Poetry of Life - Images

Aletta Ocean’s Alphabet Empire (Hesterglock Press) is a collection of art poems, hand wrought in black, grey, silver and white, fashioned with Indian ink, paint and pen, worked with techniques that edge around writing, vying with abstraction, constantly harrying semantic meaning and legibility. My concerns are sex, poetry and pornography and the disconnect between the former and the latter.

Crayon Poems is the poetic equivalent of a cat gifting its owner a dead bird, only it’s done with greasy, gentle colours on the page. It is a gift you don’t want but should be grateful for.