Talking Poetics: Dialogues in Innovative Poetry

谈论诗学：创新诗歌中的对话

• 批准号: AH/G017867/1
• 负责人: Scott Thurston
• 金额: $ 2.07万
• 依托单位: University of Salford
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2009 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FG017867%2F1
• 关键词: Talking; Poetics; Dialogues; Innovative; Poetry

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.

自从我做诗人以来，我就和其他诗人谈论他们为什么写作以及如何写作。80年代末和90年代初，我作为一名参加伦敦读书会的年轻诗人，接触到了语言创新诗歌（LIP）这个领域。这给了我诗歌生涯的基础，从此我就一直在此基础上发展。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，最明显的是通过采访创新诗人，了解他们的作品，他们使用的材料种类，他们的影响，未来计划，对当代实践的看法等等。通常这些都是我在自己的创意写作中问自己的问题，因此这些采访可以采取作家之间的对话形式，为他们遇到的某些问题或问题寻求启发，并可以直接告知新的创意作品的生产。此外，对这些对话的反思可以更广泛地将当代实践理论化，并且，在语言创新诗歌的背景下，作者对写作（诗学）的陈述对于更好地理解他们具有挑战性的正式工作是非常宝贵的。在这个项目中，我将与一系列在语言上创新的诗人就他们的写作进行对话，并就创新诗歌的实践、美学和政治等方面相互探讨问题。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。我之所以选择这些诗人，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很感兴趣。这些问题包括自传与诗歌之间的关系（莫斯利和马克·科马克），政治辩论与诗歌之间的关系（布雷迪），以及如何在诗歌的多媒体呈现方面扩展一个人的形式范围（伯格瓦尔）。这项研究将产生所谓诗学的例子，这是一种在学术界获得更广泛认可的话语，它本身就值得研究。诗学是一门由作家产生、以创作为导向的学科，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、推测的、分析的和辩论的。它可能以文学批评、论战、评论、声明、宣言、访谈、小组讨论、诗文等形式出现。我希望，与这些作家的接触和交谈将有助于我发展自己的诗学，并影响新作品的产生。这一进程还将产生一系列关于广泛主题的丰富对话。对这些材料的反思将反过来产生对21世纪早期创新写作实践的见解。

项目成果

Talking Poetics - Dialogues in Innovative Poetry

谈诗学——创新诗歌中的对话

• 发表时间: 2011
• 作者: Thurston Scott