Peaceful collects a new series of concrete poetry made from dry transfer lettering by repeat Blasted Tree contributor Kevin Stebner. The typeface used in this collection is “Salim” – a bold version of Arabic script, #3283 in the Letraset catalogue. “Salim” in Arabic translates to “safe” or “peaceful.” The Blasted Tree has produced a limited edition of fifty 7” x 7” chapbooks hand-bound with white thread into olive green covers, available now from our online store.
Visual Poetry Broadside - Punctuation Panorama by Michael Betancourt
With vector design software and a keen eye for typographic form, Michael Betancourt crafts intricate, interlocking visual poems composed of elements of letters and punctuation marks. Punctuation Panorama is a new typoem in the tradition of designers like Hansjorg Mayer and Norman Ives, a lineage founded in physical media and honed by contemporary computer application. The Blasted Tree has produced a limited edition of fifty 11” x 16” broadsides featuring the typoem, and copies can be purchased from our online store.
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Poetry Chapbook - Act 3: Vegetable Love by Tom Prime
A new chapbook of visual poetry by Tom Prime, Act 3: Vegetable Love delves deeper into the materials and processes of collage established in earlier iterations of Prime’s work. These mixed-media poems combine office supplies and printouts into chaotic, overlapping compositions of text, paper, and ink. The Blasted Tree has produced 9” x 8.5” hand-bound chapbooks, each with a unique front cover and randomized thread and back cover colors, released in a limited edition of fifty copies.
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Previous versions of some of these visual poems appeared in Common Stock, published in 2020 by The Blasted Tree.
Poetry Leaflet - Behold the Dead by Ben Berman Ghan
Behold the Dead is a poem that traces the tension between built and natural environments, a dance of life and death weaving together all our bodies. Ben Berman Ghan’s flowing poetic form is complimented by an original watercolour painting of a stream applied to each leaflet by Blasted Tree publisher Kyle Flemmer. Behold the Dead is printed and painted on heavy weight, cold press watercolour paper in a numbered edition of fifty 5.25” x 8.5” leaflets, available now from The Blasted Tree’s online store.
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Visual Poetry Leaflet - Mountainview_1 by Kyle Flemmer
Part of series of ten visual poems derived from landscape imagery, Mountainview_1 processes a photograph through a text shader to render a mountain scene in characters from the word ‘mount’. The series was produced by Kyle Flemmer during the Computational Writing residency at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity in May 2022. The Blasted Tree has produced a limited edition of seventy-five 7” x 7” folded leaflets, available now from our online store.
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Poetry Broadside - Room #6 by Michael Sutton
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.
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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 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.