Overview

This study engages the life of form in contemporary innovative poetries through both an introduction to the latest theories and close readings of leading North American and British innovative poets. The critical approach derives from Robert Sheppard’s axiomatic contention that poetry is the investigation of complex contemporary realities through the means (meanings) of form. Analyzing the poetry of Rosmarie Waldrop, Caroline Bergval, Sean Bonney, Barry MacSweeney, Veronica Forrest-Thomson, Kenneth Goldsmith, Allen Fisher, and Geraldine Monk, Sheppard argues that their forms are a matter of authorial design and readerly engagement. 

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Author:   Robert Sheppard
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Imprint:   Springer International Publishing AG
Edition:   Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2016
Dimensions:   Width: 14.80cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 21.00cm
Weight:   3.401kg
ISBN:  

9783319816647

ISBN 10:   3319816640
Pages:   248
Publication Date:   22 April 2018
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Preface.- Introduction: Form, Forms and Forming.- 1. Veronica Forrest-Thomson: Poetic Artifice and Naturalization in Theory and Practice.- 2.  Convention and Constraint: Form in the Innovative Sonnet Sequence.- 3. Translation as Transformation: Tim Atkins’ and Peter Hughes’ Petrarch.- 4. Meddling the Medieval: Caroline Bergvall and Erín Moure.- 5. Translation as Occupation: Simon Perril and Sean Bonney.- 6. Rosmarie Waldrop: Poetics, Wild Forms and Palimpsest Prose.- 7. The Trace of Poetry and the Non-Poetic: Conceptual Writing and Appropriation in Kenneth Goldsmith, Vanessa Place and John Seed.- 8. Stefan Themerson: Iconopoeia and Thought-Experiments in the Theater of Semantic Poetry.- 9. The Making of the Book: Bill Griffiths and Allen Fisher.- 10. Geraldine Monk’s Poetics and Performance: Catching Form in the Act.- 11. Form and the Antagonisms of Reality: Barry MacSweeney’s Sin Signs.- Notes.- Bibliography.- Index.

Reviews

“The Meaning of Form is a noble and necessary part of the enterprise of taking us closer to the complex dynamics of the characteristics and operations of poetic form. … this book offers powerful smelling salts to jolt us back to a present of attentive concentration on form.” (Gareth Farmer, Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry, Vol. 10 (1), June, 2018)

The Meaning of Form is a noble and necessary part of the enterprise of taking us closer to the complex dynamics of the characteristics and operations of poetic form. ... this book offers powerful smelling salts to jolt us back to a present of attentive concentration on form. (Gareth Farmer, Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry, Vol. 10 (1), June, 2018)

Author Information

Robert Sheppard is Professor of Poetry and Poetics at Edge Hill University, UK, and a poet-critic. He is the author of History or Sleep: Selected Poems, The Poetry of Saying, a monograph on Iain Sinclair, and is the editor of an essay collection on Lee Harwood. 

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