Gepubliceerd op: vrijdag 11 februari 2022

Fragments from Howl – John Richard McConnochie

 

 

who scribbled all night rocking and rolling over lofty incantations which in the yellow morning were stanzas of gibberish

(extract from the poem ‘Howl‘ by Allen Ginsberg. Copyright © Allen Ginsberg, 1956, 1961, used by permission of The Wylie Agency (UK) Limited)

 

artwork by John Richard McConnochie based on the selected fragment from Howl (click for enlargement)

artwork by John Richard McConnochie
based on the selected fragment from Howl
(click for enlargement)

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Ginsberg Year

- In 2022, it's been 25 years since US poet Allen Ginsberg died. We ask artists from all over the world to pick a fragment from his best-known poem Howl and create an artwork based on that fragment. A lively and fluid evaluation of what this amazing poem means in our times & a tribute to one of the best minds of the generations before us.