Linda Black
Featured Poet
Linda Black
As a student at Leeds College of Art I discovered a way of creating distraction/accident rather than intent; small objects which took my fancy were assembled into art works (pins piercing a film of Vaseline, a wedding-cake-man sunk in a tin of oxblood shoe polish). In my final term I took up etching (drawing was my first love) and when I moved to London, ran Apollo Etching Studio and exhibited my etchings in various galleries. I was fascinated by the detail I could achieve drawing with a needle into a fine layer of wax and by the reversal of the original image. My process was to begin, no conscious idea in mind - one line leading to another. There are analogies here with my writing process. After I divorced (in my new life) I began to write - fragments, snippets - not realising at first they were poems. Many of my poems related directly to my visual art. The connection continues as I become increasingly interested in working intuitively and in striving to define the twists and turns of thinking - a sense of 'nowness' interacting with the more tangible,
observational content (akin to the detail of the etchings). I am currently working on a series of prose poems; a poem triggered by an object, a piece of furniture, an impulse, the feeling behind an
image. My poems have been published in various magazines and in the Poetry School anthology Entering the Tapestry.
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magazine list
- Features
- zines
- 10th Muse
- 14
- Acumen
- Agenda
- Ambit
- Angel Exhaust
- ARTEMISpoetry
- Atlas
- Blithe Spirit
- Borderlines
- Brando's hat
- Brittle Star
- Candelabrum
- Cannon's Mouth, The
- Chroma
- Coffee House, The
- Dream Catcher
- Equinox
- Erbacce
- Fabric
- Fire
- Floating Bear, The
- French Literary Review, The
- Frogmore Papers, The
- Global Tapestry
- Grosseteste Review
- Homeless Diamonds
- Interpreter's House, The
- Iota
- Journal, The
- Lamport Court
- London Magazine, The
- Magma
- Matchbox
- Matter
- Modern Poetry in Translation
- Monkey Kettle
- Moodswing
- Neon Highway
- New Welsh Review
- North, The
- Oasis
- Obsessed with pipework
- Orbis
- Oxford Poetry
- Painted, spoken
- Paper, The
- Pen Pusher Magazine
- Poetry Cornwall
- Poetry London
- Poetry London (1951)
- Poetry Nation
- Poetry Review, The
- Poetry Salzburg Review
- Poetry Scotland
- Poetry Wales
- Private Tutor
- Purple Patch
- Quarto
- Rain Dog
- Reach Poetry
- Review, The
- Rialto, The
- Second Aeon
- Seventh Quarry, The
- Shearsman
- Smiths Knoll
- Smoke
- South
- Staple
- Strange Faeces
- Tabla Book of New Verse, The
- Thumbscrew
- Tolling Elves
- Ugly Tree, The
- Weyfarers
- Wolf, The
- Yellow Crane, The