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Twitter poems from Joe Turrent
“I’ve been using twitter to source language for poems over the past couple of months. Basically I’ve been searching the site for a particular term, then writing poems limited to the text of the first 11 tweets that come up.”
– Joe Turrent
THERE IS NO EXPLANATION
Dec 30 2012, 14:23
tryna teach
tear glands to overproduce tears
defies
reason
how stupid you are
a black knee
at the behest of
the word sorry
I CANT HELP FEELING
Dec 20 2012, 16:17
imagine the
sad or depressed
cats in costumes
feeling
love, they leave
some of the
Worst
in the deep
off
my chest
I mean
they leave me breathless
CONTROVERSY
Jan 9 2013, 20:10
I understand
the internet
& virtually
the best rebuttal to
being
is
scenes of
disturbing
&
ridiculous
fame
Joe Turrent
More Twitter-sourced poems at Joe’s blog
Found Crossword Poems by Winston Plowes
As a fan of the Guardian Quick Crossword online and a poet, maybe it was only a matter of time until these two parts of my life merged. One particular interest of mine is the genre of found poetry where words or word strings from a particular text are cut and pasted to give a new meaning. I recently applied this technique to the clues from The Guardian Quick Crossword website which produced an interesting result. I then applied the same treatment to the text of the solutions, which gave a different poem. The second poem is bound to be less cohesive than the first as the available vocabulary is obviously more restrictive, it’s interesting however to see the resonance and echo between the two poems which although very different in style are related in this strange way. I treat the words I find as individual building blocks and like to use them with their original case and punctuation still preserved (Source notes appear in the footnotes of each poem)
(A=crossword clues, B=solution to those clues, i.e. 1A + 1B, 2A + 2B)
Portuguese charity Event no 13,045 (1A)
George Formby
performed
Funny business
under the stairs
with a large
Cloth cone
reverberating against
a Hollow Onion
Please Dance in the air
Showing Indulgently
Stupid behaviour
All words including the title were found in the clues for The Guardian Quick crossword number 13,045 published in The Guardian Newspaper and online on 1st March 2012. All original case preserved.
Solution BLURB (1B)
STODGY LEEK FLAN
UKULELE DULLARD
HOKEYCOKEY MOONWALK
RESONATE
ARMPIT
HANKEYPANKEY WINDSOCK
ASBO FUNDRAISER
MADIERA BALUSTRADE
All words including the title were found in the solutions for The Guardian Quick crossword number 13,045 published in The Guardian Newspaper and online on 2nd March 2012. All original case preserved.
festival (2A)
the Smell of Outdoor electricity
Corrupt Carol –
body of a cat
Symbol of a pig
Equipment handler for a touring band
a Reckless Evening in urban heaven
Sugar or saccharin
All words and punctuation (including the title) were found in the clues for The Guardian Quick crossword number 13,093 published in The Guardian Newspaper and online on 26th April 2012. All original case preserved.
SOIREE (2B)
WILLOW TRIBUTARY
POUNDSIGN SQUID
ROADIE REEK
WIRED WASSAILER
FIZZ GNAW TILT
DISOWN
All words including the title were found in the solutions for The Guardian Quick crossword number 13,093 published in The Guardian Newspaper and online on 26th April 2012. All original case preserved.
hormone zodiac (3A)
fleshy sex –
the sweet red dot
Falling South
Brought Female Gifted fruit
into the wrong relationship
Difficult Legal Announcement
The singing voice flakes On
All words including the title were found in the clues for The Guardian Quick crossword number 13,246 published in The Guardian Newspaper and online on 22nd October 2012. All original case preserved.
PROCLAMATION (3B)
TESTOSTERONE TIGHTSPOT
NATAL PROMPT
BABIES LEARNING
TALENTED GEMINI
GROWN STRAWBERRIES TURN
ALIGNED
All words including the title were found in the solutions for The Guardian Quick crossword number 13,246 published in The Guardian Newspaper and online on 23rd October 2012. All original case preserved.
