Wednesday 22 June 2022

Robot Poems

Robot Poems (2022)

A collection of long and short poems about robots, androids, cyborgs and other assorted cybernetic beings. Includes a mini-epic, 'The Mime of the Android Stammerer'.

 Some of the poems here concern themselves with competent robots, our future overlords, but most are about robots that have been wired wrongly or who aren't sapient at all. A few are even powered by clockwork.

Robots can be very amusing as well as instructive. They can be terrifying too. These robots tend to be comical, absurdist, whimsical creations, but not always. The earliest poems in this book (from the early 1990s) tend to be more serious; the later ones tend to be more humorous.

Whitman sang the body electric; now the electric bodies wish to sing back. And so they have...