{"id":814,"date":"2014-07-03T07:59:07","date_gmt":"2014-07-03T07:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/WritingTutors\/?p=814"},"modified":"2014-07-03T07:59:07","modified_gmt":"2014-07-03T07:59:07","slug":"ink-pantry-interview-with-mike-johnson-on-visual-poetry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/WritingTutors\/?p=814","title":{"rendered":"Ink Pantry interview with Mike Johnson on visual poetry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/WritingTutors\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/ink-pantry-logo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-815\" title=\"ink pantry logo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/WritingTutors\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/ink-pantry-logo.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"241\" height=\"125\" \/><\/a>An interview with Mike Johnson, on the subject of visual poetry, was published in the Ink Pantry blog on 14 June 2014.\u00a0 Ink Pantry Publishing was founded by a group of former students &#8216;whose paths crossed while studying Creative Writing with the Open University&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>In discussion, Mike explains that &#8216;visual poetry draws upon both visual and verbal semiotic modes&#8217;, making it &#8216;an example of multimodality&#8217;.\u00a0 As an illustration, he cites\u00a0his visual poem\u00a0entitled &#8216;Sunset&#8217;, in which &#8216;variations in the word &#8216;horizon, and the letter &#8216;O&#8217;, which feature in a different position in each line, &#8230; are potentially verbally, visually, and kinaesthetically meaningful, as they simulate the sun&#8217;s movement caused by the earth&#8217;s rotations.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Mike is currently revising and assembling work for a crossover collection, challenging genre and generational boundaries, for publication later this year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/inkpantry.com\/blog\/inky-interview-mike-johnson-talks-semiotics-visual-poetry\/\">http:\/\/inkpantry.com\/blog\/inky-interview-mike-johnson-talks-semiotics-visual-poetry\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An interview with Mike Johnson, on the subject of visual poetry, was published in the Ink Pantry blog on 14 June 2014.\u00a0 Ink Pantry Publishing was founded by a group of former students &#8216;whose paths crossed while studying Creative Writing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/WritingTutors\/?p=814\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[159,130],"class_list":["post-814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","tag-poetry","tag-visual"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/WritingTutors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/WritingTutors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/WritingTutors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/WritingTutors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/WritingTutors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=814"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/WritingTutors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":817,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/WritingTutors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814\/revisions\/817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/WritingTutors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/WritingTutors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/WritingTutors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}