Scenes from ‘Notes for a Revolution’ – Visual Poetry by Stephen Sunderland 

Shadow of a Fire – Close up of a small, detached piece of grass and earth, dried out and casting a shadow on a lichen covered paving stone on a bright day.
Explode on Impact - Close up of a small section of a paving stone where it intersects with the edge of a dusty flower border. There are details of dry earth and plant debris casting shadows in bright daylight.
Birth Trauma – Close up of a dried- out flower, blown onto a clean paving slab and showing its roots, stem and desiccated flowerhead. There is a slight shadow from the bright sunlight.
Garden of Eden – Detail of the edge of a paving stone adjoining the lawn, showing the lawn’s grass, a piece of stick and the head of some seeded grass.
Mount Olympus – Close up detail of a piece of bleached paving slab and a tiny piece of broken twig.
Road into Wilderness – Close up detail of two adjoining Italian stone paving slabs, in greys and rusty oranges.
Future of the Novel – Close up detail of a the smashed seed head of a bluish meadow flower on a paving slab.

Stephen Sunderland is the author of the surrealist film-novel The Cinema Beneath the Lake, three BBC radio dramas, and the visual poetry collections Eye Movement (Steel Incisors, 2022), Oneiroscope (Kingston University Press, 2023) and Refrains (Steel Incisors, 2023).His work also appears in anthologies Seen as Read (Kingston University Press 2021) and Seeing in Tongues (forthcoming Steel Incisors, 2023); and in Mercurius Magazine, feminist-surrealist journal The Debutante and Lune: A Journal of Literary Misrule. Find him on Twitter @stephensunderla – and on Mastodon @Corsairsanglot@mastodon.social

Banner Art: Excerpt from Garden of Eden, a vispo-hybrid by Stephen Sunderland, chosen by Robert Frede Kenter.

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