Small cosmos: virtual hypertext

The magic in poetry is that not only is a poem LIKE a cosmos, it can BE, maybe simply, IS a cosmos of reader, hearer, speaker, writer, words, sounds, spaces, histories, intentions, interpretations, meanings, etc. Every poem carries its shadow and illuminates third spaces. There is a lot of dark matter under and behind and dark energy throughout.

The poet: A wilfully unmediating existential context?

Contemporary poetry often runs the risk of being too academic and not enough of the world. The poet needs to be a wilfully unmediating place for poetry to be drawn from a globally local collective conscious. Either the force exerted by poems must be immediate, direct and great or, like the butterfly wings of chaos, … Continue reading The poet: A wilfully unmediating existential context?