Poet in Residence: Peter Devonald
Kinetic Poetry

Kinetic poetry is a form of poetry that relies on visual and aural layers/ transitions to become expressive. Kinetic poems are often is multi-media, such as motorized sculptures, celluloid film, video, holography, and computers. It is fluid, moving, and personal.

The aim is to bring words to life more than reading words on a stagnant page. The form gives meaning to the words and adds gravitas and visual flare. It makes poetry more dynamic and more appropriate for an online audience.

Interesting to note that Futurism investigated poetry in this way. For instance, Loy’s “Aphorisms on Futurism” hinges on the break between Past and Future:

DIE in the Past.
Live in the Future.

[…]

YOU prefer to observe the past on which your eyes are already opened.

BUT the Future is only dark from the outside.
Leap into it—and it EXPLODES with Light.

[…]

THE Future is limitless—the past a trail of insidious reactions.

My Poems oddly return me to two and a half years ago when I started taking poetry seriously again after a twenty-five-year hiatus. Pattern poems were the first to really gain some traction – they appeared in The Layered Onion, numerous galleries, and art magazines. It feels good/ odd to return to them --- the software is as fragile as a thin egg, has very little scope, and often vanishes or saves in a totally different colour. But this is the nature of kinetic poetry – here one minute, the next -------------------- a memory.

Latest News November 2024

Awards

· 2024 Winter Has a Wish For You second Prize in the Shelley Memorial Project Poetry competition

We Need To Talk About Summer also one of 8 poems highly commended & included in the anthology.

https://www.shelleymemorialproject.co.uk/competition-2024

· 2024 Let the River Run Free shortlisted Oxford Canal Festival Poetry Competition

https://www.oxfordcanalheritage.org/oxford-canal-festival-2024

Anthologies / Publications

· 2024 Sky Dreams of Dragons, If We Dragons –published in anthology Dragon Dreams: by Storm Dragon Publishing (SDP), edited by irrepressible Draco Amethystus.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0D9G5XP3B?notRedirectToSDP=1&ref_=dbs_mng_calw_0&storeType=ebooks

· 2024 The Frailty Of Desire – published by Outside The Box Poetry and the impressive editor Rebecca Collins https://www.outsidetheboxpoetry.com/books/one#h.nl4adj4stab9

· 2024 Parasite Hearth & Coffin V4 “Gossip Horror” https://www.hearthandcoffincom/

Direct link to my poem: https://www.hearthandcoffin.com/post/parasite

· 2024 Monthly Poetry Corner and Culture Supplement - Manchester Post and Stockport Post.
https://communitynewsgm.co.uk/stockport-post-newspapers/

Resident writers Michaela Hall, poet Peter Devonald, and reviewer Mildred Burchett-Vass.

Peter Devonald - Poetry - Kinetic & movement ...