Talking Poetics: Dialogues in Innovative Poetry

自从我成为诗人以来，我就和其他诗人谈论他们为什么写作以及如何写作。我接触到语言创新诗歌（LIP）领域是作为一个年轻的诗人参加阅读在伦敦在80年代末和90年代初。这给了我一个诗歌生涯的基础，从那时起，我就建立了这个基础。除了LIP为我的创作提供信息外，我还在这一领域进行了学术研究，最突出的是通过采访创新诗人来了解他们的作品，他们使用的材料种类，他们的影响，未来的计划，对当代实践的看法等等。这些问题通常都是我在自己的创作中问自己的问题，因此，这些访谈可以采取作家之间对话的形式，为他们遇到的某些问题或问题寻求启发，并直接为新的创作提供信息。此外，对这些对话的反思可能是一种更普遍地将当代实践理论化的有价值的方式，并且，在语言创新诗歌的背景下，作者关于写作的陈述（诗学）在这个项目中，我将与一系列语言创新的诗人就他们的写作进行对话，从实践、美学和政治三个方面探讨创新诗歌的问题。诗人凯伦·麦克·科马克、詹妮弗·莫克斯利、卡罗琳·伯格瓦尔和安德里亚·布雷迪都同意参与这个项目。我选择这些诗人是因为我对他们如何处理我在自己的创作中寻求发展的问题感兴趣。这些问题包括自传和诗歌之间的关系（莫克斯利和麦克·科马克），政治争论和诗歌之间的关系（布雷迪），以及如何扩大一个人的正式范围的问题，在诗歌的多媒体呈现（伯格瓦尔）。这项研究将产生什么是所谓的诗学，话语，是在学术界获得更广泛的认可，值得研究本身的权利。诗学是由作家产生的，以创作为导向的，它处于理论与实践的中间地带。诗学是一种不可预测的话语，它扮演着许多角色：它是思辨的，分析的，辩论的。它可能以文学批评的形式出现，也可能以论辩、评论、声明、宣言、访谈、小组讨论、诗文等形式出现，希望通过与这些作家的接触和对话，有助于我发展自己的诗学，影响新的写作。这一进程还将就广泛的主题开展内容丰富的对话。对这些材料的反思将反过来产生对21世纪早期世纪创新写作实践的见解。

SUMMARYFor as long as I have been a poet I have spoken to other poets about why and how they write. I came into contact with the field of Linguistically Innovative Poetry (LIP) as a young poet attending readings in London in the late eighties and early nineties. This gave me the foundations of a poetic career which I have built on ever since. In addition to LIP informing my creative work, I have also conducted academic research in this area, most distinctively by interviewing innovative poets about their work, the kinds of materials they use, their influences, future plans, views of contemporary practice and so on. Often these are the same questions I am asking of myself in my own creative writing, and therefore these interviews can take the form of a dialogue between writers seeking illumination for certain problems or issues they are encountering and can directly inform the production of new creative work.Moreover, reflection on these conversations can be a valuable way of theorising contemporary practice more generally, and, in the context of Linguistically Innovative Poetry, the statements that authors make about writing (poetics) are invaluable for gaining a better understanding of their formally challenging work.In this project I will engage a range of linguistically innovative poets in dialogue about their writing and mutually explore issues in innovative poetry, in terms of its practice, its aesthetics and its politics. The poets Karen Mac Cormack, Jennifer Moxley, Caroline Bergvall and Andrea Brady have all agreed to be involved in the project. I have chosen these poets because I am interested in how they approach issues which I am seeking to develop in my own creative work. These issues include the relationship between autobiography and poetry (Moxley and Mac Cormack), the relationship between political argument and poetry (Brady), and the issue of how to extend one's formal range in terms of multi-media presentations of poetry (Bergvall).This research will generate examples of what is called poetics, a discourse that is achieving wider recognition in academia as worthy of study in its own right. Produced by writers and oriented towards the act of making, poetics occupies the middle ground between theory and practice. Poetics is an unpredictable discourse that performs many roles: it is speculative, conjectural, analytical and polemical. It might appear as literary criticism, as polemic, reviews, statements, manifestos, interviews, group discussions, verse-essays and so on.The contact and conversation with these writers will, it is hoped, help me to develop my own poetics and influence the production of new writing. The process will also generate a rich set of dialogues on a broad range of themes. Reflection on this material will in turn generate insights into early twenty-first century innovative writing practices.