{"id":75,"date":"2023-01-29T14:45:47","date_gmt":"2023-01-29T14:45:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/north-coast.space\/?p=75"},"modified":"2023-01-29T14:45:48","modified_gmt":"2023-01-29T14:45:48","slug":"concrete-poetry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/north-coast.space\/?p=75","title":{"rendered":"Concrete Poetry"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In our one-to-one Michele mentioned Concrete Poetry and that jogged my memory and really appealed to me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Poetry Foundation\u2019s definition : \u201cVerse that emphasizes non-linguistic elements in its meaning, such as a typeface that creates a visual image of the topic. Examples include George Herbert\u2019s \u201cEaster Wings\u201d<\/a> and \u201cThe Altar\u201d<\/a> and George Starbuck\u2019s \u201cPoem in the Shape of a Potted Christmas Tree\u201d<\/a>. More very interesting stuff from the Art Story \u2013 Concrete Poetry Movement Overview | TheArtStory<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This was a really important reminder for me, it seems an obvious direction for me to try out for the \u2018Wallet\u2019 or \u2018Beach\u2019 themes. I\u2019m thinking of collages and composites in photography and maybe writing and\/or ceramics. I\u2019m buzzing with ideas on this!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FIRST ATTEMPTS<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

This occurred to me on the train on Thursday. I have to find the images for it. It\u2019s called Ballysally<\/em><\/strong>, a district of Coleraine, the town where I live.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wallet<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ballet<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sally<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Willow<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This one was because of the similar shades of red in two items from my wallet, my membership card of Brock university and two condoms (brand SHEIK) in the coin pocket. I\u2019ll put in the images later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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BROCK<\/p>\n\n\n\n

BREAK<\/p>\n\n\n\n

QUAKE<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SHAKE<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SHEIK<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In our one-to-one Michele mentioned Concrete Poetry and that jogged my memory and really appealed to me. The Poetry Foundation\u2019s definition : \u201cVerse that emphasizes non-linguistic elements in its meaning, such as a typeface that creates a visual image of the topic. Examples include George Herbert\u2019s \u201cEaster Wings\u201d and \u201cThe Altar\u201d and George Starbuck\u2019s \u201cPoem in the Shape of a… Continue reading Concrete Poetry<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home","category-wallet","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/north-coast.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/north-coast.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/north-coast.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/north-coast.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/north-coast.space\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/north-coast.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76,"href":"https:\/\/north-coast.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions\/76"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/north-coast.space\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/north-coast.space\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/north-coast.space\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}