Charles Putschkin 10/27/21 Charles Putschkin 10/27/21

i.e. crazy

“i.e. crazy” and “Of Others” were made using acrylics, an old copy of J.D. Salinger’s Franny and Zooey, the June 18 2021 issue of The Times Literary Supplement, and cartridge paper.

SJ Fowler 9/23/21 SJ Fowler 9/23/21

Mosaic Poems

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Two “mosaic” poems by the avant-garde artist and poem brut editor SJ Fowler

Katy Wimhurst 8/19/21 Katy Wimhurst 8/19/21

Fungi

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These visual poems sit on a line between facts and aesthetics. Factual statements about the natural world, in this case about a type of fungi, are cut up randomly, and the resultant prose mixed with photographic images.

Mercurius 7/2/21 Mercurius 7/2/21

Waiting on a Padded Abyss

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Influenced by such widely disparate sources as Hieronymus Bosch, Bruegel, animation, video games and the Japanese Yōkai spirits, José Castiella’s works are the result of pure chance at the same time as an attempt at controlling the process as it unfolds.

James Knight 7/1/21 James Knight 7/1/21

Cosmologgorhea

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Cosmologgorhea began as a collaborative twitter creative word game with Richard Biddle (also a Mercurius contributor), and has evolved into a combination of fragmented texts and visual poems, with each of us creating several vispos.

Alan Bern 6/16/21 Alan Bern 6/16/21

Dream of a Full Neighbourhood

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Haiga [paintings] are typically painted by haiku poets (haijin), and often accompanied by a haiku poem, according to Wikipedia. With my photos standing in for the paintings, creating photo-haiga is a central part of my daily art practice: I find it both invigorating and meditative, an often odd, but for me, happy combination. I have found that my photo-haiga can bring some readers closer to the poems.

Thomas Helm 6/11/21 Thomas Helm 6/11/21

Book of Miracles

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The Book of Miracles was discovered in a cave in the mountainous province of Girona, Spain. It is written in a language that has long since sunk into the mists of time: the language of the Zohori, an ancient people who once occupied vast swathes of land in and around the Pyrenees but disappeared without a trace circa 1500 BC.

Grzegorz Wróblewski 5/13/21 Grzegorz Wróblewski 5/13/21

Shanty Town

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A Selection of Asemic Writings.

Michelle Moloney King 4/28/21 Michelle Moloney King 4/28/21

Selected Visual Poems of Michelle Moloney King

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My work is informed by play, the relationships of form / shape / colours within the page, of identity and what it means to be unique. And a longing to find the ultimate truth or get "closure" in a world of no logic and absurdity.

T.W. Selvey 4/21/21 T.W. Selvey 4/21/21

Broken Sidewalks

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The series is entitled Broken Sidewalks. I used written text (from a poem I wrote) and manipulated images as the basis for creating these digital artworks.

Rie Blake Marsden 3/30/21 Rie Blake Marsden 3/30/21

Cystisus Scoparius

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In my artwork, I have focused mostly on the ideations of a refined image. I sought to extend the drying time of photographs. To allow the ink to hold traces of the conditions within which the works were placed. I removed the medium of paper from the process, instead, printing directly onto aluminium.

Julia Febrer Bausa 3/18/21 Julia Febrer Bausa 3/18/21

March is When the Blackbirds Build their Nests

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Even in the winter it is possible to hear blackbirds singing (their song intensifies from January onward). They enjoy singing when the Sun is close to the horizon. Also on days with little rain. Their singing, however, follows a different pattern in cities. The lighting and traffic makes them sing even earlier in the morning, and sometimes all night long. We give them neither darkness nor silence.

Paul Hawkins 3/1/21 Paul Hawkins 3/1/21

A Word on Poem Brut

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Paul Hawkins, who co-runs Hesterglock Press, reflects on the meaning and origins of the Poem Brut, an artistic and literary movement that celebrates artistic creative writing - embracing text and colour, space and time, handwriting, composition, abstraction, illustration, sound, mess and motion - affirming the possibilities of the page, the voice and the pen in a computer age.

Richard Biddle 2/26/21 Richard Biddle 2/26/21

Five Visual Asemic Poems

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At the beginning of lock down last year, I started working on a series of asemic-inspired, abstract, A4 pieces. See below five of my more successful and, to my mind 'beautiful', efforts.

SJ Fowler 2/17/21 SJ Fowler 2/17/21

Aletta Ocean Alphabet Empire

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Aletta Ocean’s Alphabet Empire (Hesterglock Press) is a collection of art poems, hand wrought in black, grey, silver and white, fashioned with Indian ink, paint and pen, worked with techniques that edge around writing, vying with abstraction, constantly harrying semantic meaning and legibility. My concerns are sex, poetry and pornography and the disconnect between the former and the latter.

Victor Manzanal 2/12/21 Victor Manzanal 2/12/21

A Long Illness

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A long illness. Graphite on paper. 2021.

Julia Febrer Bausa 2/9/21 Julia Febrer Bausa 2/9/21

A Cry of Desire, A Cry of Goodbye

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Autumn light makes the crayfish eggs hatch.
The last nymphs recently fell from the trees. Many have made their way into the darkness. The first ones that came out already know what the sap tastes like.
They sing silence underground.