soma synthesis
is a powerful five-part collage poem about trauma, healing, language, myth,
memory, Pasolini and gin. Poet Adeena Karasick has said soma synthesis
"...highlights language as a montage of shattered light, madness and
healing--offering a model for thinking about alternative modes of communication
and poetic innovation."
soma synthesis
(lippykook press, 2025)
soma synthesis is a powerful five-part collage poem about trauma, healing, language, myth, memory, Pasolini and gin. Poet Adeena Karasick has said soma synthesis "...highlights language as a montage of shattered light, madness and healing--offering a model for thinking about alternative modes of communication and poetic innovation."
soma synthesis
The poems in Sean G. Meggeson’s soma synthesis pull language apart and reassemble it through art, memory, psychoanalysis, philosophy, and mythology. They punctuate thoughts and memories, surfing through channels, until an undeniable music emerges—like listening to overlapping conversations spilling out from another room, but as the voices build, the whole of it crashes over the reader in sonic waves. Here, meaning transforms into a sensory and associative experience. In a stream of unconsciousness, the reader is swept headfirst through a gritty, gin-soaked dreamscape of Toronto that hums with a haunting, creative energy—equal parts shattered homage to the life of Italian filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini and Meggeson’s personal memoir of crisis. In this chapbook, Sean G. Meggeson—winner of the 2024 League of Canadian Poets Spoken Word Award—synthesizes mind with body, past with present, and the unspoken with song.
Link to my interview about soma synthesis in Version(9) Magazine: click HERE
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"The experimental approach of Sean G. Meggeson's
ta o/j is a welcome subversion of current or popular poetic conventions while
also echoing a history of complex, sparse uses of the page and scripted sound."--from a review by Stephen Dudas, PhD
ta o/j
[trace] [#1]
chapbook, 20 p.p.
forthcoming, march, 2026
Modern English: trace
Middle English: trace / tracen — to follow tracks, to track
Old French: tracier / tracier — to draw, mark out, make a path
Vulgar Latin: tractiare — to drag, draw along (frequentative of trahere)
Classical Latin: trahere — to pull, draw, drag
j: poems
full-length collection of poems, 81 p.p.
forthcoming, spring of 2026
These poems are a clattering collision of typewriter keys, channeling the avant-garde rhythms of Jackson Pollock, Jackson Mac Low, and John Cage. The words stretch thin, white space bleeding through, and then they compress—thoughts, sounds, images, and memories layering themselves one over another. They are inkblots of language—abstract, atemporal, unconscious—inviting the reader to fill in gaps, to find words even when the letters jumble and splatter across the page.
Sean G. Meggeson’s j tells the
fractured story of a self in flashes and fragments, in smudges and blurs. It is
a collage of twentieth-century history and culture, art, literature,
philosophy, music, physics, psychoanalysis, and glimmers of everyday Canadian life.
In his first full-length collection, Meggeson unfurls each poem like a
shuddering ink ribbon, every letter a tactile, metal punch into paper.
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