Pleased to have a another found poem in my sequence from writers about writing in today’s IT. With thanks to Nick and Rupert for posting.

You can read here.

Just proofing my poem for this edition, and reading the other contributions with great interest. I look forward to sharing soon when this is finalised.

The three poems I had puplished at ALJ last October, with my thanks.

The journal is currently seeking submissions of Experimental Poetry for Club 26 – Issue 7

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My thanks to Nick and Rupert for posting my poem at International Times today.

This is from a sequence of found poems by poets writing about their poetry…

You can read it here: https://internationaltimes.it/poets-in-their-poetry-4-commitment-poetry/

Having yesterday played around with some linguistic siliness about English/American words, I followed this up with an illustrative tea/supper of homemade sausage roll and ‘B&M Original Baked Beans with molasses, pork and spices’. Here is the initial context and prompt:

I have today thought about an earlier expression of this in my memoir, using better words to articulate the language nuances (spellings and pronunciations…):

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The second edition of The Visual Poetry Times is available today, and I’m delighted to join others with their visual poetry ~ my thanks to editor Dr Astra Papachristodoulou

You can order here: http://www.thepoetrykiosk.com/product-page/the-visual-poetry-times

I have a poem up at IT today, with thanks to Rupert and Nick for posting.

This is the second of five from a sequence about poets on poetry – ideas/words found in their respective writing.

Read today’s here: https://internationaltimes.it/poets-in-their-poetry-3-peace-of-the-poem/

This is a submission not taken, and I am posting here with the description I had supplied about the process of its creation:

Beginning with an idea (abstract/themed/a quote…) the transitions my work move through are essentially accidental – thus found – and can produce interesting/’artistic’ patterns. I can manipulate the progressions to some degree with font selections and varying amounts of enlargement (as well as presenting the final selection of them either as increasing or decreasing or alternating…), but there is always a delightful randomness to the process.

With ‘This noise…’ the eventual transition from angular shapes to the wonderfully fluid and flowing pattern was a good example of the accidental/found part of the process – and it also, by that actual fortuity, gave me the idea for the title: ‘noise becoming something beautiful, if unheard’, though later to Unhearing the Noise to its Flow