All entries for Monday 02 July 2012

The Gypsy and the Poet – images and experiments

In my last poetry collection "Enchantment" I asked Peter Blegvad to come up with images that would intervene in the book, proving breathing spaces between sections and textural moods. If you know the book you will know he came up with great work (see PB's 'Hedgehurst', left).

Well, my new poetry book is completed.

It is called "The Gypsy and the Poet" and once again I am thinking about images that will work with the poems, not illustrating them - but extending from the poems in some manner that enhances and deepens the tone of the whole book, the conversation between the poems, and between the poems and their readers.

I need to experiment with images on the blog for the next few entries and am meeting with Peter again next Wednesday. What do you think of these? What do they say to you? What might they evoke or invoke?

David Morley : 02 Jul 2012 15:41 |  Tags: Carcanet David Morley Enchantment The Gypsy And The Poet The Practice Of Poetry |  Comments (5) |  Close comments |  Report a problem