The New Concrete Poetry & Neo-Concrete Poetry

"Constructivision 21: E R N O R. 91 / A. D. 1809." by Geof Huth (North Carolina, USA)  (March 2025) (Image courtesy of the poet) " E R N O R. 69 / A. D. 1809. } NEW-YORK, 31st Sᴇꜱꜱɪᴏɴ. / tors and company of the Union turnpike-road, twenty five dollars, to be recovered in an ac-" by Geof Huth (March 2025) (Image courtesy of th e poet) "Constructivision 23: C : - a m a b o h e o F" by Geof Huth (March 2025)  (Image courtesy of the poet) "Constructivision 17: 94 LAV A. D. 1808." by Geof Huth (March 2025)  (Image courtesy of the poet) "Constructivision 20: 132 L A. D. 18 / R N O R. 95 A. D. 18" by Geof Huth  (March 2025) (Image courtesy of the poet)

 

"RAFA'S dance" by Shawn McMurtagh (California, USA) & Rafael Gonzales (Spain)  (December 2024) (Image courtesy of EYE RUSH PRESS) "OPUS" by Shawn McMurtagh & Catherine Mehrl Bennett (USA)  (December 2024) (Image courtesy of EYE RUSH PRESS) "PURGATION" by Shawn McMurtagh  (December 2024)  (Image courtesy of EYE RUSH PRESS) "L O S T spl inters" by Shawn McMurtagh & John M. Bennett  (November 2024)  (Image courtesy of EYE RUSH PRESS) "HER world" by Shawn McMurtagh  (January 2025)  (Image courtesy of EYE RUSH PRESS)

"Untitled (haiku)" by Hiromi Suzuki (Tokyo, Japan)  (July 2024) (Image courtesy of the artist) Words become images; images become words: Concrete & Visual Poetry by Hiromi Suzuki   The work of Hiromi Suzuki reveals the potential of the new visual poetries currently emerging. While Western concrete and pattern poetry represent a kind of hyper-formalism, Suzuki reaches a higher level of expression via skillful use of collage, distortion and many other available tools. Technology has created many new possibilities for concrete poetry. Suzuki’s compositions tend to be language-centered. They also offer the reader fascinating image-text juxtapositions that produce asemics as well. In Suzuki’s vispo, words become images; images become words. At times he uses open field composition, which tend to reduce disruption and fragmentation. I am very pleased to present recent work by Hiromi Suzuki at The New Concrete Poetry. I hope we will see more of his work here. Deepest th...

  "Poetry Scares Fascists" by Mike Ferguson (Devon, UK)  (November 2024)  (Image courtesy of the artist) Mike Ferguson's New Concrete poetry British poet Mike Ferguson works in the classical Western concrete/pattern poetry tradition.  He is also a conventional poet, and he applies this talent to create a language-centered visual poetry.  For me, Ferguson's basic unit of measure is the word. Signs tend to remain intact. Forays into the asemic are few. His exhaustive explorations of words (and context) are intellectually challenging with wonderful, aesthetic experiences part of the journey. Mike Ferguson is clearly comfortable assuming the ideo-cultural stance of (the especially South American) international, concrete poetry movement of the 1950s-70s. Clemente Padin is a towering figure in this milieu. Given these elements, Mike Ferguson's work is (I think deservedly)  enjoying increased interest as the New Concrete Poetry gains acceptance. - De Villo Sloan "...

  "August Sonata in Si Bemol" by Avelino de Araujo  (Brazil) (NCP  9.5.2024) "Don't trust the algorithim" by Luz Otxoa (Colombia)  (August 2024) (NCP  9.6.2024) "New York Public Library" (June 2024) by Nick Piombino  (New York City  USA)  ( NCP 10.1.2024) "Variations on a Non-Theme Piece N. 8 B" by Federico Federici (Italy) (July 2024) Courtesy of Federico Federici &  Weisses Werk)  (NCP  9.12.2024) "Tribute to Kurt Schwitters" by TicTac Patrizia (Germany)  (March 2024)  (NCP  9.18.2024) "The (Poetic) Formation Process of the 'J' apanese Arch 'i' pelago"  by Takahiro Sawamura (Japan) (September 2024)  (NCP  9.18.2024) "Stoen 254: in this act contained" by Geof Huth  (North Carolina,  USA)  (September 2024)  (NCP  9.8.2024) "Experimenting with new material" by Ankie Van Dijk  (Netherlands)  (June 2024)  (NCP  9.25.24) "A Sonnet for Thomas Merton" by Mirlo...