XIX. TRUST ME   I sat for hours creating a poem in my head It was so complete, so perfect that I didn’t need to write it down     XX.        MULTI-PURPOSE POEM [Written in black marker pen on a kitchen sponge]   When a sad poem is required, immerse in water, read and… Continue reading Poem: From the Notebooks of Poet J XIX – XXII

  XV.       CLOSE-UP   A plain black page might say nothing, or it might be a close-up of a fraction of the first letter of the book that tells you everything     XVI.   FOCAL POINT [Written on the middle pages of a blank exercise book] How small the things that occupy us    … Continue reading Poem: From the Notebooks of Poet J XV – XVIII

  X.           AMBITION [Video film of birds feeding with author’s voiceover]   There is no failure like complete success   XI.   HONESTY [Handwritten in large letters   diagonally, with the first and last words disappearing off the page]   This is a real poem and I am a real poet   XII.       DUPLICATION [A photograph of… Continue reading Poem: From the Notebooks of Poet J X – XIV

  VI.   CONFESSIONAL POEM [A sheet of white A3 paper with the tracks of a chicken’s feet dipped in blue paint entering at bottom left and disappearing at top right]     VII.   CONFORMITY [Recorded on an                             audio cassette]   I once received an anonymous poem that was so good that I had… Continue reading Poem: From the Notebooks of Poet J VI – IX

  I. SECRET POEM [Written in white ink on a closed                            black box]   The content of this poem is invisible and known only to the writer   II.   BURIAL   Going going gone the author is gone do you need him   III. BELIEF [Printed on a signed, notarised and       officially sealed… Continue reading Poem: From the Notebooks of Poet J I – V