Experimental Poet Miekal And & XEXOXIAL EDITIONS Awarded $5,000 Grant from the Winifred & De Villo Sloan Jr., Charitable Fund
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The New Concrete Poetry (Neo-Concrete Poetry) - Recent Work by Shawn McMurtagh (USA) + Rafael Gonzales (Spain) & 2 X Bennett Collabs (USA)
"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)
Words become images; images become words: New Concrete & Visual Poetry by Hiromi Suzuki (Tokyo, Japan)
"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" & Other New Concrete Poetry by Mike Ferguson (Devon, UK)
"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 "...