With its wealth of skilled practitioners, online exhibition spaces and small presses, visual poetry is in an exciting place. But it can afford to look further beyond itself and engage more boldly with the world in and around us. Imagine the vispo equivalent of Allen Ginsberg, Alejandra Pizarnik or Aimé Césaire…

To that end, I have set up a publishing venture called steel incisors, through which I intend to publish some beautiful books of daring, imaginative, technically accomplished visual poetry.

Our first book will be an anthology of visual poems on the theme of the apocalypse. Submissions are now open! Head over to steel incisors to find out more…