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Verse-Criticism

Verse-Criticism

A prospectus and call for submissions for a new section of creative critical, edited by Christopher Norris. Tommy Karshan, Gabriel Flynn and Irina Dumitrescu have very kindly invited me to initiate a new branch, section or segment of creativecritical.net devoted to the practice and discussion of verse criticism. Rather than writing a full-scale introduction to the critical verse-essay genre I’ve decided to post this extended version of a prospectus I wrote for the staff and postgraduate students when teaching this topic at a Summer School in Colorado a few years ago.

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The Dark Path / There and Here

The Dark Path / There and Here

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.

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POETICS: A BLOG

POETICS: A BLOG

A blog addressed to the poetics of the innovative poetry that comes out of the modernist and late-modernist tradition, edited by Robert Hampson, and featuring work by Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Agnieszka Studzinka, and Robert Sheppard.

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Found Poem

Found Poem

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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