John Isbell in The Ekphrastic Review again!

F.F. Teague · #1 03-31-2022, 04:42 AM

Congratulations to John, whose poem inspired by Hieronymus Bosch's The Temptation of Saint Anthony appears in TER today. You can access it here

Best wishes,
Fliss

John Isbell · #2 03-31-2022, 05:45 AM

Thank you very much, Fliss! Bosch is great and I had fun putting this together.

Cheers,
John

F.F. Teague · #3 03-31-2022, 12:42 PM

You're very welcome, John! In all honesty I know more about Bosch washing machines than this artist, but I'm inspired to read up about him. I'm glad you enjoyed writing the poem

Best wishes,
Fliss

Sarah-Jane Crowson · #4 03-31-2022, 03:08 PM

Congratulations John!

Susan McLean · #5 03-31-2022, 10:56 PM

I love Bosch, though I needed larger versions of the artworks to make out the things you describe in the poem. I enjoyed your descriptions, even without being able to make out the things described. I have seen the paintings before, in larger reproductions.

Susan

John Isbell · #6 04-01-2022, 01:35 AM

Thank you, FLiss, Sarah-Jane, and Susan - it is appreciated. Susan, here's a link to a bigger image that can be blown up. Yes, the TER image is smallish given the detail in the triptych, which is amazing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tripty...0_16-21-31.jpg

Cheers,
John

Susan McLean · #7 04-01-2022, 08:10 AM

Thanks, John. That helped.

Susan

David Callin · #8 04-01-2022, 12:00 PM

I think you captured the essential weirdness of Bosch, John.

David

John Isbell · #9 04-01-2022, 03:45 PM

Thank you Susan!

David, thank you for the compliment! It means a lot.

Cheers,
John