I am currently compiling information for an article on improvisation in contemporary poetry, and would be interested in the names of people currently using improvisatory strategies in poetry performance, either by improvising with words or with the voice or both. I co-wrote a book in the nineties about improvisation in the arts in which I discussed poets like Antin, Benson, Cobbing, Paula Claire and cris cheek, and other poets and musicians involved in the text-sound movement, but what I am mainly enquiring about here is a new generation of people who may be involved with improvisation in poetry now (or have been recently) and whose work and outlook may be very different.
I am interested in people using computer-based text generation too, but I already have quite a stack of information about that, and the practitioners and their practices are easier to locate.
If you have ideas about people who are engaging in improvised poetry performance I'd be interested to hear about them either through the list or backchannel (and if you are such a person maybe you can declare yourself to me!) My focus is international.
Thanks!
Hazel
Prof. Hazel Smith
Writing and Society Research Group
College of Arts (Bankstown 1.1.163)
UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY
Locked Bag 1797
Penrith, NSW, 2751
tel: 9772 6400
email: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
See also my webpage at www.australysis.com
The Erotics of Geography: poetry, performance texts, new media works
http://www.tinfishpress.com/erotics.html
Practice-led Research, Research-led Practice in the Creative Arts
http://www.eupjournals.com/book/9780748636297
The Writing Experiment: strategies for innovative creative writing
http://www.allenandunwin.com/writingexp/book.htm
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