It seems to be made out of elements we recognise,
but according to what kind of alien technologies? How do we decipher
the rows of strange symbols all over it? – Philip Mead
Thursday 29 – Friday March 30. Old Government House. The University of Auckland.
Short Takes on Long Poems is a Trans Tasman Symposium hosted by the New Zealand Electronic Poetry Centre
Participants are invited to add text for our Long Poem on Oneroa beach via the Leave a comment link below.
In conversation twice I forget to say the thing
words emptying from the frame
like salt water
slipping between the rocks from whence it came
what was I thinking?
“long poems are longer than short poems”
“hot and blue”
“you can sleep in your car”
“random litter”
“detour … upending”
“the diffuse references”
“into void past sound and sense”
‘the weight of it … the weightless”
“value of pausing”
Some phrases from my “Tasman Sonnet”, written en route to Auckland recently: please cut and edit to suit:
A, green, the tint of absinthe dripping through a wad of lawn clippings —
E, chartreuse, colour that only monks can see —
best
john Tranter