Introduction
In the summer of 1977, when everything that seemed to matter was being articulated loudly and clearly by the Sex Pistols, I came across a slim volume of short stories based on the tarot pack by an Italian writer called Italo Calvino. Nothing could have been more different from the stridency of punk rock – these were delicately wrought miniatures telling tales of questing knights, evil enchantresses and vampires – but I was instantly won ove
–- Philip Terry
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Cover Art
Untitled (Visual Sonnet) #11
All of the Visual Sonnets are painted on paper, using black ink, water and Chinese brushes (employed in the traditional Chinese way). Any relationship to traditional Chinese painting or calligraphy is indirect – which might be another way of affirming a relationship, of course. The series as a whole would probably never have happened if Jeff Hilson hadn’t asked me if I could think of some “visual sonnets” for his anthology, The Reality Street Book of Sonnets.
-- David Miller
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Acknowledgements
Thanks are due to the editors of the following publications and websites where which some of this material first appeared...