Collected Poems of a Painter

<p class=ql-align-justify>In later life while living in London George Claessen returned to poetry often interrogating the same metaphysical themes he explored in his abstracts. The fruits of these endeavours resulted in a number of volumes including <em>Poems of a Painter</em> published in 1967 <em>Poems about Nothing</em> (1981) <em>Collected Poems</em> (1995) and subsequent inclusion in various poetry anthologies.  </p><p class=ql-align-justify><br></p><p class=ql-align-justify>Describing his desire to use poetry as a creative alternative to his visual artistic work he memorably said that it was <em>'...the outcome of an urge for expression in another form - a phenomenon not uncommon in painters just as the same would and does apply in reverse to essential poets'.</em></p><p><br></p><p><br></p>