By Tim Lanzensdörfer
A formative moment in my literary studies education, such as it is: a German class in high school, just before graduation, and we’re reading and discussing Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s Die Physiker. We’re on the appendix, where Dürrenmatt outlines a theory for the play, which may be a theory of drama as a whole.
Edited by Christopher Norris and featuring verse essays by Norris, Lucy Newlyn, Bill Hughes, and Tom Bredehoft.
By Irina Dumitrescu. A talk given at the Creative Critical launch event at UCL’s Institute for Advanced Studies in September 2022.
By David Miller with an introduction by Matt Martin.The UK poetry scene has lately become increasingly interested in interdisciplinary modes like creative criticism. The time seems right for a reminder that David Miller has pioneered such practices. The Dark Path meditates on contemporary poet Fanny Howe’s articulation of ‘negative theology’, the tradition of considering the divine in terms of what God is not, rather than what God is. There and Here addresses 19th-century French writer Gérard de Nerval.
By Tim MacGabhann. ‘Found Poem’ is a text that tries to blur the borders between autofiction, the critical essay, and poetry. By examining misquotation and redrafting in detail — with successive drafts of ‘the same poem’ presented as a demonstration of these practices — the text opens itself outwards towards the argument that forgetting and remembering are not opposites, but aesthetic strategies that aid and abet one another.
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