CONTEMPLATIVE ABSTRACTS is the logical sequel to Abstracts (1983) which, being readerly, or capable of being read, was non-contemplative and therefore a precondition of abstract poems that require only to be contemplated, since effectively a species of word art. The five books in this project represent different stages in John O'Loughlin's development of a non-readerly, or contemplative, style of poetic composition, and have also been published separately under the headings Contemplations (1985), Supercontemplations (1993) and Ultracontemplations (1994), the first of these being in three books and therefore containing the greater percentage of the material now available in one volume, as the collected contemplative abstract poems. – A Centretruths editorial
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