Making Poetic the Visual and Visual the Poetic
This book came about as a result of
Course 2 in the MoJo Modules - Accessing
Instinctual Creativity. The five classes were:
What
is Poetry and this included a skid through the
history of poetry and its various forms. Using asemic writing, we then wrote a
limerick, a quatern, a sonnet and free verse poetry - all of which would form
part of a chapbook which was published in an edition of 5 at the end of the
course.
Free
Form word formation and association was the task in
session 2. It was collaborative in that we all worked on 24 different sets of
pages.
These will form part of the next edition
of Mail Art Makes the World a Town (See An Encyclopedia of Everything - http://an-encyclopedia-of-everything.blogspot.com
)
Visual
Representation of Words and Language (including Poetry) from Ancient times to
today was the next section we tackled, including the skid, the slide…(you have to book
for the course to find out about that one)!
And so we went on, until the final class where we assembled the artists
books. Remember - this is not about
being a necessarily a poet - but everyone was surprised, how given the chance,
words make their presence felt. The
course is about accessing creativity which resides inside ALL of us and this
module used the poetics and visual-ness of words as medium.
The final hard covered book consisted of
4 chapbooks from the participants and a book of visual poetry by John Bennett
(USA) who a while ago had sent me extra copies of one of his publications, in
an accordion format with pamphlet stitch pockets.
