Poetry Archives - Tishon Woolcock https://tishon.com/product-category/poetry/ Designer, Writer, Maker of things Wed, 09 Mar 2022 23:53:54 +0000 en-US hourly 1 202191196 Advice People Don’t Need https://tishon.com/product/advice-people-dont-need/ Fri, 28 Jan 2022 21:03:01 +0000 https://tishon.com/?post_type=product&p=609 How does everyday language become poetry and how much of what we say online is wholly original? Advice People Don’t Need is a collection of poems made from Facebook statuses. With the help of the website what-would-i-say.com, Tishon Woolcock compiled pages of text from his own auto-generated status posts and used the process of erasure to create a series of poems. Tishon’s thoughts on art, success and the meaning of life merge with the voices of Pablo Neruda and Frank O’Hara, whose lines serendipitously make their way into the poems. Written during Tishon’s Poets House Emerging Poets Fellowship, the book is a study of the poet’s role in cataloging language and ponders how much of what we say is wholly original.

Published: June 10, 2014
Chapbook: $10.00
Pages: 22
ISBN: NA
Dimensions: 5.5 x 8.5 in

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]]> 609 Type Something: Story Poems https://tishon.com/product/type-something/ Thu, 27 Jan 2022 02:16:02 +0000 https://tishon.com/product/hoodie-with-logo/ The poems in this chapbook were written using the Instagram Stories feature. They explore how the medium and process in which a poem is written affects the poem itself. The poems consider aging, the passage of time, and our relationship to social media amidst the awareness of our own data as social and economic currency.

Written in 2021, the poems were shared daily via Instagram Stories throughout the month of January 2022. They've been removed from Instagram with the release of this collection, a booklet of white text on black pages that are meant to evoke the IG Stories format.

Published: January 1, 2022
Paperback: 32 pages
ISBN: 978-0-9836314-4-6
Dimensions: 5 x 8 in

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