Tag: visual poetry
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James Knight – A Video on Visual Poetry, Our Calendar and Accessible Art
It is such an honour to have been able to bring this visual poetry calendar to pri t with James. I know his work well, he was amongst the first books Beir Bua published. So for me, Michelle Moloney King to collab with him… you can learn more about the calendar here or buy directly…
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Mr. Lighting – A Concrete Poem by Dylan King
About this visual poem, as dictated by the poet to me (Michelle Moloney King 😉 I wanted to make orange. To play with the letters – EOG. I want this poem to say, ‘I love you, Mama.” The letters look like lightning and thunder and rain, the ground breaking, lava and fire, then water. The…
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glitter-stoked fractals splintered, reflected
Happy winter solstice, friends in poetry. I’ve enjoyed getting to know your work this year. Thank you for touching my creative life in so many ways. A celebration of winter in the hill towns, typeset with love for winter solstice 2021. This is an old poem that’s been lingering in my mind. I cut it…
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Visual Poems of Life
We’re building a studio for my husband and he’s created all the plans. I noticed a visual poem when I was standing by his desk for a moment, in a diagram for heated floor tubing that was on top of a pile of papers. Then I found another as below, and two more in the…
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Heal The Wire
Typographic experiment here: loosely translating deliberate illegibility in the original cut-up book “Heal The Wire” (such as by reversing words, or taking advantage of printer smears) ➾ to regular inline text. T̵̡̹̙̦̍̓͌̾͊ime is a fraying tape of ɔ̷̹͔̹͔͇̀̓̒̏͋o̵̯͙͚͑ɿ̶̨͙͒͋̇o̵̙̍̕͘n̵̡̻̱̮͊͋̏͋͗ɒ̸̼̗͘v̵̧̩̱͑́î̶̡̜̳̿̓̈̕ɿ̴̥̪͈̭̊̆υ̷̪̖̰͔͔̾̾̈́ƨ̴̲͌̍ lessons and it twists off-again, on-again, T̸̟̬̉͒esting T̵̡̹̙̦̍̓͌̾͊esti̵͙̘̋̀͒͜n̷̛̝͓̋͑͠g̶̳͚͎͠ Ş̶̩̱̰͓͉͚̣̲̤͍̤̱̜̋̆̇̈́̑̐͗̓̕ing Ș̵̨̃ing̴̘̲͙̫̪̫̝̱̖̗̅͐̀̿̽̃͘ As we tip̷̨̨̗̯̩̠̈́̏toe the same ḅ̴͔̤̃́͠ranch, a…
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Issue III is live – Ireland’s Best Vispo Poetry Journal
I said it’s the best so it must be true. The lineup of poets is stellar…well, I think anyway. I don’t read bios. I did a vispo course and asked class mates to sub – turned out they are stars. I asked a few cool people I follow on twitter. And chatted to a few…
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Join BB editor for a free facebook live with South Tipp Arts Centre to celebrate celebrate Poetry Day Ireland 2021
Join us at 7:30pm on 29th April here on Facebook to celebrate Poetry Day Ireland 2021. Experimental poetry and Visual poetryYou gotta write, for your right – to poetry. Hear about the journey from lockdown banana bread to becoming a published poet and founder of the successful Beir Bua Journal – Ireland’s leading experimental poetry…
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