Alec Finlay (Scotland, 1966-) is an artist & poet whose work crosses over a range of media and forms and considers how we relate to landscape and ecology, with a specific interest in place-awareness, hutopianism, rewilding, and wellbeing. Finlay established morning star publications in 1990. He has published over forty books and won seven Scottish Design Awards. Recent publications include a far-off land (2018); gathering published by Hauser & Wirth (2018); th’ fleety wud (2017), minnmouth (2017), A Variety of Cultures (2016), ebban an’ flowan (2015), and Global Oracle (2014).
www.alecfinlay.com
twitter:@AlecFinlay
Events
Northern Poetry Symposium: Inter/Play 10:00-17:00 | Sage Gateshead, Barbour Room
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but that has nothing to do with poetry
the poem is a means to see one another in our selves
but that has nothing to do with poetry
the poem rethreads the torn subject
but that has nothing to do with poetry
the poem is a way to find the self, not remake it
but that has nothing to do with poetry
the poem is a transit bus between idiom and idiolect
but that has nothing to do with poetry
the poem is a gambit to elude co-opting speech acts
but that has nothing to do with poetry
the poem is a route-map through daily complexity
but that has nothing to do with poetry
the poem renders breath into a series of hops or strides
but that has nothing to do with poetry
the poem is performed on stage for sweeties
but that has nothing to do with poetry
the poem is a magic junction in thinking
but that has nothing to do with poetry
the poem is a black sun or tinsel sphincter
but that has nothing to do with poetry
the poem is a blanket imitation landscape
but that has nothing to do with poetry
the poem is often repeatable, seldom renewable
but that has nothing to do with poetry
the poem is seeing doubled
but that has nothing to do with poetry
the poem is a congenial form of list
but that has nothing to do with poetry
poems are prose with benefits
but that has nothing to do with poetry
the trick is getting other people
to write the poem for you
but that has nothing to do with poetry
Some lines inspired by comments made by poets interviewed in Anselm Berrigan (ed): What is Poetry? (Just Kidding, I Know You Know): Interviews From the Poetry Project Newsletter