Spatial Engagement with Poetry

by Yeung, Heather H.

• ISBN13: 9781137488367
• ISBN10: 1137488360
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2015-03-05
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Drawing from a broad range of contemporary British poets, including Thomas Kinsella, Kathleen Jamie, and Alice Oswald, Spatial Engagement with Poetry examines the inherently spatial and affective nature of our engagement with poetry. Adding to the expanding field of geocritical studies, Heather Yeung specifically discusses ideas of space and constructions of voice in poetry. Through the idea of the vocalic space of the poem, alongside the poem 'as' and poem 'of' space, this study re-establishes the voice and space as equally important, and necessarily interlinked, elements of poetic production and engagement.

Author Biography

Heather H. Yeung works in contemporary poetics, art, and literary and cultural studies. She completed an AHRC-funded doctorate in contemporary poetry and poetics at Durham University, where she also taught English Literature, and has since worked at the Universities of Sunderland and Roehampton, as well as for Studio Alec Finlay and the National Trust, UK.

Table of Contents

Introduction: The Map and the Voice
PART I
1. Mapping 1: The Poem as Space
2. Interlude 1: scripturacontinuaconvivavoce
3. Mapping 2: The Poem of Space
4. Interlude 2: The Poem in Space
5. Mapping 3: Vocalic Space and Affective Engagement
6. Interlude 3: The Poetic Map, Vocalised
PART II
7. Economies of Poetic Production: The Poetry of Thomas Kinsella
8. Landscapes of the Body: The Poetry of Kathleen Jamie
9. The Poetics of Intimate Perception: Mimi Khalvati
10. Of Passage and Process: Alice Oswald's Dart
Coda: d'autres mappemondes