Dan Power Surreal-Absurd Sampler

every night i lie in bed and lie and wait until my mind logs off … until my hardware powers down … i don’t know where i go at night or where i go during the day … i think this lack of knowledge is evident in my writing … i think these poems are a good approximation of my thoughts ... i think these poems act like half-finished self-portraits ... they’re copy and paste ... actually i think these poems are like pools, or shiny dark screens, waiting to be prodded ... to be looked into … looked out of … everything here might be a reflection … we reflect our minds,  our minds reflect the world, and the world reflects us … we can’t see anything except for light … it doesn’t matter what side of the mirror we’re on ...

—Dan Power, 2024

Bio

Dan Power is a poet from the Midlands, currently living between Dundee and Lancaster. He’s also the founding editor of the visual poetry outfit Trickhouse Press. Recent publications include Memory Foam, a collaboration with Chat-GPT3 (Doomsday Press, 2023) and SELECTED DREAMS, a cyber-space graphic novel (Steel Incisors, 2021). His poems can be found in Spam, PAIN, Footprints:
An anthology of new eco-poetry, and more! (for X and IG see @therealdanpower)

Publication credits:

‘late morning’ – in late morning (Broken Sleep, 2021)

‘Ghost’ – in Seeing in Tongues: an anthology of visual poetry (Steel Incisors, 2023)

‘Pastoral 3000’ – in Spam zine issue 9, ‘Astroturf’ (Spam Press, 2019)

‘royal portrait’ – (Overground Underground #3, 2023)

‘ON PROBABILITY’ – in Memory Foam (Doomsday Press, 2023)

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