If I Show, Will You Peep?

Luc Fierens, "death" (October 2010)
This beautiful visual poem above by Luc Fierens is the first of many visual poems that will appear in the issue on International Visual Poetry in the online journal Peep/Show in the coming days. Peep/Show grows slowly over time into its full form, so return to its site until everything appears.

Subtitled "A Taxonomic Exercise in Textual and Visual Seriality," Peep/Show displays for us only sequences of work, and in the selection about to come, you'll see many ways to make visual poems and many kinds of sequences. The idea for this issue came from the editors, Anne Gorrick and Lynn Behrendt, who are constantly imaging new ways into the serial.

These two friends of mine asked me to curate the issue, which I did by asking ten visual poets over the globe to send in sequences of between seven and ten items. They chose the pieces, but I chose them. My confidence was in the poets. This issue is a selection of "International" visual poetry because it includes no North Americans. But there are poets here from South America, Europe, Australia, and Asia.

So you know what to look forward to, here are the visual poets, and their respective countries, arranged in alphabetical by first name.

Ayşegül Tozeren (Turkey)
Cia Rinne (Sweden, but living in Germany)
Helen White (United Kingdom, but living in Belgium)
Keiichi Nakamura (Japan)
Klaus Peter Dencker (Germany)
Luc Fierens (Belgium)
Marcelo Sahea (Brazil)
Satu Kaikkonen (Finland)
Suzan Sari (Turkey)
Tim Gaze (Australia)

Pay this issue some heed as it reveals itself. It is there for you to look at.

ecr. l'inf.