Collaborative Poetry and Writing

As a spin off from An Encyclopedia of Everything, due to be exhibited in October (D.V) this year at the KZNSA Gallery in Durban, I asked certain artists if they would collaborate in the medium of words.  Modern Poetry is not often easily understood and appears to me to be far more personal in form and utterance than its predecessors.  It is often written on the spur of the moment and without extraneous editing.  Words are given a freedom to BE, to nudge the reader into a Word World where their adaption and integration  is often unexpected and without precent in traditional writing.     Often too, it is a response to an immediate situation or environment and carries with it the emotional surface - or buried feelings of the writer, binding that moment forever on a page.   This makes it intuitive, direct and abrupt.  It requires the interested readers full attention to details hidden within a single word, those secrets  which clarify a whole verse.  In the main, two original books are made, BUT an exciting new development for me has been the Chapbook.   This allows the dissemination of these Words into the world.