Peter Finch recently guest-edited the New Welsh Poetry Issue of Slope.





How Max Ernst Coped With War

Collage definition conceivable collage
exploitation chance realities plane
culture meeting effects spark gap
realities two realities
Are you still tired of my lust for life?
Both cacophony sister causes
clear-headed ice-cold ardent half-deafened
cursing wide distinguish cacophony corporation
root excited new source two-ploughed
political full-absurdity effect frot
absurdly poetic took the only
conceivable form desperate life
work behaviour desperation conceivable
desperation behaviour desperate life
only conceivable desperation different
from differentiation the only conceivable
4.5 x 5.30 cm all the time







Quantum Mechanics in the Work of R S Thomas

Reciprocities
turning
large affirmation
inexplicable
dominant identity
destiny
intimate hearing
memoriam
velocity
reading book
cricket bat
lean owl
exaggerated crag
sheaf
simulacrum
stuffed turkey
ethos
throughout monotony denouement
blood
sky blood
all blood
sky skeleton frequencies
hide hiding hidden

select winner from list:
            Joseph Conrad; Jacques Derrida; H.J.Blackham;
              Ludwig Wittgenstein; Baruch Spinoza; C Norris

veal
blood
memorial philosophy particle probable
sheaf of poems
so large you wonder

argument ambiguity
age
butter







Mid Period Anglo-Welsh Endings
(with Loan Word Intrusions)

ove ing es ly ed od ing ic ing ing
orrow ing ing ies ing ing ing ed
ing ing ents ows ly ing ing es
ills ent ough ing ing or or ow
er er er ed er er er er er ert er
ing ing ed ing ing ing ess ed
ills ing ing ing ed ed ing ings
ight ted erns ed oor ly ly ly
edourd ies ound ions ed ing
ent ing ness ent ing ould ly
ince ing ing ing ing ed ings
ic al eat ince ince ing ed ed ed
ers ed ed ing ills ars ible ed

Taff Llandough Gwydion Ianto
Ceridwen Blodeuwedd Cariad Hanes
Arglwyddi Fferyllt da Prydain
Culhwch Olwen Cantref Sion crying Daro
Cwm Cadno Llanrhaedr-ym-Mochnant
Tywysog Tal Tal Tal Tal Tal Tal Tal Tyddyn
Glyndwr Llewelyn Fawr Deganwy
Aberffraw Cynon Dyffryn
Caersalem Pantycelyn
Iago Iago mangle-juice hills

ing ied ul er ed ing an ore an arly
ly ue urn ew ing ead oads ey eak
ing ing ing sts ing ind ad ed ing
ing ing id ied er er ed ing ing
ing ing ing ing ing ing ing ing ulser ed
est enly et ed ains irs ing
ed ed ess lds ed ains irs ing
ing oom ing ed oom ed oom aws
ence ed ed ed ing ing ily
ed ed ed ion ed ed ed other
other oom oom other oom other







Some Standard Darwinian Reasons

Painting yourself blue.
Beating yourself with birch boughs.
Cutting patterns on your skin.
Starving yourself.
Saying a magical formula over and over.
Staring.
Swallowing.
Starting again.


(from Daniel Dennett: Consciousness Explained)