poetry – Page 2 – Anachropsy

The night

Second item (to be reviewed because I’m not totally satisfied) of my new series of poems by Guillevic.

and it’s true, no one will ever be able to match Nyx.

First item in a new series dedicated to the poet Guillevic, a series I was already mentioning here.
A reworked NEULAND and filigrees, all with walnut stain and iron gall ink.
This poem is taken from the collection entitled Paroi.

Guillevic

I have read again for the umpteenth time the collection Du domaine by Guillevic.
I find new inspiration with each reading.

A slate engraving, filled with rust & wax for a poem about time
(home made translation : Here the time, believes itslef innocent)

and a poem on rain (and time), engraved on a terracotta pot, which I have already posted in video but of which I give you a still image (I recommend the video, the problem of the pots being their roundness which prevents us to cover their entire circumference at a glance).

All the leaves…

…will want to be your pennons

It’s the translation of this new poem by Guillevic, engraved on this new terra cotta pot.

The curve of the pot forbids to photograph the whole text at once, you’ll consequently get 2 pics.

And, as a bonus one, a photo of the happy father with his last-born 🙂

OLD STUFF – Guillevic

I’m going to post here the most interesting (or so I believe) works I made these last 2 years and that were only posted on the french version of the blog.
I hope you will like it even if it can be considered as old stuff.

The concerned posts titles will start by “OLD STUFF”.

To begin with, here is a set of short poems by Guillevic (french poet of the XXth century).

I made them on paper, using the same script (humanistic minuscule) and the same design. The adornment in the circle is supposed to echo the text.

clouds

clock

leaves

bramble

trees

appearance

moon

sun

Today’s engraving

You didn’t see my first attemps to engrave flower pots, so here it is.

And, as I found it quite easy to engrave, I started a more amibtious project.

Not finished yet but here is today’s achievment.

both texts are poems by Guillevic, a french poet from the XXth century.

Ein Stein …

This post is dedicated to Iris Van de Casteele, a belgian poet who lives in Paraguay.
She honoured me by writing a poem about my works in a collection named Grains de folie, poem which my modesty forbids me to reproduce here (even if she was kindly making fun of my failures).
At the same time, she was punlishing another collection of poems, in german this time, called Reflexionen where I found the text that follows.

For those who don’t speak german, this poem starts with the words : “A Stone …”. I immediately felt again in my engraving delirium and wrote/engraved the text with a gothic script on a schist pebble.

Et sois la plus heureuse…

A little work on zinc (the plate is 5x2cm) double-sided, these two verses by Apollinaire, ending his poem Si je mourais là-bas…

Quite happy with the result, even before removing the varnish, the plate looked nice.

Poem by Léo Ferré

As I told you last week, I’ve been working on the poem Des Armes by Léo Ferré and it’s now finished.

I started with a collage of leaves from a book found at a secondhand bookseller which title is “Training of the 1st january 1923 on the grenades for use by troops from any army”, I found it would make a perfect background for this poem which title could be translated into “Weapons”.
I eventually added the text, using a revisited NEULAND, I will soon post a model of it for those who would like to follow me.
Till then, to see the whole work, have a look in the gallery.

NEUNEULAND

I hafe just started to work on the poem Des Armes by Léo Ferré. I took the opportunity to rework a bit the NEULAND script designed by Rudolf Koch.

New ligatures, retouch of edges and new shapes for some letters. I nevertheless feel I’m just copying my master without being really original except for the B, inspired by the insular manuscripts from the end of the first millennium.

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