This is a concrete poem in English, written for the artist’s niece Elà.
In its style and intention the concrete poetry is a collection of jumbled, abstract ideas that reflect the day-to-day life and mood of the artist. Above all, it is improvised and written down immediately — in essence it is automatic writing.
Tanya Ury’s written poetry may be regarded as “concrete” because of its visual design, and unconventional aural effect when spoken — the texts thereby gain in dimension beyond accepted meaning.
Ury has also created other artworks that might be considered visual poetry. Moving Message 1992, incorporates an LED sign displaying the words: you are why; Sonata in Sea 1999 – 2000 is a photo series combined with poetry and wrestlewithyourangel 2001, is a neon sign produced together with the neon sign neonazi 2001; the title of a double photo portrait lesser is me more or less 2003 plays on the name of the German Post-Impressionist Lesser Ury, as does the title of a further double portrait or else 2007, which refers to the German writer Else Ury. The title of a third photo-portrait Beelzebularin 2005 (in the Promised Land series) reveals itself to be an anagram of the biblical Bezalel Ben Uri. half dimensional — semi detached 2010, combines the first of the half dimensional poems with the photograph semi detached.
concrete – a collection of works (including poetry series)
- femininity – femininiation 2011
- Moving Message 1992
- Word-fore-play – Recipe for Love 1995
- Sonata in Sea 1999 – 2000
- wish 2000
- wrestlewithyourangel 2001
- neonazi 2001
- Poker Poems 2003
- elle la poésie 2003
- lesser is me more or less 2003
- Promised Land – a collection of works 2005
- Mid Summer 2005
- Un 2006
- or else 2007
- half dimensional poems 2009 – 2011
- half dimensional – semi detached 2010
- cement (Befestigte Gedichte) 2011
- on a mat appear 2011 -
- Lost Poems 2011
- weißer neger (white nigger) 2011
- informed 1.3.2011
- concrete party 2011
- oral call 2011
- cross word 2011 – 2012
- toned poems 2011 – 2012
- two toned 2012
- pommes 2012
- taste of space 2012 – 2013
- leeres archiv 2013
- archive burn out 2011 – 2014
- hero of your own saga 2013 – 2014
- magical reality 2014 – 2015
letter ddressed to you, the
ravest onny
hild, so arefree and apable
ear, arling, ove, my
là, my y ’s d light.
or you, so ancy- ree are
iven to ive, to understand wholes, reat alaxies, not
oles. ark! ear, ere!
, M lena Merk Ury, con of dols, person f cat on of
okestress, so olly, and not very ewish, I perceive in you a
aleidoscope of indness, a ite among ittiwa es. For you,
ess wi be
ore, or ore be less,
o doubt, depe di g
n nly y ur wn
oint of view, an o ortunity. Now that is the cue, or is it a
ueue for a uick and uirky uip, a
use, inte upting this
cript. hhh! orry he got carried away o oon…
ruly, Elà, he ime is o be or no ? o
nderstand the nderc rrents, like c rrants in a b n.
alue your aliant iews, whether eiled or ague my enus…
ell, no ; ear your ill hether the eather be indy or eak
Kisses e quisite from an e ‑it, e actly e iled,
our ver own ardstick, a lad so fe ,
odiac la ing in the heavens a ure, I ga e on you ama ed…
2003-06-05