Stress Fractures: Essays on Poetry
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Stress Fractures: Essays on Poetry by Adam Fieled
Where can the poem go in the age of the supercomputer? What do Wordsworth, Byron and British rapper Roots Manuva have in common? Would Emily Dickinson have preferred Facebook or Twitter? Does the future look. Oulipian? Is slam poetry any good, and what is post-avant anyway? These are just some of the questions posed in Stress Fractures, a new and wide-ranging collection of essays on the future of poetry. Contents Introduction Tom Chivers The Architecture of Fictional Rooms Luke Kennard Post-Avant: A Meta-Narrative Adam Fieled Emily Dickinson, Vampipire Slayer Sophie Mayer Hejiniaian's Faustienne Beings-with Emily Critchley These Terabytes I Have Tried to Shore Agaiainst Our Ruins Theodoros Chiotis Every Rendition on a Broken Machine Ross Sutherland Hidden Form: The Prose Poem in English Poetry David Caddy Arranging Excursions to Disparate Worlds Simon Turner Slam: A Poetic Dialogue Tim Clare Roots Manuva's Romantic Soul David Barnes Composing Speech Hannah Silva Radio And. James Wilkes Enjoying and Examining Poetry Alex Runchman The Line Katy Evans-Bush
An exciting introduction to new directions in poetry- Times Higher Education This is a unique book brimming with some wonderful, and indeed weird, critical minds; I've seen nothing else quite so current and enlivening on the subject of poetry available at the moment. - Horizon Review
Tom Chivers (editor) was born in 1983 in South London. A writer, editor and promoter of poetry, his publications include The Terrors (Nine Arches Press, 2009) and How To Build A City (Salt Publishing, 2009). A winner of the inaugural Crashaw Prize, he is Associate Editor of Tears in the Fence, was Poet in Residence at The Bishopsgate Institute, London, and has appeared on BBC Radio 3 and 4. Tom is Director of Penned in the Margins and Co-Director of London Word Festival.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780956546715 |
| ISBN 10 | 0956546714 |
| Title | Stress Fractures: Essays on Poetry |
| Author | Adam Fieled |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Penned in the Margins |
| Year published | 2010-10-01 |
| Number of pages | 224 |
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