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"I tend to… cultivate some small area like that fairly
intensively for a while and then perhaps just simply drop it and do
something else altogether. The same thing is happening at the moment
with what I call my Instamatic Poems. I began a while ago by writing short poems which
were directly about events which I had either read about or seen in newspapers
or on television. So it's a poetry which is very closely related to real
life in that sense, but I gave myself the kind of restriction that the
poem must be presented in such a way as to give a visual picture of this
event, whatever it was, as if somebody had been there with an Instamatic
camera and had just very quickly snapped it…"
The poems' titles comprise a place-name and date, for example 'London
November 1971'. The dates range from June 1970 to June 1972. The first
six poems all share the same date, 5 March 1971; the remainder are dated
only by month and year.
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Instamatic Poems
 1970s
"I tend to… cultivate some small area like that fairly intensively
for a while and then perhaps just simply drop it and do something else
altogether. The same thing is happening at the moment with what I call
my Instamatic Poems… " /More
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Poetry Library. A registered charity (No. SCO23311)
1970s