….really slow! Two years ago I finished my altered-book-poem-setting on the Montreal Massacre after working on it off an on for eight months (almost a baby!) Two years ago was the 75th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and I started sketching ideas for an assemblage-poem-setting about Peace. Two years! It just seemed so much easier to drag out “off and on” during the pandemic. Time became ropey, like toffee, or sludge. But now, I am taking advantage of writer’s block by making a serious start to this project, hoping the physical piece and the accompanying poem with inform and inspire each other. I am going to reread some Theatre of the Absurd as research (what could be more absurd than war and peace and war and peace and…) If anyone has a dusty volume of Beckett, Ionesco or Genet I’d be happy of the loan.
