FROM EARTH TO SKY

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FROM EARTH TO SKY

The Collected Poems - ‘Concrete’ and ‘Abstract’ - of John O’Loughlin

Hyperlinks to the files of which follow the brief introduction below:-

This substantial compilation of my complete poetical works combines readerly with non-readerly poems in what, in general terms, I like to think of as a distinction between ‘concrete’ and ‘abstract’ approaches to poetry, the former being, with one exception, either rhymed or in free verse; the latter, by contrast, either in free verse of an abstract - if just readerly (i.e. that can be read) - order or, like the Contemplations, in patterned and often block-like arrangements which require only to be contemplated (hence the title). Thus there is quite a contrast not only between the two types of readerly poetry, but between them and the two types of abstract poetry, neither of which owes very much to the other, even though there is a general progression, on both sides, from rhymed to non-rhymed poetry and from ‘readerly’ abstracts to pure abstracts such that defy reading as a vehicle for comprehension, irrespective of the fact that some form of comprehension is still possible on a purely or largely contemplative basis. Thus there is also an overall progression, in this compilation of my poetry, from rhymed readerly poems to non-readerly abstract poems that are yet the product of careful structuring and not at all arbitrary or anarchic, some of which even intimate of meaning through what appear to be rhyme-like juxtapositions of key words. – John O’Loughlin.

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