Genesis is now available from Timglaset Editions

 Genesis was the first book from the Bible that I began working on for the Vispo Bible in 2015. It has 50 chapters so there are 50 visual poems.  I'm very pleased that Joakim Norling of Timglaset Editions has published the book. This is my first visual poetry book with a spine! You can purchase from Timglaset Editions here.

2 CORINTHIANS - THE VISPO BIBLE - HAS BEGUN

2 CORINTHIANS 1

I completed 1 CORINTHIANS earlier this year. 2 CORINTHIANS  has a mere 13 chapters, so all being well, it will be completed shortly. I feel like adding a little colour so this is what i'm doing for 2 COR.

With the news of the overturning of Roe v Wade by the US Supreme Court, it feels particularly necessary to disrupt, manipulate, deform texts from the Bible. We are in a war against patriarchy, white supremacy, theocracy and capitalism. The Vispo Bible is a defiant feminist work that I began in 2015. It is a cathartic process for me to work with the Bible in this way. 

For more information about the Vispo Bible, please go here.

 

The Vispo Bible: information, publications, exhibitions (as of July 22, 2022)

 

1. The Vispo Bible: One Woman Recreates the Bible as Visual Poetrypresented as part of Kanada Koncrete Material Poetries in the Digital Age, University of Ottawa, May 4-6, 2018

This is my general overview of the project.

2. The powerpoint presentation of the work included in the talk. I've done more pieces since, but this is the bulk of the work.

3. Glue, String and Binder Rings, an essay I wrote on how various publishers are responding to the challenge of publishing the Vispo Bible in print was published in the Babel Tower Notice Board. BTNB is now defunct alas.  Hem Press has provided the entire archive as a free pdf. You can get it here.
4. YouTube Videos

Genesis

Acts 2 - layer by layer

5 Books, Chapbooks and Broadsides

Levitcus, the Vispo Bible, Sigilist Press, 2023, New Jersey, USA.

Genesis, The Vispo Bible, Timglaset Editions, 2022, Malmo, Sweden.

Matthew, The Vispo Bible, Knife Fork Book, 2021. Toronto, Ontario.

Romans, The Vispo Bible, where is the river, 2018, Toronto,Ontario [there's a link to a free pdf]

Revelation, the Vispo Bible, Timglaset Editions, 2018, Malmo,Sweden [out of stock]

now available as a free pdf.

John,the Vispo Bible, The Blasted Tree, 2018, CalgaryAlberta

Ruth, the Vispo Bible, Simulacrum Press, 2018, HamiltonOntario

Mark,the Vispo Bible, above/ground press, 2018, Ottawa,Ontario

Esther,The Vispo Bible, Puddles of Sky Press, 2017,Kingston, Ontario [scroll down; out of print, i think]

Deuteronomy2 from The Vispo Bible, pagefiftyone, 2019, BritishColumbia

Revelation 20 from The Vispo Bible, No Press, 2017, Calgary, Alberta [out of print]

Leviticus XII, Penteract Press, 2017 UK [out of print]

6. Anthologies

Judith: Women Making Visual Poetry (Timglaset Editions, 2021)

WAAVe Global Gallery 2020 (Hysterical Books, 2021)

7. Print Magazines

Not Your Best Visual Poetry (Knife Fork Book, 2019)

Train, Concrete Poetry issue, 2019

to call no 6, Germany psw, 2019

to call no. 1, Germany psw, 2018

illiterature issue v, the graphic novel, (Puddles of Sky Press, Kingston, ON) [scroll down]

untethered (Toronto, ON), Volume 3.2 2017 

Dreamland (Prince George, BC), 2016

8. SITES/EXHIBITS

Beir Bua Journal, Issue III (April 2021)

League of Canadian Poets Poetry Pause (September, 2020 and February, 2021)

The Pi Review (August, 2020)

Streetcake Magazine Issue 68, Part 1 (August, 2020)

Escapisms, Poem Atlas (May 15 to June 5, 2020)

Translations, Mellom Press (May 11 to June 9, 2020)

Europlasty 4 (Korea 2019)

Talking About Strawberries All The Time,2019

Renegade, 2019

Angry Old Man Magazine, 2018?

CONCRETE IS POROUS, Toronto, Ottawa, Windsor, 2018

Brave New Word, 2016

Ustanga, 2016

h&, 2015 and 2017

http://handandpoetry.blogspot.com/2016/04/amanda-earl-chapter-4-of-exodus-from.html

Our Teeth, 2016

University of Ottawa, English Department presentation by Claire Farley, 2016

9 ENGAGEMENTS

Eileen Tabios, Galatea Resurrects - The Book of Mark

Gregory Betts, Decoding (visual) Poetry: Some Thoughts on Amanda Earl’s Vispo Bible, February 1, 2022

Katy Wimhurst, A Review of Amanda Earl's Genesis, Mercurius Magazine, February 11, 2023

Singing with the Nightingales: a WAAVe Global Response to the Ukraine Situation

 Singing with the Nightingales || a WAAVe Global Response to the Ukraine Situation. See the work & purchase the catalogue from Van Vliet Gallery with proceeds going to humanitarian support of Ukranians. It includes work from 20 contributors including me! http://vanvlietgallery.com/

1 Corinthians 1 from the New Testament

I have begun 1 Corinthians. Here is the first chapter. i dedicate this piece to Gregory Betts for his insightful and interesting engagement with my work.  

Gregory Betts : Decoding (visual) Poetry: Some Thoughts on Amanda Earl’s Vispo Bible

 Gratitude to Gregory Betts for his engagement with the Vispo Bible and to rob mclennan for publishing it in Periodicities. 

Here is a link. 

I am currently working on 1 Corinthians from the Old Testament. I hope to have 1 and 2 Corinthians completed this year. 1COR has 16 chapters and 2COR has 13. I'll keep you posted.