Sunday, 27 February 2011

18s

From the Cutlery press(KFS): An anthology of 18-word poems by:

Richard Barrett
Mark Cobley
Emily Critchley
Alex Davies
Stephen Emmerson
Alison Faulds
S J Fowler
Susana Gardner
Harry Godwin
Christine Hamm
Jeff Hilson
Emily Howard
Simon Howard
Peter Hughes
Tom Jenks
Linus Slug
Maria Teutsch
Tom Watts

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It was Mark Cobley's idea. My sequence is called Argon & the colourful - I used a typewriter & scannd the results in. I have no idea what it looks like in the book, but I hope it's green.




I've also provided a niner sequence for something, possible angel exhaust - i don't know, details are sketchy, but I used the typewriter for them too. It's refreshing using a different type of keyboard, & it makes each word definite, harder to erase.

Another note - I'll soon be sending off my Dusie Toad sequence from the willows-inspired poems. It's now called TOAD-WHOOPS, & I'm happier with it than I am with the two above sequences. It's been revised & revised & here is a clip:

XI

a traffic cone perched rakishly over
mustard green trousers
              slumped in the shower
in his best Al-Qaeda approved garb
but it was fun
      & fast with some tiny squealy bucks
I like your curtain rail…
    But I must say I remember some
bizarre conversation LOL from acorns

Wednesday, 26 January 2011

& I'm 18 that's why my hands are shaking

Saturday, 23 October 2010

Sunday, 15 August 2010

Tuesday, 20 July 2010

Rat



X


Brown & small & grave & round &

he saw he was approaching

a big dark hole in the bank

with neat ears & silky hair

it was another Rat!

Monday, 19 July 2010

Mole



X


two fields off a chauffeur:

sitting sprang scrambling & gassing

Toad again & assing heedless

he sighed

     & blew

the delicate                       curve