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New Concrete Poetry: "Collected" by Charlotte Jung (reviewed by De Villo Sloan) - minimalist concrete poetry

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Cover of Collected by Charlotte Jung (Sweden: Timglaset 2023)  (Image courtesy of the artist) Essay/review -  Collected: Concrete Poems  by Charlotte Jung   Malmo, Sweden: Timglaset (2023)   124 pages, perfect bound, 7” X 8”   Review by De Villo Sloan   In preparing to write this essay on the minimalist poetry of Charlotte Jung, I have been greatly assisted by the publication of Collected: Concrete Poems by Charlotte Jung . This edition was released in 2023 by Timglaset, the acclaimed Swedish publisher of postavant lit. Collected gathers the majority of Jung’s minimalist compositions to date, including the contents of entire chapbooks and longer sequences, among them C (2019), (SEED) (Timglaset 2020), Hole Being (No Press 2021), and RAPE ( The Blasted Tree 2022), among others. This substantial volume does much to establish Jung as an important, innovative minimalist poet of the 21 st century. Readers of contemporary visual poetry, asemic writing and new poetic g
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Excerpts from "A B C D E" - Minimalist Concrete Poetry by Charlotte Jung (Sweden)

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Excerpt from A B C D E (2021) by Charlotte Jung (Stockholm, Sweden)  (Image courtesy of the artist) I am thrilled to welcome visual poet Charlotte Jung to the international list of poets and artists who are making The New Concrete Poetry blog an increasingly popular location to see the latest work in this exciting genre. Two goals of mine have intersected in this post: (1) I want to devote more attention to minimalist concrete poetry and (2) I have been very impressed by the minimalist work of Charlotte Jung. Charlotte and I are correspondents. Thanks to her kindness, we can look forward to seeing her exciting innovations.  The selections here come from Charlotte's chapbook A B C D E published by Trombone in Gothenburg, Sweden, in their Svavel Series (23) (2021). - De Villo Sloan October 30, 2024 Excerpt from  A B C D E  (2021) by Charlotte Jung (Image courtesy of the artist) Excerpt from  A B C D E  (2021) by Charlotte Jung (Image courtesy of the artist) Excerpt from  A B C D E
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New Concrete Poetry (Neo-Concrete Poetry) - "Soneto Mesmice" by Karlos Chapul (Brazil)

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 "Soneto Mesmice" by Karlos Chapul (Ribeirao Petro, Brazil) (2015)  (Image courtesy of the artist)
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Vispo Sonnet by Hilde Vandenhout (Sint-Niklass, Belgium)

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  "Untitled (ink on paper)" by Hilde Vandenhout, (Sint-Niklass, Belgium)  (October 2024) (Photo courtesy of the artist)
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New Concrete Poetry (Neo-Concrete Poetry) by Nick Piombino (New York City, USA)

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 "New York Public Library" (June 2024) by Nick Piombino  (New York City, NY, USA)  (Image courtesy of the artist)  "Plastic" (July 2024) by Nick Piombino   (Image courtesy of the artist)  "Brooklyn" (August 2024) by Nick Piombino   (Image courtesy of the artist) "Now" (June 2024) by Nick Piombino   (Image courtesy of the artist) "Top" (July 2024) by Nick Piombino   (Image courtesy of the artist)
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New Concrete Poetry (Neo-Concrete Poetry) by Luz Otxoa (Spain)

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  "Escombros Subitos" by Luz Otxoa (Spain) (September 2024)  (Image courtesy of the artist) "Using metafore for anything" by Luz Otxoa (September 2024)  (Image courtesy of the artist) "peace or pieces" by Luz Otxoa (September 2024)  (Image courtesy of the artist) "Bouche de Feu" by Luz Otxoa (September 2024)  (Image courtesy of the artist) "Stretching Pulse" by Luz Otxoa (September 2024)  (Image courtesy of the artist)
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New Concrete Poetry by Ankie Van Dijk (Baarle-Nassau, Netherlands)

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  "..en.." by Ankie Van Dijk (Baarle-Nassau, Netherlands) (September 2024)  (Photo courtesy of the artist) "My typewriter is missing '1', '0', and '='. Had to improvise." by Ankie Van Dijk  (July 2024)  (Photo courtesy of the artist) "12 X 8 cm." by Ankie Van Dijk  (June 2024)  (Photo courtesy of the artist) "Experimenting with new material" by Ankie Van Dijk  (June 2024)  (Photo courtesy of the artist) "Playing with a typewriter" by Ankie Van Dijk  (June 2024)  (Photo courtesy of the artist)
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