Finding Poems in the Universe
from Charlie Hadfield New Zealand, Alan Pulverness, Sandra Santarello and Jill Hadfield
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Office Depo - Room 204
Books wishlist (found on my iphone)
Poem found on notices and signs
Found and lost
At the Creativity symposium in May 2015 at Oxford Brookes University, John Daniel, former Head of English at Plymouth University and poet-painter, invited participants to scour the buildings, walls, noticeboards and corridors of the university for ‘found poems’: language which, when extracted from its particular place and context, leaps out and takes a symbolic or refreshed shape.
Participants were set this task at the start of the day, and shared their outcomes at the end of the day, with coffee and lunch-break times to ‘find’ their poems. Below are some of the poems ‘found’ during the day, from flipcharts, signs in the corridor, iphones and library shelves.
This poem was ‘found’ by Charlie Hadfield on the cover of the flipchart hanging in the classroom.
Liso bloc para tableros A1
effen flipover block A1
liscio blocco A1 per lavagna portablanco
uni bloc papier chevalet de conference A1
einfartig flipcharblock A1
oisne
after all
only
one standard flipchart pad
(but
It is
‘bleed resistant’? )
Found on a flipchart, Charlie Hadfield
International Perspectives on Materials
How to Write Fiction
Literature as Dialogue
The History of Rock and Roll
You can drum but you can’t hide
Hausfrau
Love, Sex and other Foreign Policy Goals
Blood Child
Rose, how did you get that red?
Exotic England
An Untamed State.
Alan Pulverness
Can we build a free society
on the spirit of the gift?
Germs spread easily
from one person to another.
Catch them before they spread.
Catch it.
Bin it.
Kill it.
Jill Hadfield
A road to nowhere
outside, on wall, to right
through door, turn left
on wall in front of lift
through door turn left
through doors to left of lift
go downstairs
through door, turn right
turn right at end of corridor
go downstairs.
Sandra Santarello
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