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The June issue of Nokturno provides you a wide range of interplay between poetry and sound art, together with visual, conceptual and video poetry. Call for our Digital Residence in Fall 2018 is also now open.<\/strong><\/p>\n Nature gets closer and slips away in this issue of new poetry. Scottish Michael O’Brien<\/b> gives us a glimpse of a walk in a park where perception isn\u00b4t what it used to be. The view is strangely altered by technology in the poem Three plants<\/em><\/a>, combining found and conceptual poetry. Tuija V\u00e4lipakka<\/strong>\u00b4s latest poetry book Uutisia!<\/em> included a series of poems titled Hedelm\u00e4tornit<\/em><\/a>, now released at Nokturno. The series consists of photographs of towers built from various fruits and poetry on creative process and social media, among others.<\/p>\n Darkness is one of the main elements in Hanna-Mari Ojala<\/strong>\u00b4s video poem Kivilattia<\/em><\/a>. A figure moves in the darkness and Ojala\u00b4s poetry reaches towards aphoristic tones alongside the disappearing and reappearing figure. Hiljanharma<\/strong> brings a hint of gothic atmosphere to this issue in her sound poems Tuotuja tiet\u00e4<\/em> and Sanat v\u00e4rityskirjassa<\/em><\/a>, with their dramatic timbres and fateful moments. Taudinkuva just released their new album III<\/em> and Nokturno now presents two poems from the album based on poems by seven Finnish poets. T\u00e4st\u00e4 talosta<\/em> is based on Eeva-Maria Grekula<\/strong>\u00b4s poem and Antaisin pois<\/em> in Henriikka Tavi<\/strong>\u00b4s poem<\/a>. For the next two weeks the whole album is free download Taudinkuva\u00b4s Bandcamp page.<\/p>\n Nokturno is glad to present six pieces of sound poetry<\/a> born during a course of sound poetry at Uniarts Helsinki. The six sound poetry performances were filmed at the Sound Poetry Night event at Vapaan taiteen tila in May. The artists are Diliana Stoyanova<\/b> and Reetta-Stiina Rannanm\u00e4ki<\/b>, Zane Perkone<\/b> together with Minna Miettil\u00e4<\/b>, Harold Hejazi<\/b>, Pavel Rotts<\/b>, Ignacio Lopez Olivares and Riku-Pekka Kellokoski<\/b> and Stephen Webb<\/b> together with Daniela Pascual Esparza<\/b>.<\/p>\n After five issues our essay series on Arto Kyt\u00f6honka<\/strong>, pioneer in Finnish digital poetry, now reaches its end with an essay on Kyt\u00f6honka\u00b4s mail art. In Monitaiteilija kohtasi kulttikaljun <\/i><\/a>\u2013 Arto Kyt\u00f6hongan postitaide<\/a> <\/i>e<\/i>ditor of the series, Heikki Saure<\/strong>, writes about Kyt\u00f6honka\u00b4s mail art and the reception of the art form in it\u00b4s early days in Finland.<\/p>\n