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| Issue 29: | August 2025 |
| Visual Poetry: | 117 words |
| Pattern | Poem |
By Mark Wyatt
Antigone
Publisher’s Note:
Mark Wyatt’s pattern poetry is in the tradition of fourth-century Latin poet Optatianus, and 20th-century American poet John Hollander (source: Hyperbolic Review, Winter 2025). For examples of poems which inspired Wyatt, see:
- an article by scholar J. Stephan Edwards (Associate Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, UK) which includes 14 Optatian pattern poems: The Carmina of Publilius Optatianus Porphyrius and the Creative Process (a chapter from Studies in Latin Literature and Roman History, Volume XII, edited by Carl Deroux and published by Latomus, 2005); and
- Swan and Shadow, one of five shaped poems (aka calligrams) by John Hollander at Poetry Foundation (from Poetry, December 1966).
Links above and below were retrieved on 7 August 2025.
Mark Wyatt
now lives in the UK after teaching in South and South-East Asia and the Middle East for three decades. His recent pattern poems inspired by Ovid’s Metamorphoses have appeared in Cosmic Daffodil, Dust Poetry, Exterminating Angel, Full Bleed, Greyhound Journal, Ink Sweat & Tears, Osmosis, Sontag Mag, Streetcake Magazine, Talking About Strawberries All Of The Time, and Tupelo Quarterly; and are forthcoming in Allium, Artemis Journal, Libre, Moss Puppy Magazine, Neologism Poetry Journal, and Shift.
His poems in geometrical shapes using colours as personae have appeared in Borderless and Hyperbolic Review, while his map-shaped poems can be found in Ambit, and P.E.N. New Poetry II (Arts Council/Quartet); another is forthcoming from Radon Journal. Other pattern poems can be found in Echo Room, ELTED, Nine Muses Poetry, Poetry Nottingham, Slow Dancer, and Typo. His article “Using letters as number-like particles in constructing pattern poetry” is published in the Journal of Mathematics and the Arts (Volume 19, 23 June 2025; pages 55-60).
For more information, including links to his pattern poems published in the venues listed above, see Mark Wyatt’s biography at Orcid.
More on the Web: By, About, and Beyond
⚡ Elixir, pattern poem by Wyatt in Sontag Mag (#5, 5 August 2025)
⚡ Garden, pattern poem by Wyatt in Ink Sweat & Tears (1 July 2025)
⚡ How Ascalaphus Became an Owl in Osmosis (9 March 2025)
⚡ not a cat on the cover of Streetcake Magazine (#95, March 2025)
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