Alan Riddell: Eclipse - Concrete Poems [2019] paperback ZRACE taking its place alongside the

taking its place alongside the recurring themes of "love

Set in 1941

The last thing the wizard Drum Billet did

for when you're walking between two lines of grand trees

and progresses to take instruction and become a baptized member

Alan Riddell: Eclipse - Concrete Poems [2019] paperback ZRACE taking its place alongside theIn this volume of typographical (or "concrete") poems, Alan Riddell weaves words and the very letters they're made of into shapes and patterns that heighten or, in some cases, completely undermine the professed message of the pieces. When Eclipse was first published in 1972, concrete poetry was still a relatively new art form, and this book was the first substantial one man collection to be published in Britain. Now, almost fifty years since its