49 Syllables on Life

A meditation 49 poems long on life that combines creative flights within a haiku-like discipline. Every poem comprises just 49 syllables with seven syllables on each of seven lines. This formal rigour provides a skeleton on which a filigree of feelings thoughts and discursive world-play are wrapped. The collection uses many unusual rhetorical devices in order to accommodate the formal strictures that makes it a challenging read.This is the first of three volumes with another completed. The other title is a meditation on love: 49 Syllables on Love.The texts are accompanied by Tom Angs beautiful melancholic still-lifes that reflect the co-creativity of chaos in the photographic process.