Talking Poetics: Dialogues in Innovative Poetry

摘要自从我成为一名诗人以来，我就和其他诗人谈论过他们为什么写作以及如何写作。我在80年代末和90年代初作为一名年轻诗人在伦敦参加朗诵会时接触到了语言创新诗歌(LIP)领域。这给了我诗歌事业的基础，从那以后我就一直建立在这个基础上。除了为我的创作提供口头信息外，我还在这一领域进行了学术研究，最有特色的是采访了创新诗人的作品、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。这些问题往往是我在自己的创作中对自己提出的问题，因此这些采访可以采取作家之间的对话形式，寻求对他们遇到的某些问题或问题的启发，并直接为新的创作作品的产生提供信息。此外，对这些对话的反思可以是更广泛地将当代实践理论化的有价值的方式，在语言创新诗歌的背景下，作者关于写作(诗学)的陈述对于更好地了解他们具有挑战性的作品是非常宝贵的。在这个项目中，我将邀请一系列语言创新诗人就他们的写作进行对话，并共同探索创新诗歌中的问题，它的实践，它的美学和它的政治。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一项目。我之所以选择这些诗人，是因为我对他们如何处理我正在寻求在我自己的创作中发展起来的问题感兴趣。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)，以及如何在诗歌的多媒体呈现方面扩大一个人的形式范围(伯格瓦尔)。这项研究将产生所谓的诗学的例子，这一话语正在学术界获得更广泛的认可，认为它本身就值得研究。诗学是作者创作的产物，以创作行为为导向，处于理论与实践的中间地带。诗学是一种不可预测的话语，扮演着多种角色：它是思辨的、推测的、分析的和争辩的。它可能表现为文学批评，如论战、评论、陈述、宣言、采访、小组讨论、散文等等。与这些作家的接触和交谈，希望能帮助我发展自己的诗学，并影响新写作的产生。这一进程还将就广泛的主题开展一系列丰富的对话。对这一材料的反思将反过来产生对21世纪早期创新写作实践的洞察。

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.