There have been some lively exchanges here on mattters to do with the
organisational aspects of our practises, all of which are important.
However, say in Tim Atkins' piece, there is the demand for discussion of
poetry, and Peter Larkin's responses to Wilkinson seem a very small
voice in the current space. However, Tim does open the can of worms
regards Mottram. Can this be the most imporatant question of (his) day
as a younger writer? His position seems more secure I supoose than in
the Floating Capital days when Adrian Clarke, seeing him as operating
differently, dared not to include him in our discussions. (The Britsh
Poertry Revival stopped about 1977 anyway.\) Cris is judicious in
response as to Eric's cultural importance but would have seen Keith
Tuma at the Mottram Conference daring to question Eric's poetry. (The
whole papaer was useful in terms of promotion of poetryargument being
conducted, etc,) (Comment Keith please?)
But I would interested to see what others are thinking, poetics-wise. My
own numerous takes on what is now called "linguistically innovaTIVE
POETRY" (SURELY ITSELF A PARADIGM SHIFT AWAY FROM the
"British Poetry Revival promoted by Eric Mottram......no no: I'll save thaqt
for the SubVoicive Colloquium..................
Definitions of poetics:
my own: Poetics is (are) the products of the process of reflection upon
writings, and upon the act of writing, gathering from the past and from
others, and casting into the future, for oneself and others, to produce "a
permission to continue" (DuPlesssis), often of a speculative nature. It is a
theory of practice; a practice of theory - its answers are provisional, its
trajectory nomadic. Snapshots thumbnails. It steals from anywhere. It
can take any form. It can generalise or particularise. It can be texturally
specific and give examples; or it cannot be so specific: because the
examples of which iit speaks do not exist.
Excerpt from my intor to MA Writing Studies students here at Edge Hill.
Where there is the attempt to use, among other things, critical theory as
part of that poetics. ()Therefore don't agree with Rupert's suggestion of
this list being too academic: as Tim or Miles say: it's the other way
round._)
Too mnay thoughts here in one of the rare opporutnities to reply at
lenghth
Robert
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