Femtopoems
Gweithdy Collaboratory efo Rhys Trimble 26.3.22
Mini-Concrete poetry workshop
Experimenting with ultraminimal poetry with Rhys Trimble using letterpress, (lead moveable type), lettraset (transfer) or word-processing software. Drawing inspiration from such minimalists as Aram Saroyan, Concrete poets like Catherine Vidler and your own microimpulses. Using small fonts and microtools to create poems for our little members of utopias bach to read in their dioramas, and using procedural constraints to create the nano/femtopoems. From these constraints a great (and diminutive) richness emerges!
Works by: Anna, Lana, Samina, Wanda, Lisa, Elinor, Emily, Steph, Kar, Femke, Rhys, Sarah, Lindsey.
Macro
Activity: Use wooden blocks to start with going subword overlay and tie together A4 size work.
The Regular Show
Activity:
Use Typewriter and Lettroset to make smaller subverbal lexis/ non-connotive / asemic poems
Aim for 10cm square
Femtoverse
Activity: Use lead type ‘tools’ to make femtopoems
3 moves with 3 different tools
aim for 3mm square and little scrolls for the tiny people
References
James Davies
Pammy: My boobs and I
Aram Saroyan
Edwin Morgan
A Far Cool Beautiful Thing, Vanishing
blue
The Dear Green Plaice
Glasgow
Homage to Zukofsky
the
The Dilemmas of a Horn
roncesvalles
Ada Nada Paradada
dom
Lattice, Lettuce, Ladders
vasarely
Wet Dry Wet Dry Wet Asdic
dolphins
Dangerous Glory
morning
O Vapour-trails! O Water-melons!
voznesensky