Poet, translator, and long-time editor of literature portal Nokturno, Marko Niemi, passed away on Wednesday, 18 September of a seizure. Marko was one of the founders of Nokturno in 2005 and edited the website from 2006-2014. The site’s international standing and significance to the Finnish literary world as a cumulative resource for digital poetry is […]
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4-2019
Digital Tools And Dystopic Landscapes
Our August issue brings you digital and multidisciplinary poetry from altogether six authors and work groups. Their works range from punk video poetry to spoken word, from visual to procedural poetry and beyond. This issue also features a digital tool for procedural writing. Environmental anxiety increasingly present in the public discourse is also one of […]
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 […]
Open call for mail art!
Poetry magazine Tuli & Savu announces an open call for mail art exhibition. Received works will also be published at Nokturno in a virtual exhibition. Deadline for submissions is at the end of August 16.9.2019. Mail art, developed in the 1950´s and 1960´s, mixes collage, visual poetry and other combinations of image and text, but […]
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 […]