Tuesday, 14 January 2003
Flash Poetry
I'm quite fond of Flash poetry.
But sometimes I wonder if the multimedia actually adds anything to the text.
From Thom Swiss' collaborative Flash poetry
I look at Flood, in which the form really suits the content, and Shy Boy, which I think would be just as powerful in simple plain text, because the Flash doesn't add anything - at least not for me....
I like Deena Larsen's Carving in Possibilities in frAme 6 and Firefly in Poems That Go
Another of my favourite Flash poets is Peter Howard.
I love his Poppy
anmd I even took his Animated Poetry in Flash course at the trAce Online Writing School - only to realise that
- I am not a poet
- Flash isn't easy to use
- Flash poetry is an artform I'm not going to master
So it's back to quirky hypertexts for me....
Meanwhile a favourite print poet with a website is Alison Brackenbury
But I suppose I have to declare an interest - I'm her webmistress. But it's one of my pleasantest jobs adding new poems to her site.
posted by Helen Whitehead 2:34 PM
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