(with added ghosts, kites, composting and piñatas) Recently, I’ve been asked by quite a few people why I am a collage artist. Not just in the aesthetics or the idea of collage as a small act of resistance, but in the personal scale of it.… Read more
Magical artefacts of image and text – broadsides
It’s been a while since I posted on here. This is mainly because I’ve been busy with collaborative and commercial projects. I’ve been busy thinking about flower-headed figures and the moon, and how I might incorporate small hand-drawn creatures into collage. But I also wanted… Read more
Pop up & pop out visual poetry book experiments
During June I’ve been experimenting with pop-up and pop out ideas. I want to be ready to work with The Ethelzine next year on a visual poetry book. It’s also great timing because the staff showcase is coming up at my workplace, Hereford College of… Read more
What a wonderful whorl! (by Ralph La Rosa)
I’m really proud to be able to showcase a response by Ralph La Rosa to the Rattle Ekphrastic Challenge, won by Mary Meriam. The poem is below, and huge thanks to Ralph for both sharing the poem with me and being happy for me to… Read more
National Poetry Writing Month
It’s April, which means National Poetry Writing Month, or NaPoWriMo for short. What is National Poetry Writing Month? The challenge of NaPoWriMo is to write a poem a day for 30 days, and there are various lovely prompts and communities of writers working across the… Read more
Rattle Ekphrastic Results
The Rattle Ekphrastic Results are out! Thank you so much, Rattle, for choosing my work your Ekphrastic Challenge this February. If you have a minute at all, do go and look at Mary Meriam’s beautiful ghazal, ‘Homemaker’., which was my favourite for the Ekphrastic challenge… Read more
What is Visual Poetry?
I’m frequently asked to describe what I think of as visual poetry (or Vispo) so I thought I’d write a blog post about it. For me, visual poetry works in an intersection between the visual arts and poetic texts. I once heard ‘poetry’ described as… Read more
Erasure Poems
I’ve just spent a week making erasure poems, and started to think about what these are to me and what the form might mean. What are Erasure Poems? For those who are new to erasure poems there’s a great article here from Erin Dorney (on… Read more
Collage: The Butterfly House
I bought a manual typewriter with my unexpected Rattle Ekphrastic Challenge windfall! This means I get to experiment with text cut-outs from my own poetry. I have a quick-fire response to the Visual Verse Challenge that’s just up on their website. As a springboard, I’ve… Read more
Rattle’s February Ekphrastic Challenge
I’m thrilled that my artwork has been chosen by Rattlemag’s editor for the February Rattle Ekphrastic Challenge. I’m also super-excited, as this means I’ll get to read some ekphrastic poetry. I love ekphrastics – their potential for collaboration between visual and words, and the way… Read more