#concretepoetry — Public Fediverse posts

2 pics from Derek Beaulieu's _a, A Novel_
"an erasure-based translative response to Andy Warhol’s eponymous novel. Beaulieu carefully erases all of the text on each page of the original work, leaving only the punctuation marks, typists’ insertions and onomatopoeic words."

#paperposts #derekBeaulieu #concretePoetry #visPo

A Home in Space: Edwin Morgan’s Selected Concrete, Visual & Sound Poetry
17 September, University of Glasgow – free

An evening to discover & celebrate the incredible body of visual & sound poetry by Edwin Morgan, much of which is rarely seen & will now be available in this significant new volume from Reaktion Books.

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-home-in-space-edwin-morgans-selected-concrete-visual-sound-poetry-tickets-1996801819996

#Scottish #literature #poetry #visualpoetry #concretepoetry #soundpoetry #EdwinMorgan #20thcentury

“the word Metropolis – even as I type it here I feel it – stirs my blood”

Greg C. Thomas on how Glasgow’s post-war high-rise construction gave ‘concrete poetry’ its most site-specific connotation for Edwin Morgan

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https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2023/11/i-am-iron-bard-edwin-morgan-concrete-poetry-and-the-glasgow-high-rises/

#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #20thcentury #concretepoetry #Glasgow #skyscraper #SkyscraperDay #EdwinMorgan

R U the 1?

RU the 1?
the 1 2 read
what I wrote?

UC
UR more than a
stat
and that
is all that
matters
2 me

If 1 word
gives life
2 U
that is
the only
stat
that
is true

August 1, 2015

A Home in Space: Selected Concrete, Visual and Sound Poetry by Edwin Morgan – edited by Greg Thomas & Julie Johnstone – will be published in August 2026 by Reaktion Books

https://reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/a-home-in-space

#Scottish #literature #poetry #concretepoetry #soundpoetry #visualpoetry #EdwinMorgan

“He was an advocate of the new, & that made him stand out in a Scottish modernist literary milieu where there was a kind of gruff, backwards-looking impulse”

—Greg Thomas on A HOME IN SPACE, a new collection of Edwin Morgan’s concrete, visual & sound poetry

https://list.co.uk/news/greg-thomas-on-edwin-morgan-he-nudged-scottish-literature-into-the-modern-world-48514

#Scottish #literature #poetry #concretepoetry #soundpoetry #visualpoetry #EdwinMorgan

The Ancestor Clock is Ticking at:

https://joglars.org/ancestor_clock

for Ted Warnell

#glyphs #pansemic #concretepoetry #vispo #motiontext

Post to blog : Smartphonography Club :
A Memory of Rain, a Flow of Green
#Xiaomi #Xiaomi15TPro #smartphonography #photography #streetphotography #Tokyo #Japan #verdurous #naturalcascade #urbanforgotten #concretepoetry #wabisabi

https://www.smartphonography.club/2026/05/a-memory-of-rain-a-flow-of-green/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social

here's a random paperpost, from 4 October 2020:

Discovered a new small press: Timglaset Editions
https://www.paperposts.me/discovered-a-new-small-press-timglaset-editions

#concretepoetry #smallpress #Sweden #pataphysics #paperpost #fixed #visualpoetry #timglaset

CONCERTO RETYPO

Newly discovered book of concrete poems by mIEKAL aND

1967 is now. I have the book listed for half price for the next month or two for anyone that wants to bone up on what mIEKAL aND would have created in 1967 if not for the fact he was 9 years old at the time.

Published by the infernal / eternal Xerox Sutra Editions.

https://xexoxial.org/xerox-sutra-editions/product/concerto-retypo-1967/

#alternativetimeline
#pansemic
#concretepoetry

CONCERTO RETYPO

Newly discovered book of concrete poems by mIEKAL aND

1967 is now. I have the book listed for half price for the next month or two for anyone that wants to bone up on what mIEKAL aND would have created in 1967 if not for the fact he was 9 years old at the time.

Published by the infernal / eternal Xerox Sutra Editions.

https://xexoxial.org/xerox-sutra-editions/product/concerto-retypo-1967/

#alternativetimeline
#pansemic
#concretepoetry

𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗜’𝗺 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴: "𝗡𝗮𝘇𝗮𝗿 𝗕𝗼𝘆" 𝗯𝘆 𝗧𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗸 𝗗𝗼𝗯𝗯𝘀 -

Premiere collection of poetry by a local Michigander poet, twisting his poetry at the intersections of Arab-American identity and disability, promises a stark and revealing intimacy!

#books #bookreviews #bookworm #readreadread #tbr #tbrpile #tbrlist #reading #tarikdobbs #nazarboy #arabamericanliterature #disabilityliterature #poetry #concretepoetry #experimentalpoetry

“The idea of a ‘vanguard’ in literature has never had much acceptance in this country, though it’s a commonplace on the Continent. The English Channel is a pretty narrow strip of water, but it’s remarkable what an effective barrier it has been to the passage of ideas.”

—Edwin Morgan, in his 1968 essay “Concrete Poetry” – published in In Touch With Language: A New Prose Collection 1950–2005 (ASL, 2020)

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https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/volumes/edwin-morgan-in-touch-with-language/

#Scottish #literature #Easter #poem #poetry #concretepoetry

“Concrete poetry – which emerged almost simultaneously in central Europe and Brazil, and travelled as far as Japan – went down like a lead balloon with British readers, despite finding some of its liveliest practitioners among the Scottish avant-garde.”

