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Visual poems

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from Concrete Pool series

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from Concrete Pool series

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Asemic works 

Poem series made with green ink.

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Exercises in Illegibility 

Asemic poems 'Exercises in Illegibility' published in Otoliths. 

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Clouds 

Clouds series. Sequence forthcoming ~ 

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Paint poems 

Poems made with a dictionary, dice and water colour paint. Some are published on Otoliths here. 

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7 a.m. refractions 

Poem '7 a.m. refractions' published in Cordite 'Mathematics' issue. Inspired by the form of emblem poems in livres d'emblèmes that are composed of a title, image, and short epigrammatic poem. 

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Constellation 

Full poem published on Cordite here. Opens with a quote from Hélène Cixous ".... thought is not a sentence at all but after an explosion a fall out in word... " from Cixous' incredible essay 'Without end, no State of drawingness, no, rather: The Executioner's taking off". Quote is followed by an ink image and a poem:

... Strolling under a constellation
                  Some moments strike like lightning
                           Spasmodic astral body, gambler's luck
         "toute pensée emit un coup de dés"
Ink swirling residual patterns down a sink.

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Time passes: A Window's Light on the Floor under the Chair

Poem made distractedly in a poetry class with Martin Harrison. While taking notes in the 3 hr seminar, these drawings document the light moving under a chair. This poem placed third in Rabbit Poetry Journal's Under-21 prize in 2012. 

© 2024 by Ella Skilbeck-Porter

I acknowledge the Traditional Owners of the Land on which I live and work, the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nations, and pay my respects to their Elders, past and present. Sovereignty was never ceded. 

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