Unwanted Colour Schemes
All this is very much existential poetry in its various forms. The poems are layered and intellectually meant to involve the reader - one which I hope would allow him or her to enter a world which stretches the imagination, opens up new perspectives and alternative fields of creativity.
Carrie Etter Surreal-Absurd Sampler
“At times it seems the surreal can convey the truth of an experience or emotion most accurately--that only by changing or bending the rules of what's possible can we appreciate how something in the world works.”
A Matter of Opinion
Up in the state capital, the legislature was debating a bill designed to make it tougher for workers injured on the job to become millionaires. Robinson A. Rocker, whose carpal-tunnel syndrome accounted for his fervent opposition to the proposal, was—to the further detriment of his wrists—typing a spirited editorial in favour of it when Bev, the newsroom receptionist, poked her head in the fishbowl, as everybody, excluding him, called his small glass-enclosed office.
Artefacts of Articulation
These poems came about in the course of my ongoing efforts to understand consciousness. The lines aspire to an Escherian geometry (unsettling familiarity--of seeing, thinking, and feeling--in ways) often associated with poetry. I feel my poetry is intimate--reflecting conscious experience itself within itself.
Ghosts Passing along Sunset Boulevard
A new story by Hiromi Suzuki: I go out to buy a toothbrush or something, return to my apartment keeping with coins in pocket of my overcoat. I am not sure whether I should choose a light bulb of 80 or 100 watts for my bathroom. The light bulb in my brain is also about to burn out. I cannot enter my room because of the lost key.
Birds of Los Angeles
A photo-collage by Hiromi Suzuki, to run concurrently with her short story Ghosts Passing along Sunset Boulevard up in Fiction
Point and Click
Point and Click is a new experiment that combines generative visual artwork with pointillist aesthetics, in order to create a type of new media that resembles old paintings. Taking inspiration from artists such as Georges Seurat and Vincent van Gogh, this work honours their contributions by applying their methods to art created through artificial programs.
Ian Seed Surreal-Absurd Sampler
The absurd-surreal is a form of realism, and, in my case, a confession by other means. My poem-stories seek to unsettle, to entertain, and to move. They revisit memory through dream, imagination and, on occasion, collage. They are as full of yearning as they are of irony. I want you to believe in them.
A Moment in Time
Geraldine Fleming retired early from an all-consuming career due to ill health. Bereft of purpose in her new life she found herself drawn back into past interests. This newfound freedom allows Geraldine to renew her interest in creative writing. She is a member of the North Coast Writers Group in Northern Ireland and enjoys writing both prose and poetry.
Charms
When they cut the lunchtime visit, Joan became aware of her own incontinence and worried that it might affect her future in her own home and so she began wrapping solid turds in brown council notice envelopes which she could then ask certain visitors to dispose of. The window in the envelope made this high-stakes stuff and as a certain visitor, your hand had sprung open when it understood from the warmth, the contents. ‘I’ve had a dog in,’ she said.
Mark Waldron Surreal-Absurd Sampler
“It’s not surrealism but realism that’s the absurdity. It’s a simplistic fantasy of order; a rigid framework pressed onto a surreal universe, so that we might navigate it, and safely get to Tesco and back.”
Happy New Year Mr President Episode II: Operation Exodus
As two former partners attempt to unravel the mystery of what happened in Barcelona seven years ago, they seem able only to add to the confusion… Mercurius is very pleased to present this absurd epic of the human spirit.
Mollspeak
Mollspeak is a new sound work, written and directed by artist Maria Fusco, with an original score by Olivier Pasquet and voiced by actor Maxine Peake. Presented here for a limited time only, the piece, experimental in form, explores and embodies working-class voices of eighteenth century servants in England. The work’s title, Mollspeak, is taken from a phrase used by employers to denigrate or belittle their servants’ way of speaking. Its negative connotation is subverted by headlining a work that illuminates the importance of working class narratives. Servants were not allowed keys to the houses they tended, Mollspeak kicks down these doors.
Ben Niespodziany Surreal-Absurd Sampler
I'm often either bored or overwhelmed with reality. Too much stressful hustle and bustle, or too much mundane routine. To disrupt this norm, whenever I seek media, I always look for the strange…
Sophie Cabot Black: “Begin the story as if you knew the horse”
Sophie Cabot Black caught my attention some time ago. There is an unknown world in her verses, an immense and itinerant doubt.
Poster Poems
Two Poster Poems by Rus Khomutoff
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Extract from Adamo[1], a novel in progress
An extract from a novel-in-progress by Aoife Casby: The house needs her. As if the rooms want her help. Her presence makes their purpose but there is something about the way the rooms are that make you feel as if they know this. Peculiar. How can the spaces know her. Or maybe they don’t. That the place needs her help to be, to remember its function as kitchen, as hallway, as threshold, as a necessity between rooms, just is.
Somniloquy
This selection of poems deals with dream/nightmare sequences I experienced a couple of years ago. I felt the need to write down what happened in my sleep due to the strange nights happening so often. Sometimes, reality finds itself in a blur.
Caroline Bird Surreal-Absurd Sampler
“Sometimes I think trying to write a poem, especially about something that is currently happening, is like standing on burning hot sand. You have to dance from foot to foot, or else you literally cannot stay in that place.”
Water Fight
Bruce Louis Dobson’s collages portray the bizarre events occurring in a world beyond reality. Dreamlike images with vivid color and exciting emotion.
The never-ending quest…
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