The Vispo Bible - Numbers - completed

I began Numbers in May 2017 and it took me 11 months to complete it. It's not that it's that large at 36 chapters, i was just doing other things. Some of the chapters were long with over 50 verses.

All 36 chapters of Numbers will be on display/for sale at the Ottawa Small Press Book Fair on Saturday, June 23 at the Jack Purcell Community Centre from noon to five pm with the proceeds going to Cornerstone Housing for Women. If you can't come by, please feel free to make a donation to Cornerstone and I will mail you something (chapbook, broadside, book) by way of appreciation.

Thanks to the Ontario Arts Council for funding part of this work in 2018.

The Vispo Bible - artist's talk at Kanada Koncrete

on May 5, 2018 as part of Kanada Koncrete, Material Poetries in the Digital Age, a symposium at the University of Ottawa, I gave an artist's talk entitled "The Vispo Bible: One Woman Recreates the Bible as Visual Poetry."

I've posted the talk on the AngelHousePress essay series here. And you can see the work that I've done so far on the Vispo Bible here.

Thanks to the Ontario Arts Council for funding part of  this project this year and to Coach House Books for the Recommender Grant.

The Vispo Bible: Book of Mark is now out with above/ground press

thanks to rob mclennan of above/ground press for publishing The Book of Mark from the Vispo Bible.

This is the second of the Vispo Bible chapbooks so far, with the first being The Book of Esther, published by Puddles of Sky Press last year.

You can order copies of Mark here.

and Esther here.

These chapbooks and some Vispo Bible posters will be available for barter and sale at Bizarre Bazaar on Friday, May 4 at the University of Ottawa Canadian Literature Symposium: Kanada Koncrete: Material Poetries in the Digital Age.

I will also be giving a talk on Saturay, May 5: The Vispo Bible: One Woman Recreates The Bible as Visual Poetry. More information about the symposium is available here.

Ontario Arts Council Recommender Grant for Writers for the Vispo Bible

I am pleased to announce that Coach House Books has recommended the Vispo Bible for an Ontario Arts Council Recommender Grant for Writers. This is the first grant I've ever received for visual poetry. I am grateful to the Ontario Arts Council and to Coach House Books. I thank the Ontario provincial government for continuing its support of the arts.

asemic pieces published at h&

thanks to Ian Whistle for publishing a few from the series "beyond earth and sky" for my mother, Joan Hamilton, who died on December 22, 2017.

Determined Hearts, A Frankenstein Anthology

I have a visual poem in “Determined Hearts, A Frankenstein Anthology," which commemorates the 100^th anniversary of the book by Mary Shelley in 2018. thanks to editor, Jacqueline Dorsey for including my work.

https://www.amazon.com/Determined-Hearts-Frankenstein-Anthology-Various/dp/197992760X/

asemic series published by h&

thanks to Ian Whistle for publishing "beyond earth & sky" dedicated to my mother.
a small break from the Vispo Bible...
click here to see the poems

Puddles of Sky Press publishes the Book of Esther

Thanks to Michael e. Casteels for publishing the Book of Esther, an excerpt from the Vispo Bible.

I have some copies or better yet, pick them up from Puddles of Sky Press.

This is the third chapbook of mine published by Puddles of Sky. The first was Of the Body and the second was Une Semaine dans la Vie de l'Alphabet inside Illiterature Three.

Puddles of Sky is a great press. Buy chapbooks and other great sundry small press delights.

Angry Old Man Magazine - Issue 1 features Exodus from the Vispo Bible

Thanks to Drew B. David for featuring some of my pieces from the Vispo Bible in the his new magazine. i'm in fine company. check out the inaugural issue.

untethered Vol 3. 2

has published three pieces from the Vispo Bible: Exodus 15, 16 and 17. Thanks to the editors.

untethered is a bi-annual Toronto-based literary journal. copies and subscriptions are available here:
https://alwaysuntethered.com/

Leviticus Xii published by Penteract Press

Thanks to Britain's experimental chapbook and leaflet publisher, Penteract Press for publishing Leviticus Xii, from the Vispo Bible as a leaflet.

Copies of this beautiful art card are available here.

Or by asking me directly. I have some complementary copies.

Numbers 1, the Vispo Bible

Today I completed my visual poetry translation of the first chapter of the Book of Numbers from the Old Testament. There are 36 chapters. 

The Vispo Bible: Leviticus is completed

Leviticus 27

I have just completed the third book of the Old Testament for my project, the Vispo Bible. I worked on it from November, 2016 to March, 2017. It contained 27 chapters. A few pieces will appear in an anthology made by Renegade Press, run by andrew topel.

I will continue to alternate between the Old and New Testaments.

Pieces from the Vispo Bible appear in h&, Illiterature (Puddles of Sky Press), Our Teeth, Dreamland, Brave New Word, Ustanga, as a leaflet published by No Press, & are forthcoming in untethered magazine. A few pieces were also displayed as part of a University of Ottawa exhibit and talk about contemporary visual poetry.

I've also posted a few pieces on this blog, & on Tumblr. The entire Vispo Bible's Book of Genesis translation is on YouTube:

Revelation 20 published by No Press

No Press has kindly published a leaflet of my Revelation 20 from the Vispo Bible in a limited edition of 40 copies.

Thanks to derek beaulieu for his support and interest in my visual poetry.

The Vispo Bible: Leviticus 1

& so it begins

Brave New Word - Exodus

Thanks to Volodymyr Bilik for publishing 5 of my visual poems from the Vispo Bible - Exodus http://bnw-mag.blogspot.com/…/amanda-earl-5-visual-poems.ht…

Exodus 19, 20 and 25 on Ustanga.It

3 pieces from the Vispo Bible's Book of Exodus, Old Testament have been published on Ustanga.it. thanks to Ustanga for being such an interesting site for experimental & visual poetry from all over the world.

You can find the work here.

The Vispo Bible on Display at U of O

photo by Claire Farley

as part of a graduate course given by Professor Robert Stacey. PhD student, publisher, poet and dear friend, Claire Farley interviewed me for the presentation and lovingly displayed my work as part of an exhibit on visual and concrete poetry at the university.

the conversation was fascinating and fun. i'm glad to see that students are being introduced to visual/concrete poetry. when i first heard of such, i was amazed. the possibilities are endless.

thanks to Claire for this great photo, for the wonderful display and for choosing my work as her subject.

i'm now working on the Book of  Leviticus, the third book in the Old Testament. I've finished Genesis, Exodus in the Old Testament, Revelation and Jude in the New. onward!

a star breaks wild (other vispo)

The Vispo Bible: Jude is published on h&

thanks to Ian Whistle for publishing my latest effort for the Vispo Bible: Jude, which is the second last book in the New Testament.