Visual Pantoums

Visual and concrete poetry is often less linear than written poetry, more like a collage or an abstract painting, which you can start and finish anywhere within the frame. These, on the other hand, are collages which use ‘lines’ and ‘stanzas’, so you might want to start at the top left and work your way down to the bottom right. Or not: they also use the poetic form of the pantoum, which is circular, the lines repeating and revolving back on themselves in fresh juxtapositions, shifting as they go, the end returning to the beginning.

The speed of light is slower at times

Artists aflame in the city’s vein

What we have once made goes on