Find out more about Winston Plowes’ work here
More Googleseeds from Russell J Turner
Dance Dance Dance Dance
and the steps become hidden
after the age of 37
he mistook sulphuric acid for dish soap
before the device was thrown
from several caves in France
a primitive form of perspective
an envelope of second class
folded into three
or an imprisoned friend
The Maiden’s Retribution
Shot Through the Heart
it’s lamentable
equipped with only crayons and construction paper
rolling off the assembly line
in an airport hangar in Southern California
her husband took the footprints
haunted by visions of dead people
amidst the chaos of her family
the three-ring circus
or do a little nocturnal racing
or do a little nocturnal racing
or do a little nocturnal racing
Russell J Turner – September 2012
Only Slightly Bent
about to hit a brick wall
fired in a kiln or baked by the sun
a tactless or indiscreet remark
Ruins Any Chance Of A Relationship
the voice of calm and reason when chaos strikes
you married a robot
to add some vibration
wait 1 millisecond before switching on
This, however, is pretty awful
a cautionary tale on what can happen
a hotbed of sexual tension
having sex with the lights on, and video taping it
the camera illuminates the contradiction
and nearly got rear-ended
by the Ministry of Justice
in Thurrock
to help adults get over their gremlins
to help adults get over their gremlins
to help adults get over their gremlins
Russell J Turner – November 2012
2 poems by Bob Towey
‘Hector Gilbert’ is a porn and pitchfork.com mutilated sonnet, ‘Radiohead’ is dedicated to anyone who has ever argued with a music messageboard.
Hector Gilbert
Hector Gilbert tight buttocks in motion
Hector Gilbert cock pussy explosion
Free Hector Gilbert Espionage Flicks!
See pics of Hector’s torso swept, exposed
Sir Gilbert sips, it’s, er, elephant piss
in Hunter Gilbert Smells Girls videos
Does Hector Gilbert sense that I exist
while writhing naked, jacking off on cam,
his clients frothing, milk spilt down his tits
and housewives jamming lines when Hector hands
that fine and famous cock of his to kings
who nod and sagely recognise his claim
and weeping abdicate their sloughing skin?
Read Hector Gilbert rate the porn that’s new
to him this month in Hector’s magazine
‘The Gilbert Hump’ with renowned peer reviews
and columns from real Gilbert milfs turned teens.
Hector Gilbert – Ashamed Stripping and Wet 6.0
Hector Gilbert – Browsing with Madonna 7.3
Hector Gilbert – High Fiving Forming Sects 9.8
Gaunt Hector Gilbert – Autopsy Sculpture 4.1
Am I Hector Gilbert? No.
So stand as lepers joyful to have shamed
our tribes in stalls when Hector’s out on tour.
Your eyes like mine, so soft and wide with hope
that yes that’s Hector’s seed spilt on the floor
and licking cum from splinters lets the Pope
help count each soul that rotting shed a cell
towards my clone of Hector’s perfect hell.
Radiohead
yeah you’ve gotta have an opinion but
OKC is their most melodic stuff
though some people get depression from the second
side for me a song like Lucky is one
of the most languid songs ever made
lyrically and musically they recorded it
in one day and that blows my fucking mind
there’s just too many laptops on Kid A
to make a difference to man or beast when
they owed the fans some back to basics rock
britpop anthems as on The Bends with EVERYTHING
even more raw and Jonny ripping up on
his guitar not watching while Thom commands a
droid to suffer for him look I’ve heard the
Aphex Twin and it’s all blip blip bleepy bloop bloop
you can kid yourself you like anything
if you listen to it enough a lot of fans
don’t want to admit the new stuff is shit
but even they would rather hear the old classics
in the future you’ll realise what you cannot knock
Bob Towey graduated into the collapse of Western civilisation and currently works as a Cow Inseminator in Cambridgeshire, England. If you’d like to read more from Bob, other poems can be found at Gutter Eloquence, Underground Voices, Vector and in two inch high letters on a wall in Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge. On the main corridor as you go from the concourse up to the ATC. The website is www.bobtowey.com.
