ABSTRACT
This chapter reads Wilfred Owen’s WWI postcards as found modernist poems, quotidian exemplars of l’objet trouvé, and utilises the archival holdings of Owen’s postcard correspondence to reappropriate his wartime postcards into found works of Imagist poetry. It reframes these postcards through the WWI Imagist poetry of Richard Aldington and the experimental calligrammes of Guillaume Apollinaire to showcase how Owen’s forced enjambment resembles Imagist stanzas in form and minimalist content and how his appropriation of postcard materialities—adding captioning and drawing attention to strange optical features—participates in the culture jamming postcard activities of Marcel Duchamp and later Genesis P-Orridge.
