SPACES an Imagist form
SPACES
Gael Turnbull(1928-2004,a Scottish doctor-poet created the imagist Spaces form in his collection Briefly (1967) a two line poem with a larger than usual space
Turnbull called poems using his device ‘Spaces’, and noted of these ‘The visual “space” is,a pause or hesitation, even a temporary dislocation of attention’ .
Here is an example of mine
CATCH 22
a window pane shatters
nobody makes a home run
SPACES an imagism form it has a title and three lines ,the middle being blank
and left to the readers imagination.I
Spaces is an example of a terminal caesura
Gael Turnbull(1928-2004,a Scottish doctor-poet created the imagist Spaces form in his collection Briefly (1967) a two line poem with a larger than usual space
Turnbull called poems using his device ‘Spaces’, and noted of these ‘The visual “space” is,a pause or hesitation, even a temporary dislocation of attention’ .
Here is an example of mine
CATCH 22
a window pane shatters
nobody makes a home run
SPACES an imagism form it has a title and three lines ,the middle being blank
and left to the readers imagination.I
Spaces is an example of a terminal caesura
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