2 Googleseeds by Russell J Turner
Now is the time of monsters
Bologna is a ‘prototype’
so sensitive and up to date
I quietly said goodbye to my friends
a consummate actress
a sexual desire
they find acceptable
we must expect to share in their plagues
in the plunder
but this game is fun too
Remember: you’re judged on your wealth
Look no further
then please call Stephanie
Communication is key
no matter where you are
it beats the heck outta lip-synced
but she was 3 months pregnant
we’re uncovering new details
Paris Hilton offers up an apology
Kills Double Amputee
“within inches to a foot”
“within inches to a foot”
“within inches to a foot”
Nagasaki Towpath
this great slice of Birkenhead
tend to hear smokers bitching
and several other unusual spirits
using a mirror was an incredibly helpful tool
and turn your critical brain off
so that others don’t creep in
This is not arguing from a place of privilege
an object which has intrinsic value
synonymous with the meaning of life
you know the word for whiskers
Megan commented on her old habits
walking on the Champs Elysees
has a bloody history
though the posters did not mention any specific crimes
though the posters did not mention any specific crimes
though the posters did not mention any specific crimes
Russell J Turner
Read his blog here
A glitch poem and screenshot by Jayinee Basu
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Jayinee Basu
Dream the Future Yesterday by Ross Sélavy Brighton
Dream The Future Yesterday
See you later child god
She looked like a future dog world
HAPPY FACE ALEPH FIRE CORDIAL
ignore silly pictures
ONE HUGE NIGHT IN POST MACHINE
and the cult and the always and the chan aware
Heyheyhey 00 cadaverous +1 <br/> orgamism [to eplain the heliocentric]
SOMEONE DILATE LIVING
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lthen did nothing to stop them from doing something that is not appropriate for all users of the catalogue that is anything you would not believe how much I loved them all and I’ma let you finish but Beyonce had one of these days I’ll bet your life on the road today and they are known whether these are the only ones who can not afford to pay for their own userserve-ak.last.fm together for another year of amazing pictures online featuring the world famous Concise Oxford English Dictionary and Thesaurus for Blind and Visually Impaired Children Committee
wedged before
me me me me me me me me
this this this
it It it it it It it it
one one one
crying rain be goes
FUCK MUSIC MUSIC SUCKS
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I WANNA LOVE U
Top of Form
BE MY UNICORN LUV
ok.
The Googleseeds keep coming from Russell J Turner, Hoorah!
Just another victim of the ambient morality
Time is what turns kittens into cats
go a week without using magic
in a fit of grief and rage
your votes are noticed and appreciated
soaking used stamps off envelopes
this list provides a wide variety of options
Considerable cultural immersion is possible
paying several months’ rent up front
was marvellous, so user friendly
he may be willing to pay you something
curious to see what happens over time
searching for hotels in Vietnam
We have every destination covered
returning to the hamster wheel
left him asking for more
a couple hours for trick or treating
“dwellers on either shore”
“dwellers on either shore”
“dwellers on either shore”
stretching my arms and scratching my palms
you have described it beautifully
having been cured of cancer
major pharmaceutical companies are not interested
Better start looking for this product and fast
simultaneously slightly more beautiful
work is broken
You Can’t Lie To Me
No machine built to date has proven more effective
less stressful and more productive
I’m going to cook tonight
My whole family loves it
Then tape down fingers three and four
different positions on the cello
(touch lightly to test, and you’ll hear a harmonic)
(touch lightly to test, and you’ll hear a harmonic)
(touch lightly to test, and you’ll hear a harmonic)
Read more of Russell’s poetry here and hear more here…here here!
2 Googleseeds by Russell J Turner
Grammar for a video age
What parents need to know
This booklet is in the public domain
The rules vary from country to country
This report draws on the replies
I am an amateur I’m trying to improve
Is fully-auto really necessary?
Inconsistent trigger pull
I’m leery of bending the sear myself
Consumers with mortgage trouble should talk to their lender
The earlier you make contact, the more options there are available
Maps take a whole new turn
Maps take a whole new turn
Maps take a whole new turn
It will all be over by Christmas
Every time they came up with a big plan
start pelting him with shit until he begs for mercy
Idiotic and incoherent language
“alternative”
it immediately succeeded in its aim
hospitals are pathetic
The memorandum said
a second bilateral loan agreement
we all win together or we all lose together
It’s a complicated question
This could be a real relationship that has hit a rough patch
I really do love him with every ounce of my heart
I love him. With every ounce of my heart.
I love him. With every ounce of my heart.
Russell J Turner
shoutoutgrandpa.jpg an Image Macro by Stephanie Cook
shoutoutgrandpa,jpg by Stephanie Cook
#Hashtag by Gordon Duncan
#Hashtag.
#Hello, #Listenin.
#Packing, #Brightpaleskin.
#Mornin’, #Howareyou?
#I’mgood, #Flightattwo.
#Sandals, #Swimmingtrunks.
#Watchoutgirlsholidayhunks.
#Tubetrip, #Meetthelads.
#Whisky, #Boxoffags.
#Facebook, #Holiday!
#Status, #Outtoplay!
#Takeoff, #Buythebeers.
#Alcoholcalmsflyingfears.
#Landing, #Hearussing.
#Coachtrip, #Summerfling.
#Clubbing, #Dancingqueen.
