Never Mind the Beasts

“I can more or less remember when I first tried to be surrealistically creative: it was on a church youth club trip to London in around 1969 when I was 13. On the way home my mates and I were spectacularly bored on the rattling bus and I said, apropos of nothing, that when I got home I was going wash my hands in a bowl made from old leather cucumbers when I got home. That collision of leather and cucumbers got a laugh and a surreal door was opened in my mind.” – Ian McMillan

Terrific surreal-absurd sampler at Mercurius this week. It’s The Verb’s Ian McMillan.

Some of his poetry reminds me of the playfulness of Ron Padgett (one of my favourite poets).

Check out Ian McMillan’s surreal-absurd sampler over here.