From "Pharmacological Series" - New Concrete Poetry by Laura Kerr (Canada)

"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.

-SSS-

"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: Complete with PILL Folded Inside" 

by Laura Kerr (May 2025) (Image courtesy of the artist)

"Dossier of a Post-Human Therapist" by Laura Kerr (May 2025) 

(Image courtesy of the artist)