At the risk of boring people with yet another plug for one of my favourite
poets, this theme was something of an obsession with W.S. Graham. The
physical space on the page, the imaginative space in which the poem takes
place, and the way the first of these acts as a metaphor for the second, are
dealt with in his work with unusual explicitness. The fact that Graham was
friendly with the painters of the St Ives School was an additional incentive
for him to think of his work in spatial terms. (And no doubt this is true of
other poets who have strong links with the visual arts - O'Hara springs to
mind.) Check out my W.S. Graham pages,
http://www.7greenhill.freeserve.co.uk/graham.html
especially the poems 'The Constructed Space' and 'The Beast in the Space.
Best wishes
Matthew Francis
-----Original Message-----
From: komninos zervos <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: 20 December 2000 21:46
Subject: spaciality in poetry
>i am a research phd candidate.
>i am studying the spaces in which poetry exist.
>much australian poetry is concerned with mapping landscapes, physical and
>psychological.
>since composing hypermedia poetry for cyberspace i have started to re-read
>published printed poetry and find that whilst most poetry maps a surface of
>sorts, there is printed poetry which places me in a space(i think it's
>inside my head), a space for logical thought or imagination. there is also
>poetry which describes a space 'between' objects, between people rather
>than mapping surfaces.
>
>if anyone can suggest theorists who have already identified 'surface' and
>'space' in poetry, i would be very grateful.
>
>regards
>komninos
>"have fun - whatever you are celebrating"
>komninos's cyberpoetry site http://student.uq.edu.au/~s271502
>cyberpoet@slv site http://www.experimedia.vic.gov.au/cyberpoet/
>komninos zervos, tel. +61 7 55 948602
>lecturer in cyberstudies,
>school of arts,
>gold coast campus,
>griffith university,
>pmb 50, gold coast mail centre
>queensland, 9726
>australia.
>
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