My July contribution to the North Sea Poets substack is on on the affect of text layout on meaning-making; how artist Cecil Touchon explores this in his asemic writing; and how successful erasure poetry relies on ‘auditory imagery’ – that core instinct to assign meaning to sounds even when their source is hidden.
Examples from the erasure work of Jen Bervin and the freehand drawings of Laura Drever .
Lesley Harrison lives and works on the Angus coast. In her writing, she explores how it is to live at the southern, temperate edge of a much colder northern world. She has held writing residencies in Greenland, Iceland and Svalbard. Drawing from archives, folk myth and cultural memory as well as her own explorations and experience, her poetry and prose make real our negotiation with, and our constant striving to give meaning and scale to, this unstable and ultimately unknowable space. She is a member of the North Sea Poets collective - northseapoets.com. View all posts by lesleyharrisonpoetry
Lesley Harrison ~ poetry etc 