day thirty ...

phnompenhonal

day twenty nine

marrimage

day twenty eight ...

alfalfabef

day twenty seven ...

hy-ph-en-om-en-on-on-

This had fallen through the letter box & was waiting on the mat. That's four days to travel all the way from San Francisco. Impressive.

Eleven new poems by LJ.

& they're impressive, too.

day twenty six ...

distaught

day twenty-five ...

fflowerishes

day twenty-four ...

£zra

day twenty-three ...

apollenair

Day twenty-two ...

dsiguise

(found pwoermd

in 'Through the Looking-Glass',

Collected Poems and Translations,

Veronica Forrest-Thomson,

line 5, page 221)

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sigend

(found pwoermd

in the colophon to

Some Other Kind of Mission,

Lisa Jarnot,

line 10, no page number)

1.

2.

3.

4.

(The Paris trip in four photos)

day twenty-one ...

abyz

day twenty ...

parisight

Day nineteen

whomoaspenis

Day eighteen ...

missi!e

Day seventeen ....

Three for Francis Ponge

objex

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objest

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objecstasy

ringcycling

Day sixteen ...

hobloglin

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hobbyte

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orchestra

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imply

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elfy

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dwarful

Day 15 ...

haspiration

Day fourteen ...

antidisestablishmentarianisn't

Today's (and yesterday's) trawl of the secondhand bookshops ...

White Teeth, Zadie Smith (recommended by Matt in Finland & the first chapter seems good)

Distance & Proximity, Thomas A. Clark

(an absolute gem - and contains the wonderful In Praise of Walking)

Veronica Forrest-Thomson and Language Poetry, Alison Mark (a surprising find)

The Language Instinct, Steven Pinker (going cheap & I've never read it - probably should have)

Media Studies: a reader, eds. Marris & Thornham

plus ... The Media Student's Book, eds. Branston & Stafford

(good ammunition for the new IB syllabus)

Day thirteen ...

p/ohm

amulettrismegistus 2

amulettrismegistus 3

amulettrismegistus 1

(some tweaking & tidying up to be done when I get back)

Day twelve ...

nininalisn

Day eleven ...

two for Warren Craghead

&

drawereward

This was waiting for me when I arrived yesterday. I notice it's in the same imprint as Ray Dipalma's The Ancient Use of Stone (which makes sense). Theoretical perspectives on visual and concrete poetry that I hadn't really considered. Better still, a great springboard for ideas and projects. I've ordered a volume of his poems, too.

Day ten:

kn&t

Day nine

noth

Day eight

chimpanzed

Day seven & we're off to pastures new ... (does this one work for anyone out there?)

vengm

Day six ...

seesuns

spurring

summeray

autumnble

windterse

Day five ...

printemporary

... coming up with definitions of irony for students this morning. Here's one I discovered this evening: Belle and Sebastian play for one night in Brussels next Sunday. The day I travel to the U.K..

Day four:

'lossom

Just back from a book signing by Ania Lemin. Her new volume Gaelle et Hector is about the love life of a cloud. A simple story with some deceptively simple illustrations. We talk about books and children (she teaches L. after school on a Friday afternoon) and the pleasures of papers, pens and pencils. She explains how she gets the children to use sharpened twigs and inks made out of berries and nuts. Music to my ears.

I wasn't aware of her other work but now see she's got a Blog at:

http://anialemin.com/dotclear2/

Worth a look. (She sings, too).

... in a bit of a quandary ... whether to follow the unfolding pwoermds or simply plough my own furrow & see what everyone came up with at the end?

On the one hand, the promiscuous swapping of creative juices (read someone's new find and it triggers one, two, three of your own). On the other, the jittery feeling of being anticipated (damn! he/she's done that one - or done it better!). Knowing all along that somewhere out there is that pwoermd waiting to come into being.

No doubt I'll take a peek now and again.

Day three.

whyspring

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"NO ONE IS A POET UNLESS HE HAS FELT THE TEMPTATION TO DESTROY LANGUAGE OR CREATE ANOTHER ONE, UNLESS HE HAS EXPERIENCED THE FASCINATION OF NONMEANING AND THE NO LESS TERRIFYING FASCINATION OF MEANING THAT IS INEXPRESSIBLE" (Octavio Paz)

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Welcome to all pwoermdists! And here's today's effort ...

apri'll