The Learned Pig

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Tag: concrete poetry

  • The same scene (nightish)

    The same scene (nightish)

        James Sanders is taking part in Radical Landscapes: Innovation in Landscape and Language Art at The Plough Arts Centre, Great Torrington, Devon from 23rd March to 22nd April 2019. www.singingapplepress.com   In support of the exhibition, The Learned Pig’s Spring 2019 editorial season is devoted to Radical Landscapes.        

  • Concrete Music – Artificial Plant – October

    Concrete Music – Artificial Plant – October

      Concrete Music over six foot   lying on its back                                                 damp-worn sides as souvenirs   of basement tenure unmoved           to the top floor a sun-bleached face now that the upstairs       neighbours are rubble           ears within shouting distance. With shells, the BLOCK was returned to itself                           though imprecisely scythed; concrete lines don’t demarcate but are breached…

  • The New Concrete

    The New Concrete

    The history of concrete poetry charts a path from utopia to dystopia. You could say that there’s a secret history of the second half of the twentieth century embedded in this little movement, one that parallels larger changes across cultural output. By the late 1970s, when concrete poetry collapses into a smouldering heap, few could…

  • Beauty and Revolution / A Token of Concrete Affection

    Beauty and Revolution / A Token of Concrete Affection

    Now is the time to visit Cambridge if you’re a fan of concrete poetry. At Kettle’s Yard is Beauty and Revolution, an exhibition of work by Ian Hamilton Finlay, while the Centre of Latin American Studies plays host to a group exhibition entitled A Token of Concrete Affection. Both are furnished from the private collection…