| Technique | Example | Type |
|---|---|---|
| Blackout | Collage | |
| Cut page in half, switch sides | Soft Machine - William Burroughs; David Bowie | Collage |
| Writing without a specific letter | La disparition - Georges Perce | Writing |
| Stream of consciousness | Mrs Dalloway - Virgina Woolf | Writing |
| Permutation poems | Brion Gysin; Florian Cramer | Technology |
| Google translate poetry many times | Technology | |
| Manually translate many times | Writing | |
| Transliteration (translate literally through sounds) | Sound | |
| Write what it should sound like | Sound | |
| Writing backwards | Collage | |
| Iterate what's written | Collage | |
| Cut-out a shape | Collage | |
| Cut-out syllables / Anagram | Collage | |
| Switch paragraphs | Collage | |
| Black-out with the remainder of a cut-out | Collage | |
| Make a palimpsest and figure out the words | Writing | |
| Each person writes a sentence | Writing | |
| Footnotes commenting on missing text | Writing | |
| Permutation of verses | Collage | |
| Write with what has been erased | Collage | |
| Change words to opposites in a sentence | Writing | |
| Read quickly, ignore every element you detest, keep the rest | Writing | |
| Write a theatre script by cutting-out an existing script, play the script | Theater/Collage | |
| Rather than cut-out, add more words to what's written, contextualise, change meaning | Collage | |
| Shuffle cut-out words | Tristan Tzara - Make a Dadaist poem | Collage |
| Write in different languages at the same time | Página no primeiro caderno de poesia experimental 1964 | Writing |
| Write using similar sounding words/cut-outs | Gyre's Galax | Collage/Writing |
| Artist | Techniques | Works that interest me | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anna Hatherly | Anagrams | Descolagens da cidade; | PO.EX |
| Salette Tavares | Página de livro poesia espacial; Maquinin | PO.EX | |
| PO.EX | Primeiro caderno antológico de poesia experimental 1964; Caderno antológico de poesia experimental 1968; Exposição de poesia experimental portuguesa | PO.EX | |
| Jorge Peixinho | Alternative music notation | Música e notação | |
| José Saramago | long, uninterrupted sentences that last for paragraphs or even pages. Broken only by commas, this flowing style is said to represent speech. His experimental writing extended to the removal of capital letters and quotation marks as well as sudden shifts in tense and perspective. | Ensaio sobre a cegueira | |
| Alexandre O'neil | A linguagem | ||
| António Aragão | Poesia URRO; | ||
| António Barros | Gritos da angústia | ||
| Armando Macatrão | Soneto do nada ubíquo |
| Artist | Techniques | Works that interest me | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| William Burrough | Cut page in half, switch sides | Naked Lunch, Soft Machine | |
| Jonatha Foer | using another books, cut-out the whole book to create a different story | Tree of Codes | |
| Drew Gardner | Google odd terms, write with the results | FLARF | |
| Walter Abish | Cut-ups | ||
| Júlio Cortázar | Cut-ups | ||
| Kathy Acker | Cut-ups | ||
| John Ashbury | Cut-ups | The tennis court oath | |
| David Foster Wallace | hundreds of extensive footntes, some with footnotes of their own | Infinite Jest | |
| Alissa Quarts | Mash up of internet results | Monetized | FLARF |
| Nada Gordon | Mash up of internet results | Vile Lilt | FLARF |
| Katie Degentesh | Mash up of internet results | The anger scale | FLARF |
| K. Lorraine Graham | Mash up of internet results | The rest is censored | FLARF |
| Berrigan | Mash up of internet results | Ersatz soneto | pre-FLARF |
| Alexander Pope | Dunciad; Peri Bathous essay | pre-FLARF | |
| Florian Kramer | Cross out words and write on top | Het Andrea Behr Pamflet | |
| Tom Philips | Constant erasure by drawing on top | A human document | |
| Mary Ruefle | Whiteout smudges | A little white shadow | |
| Ronald Johnson | Blank space to represent the vanished source text, a more common format of erasures | Radi OS | |
| NourbeSe Philip | Erasure (She scrubs the legal documents of Gregson v. Gilbert, a case about 150 Africans who were thrown overboard by the captain of a enslaved ship. Through erasure techniques she fragments and recovers the story of the slaves that had been subjected to obliteration by institutions of power. Yet, many erasures are based on texts that their authors venerate.) | Zong! | |
| Jenny Boully | footnotes to a non-existent text (a meditation on absence, loss and disappearance that offers a guarded "narrative" of what may or may not be a love letter, a dream, a spiritual autobiography, a memoir, a scholarly digression, a treatise on the relation of life to book…) | The body | |
| Norman Henry Pritchard | works at Palais de Tokyo |
| Anthony Reed | The poetics and politics of black experimental writing |
|---|---|
| Rui Torres | Networks, collaboration & resistance between Portugal and Brasil 1962-1982 |
| Anna Hatherly | Poesia Experimental |
| António Aragão | Intervenção e movimento |
| Lawrence Lenhart and Will Cordeiro | Experimental writing : a writer's guide and anthology |
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