Part of a series of floorplan-poems by Michael Sutton exploring interior space as experienced through lockdown, Room #6 makes use of digital asemia and negative space to convey the feeling of decoherence. Producing this poem in print, marked as it is by glitch aesthetics, brings the virtual and physical into incomplete alignment; the eye struggles to find focus, to resolve the boundaries of poetic space. The Blasted Tree is offering the Room #6 in a limited edition of sixty 7.5” x 11” broadsides, available now in the online store. View the poem online following the link below.
Poetry Leaflet - crease by Samuel Haecker
crease is an interactive origami poem you have to fold up to read through. Like the love story it narrates, the arrangement of text shifts and changes as you manipulate the paper, bringing previously unrelated lines together. The Blasted Tree has produced a limited edition of sixty 6” x 6” leaflets on vibrantly-colored, two-sided origami paper. Each leaflet comes with two sheets, one featuring the poem, the other with the folding instructions. crease by Samuel Haecker is available from our online store and can be read online. You can even download the image files and print the poem on paper of your choosing!
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Poetry Chapbook - Daydreaming Melancholia by Danni Storm
A collection of 12 concrete poems composed on a Brother Deluxe typewriter, Daydreaming Melancholia by Danni Storm emanates from its opening quote, which translates to something like "a sick man's delusional dream." These poems exhibit odd thoughts and mental eccentricities with extreme visual concision and directness. A limited edition of sixty chapbooks has been produced by The Blasted Tree, each 4.75” x 6.75” copy printed on light blue paper and bound into a navy cover with a grey flyleaf. Daydreaming Melancholia is now available from The Blasted Tree’s online store and can be read following the link below.
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Poetry/Art Chapbook - Leguminosae Delusion Athletics by Andy Martrich and Nicole Raziya Fong
Leguminosae Delusion Athletics is a collaborative poetry and art project about representative absence. Dynamism is treated as a form of ritual delusion throughout the long poem, composed by Andy Martrich, lingering on the cusp of afflictions that can't be undone. The accompanying art, by Nicole Raziya Fong, draws from cues in the text, corresponding to different sections of the poem and mirroring the disassemblage of apparent forms and figures. The Blasted Tree has produced a limited edition of sixty 7” x 4.75” chapbooks, each dust-jacketed in a full colour, fold-out poster by Nicole Raziya Fong.
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Poetry Longsheet - Quick Summary... by Adam Seelig
Adam Seelig’s Quick Summary of Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century is a visual poem that relates two concepts, labour and capital, suggesting the latter grows while the former is endlessly repeated. Given that Piketty’s book is massive, this poem will save you 800+ pages of reading; i.e. this poem will save you labour. Quick Summary of Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century can be read online using the link below, and a limited edition of longsheets printed on granite grey paper are available now from our online store.
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Poetry Chapbook - Sailor, C'est l'heure by Rasiqra Revulva
Inspired by David Lynch’s Wild at Heart and the devastating impact of oil and plastic on marine life; these haiku focus on tactility, a singular creature or image of nature, and the frisson of surprise. But what function has surprise when we’re drowning in alarms? In Sailor, C’est l’heure, Rasiqra Revulva has encoded the warning into poetry, transforming the noise and resisting inaction. The Blasted Tree has produced a limited edition of sixty 4.25” x 5.5” chapbooks printed in full colour, available from our online store, and you can view the haiku series using the link below.
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Poetry Chapbook - body of stone by Helen Robertson
A collection of lyric poetry in four parts, Helen Robertson’s debut chapbook is by turns wry, punchy, and heartfelt. body of stone is attuned to the many ways power acts through language, and with self-affirming tenacity, Robertson writes through and against cis- and hetero-normativity to celebrate a queer and trans body surviving and thriving in the face of violence and oppression. A limited edition of 60 copies of body of stone has been printed on granite grey paper and bound into Italian high-cotton paper in china grey, available now from The Blasted Tree store. The entire collection can be read online via the link below.
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Poetry Longsheet - THE WORLD IS ON FIRE by Greg Hill
THE WORLD IS ON FIRE is a poem written entirely using words made up of letters from the poem’s title in the order they appear (R-I-S-E, for instance). Within this limited set of words experimental poet Greg Hill finds a warning, a word to the wise. The Blasted Tree has produced an edition of 60 longsheets on canary yellow paper featuring THE WORLD IS ON FIRE, available now from our online store. Read the poem by following the link below.
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Poetry Leaflet - Genesis by Gary Barwin
Gary Barwin’s visual poem Genesis is a two-part tribute to Amanda Earl, done in the style of her Vispo Bible, which warps and layers text to create flowing, totemic imagery. Barwin’s versions take up the Hebrew text of Genesis, and his results reflect the typographic geometry of this written language. A limited edition of 60 leaflets have been produced, the two-part poem printed on glossy photograph paper then tucked into tent-folded black card stock. You can view the visual poem online following the link below, and copies of the leaflet are available in The Blasted Tree’s online store.
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Poetry Chapbook - Tourner by Chris Warren
A visual abecedarium by UK poet Chris Warren, Tourner collects the ghostly afterimages of letters turned upon themselves while dissipating as if into a fog, fading letter-forms built up in layers of typographic architecture. The Blasted Tree has produced a limited edition of 60 chapbooks of Tourner, each a stack of 3.25” x 3.25” printed cards secured with a steel binder clip and black spine band. Disassemble, rotate, re-arrange, and rebind the images to conjure your own eerie abecedarium! Chapbooks are available from the online store, and the collection can be seen following the link below.