The New Concrete Poetry & Neo-Concrete Poetry

"Still Life With Medicine" by Laura Kerr (Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada)  (May 2025) (Image courtesy of the artist) My Pharmacological Series by Laura Kerr is a poetic diagnostic series that is part visual poetry and part conceptual critique. It explores how language, like medicine, is dosed, delayed, over-prescribed, and sometimes ineffective. My work does not promise cures. It functions more like poetic capsules: distilled, delayed, mislabeled, or blank. Damien Hirst first gave us the cabinet. Now I give you the chart. The insert. The unread scan. Each image is a fragment of medicalized language - glitched, withheld, or still processing. This is pharma-poetics as ghost report. a place where meaning is pending, prescriptions overflow, and the poem refuses its own diagnosis. -S S S- "A/Distilling/X-Ray []" by Laura Kerr  (May 2025) (Image courtesy of the artist) "500 mg. Poem" by Laura Kerr  (May 2025) (Image courtesy of the artist) "Monochrome Field: Co...

Cover of  Visual Poetry  by John McConnochie (Queensland,  Australia)  (BlackHill Press 2025) Review of  Visual Poetry  by John McConnochie Kyneton, Victoria: BlackHill Press  2025 20 pages, chapbook Review by De Villo Sloan Australian poet, visual poet and groundbreaking publisher Pete Spence  has released via BlackHill Press a beautifully curated yet Spartan collection of visual poems by John McConnochie. John McConnochie has set an international gold standard for asemantic (aka asemic, abstract calligraphy) constructs due to his creative leadership at the New Postliterates group on Facebook: The largest digital community of asemic writers in the universe. On the cover of  Visual Poetry  is a circular work: suggesting a cycle. The remainder of the contents is 15 (vaguely) sonnet-like structures that move through a stunningly diverse array of variations and styles.  I find "reading" these poems is similar to the experience of readi...

"Collage" by Ankie Van Dijk (Baarle-Nassau, Netherlands)  (March 2025)  (Image Courtesy of the artist) "Collage, partly Readymade" by Anki Van Dijk (May 2025)  (Image Courtesy of the artist) "Untitled" by Ankie Van Dijk (April 2025)  (Image Courtesy of the artist) "Notes du Livre Premier" by Ankie Van Dijk (January 2025)  (Image Courtesy of the artist) "X" by Ankie Van Dijk (April 2025)  (Image Courtesy of the artist) "Playing with found materials, using thread" by Ankie Van Dijk  (March 2025)  (Image Courtesy of the artist) "Voor" by Ankie Van Dijk  (April 2025)  (Image Courtesy of the artist)

"Salvation & Miracles (or a poem found on the streets of Tuxtla Gutierrez)"   by Mirlo Blanco (Chiapas, Mexico) (April 2025)  (Image courtesy of the artist) "Imitation of Miguel Hernandez"  by Mirlo Blanco  (April 2025)  (Image courtesy of the artist)