Poetry. Multimedia. "MESOSTIC HERBARIUM is an album of phytological and mycological poems collected from people in many countries...the mesostic is guided by certain rules: choose a plant, its name gives a stem; compose a poem, one word per line...MESOSTIC HERBARIUM relates to orders of knowledge, in particular botany...Through these poems we can gauge a wide-ranging cultural vision of nature, for there is an anthropology at work here..."--Alec Finlay. Includes CD-ROM of WORDWOOD, a collection of animated mesostic poetry by pupils at schools in Durham Sunderland Region and Perthshire. Check out other SPD titles by Platform Projects including THE BOOK OF QUESTIONS and TURNING TOWARD LIVING.

Author City: Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear UK

Alec Finlay works as an artist, poet and publisher. His most recent publications include One Hundred Year Star- Diary, SPECIMEN COLONY, what changes change, two fields of wheat, and MESOSTIC HERBARIUM. He was one of the first artists-in-residence at BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, and recent artist projects in England include a residency at Kielder Observatory in Northumberland and a long term collaboration with NaREC, the National Centre for Renewable Energy in Blyth, creating color and text designs for windmill turbines.

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