monotone concrete poem


                                                                              m
   on                              o
                   t  o            n    e
  monoton                      e
 m                o
        n                                  o
        t    on
      e

 

 

 

      uninterrupted  repetition of the sa  e
 t     e   utterance   f  successive  syllables or
 words wi h  ut  cha g     of 

                  y or  sam  ness  of tone style
    anner  c  lor etc

 a   si   gle   unchanging  t ne

 reci ati           chanting or singing in  such a
 

 a  person   who sings in such a tone

 

First published in Overland 57—1973–4

Alex Selenitsch

Alex Selenitsch is a Melbourne-based poet and architect working across many disciplines including literature, graphics, sculpture and architecture, through publication and exhibitions. His most recent comprehensive solo exhibition was The Language Factory at the Melbourne School of Design, the University of Melbourne, in 2021–22; most recent solo exhibition of concrete poems was Emotionals: words & colours at wordXimage.art, Maitland, NSW in 2023. A selection of page-driven concretes was published as LOOK! by Cordite in 2021.

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