I tried to write a different kind of poem, more about the camera watching the man watching the boat, and images on the water and on the glass plate, but this one insisted on coming through instead!

A comment over at my place prompted me to think a little more about the question of fonts and handwriting, and rather made me wish I’d tried to handwrite the poem, since there is a degree of dissonance between the medium of the postcard and the use of electronically generated typefaces. This is perhaps more clearly a problem using a vintage card like this than a modern photo. However, I was uncertain that my handwriting, which is a fairly functional, semi-printed, sort of italic, and pretty modern in itself, and not at all French, would look well either. I tried a facsimile type of French cursive handwriting style font but just felt it looked a bit pretentious and phoney.

In the end I chose a quite old-fasioned looking seraphed tyrpeface (I forget which), which I thought would be the least inappropriate and intrusive.

I wonder what others think about the types of scripts used in the very interesting mix of visual and textual that Postal Poetry is presenting? (I was also concerned with the loss of image quality with a scan of a scan …)

Just gorgeous!