pioneer of the intermedia aesthetic. As such, I am into mixed media/collage. I believe the future of poetry/narrative/prose/what have you will be a mixture of the visual and textual, because textual narrative (prose or verse) … [Read more...]
borders
"borders" is one of a series of visual poems gathered together under a working title of [sic]. Additional pieces can be found online at Coldfront and at h&. … [Read more...]
Invisible stories
Nobody knows the stories in the future. Only the first letters of the words forming part of phrases are what we can put on the lines. Well, let's look forward to what kind of stories will start from these initials. … [Read more...]
monologue: visual poetry by hiromi suzuki
The parade of the seasons is displayed on a monochrome screen. Transparent light, surface of the water, and white roses in a pot are rippling through the glass door. The seasons each recite monologue in a film without title role. … [Read more...]
Nothing (but)
It is a rainy day, there's no one in the forest. My right retina as a lens of camera shoots this scene. Left retina memorises this time. I remember that Roland Barthes called it "the punctum", and also the testimony of life beyond that moment. In the forest, there's nothing (but). … [Read more...]
Terre: visual poetry
When I'm sitting on the stairs of my apartment, I find some glittering bright flying objects in the night sky. These are not stars, it's clear. "L'Étranger" may be looking at me from outer space. I wonder he can identify our strange sphere. And I'm thinking about "L'Étranger" drifting in the dark. … [Read more...]
Oblivion — visual poetry by hiromi suzuki
I'm not good at calculations. I don't know how many coins are in my pocket. I don't remember how many people encountered yesterday. Numbers are doomed to oblivion. … [Read more...]
Vispo by Chris Turnbull
"maybe" was first published by Chaudiere Books in April, 2015. … [Read more...]
‘weather reports’: visual poetry by hiromi suzuki
Artist's statement: Weather reports rarely come true. Sometimes people changes their mind like sudden rain. They are falling and laughing like the sun-shower of letters. … [Read more...]
