Mesostic Herbarium
(2003-ongoing)


The mesostic is a name poem, much favoured by John Cage who wrote them on the names of his friends and gave them as birthday gifts. Mesostic herbarium is an archive of mesostics written on the names of flora, using one word per line. The project was realised as an anthology in the small press series; in a series of photographs by Morven Gregor of the poems engarved onto botanical name labels; and in Propogator, an installation of the labels at Yorkshire Sculpture Park.

Click here PROPOGATOR interview with Alex Hodby

Click here for Photographs of Propogater by Jonty Wilde

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