| Visual Poetry
Rab Wilson & Lisa Otty
Visual poetry is an experimental genre that uses not just words, but space, colour, line, and typography to create meaning. Championed by two of Scotland’s most celebrated poets, Ian Hamilton Finlay and Edwin Morgan, it challenges us to ask what poetry is and how different styles of textual presentation change our readings.
Join us for this hands-on workshop, led by local poet Rab Wilson and researcher Lisa Otty. We will explore visual poetry and its potential for writers, looking at how individual works are constructed and read, before creating our own visual poems.
The workshop will draw on the new Archive of Reading, housed at the Scottish Poetry Library, which holds eye-tracking recordings and other documents that show precisely how people engage with different layouts and texts.
Lisa Otty is a research fellow at Dundee University, where she works on the Poetry Beyond Text: Vision, Text and Cognition project, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. Her interests focus on experimental literature, print history and modern art, and she regularly publishes and teaches in these areas. She is based in Edinburgh, and is currently working on the Archive of Reading at the Scottish Poetry Library.
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