#Deepbass, #Discoscene.
#Kingcock, #Tourt-shirt.
#Doubleentendrefelthurt.
#Cocktails, #Toogirly.
#Sickmate, #Backearly.
#Bedtime, #Lonelysight.
#Again, #Tomonight.
#Nextday, #Hangover.
#Passedoutonpulloutsofa.
#Breakfast, #Startdrinking.
#Beersin, #Nomixing.
#Wasted, #Actafool!
#Moonshine, #Onthepull.
#Sexy, #Pulledfittie.
#Nightofpromiscuity
#Toodrunk, #Lostmoney.
#Feltbrave, #Balcony.
#Jumping, #Swimmingpool.
#Nothurt, #Ridicule.
#Sleeptight, #Journeyback.
#Hopewemakeitbackintact.
#Suntan, #We’reallset.
#Shorttrip, #Weallslept.
#Airport, #Welcomehome.
#Twitter, #Mobilephone.
#Hashtag, #Inbedlays.
#NomoreTwitterholidays.
Gordon Duncan @Ruffalini
‘Popular Opinion’ by Carmina Masoliver
Carmina Masoliver has recently completed a Creative Entrepreneurship MA since also finishing a degree in English Literature at UEA. She has been published in various magazines and has been a regular contributor to the UEA newspaper, Concrete. Her poetry has been included in anthologies; Poetry Rivals Collection 2010: A New Dawn Breaks and Workshop: Undergraduate Creative Writing Anthology from UEA 2011. Carmina regularly performs feature poetry sets in both London and Norwich. Most recently she gained first place at the Glam Slam for ‘Best Loss Poem’.
I formulated the poem ‘Popular Opinion’ in a similar way, by taking some of the trending topics on Google over the past week. The bold font was generated from the internet, with the rest fills in the gaps.
‘Very Meta Based Image’ by Meta Knight
Very Meta Based Image by Meta Knight
A Hypertext Facebook Poem by Ross Sélavy Brighton
Daddy Dearest Be With My Friends Eating Rice Pudding While In A Depressing Time
Covering myself in Vaseline and crying naked in the dark Growing Antlers
I wanna love you are you ready I Don’t Give a Fuck Let’s go Hanging out in garages
Camping Party Hard Wow……..Your Quiet……….I Like Your Nude Garage
Teenage Dream Teenage Love Teenage Lightning
meow, meow, meow, meow, meow, meow, meow, meow, meow, meow, meow, meow, meow, meow, meow, meow, meow, meow, meow, meow, meow, meow, meow, meow, meow, meow, meow, meow, meow, meow, meow, meow im a noisy bi princess who wants to be owned
(Are You) The One That I’ve Been Waiting For, Scary washing machine.
Goodnight MoonTop of Form
I Love Music You’re My Favorite Star
Top of Form
Lock me in your heart and throw away the key Throw It on Me I’m an Engineer
Dear President Bieber , i love you , I wanna love you are you ready , I love how you won’t talk to me anymore.
Top of Form
Lets Buy FAST Cars LOL Jus Chillin U Kno and Having a Good Time Hanging Out In The Nude
Nude Unicorn Sex lying starfish in my super kingsize bed OMG
Top of Form
wrighting poetry to get your feelings out I WaNna LOve YOu I wanna love you are you ready
There should be a relationship status for “i dont even know whats going on”
Smelling People Avocado Muffins
He Would Throw Stuffed Animals at Me When I Acted Dumb and Then Kiss Me a Million Times
Sometimes i just wonder, am i too buff?
Jus Chillin U Kno and Having a Good Time
The Christmas House Of Unicorn Majesty And Lesbian Sex Den
Fuck college, I’m going to England to marry Prince Harry and be a Princess.
I throw my hooves up in the air sometimes, saying ayoo, I’m a goat bro.
My Lawn I Set My Friends On Fire every day I m chilling Mountaineering In Antarctica On a Jet Ski
I bet Twi-moms can beat Twi-teens to 1,000 Rexona Men Inside my BUTTHOLE
Star Trek Ate Gaming On A Hill Falling In Love with Jesus, Is the Best thing I’ve Ever Done!
Blessed Virgin Mary Fetish Porn Shop
Fuck Yeah Justin Bieber Flirting with Voldermort
Harry Potter is LIFE going on my friend’s page and likeing everything they liked Covering myself in Vaseline and crying naked in the dark I love it when you HUG me
My Son Violently fist pumping to Adele.
