Hear the Art is the essential poetry-as-art collection, loaded with Richard Kelly Tipping's elegant, wry and telling poems made as sculpture and picture.

Tipping works with poetic language in visual forms and physical media ranging from animated neon, slump glass, engraved marble and screenprint to large-scale public sculptures in steel, granite and electric lights. Typographic designs move off the page, becoming independent poem-objects until - while living in the artworld as things - they are photographed, and return to the page. This book is full of realised ideas, a rich panoply of word art demanding to be seen, heard and remembered.

"These word games and aphorisms are as memorable as they are original and delightful." - Marjorie Perloff

"The very best in the field - and the best thinker on the subject as well." - John Kinsella