Week 22 | Comics | Contents
Tuesday | Poetry | Interview with Jon Stone
Wednesday | Fiction | Crimes and Misdemeanors Really Aren't That Different
Thursday | Music | Polymathematicism and Peter Blegvad
Friday | Chapbook | After Stikklestad, by Michael Egan
Saturday | Mixtape | Polymathematicism, starring Peter Blegvad
I seen a peanut stand, heard a rubber band
I seen a needle that winked its eye
But I be done seen 'bout ev'rything
When I see a elephant fly...
Have you ever seen a rhyme?
Picture yourself in a boat on a river
With tangerine trees and marmalade skies
Somebody calls you, you answer quite slowly
A girl with kaleidoscope eyes.
I have been thinking about representing rhyme as image. What would a couplet look like for instance? Perhaps it would be two images that share shapes as words share sounds. Could a comic be poem? Clearly an idea better expressed and tested on the page - so I wrote/scribbled this pantoum about a red-faced man, a bird and a clock.
James Harringman
Editor-in-chief
This could be a whole new genre, James! I'm inspired to have a go at something like this myself some time soon.
ReplyDeleteJon, please do! I would be very interested to see the result. I think I will have another go at it myself. Possibly explore the idea of half-rhymes being represented as two elements that share a single characteristic.
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