MULTIPOETRY is an authorized project by polish poet Michal Zablocki, that consists in seeking some new ways for poetry so as to let it exist in the contemporary world. Sentenced to slow death on the most forsaken bookshop shelves, poetry has lost its typical force and vigour. Two factors contribute to this disaster: incompetence in making special use of modern electronic media, and preferring the printed word to direct contact with the public. MULTIPOETRY starts a progressive revolution in the stagnant world of means designed to make verse, that is, poetry function for the reader. Firstly, it searches for effective methods to come into being within the present-day media, such as: newspapers, television, radio, Internet and some other non-standard techniques of communicating; and secondly, it searches for a way to come into direct contact with the public.
MEDIA of today create a need to reform the poetic means of expression. Each kind of media requires a different form of presenting a poem, which refers to both the technical possibilities and the textual contents. Thus, MULTIPOETRY is not only a search for some new ways of transmitting all poetic matter, but it is also, or even mainly, a search for such a form of introducing a poem that can be appropriate for the particular media which are to present it.
DIRECT CONTACT WITH THE PUBLIC also creates a need to reform the poetic means of expression, but first of all – to reform the ways of composing a poem. In case of cabaret poems and occasional ones, written to order, important are the poems themselves as well as the CIRCUMSTANCES of composing and introducing them. However, it is not the poem itself that is a work of art, but the SITUATION in which it is conceived.