‘something–… ephemeral—blue – balloon,’ –
AUTHOR STATEMENT:
My work represents High-Modernist (Woolf, Joyce, Proust,)-inspired experiments in psychological realism and prose poetry, in the 1st person, (as if in the present tense), aiming to break apart conventional uses of language which serve to
mask real psychological processes and experience.
In ‘something–… ephemeral—blue – balloon,’ an attempt to transpose the experience of a strange, and intensely undergone dream, in an upmarket Art Gallery, the (unnamed) narrator attempts to explain the representation in blown glass, of a blue balloon—the attempt to render(-fix) the ephemeral in a form of perpetuity, to a young and incredulous companion. …
Mark Bolsover is a winner of the Into the Void Poetry Award (2016). His debut chapbook, IN FAILURE & IN RUINS—dreams & fragments, is published with Into the Void Press (2017). His first collection, contra FLUX.—moments caught (arrested) whilst in-from motion., is published with Polyversity Press (2019). His work has appeared in a number of international literary publications, including: Into the Void, 404 Ink, Grub Street, Projectionist’s Playground, SPAM Zine, Mycelia, Open Polyversity, Poetry Bus, and RANGER Magazine. IG: mbolsoverwriter, Bluesky: @mdbolsover.bsky.social
IceFloe Press 