print and words week 2 so when you have strips like this and your tutor says she thinks you should slice them into even narrower strips … you think for two minutes and then you take the risk …. and stick words on and fold … and then the print looks even more like manuscript illumination and you cut up your poem and find the words are so much more brilliant isolated on their long narrow pages like jewels and you print more in an afternoon of adrenalin and more ideas are offered that you need days more to explore and at home you tear and fold what you printed and cut up another poem that you are in the middle of writing hoping this process will clarify its labour-pains and then you have two more concertina books a little more resolved being pressed between boards to flatten and many thoughts towards more. Post navigation print and words week 1orchids and swifts Leave a ReplyCancel reply This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.