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Poem – ‘Babel’ (Magma 32)

By Mark McGuinness

My poem Babel appeared in Magma 32.

The inspiration was Bruce Nauman’s ‘Raw Materials’ exhibition at the Tate Modern. Nauman lined the walls of the Turbine Hall with loudspeakers playing a motley collection of voices – you can hear a virtual version of the exhibition here.

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  1. Ivor Griffiths says

    3 February, 2008 at 12:18 am

    I checked out your poem. I read it three times and enjoyed it more each time. Kudos.

  2. Mark McGuinness says

    4 February, 2008 at 7:20 pm

    Thanks Ivor, glad you liked it. I’ve worked on the poem since then, the revised version may see the light of day sometime…

  3. Sasha Raskin says

    26 January, 2011 at 7:50 am

    Wow!

    Totally blew me away.

    You play with words and they melt.

    Just love the way how form keeps changing to the rhythm and the ideas.
    Feels like I’m really there in that event, and in that rain.

    Amazing.

  4. Mark McGuinness says

    26 January, 2011 at 8:45 am

    Thanks Sasha, good to know it had the desired effect.

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