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These abstract poems, which John O'Loughlin prefers to call 'superpoems' and tends to regard as a species of poetic word art if not sculpture with a quasi-biomorphic twist, aren't intended to be read but simply ... contemplated. They are not concerned with the expression of... Read Full Overview

Unlike John O'Loughlin's first collection of abstract poems, simply called 'Abstracts' (1983), this later project, divided into three volumes with a total of nearly 400 poems, is non-readerly and hence abstract in a patterned and completely formal way such that requires nothing... Read Full Overview