3-2019

Games, Art Exhibitions and Social Media – Poetry Found!

Our June issue brings you video poetry from this Spring´s Digital Residence and poetry inspired by games and social media. This issue, exceptionally featuring almost solely Finnish material also presents a digital dictionary of procedural writing and a poetic exhibition text complemented with an interview with the artists. (image: Niina Oisalo: Mesipyydys – videoruno ihmisille […]

2-2019

Movements and Words – Special Issue on Dance & Poetry

You´re currently reading this years second issue of Nokturno. This time we dive into different unions between dance and poetry in our featured essays, interviews, video documentations and dance poetry videos. We also bring you the latest work of HÖYRY, a Helsinki-based digital verbal art collective and last but not least, minimalistic concrete poetry from […]

1-2019

Compressed Poetry, Flowers and Future Words

Our first issue of 2019 presents three different dialogues between images and words, it also brings you literal street poetry, a brand new poetry generator and Nokturno´s first whole audio book. Our web designer Teemu Tuovinen has created a poetry generator based on old Finnish poems of the Kalevala tradition. Loihe creates incantations letter by […]

6-2018

Neuro-Poe, clickbaits and erotic household appliances in our last issue of 2018

In this issue we bring you visual, erotic and site-specific poetry with, among others, topical research on neural network poetry. This issue also features our youngest-ever author! We open the issue with two articles by Ivan Yamshchikov and Alexey Tikhonov on neural network generated poetry. Neural network poetry often stumbles upon the quality of the […]

5-2018

Guest Curator Issue: Waves, Languages and Text Stripes

The fifth issue of the year has been compiled by our first guest curator Marko Niemi, Nokturno’s editor-in-chief from 2006 to 2014. The issue includes works from authors already familiar to Nokturno’s readers as well as by some new names who are doing interesting things on various border zones between poetry/text and, for instance, visual […]