There is no word for love Only House Music
Passionate lover’s Eating celery naked whilst crying in front of a mirror.
Pump my ride Im glad i have a roof or i would be soaked I’m a Dolphin crying till im a cat princess
Ross Sélavy Brighton
‘I’m Going to Kill Myself’ by Carmina Masoliver
Carmina Masoliver has recently completed a Creative Entrepreneurship MA since also finishing a degree in English Literature at UEA. She has been published in various magazines and has been a regular contributor to the UEA newspaper, Concrete. Her poetry has been included in anthologies; Poetry Rivals Collection 2010: A New Dawn Breaks and Workshop: Undergraduate Creative Writing Anthology from UEA 2011. Carmina regularly performs feature poetry sets in both London and Norwich. Most recently she gained first place at the Glam Slam for ‘Best Loss Poem’.
‘I’m Going To Kill Myself’ was formulated from a number of posts by real people about wanting to commit suicide. Again, it relates to the need for love. The red text indicates where words have been added, and the lines with strikethrough are original text that feeds into the meaning of the poem showing the mass of people reaching out on the internet only to be neglected by those that can really help with their issues.
Two Googleseed poems by Russel J Turner
Russell J Turner is a poet, actor and broadcaster based in Norwich. He is founder and host of headCRASH cabaret, a member of the 28 Sonnets Later collective, and recently worked with Shake The Dust, a national youth slam initiative. He has produced two poetry chapbooks and been published in a number of print and online journals. You can read more at http://mercyfucker.blogspot.com and hear more athttp://soundcloud.com/russelljturner/sets
Process was:
1) Feed seed phrase/title/first line into Google
2) Go to first suggested page and pick a phrase from that page for the next line
3) Feed that phrase into Google
4) Repeat until looping occurs
GOOGLESEEDS
Always verify your witchcraft
Things get worse under pressure
Mother nature is a bitch
View poems with illustrations
Marching through the night
Long vowel sounds
Your chance to beat the clock
Include all possible safety measures and controls
“What it is supposed to do”
The hotel is still situated in the middle of nowhere
A great buffet with endless breads
A group of fun-loving drag queens
Beer, bikes and free swag?
Equal parts obstacle course
Run from a mob of angry cherry famers
Run from a mob of angry cherry famers
Run from a mob of angry cherry famers
Funny, it worked last time
Encoding in Strings are Evil Things
Size is fairly easy to measure
in the practise of forestry
the telephone lines have been completely down
manage any unwanted calls
box to avoid any confusion
my sincerest apologies go out to that nice Argentinian
people can change and we should learn to forgive
the three letters I’ve chosen
to travel a curved course
develops the key skills required for successful adventure
develops the key skills required for successful adventure
develops the key skills required for successful adventure
‘What it would feel like’, a Poem by Ella Chappell
What it would feel like
(a poem sourced from electro lyrics and a new scientist article)
Blackhole
Quiet heart, it’s a quiet heart, it’s a quiet heart.
If you’re falling in feet first, gravity at your head is much weaker than at your feet.
Hollow chest, it’s a hollow chest, it’s a hollow chest.
it also affects the light falling in around you – light from above your head is stretched out and shifted to the red end of the spectrum. Eventually it gets red-shifted into nothingness, so your whole view will be squeezed into a horizontal ring.
I don’t want to be Woody Allen in ‘Hannah and her sisters’ making a deal with god.
Close to the singularity, it appears that the entire three-dimensional universe is being crushed into a two-dimensional surface.
Somedays – white, sunless – the way hired light falls on a table, a wall, nearly without thinking, I know it.
Is there information loss? Is there information loss?
Wormhole
Once you reach its inner horizon, you see an infinitely-energetic flash of light from the outside world containing an image of the entire history of the universe.
Wait, synthesisers fade out,(whispering) yeah fuck my life, (a laugh,) this hurts so bad, this hurts my body, my arms.
but the visualisation assumes you have superpowers to survive it.
(A woman’s voice) wait, (a man’s voice) wait.
the flow of space turns around and you start to accelerate back outward. Instead of falling inward, space falls outwards at a speed faster than light.
You wonder into the bedroom. You’re drunk, we’ve done this before. You stumbled over like three seconds later and kick your boots on to the floor.
Soon you experience another flash of radiation, this time containing a picture of the entire future of the universe.
When beginning and end are interchangeable, I’d like to sign off the way I signed in, with innocence.
This time, a new universe appears, containing an image of its entire past.
My love for you will surely be the death of me.
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