This collection of so-called abstract poems has attracted more attention on the Internet than Mr. O'Loughlin would have expected, being of a style of abstraction that is readerly, or at any rate can be read, rather than non-readerly and therefore purely contemplative. Not very much of it makes any sense, but, then again, that is precisely the point of the exercise: to avoid all or as much sense as possible, to the end of transcending not only meaning but grammatical determinism. In that respect, this project succeeds very neatly.