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Undercoat: Paintings about Poetry by Mark O’Flynn
In this vivid collection Mark O’Flynn takes the painter’s spatial plane of colours and lines and adds the dimensions of time – story, character, the narrator’s voice – using the poet’s rhythmic mastery of sound. Alice Major
Find the publicly available images of art work referred to in Undercoat using the links below, (not all the poems in the book have a link).
Hill End Poems
- Kitchen Still Life (page 3)
- Evensong (page 5)
- Sofala 1965 (page 8)
- Sofala, Again (page 9) Friend
- Sofala, Again (page 9) Drysdale
- Big Edna (page 12)
- Jawbone (page 13)
- Back Buildings (page 14)
‘Kangaroo Ochre’ by Natasha Daniloff, 2009
With permission of the artist
Poems on Canvas
- Grasshopper (page 17)
- The Horse's Skull .. (page 18)
- Francis Bacon's Studio (page 19)
- The Kiss (page 20)
- The Tilled Field (page 21)
- Salted Head (page 23)
- Water Lilies (page 25)
- Arearea (page 26)
- The Lark's Wing .. (page 27)
- Still Life circa 1945-1950 (page 28)
- Lioness Devouring a Boy (page 29)
- Rumour of Birds (page 30)
”The Lark’s Wing, Encircled with Golden Blue, Rejoins the Heart of the Poppy Sleeping on a Diamond-Studded Meadow’ by Joan Miro, 1967
‘A Rumour of Flight 1’ digital photomontage by Judith Martinez Estrada, 2015
With the permission of the artist
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