Tom Konyves has included a statement of mine on the glass of Surrey Art Gallery as part of curation of the POETS WITH A VIDEO CAMERA: VIDEO POETRY 1980-2020 exhibition (Sept 17 – Dec 11, 2022) … I’m honoured to see my thinking on poetry in such a fabulous form!

NO MORE POETRY THAT LOOKS LIKE POETRY, THAT ACTS LIKE
POETRY, THAT IS INSTANTLY RECOGNIZABLE AS POETRY; I
BELIEVE THAT POETS SHOULD LIKE TO WRITE IN A WAY WHICH
DOESN’T RESEMBLE WHAT HAS GONE BEFORE, THEY SHOULD BE
ABSOLUTELY CONTEMPORARY IN FORM AND CONTENT.
– Derek Beaulieu