This poem dedicated to Tanya Ury’s sister Nini, whose name is contained in the word feminity, first saw life as an etching and early student work of the mature artist when she commenced her BA HONS in Fine Art studies in 1984, as a mature student.

The written (and etched) form of the poem is that of a fan. The poem itself is an alliterative meditation on the letter and sound of “f” (and “ph”).

femininiation, a German poem written in the form of a fan was completed in 2011. The poem is an alliterative meditation on the letter and sound of “f” (“pf“/“v“ and “ph”)

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In its style and intention the concrete poetry is a collection of jumbled, abstract ideas that reflect the day-to-day life and mood of the artist. Above all, it is improvised and written down immediately - in essence it is automatic writing.

Tanya Ury’s written poetry may be regarded as “concrete” because of its visual design, and unconventional aural effect when spoken - the texts thereby gain in dimension beyond accepted meaning.

Ury has also created other artworks that might be considered visual poetry. Moving Message 1992, incorporates an LED sign displaying the words: you are why; Sonata in Sea 1999-2000 is a photo series combined with poetry and wrestlewithyourangel 2001, is a neon sign produced together with the neon sign neonazi 2001; the title of a double photo portrait lesser is me more or less 2003 plays on the name of the German Post-Impressionist Lesser Ury, as does the title of a further double portrait or else 2007, which refers to the German writer Else Ury. The title of a third photo-portrait Beelzebularin 2005 (in the Promised Land series) reveals itself to be an anagram of the biblical Bezalel Ben Uri. half dimensional - semi detached 2010, combines the first of the half dimensional poems with the photograph semi detached.

Concrete poetry in the series:

femiNINIty – femininiation 1984 & 2011
moving message 1992
Word-fore-play - Recipe for Love 1995
Sonata in Sea 1999-2000
wish 2000
wrestlewithyourangel 2001
neonazi 2001
Poker Poems 2003
elle la poésie 2003
lesser is me more or less 2003
Beelzebularin 2005
Un 2006
or else 2007
half dimensional poems 2009-2011
half dimensional - semi detached 2010
cement 2011 -
on a mat appear 2011 -
Lost Poems 2011
weißer neger (white nigger) 2011
powdercake 19.12.2004 & 15.5.2011
informed 2011
concrete party 2011
oral call 2011
cross word 2011-2012
toned poems 2011-2012
two toned 2012