yes, a good number of extracts from my Lichens for Marxists, now in In
Darkest Capital, appeared first on social media, though more on facebook
than twitter, but also on various other sites. The initial poem from the
Lichens for Marxists sequence appeared, for example, on Andrew Spragg's
Infinite Editions
website:<http://infiniteeditions.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/drew-milne-but-at-least-two-organisms.html>.
I thought of the symbiosis of lichen images and text that appeared in
digital forms as a distinct mode of going public for these poems.
There's also a music / field recording / voice installation of 'Lichen
Beacons' that uses raspberry pis and headphones that can be glimpsed on
YouTube: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9H5b_BZWwo>. There were also
a number of installations and outings in galleries and so on. Individual
poems and fragments of poems had various digital and print
articulations. I'm still committed to poems printed on the page, but
also interested in how poems might exist symbiotically in many different
environments, not least the way a poem and a lichen image might exist
together on a phone screen.... More info and lots of examples on the
Institute of Electric Crinolines
blog:<https://instituteofelectriccrinolines.org/2017/03/20/solar-commune/>
Drew
On 25/01/2018 20:30, [log in to unmask] wrote:
> I'm still immersed in Wound Scar Memories and its own vision of mucky hybridism, interspersed with reading Drew Milne's In Darkest Capital ---- all incidentally, his recent sequence Lichens for Marxists seemed to evolve partly out of bits of ur-text on Twitter which I think demonstrates that the relationship of social media to resultant poetry is not something easily generalized about.
> best, M
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