—Jeremy Noel-Tod examines the reception of Edwin Morgan’s “Message Clear” following its publication in the Times Literary Supplement

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https://someflowerssoon.substack.com/p/this-elementary-purist-temple

#Scottish #literature #Easter #poem #poetry #concretepoetry

“This poem was written when my father was very ill, dying of cancer, & I was coming home from the hospital. Suddenly this line ‘I am the resurrection & the life’ came into my head & then the poem began to emerge from the line.”

—Edwin Morgan on “Message Clear”

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#Scottish #literature #Easter #poem #poetry #concretepoetry

Naming poem.
(The Tunnel by William Gass)

#concretePoetry #vispo

Posted a few pics of the Derek Beaulieu Catalogue Saisonee from Paper View. Picked it up a good few years ago and finally got around to adding to the blog. It's a wonderfully tactile object.

#concretePoetry #visualPoetry #visPo #poetry #DerekBeaulieu #paperposts

https://www.paperposts.me/beautiful-hand-bound-derek-beaulieu-catalogue/

Magic square Kierkegaard poem. From Lot 29. Calico Doorknob by @ in The Dagon Collection, Ed. Nate Pedersen.

#vispo #concretePoetry

it's been too long since I posted anything concrete so here are a few things from _Source: music of the avant garde_ journal.
Including a Bob Cobbing piece (apologies for the crop). I don't have the deats for the other pieces, if I'm not too lazy I'll try and add later.

http://www.paperposts.me/source-magazine-music-of-the-avant-garde-part-1/

#concretePoetry #visualPoetry #art #paperposts

#nightwalks shadow typography
“ #concretepoetry “

Merry Christmas! In keeping with the season, I present to you my latest chapbook, All the Words of the Reindeer. It is all the words I found (2078, it turns out) I could create with one letter from each of the reindeer names in Twas The Night Before Christmas. My longest chapbook yet, it's a sort-of followup to my 2024 chapbook, All the Words of the Rainbow (which used the common names of the colors of the visible spectrum (ROYGBIV)). Printed and staple bound at home, zine-style. Share your postal address with me and I'll drop one in the mail to you. Merry Christmas!

#reindeer #chapbook #wordplay #concretePoetry #christmas #zine #mailArt

goodk kkkkk unjam ingwe nches lass? start again goodk
lassw enche sking start again kings tart! again sorry…

—Edwin Morgan, “The Computer’s Second Christmas Card”
published in COLLECTED POEMS (Carcanet, 1990)

https://www.carcanet.co.uk/9781857541885/collected-poems/

#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #concretepoetry #20thcentury #computing #EdwinMorgan

jollymerry
hollyberry
jollyberry
merryholly
happyjolly
jollyjelly
jellybelly
bellymerry
hollyheppy
jollyMolly
marryJerry
merryHarry
hoppyBarry
heppyJarry
bobbyheppy
berryjorry…

—Edwin Morgan, “The Computer’s First Christmas Card”
first published in THE SECOND LIFE (Edinburgh University Press, 1968)

#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #concretepoetry #20thcentury #EdwinMorgan #Christmas #ChristmasCard #computer

Concrete Scottish Connections: Finlay, Jandl, Gomringer, & Satie
22 Oct, Edinburgh – free

Ian Hamilton Finlay, Ernst Jandl, & Eugen Gomringer – all born in 1925 – helped shape concrete poetry, breaking linguistic barriers & reimagining the power of words

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/concrete-scottish-connections-finlay-jandl-gomringer-and-satie-tickets-1743611311369

#Scottish #literature #German #poetry #concretepoetry

Today, 30 September, is International Translation Day – read THE BOTTLE IMP: Scottish literature & translation issue free online:

🇩🇪 SUNSET SONG in the GDR
🇮🇹 THE BLACK ARROW on Italian TV
🏆 Scotland’s Nobel-nominated Esperanto poet
🇫🇷 Franco-Scots poetry & postcolonialism
🏗️ Transcreating concrete poetry

https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2019/12/bad-harsk-speech-and-lewit-barbar-tung/

#Scottish #literature #InternationalTranslationDay #translation #SunsetSong #GDR #Italian #Esperanto #French #postcolonial #poetry #concretepoetry

“the word Metropolis – even as I type it here I feel it – stirs my blood”

Concrete Poetry & the Glasgow High Rises: Greg Thomas looks at how Glasgow’s post-war high-rise construction gave ‘concrete poetry’ its most site-specific connotation for Edwin Morgan

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https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2023/11/i-am-iron-bard-edwin-morgan-concrete-poetry-and-the-glasgow-high-rises/

#Scottish #literature #Glasgow #poem #poetry #ConcretePoetry #Skyscraper #SkyscraperDay #highrise

The mile-high buildings flashed, flushed, greyed, went dark,
greyed, flushed, flashed, chameleons under flak
of cloud and sun…

—Edwin Morgan, “Clydegrad”
CENTENARY SELECTED POEMS, Carcanet 2020

Today, 3 September, is Skyscraper Day

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https://www.carcanet.co.uk/9781784109967/centenary-selected-poems/

#Scottish #literature #Glasgow #poem #poetry #ConcretePoetry #Skyscraper #SkyscraperDay