Burns windows project in action

Some great photos of the poems now in the windows.

Hugh Bryden has more information here for you to visit virtually https://en-gb.facebook.com/BurnsWindowsProject  and here http://www.hughbryden.com/ or maybe you can visit the Burns pubs in Dumfries, Scotland for real and take a glass in memory before or on the 25th January 2014.

Catchment workshops

Poet Fiona Russell runs a series of workshops in connection with the Catchment project in which she worked with four visual artists to explore

… the Urr Water in Galloway ...from the uplands

around Loch Urr, through the woodland gorges beyond Corsock and

the fertile grasslands around Haugh of Urr, to the meanders which pass

around the old harbours of Dalbeattie and Palnackie, out to Kippford and

Rockcliffe, fishing villages transformed by visitors and sailing boats, to

the tidal estuary, islands, and the grandeur of the Solway Firth.

Saturday 30 November 1.30 – 4pm Inspiration:

Participants will be encouraged to enjoy writing about the themes covered
by the exhibition from exercises given by writer Fiona Russell. Explore new
ways to increase your writing repertoire with an experienced and award winning
D&G writer. Please bring notebook and pen.

Other dates (different but connected workshops and a break from holiday preparations):

• Saturday 14 December 1.30 – 4pm
• Wednesday 18th December 7.30 – 8.30pm

You can find out more here http://www.dumgal.gov.uk/index.aspx?articleid=2333&contactid=3623

Finnish visual poetry

Satu Kaikkonen is a poet/visual poet and teacher from Finland. She explores different kinds of artistic and typographical terrains in her work. "To me the most important part of doing visual poetry is being with in process". Her work also appears under the pseudonym (Nele Hannes), because "it gives me freedom to create different kind of things". A sentiment we very much agree with here at poetandgeek and perhaps a foundation of digital poetry.

This is an excerpt from The light is like a rabbit hole.

You can find the full work and more here http://www.kotiposti.net/kaikkonent/alku_2.html. More poetry from Kaikkonen here http://www.rufoussalon.com/2011/04/satu-kaikkonen-prometheus-pour-wine-to.html.

Visual poetry

Poem Flow is an app that turns poems into "a gentle reading animation".

An instant multimedia effect that allows you see the poem differently as it quietly reads itself to you. Twenty poems come with the app and you can add additional poems cheaply. Sample poems are from the western tradition canon e.g. Dover beach. The product is American in origin.

Your own poetry next? Are you already doing this?

More on the app here http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/poem-flow/id339835648?mt=8.