To accompany my COLLECTED LONGER POEMS – now published by Grey Suit Editions UK – I am releasing another Heyzine book.

This is my collected ABSTRACTIONS

Click on the link for a free online copy of this collection of my abstract poems.

“I consider as ‘abstract’ my writings and paintings which are generated by some  conceptual or plastic process – such processes may generate narrative or figurative suggestions but these are incidental rather than deliberate. The paintings which accompany these poems are not intended to illustrate the text, rather they are juxtaposed with the text, and any connection between text and image is again incidental. I feel that my notion of abstraction is a reversal of a modernism that moves away from the figurative into abstraction, a reversal of language departing from narrative to find release in syntax. Rather, I begin from some chaotic concept, then allow accident and inconsistency to take me wherever the poem finds its route, which may well prompt a sense of meaning. I readily invite the reader to invent the ghosts of stories, glimpses of scenes discovered by the process.” (author’s note)

This collection includes certain long poems which have not been included in “Collected Longer Poems” because it seemed more appropriate to keep them with my other abstract poems.

On the Heyzine site, my advice is to turn off the sound and expand the page. Click on the arrow at the foot of the right hand page to turn to the next page.