Eclipse Concrete poems of Alan Riddell
With 50 word pictures( this short book of concrete poems was in 1972) truly innovative using a typewriter keyboard to create concrete poetry
.The current expanded digital keyboard of the modern era facilitates
greater pictorial shape poetry
( as illustrated for example by the 'emagi' reverse
ekphrasis poetic form) which owes much to the
concepts displayed half a century earlier .
Concrete poet Alan Riddell
with the typewriter did excel
Picture poems were his (u) (s) (p)
created with a simple tab-key
minimalist words
from Saroyran
visuality
typed
typography
from Riddell
rings
a concrete
bell
Turnbull
the most
intuitive
as the reader
must
participate
the 'unsaid'
space
the
imaginative
bait
&cause
of a
poignant
thought pause
My 'Turnbull 'spaces example
PECKING ORDER
Sparrow on the bird table
the hawk has a feast
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