Notes on the poems

Notes on Version 01

Work in progress

Notes on Version 02

Work in progress

Notes on Version 03

Version 03 is a static poem generated with JavaScript. It's a list of all the possible variations that can be created with 5 words. There is no interaction required. You can merely scroll down the page to read all verses.

This poem is based on the work "Permutation Poems" by Nick Montfort published on the web page Memory Slam..

On the web page, Nick Montfort writes:
"This program is deterministic, and presents all permutations of whatever words are listed at the top. To see it do something different, view source, copy everything, open a text editor, paste the HTML & JavaScript that you copied into it, edit the “words” list, and save the file. Then, open the file you saved in a browser. You can use fewer or more words, too."

The "Permutation Poems" were originally conceived by Brion Gysin and Ian Sommerville in 1965. In a comment within the code file, Nick Montfort explains further that:
"I do not know the exact year of the corresponding program. The poem was written manually in 1959 and other permutation poems were broadcast by the BBC in 1960. Around 1960 is sometimes given as a date. However the Honeywell Series 200 Model 120, indicated in several places as the computer used, was not released until 1965. Please let me know if you know that a different computer was used or know the exact year in which the permutation poem programs were written. Since writing this, I've found a few French books that cite the year as 1956, so that is my guess (-nm, 2018)".

Notes on Version 04

Version 04 is a generative poem based on the work "Generator of Five-Word Lines, v1.0" by Nick Montfort which was also published on the web page Memory Slam.

As Nick Montfort writes on his page:
"This is a speculative reimplementation, based on one page of output from an untitled project by Coetzee."

For further reading about Coetze's poem, please go to this article.

Notes on Versions 05 and 06

These poems are created with the code files written by Fabrizio Venerandi in his work "Poesie Elettroniche" published in 2017.

The reproduction of these poems are consented by the authors. In the introduction of his Electronic Poems, Venerandi writes:
"Warning to other poets: these poems are a DRM-free EPUB3. I wrote these poems so that there was a separation between text and code, so that the whole ebook can serve as a workshop for rewrites and mash ups. Mine is an invitation: take my texts, delete them from the XHTML pages inside the ebook, and replace them with your own verses. The ebook will continue to function using your poem instead of mine."

More precisely the files in the section ...