Prose Poetry in Theory and Practice

Prose Poetry in Theory and Practice vigorously engages with the Why? and the How? of prose poetry, a form that is currently enjoying a surge in popularity.

Auteur

Anne Caldwell is a freelance writer, a lecturer in creative writing for the Open University and completed a PhD in prose poetry and creative writing at the University of Bolton in 2020. She is a member of the International Poetry Studies Institute (I.P.S.I.) International Prose Poetry Project and the author of four collections of poetry. She was co-editor of the Valley Press Anthology of Prose Poetry, (Valley, 2019) alongside Oz Hardwick. She also jointly co-ordinated the first symposium of Prose Poetry, with Oz Hardwick at Leeds Trinity University, where many of the essays within this book were first presented. She worked for the National Association for Writers in Education for over ten years and is taking up a Royal Literary Fellowship at the University of Huddersfield from September 2021. Her latest prose poetry collection is Alice and the North (2020, Valley Press).

Oz Hardwick is a European poet and academic, whose work has been widely published in international journals and anthologies. He has published nine full collections and chapbooks, including Learning to Have Lost (Canberra: IPSI, 2018) which won the 2019 Rubery International Book Award for poetry, and most recently the prose poetry sequence Wolf Planet (Clevedon: Hedgehog, 2020). He has also edited or co-edited several anthologies, including The Valley Press Anthology of Prose Poetry (Scarborough: Valley Press, 2019) with Anne Caldwell. Oz has held residencies in the UK, Europe, the US, and Australia, and has performed internationally at major festivals and intimate soirees. He has also published widely on Creative Writing, on medieval art and literature, and on medievalism in its varied guises. Oz is Professor of English at Leeds Trinity University, where he leads the postgraduate Creative Writing programmes.

Contenu

Introduction

Anne Caldwell and Oz Hardwick

1 Protean Manifestations and Diverse Shapes: Defining and Understanding Strategies of the Contemporary Prose Poem Cassandra Atherton and Paul Hetherington

2 Prose Poetry and the Resistance to Narrative Oz Hardwick

3 "In the Eye of the Beholder": Prose Poetry in Dialogue between Reader and Poet Hannah Stone

4 Nobody's Storybook: Reading Russell Edson for the Wrong Reasons Nicholas Lauridsen

5 "Borders on edges, where skin stops, or begins": The Prose Poem's Relationship with the Discourses of Fashion and Food, with Particular Reference to Charles Baudelaire, Gertrude Stein, and Harryette Mullen Susie Campbell

6 The Contemporary Vernacular: Exploring Intersections of Architecture and Prose Poetry Anne Caldwell

7 "Image Machine": Gaspar Orozco's Book of the Peony and the Prose Poem Sequence as Perceptual Trick Helen Tookey

8 Writing the Prose Poem: An Insider's Perspective on an Outsider Artform Ian Seed 9 "A form of howling. A form of chanting. A form of looking out for each other": Poetics and Politics of the Contemporary Indian-English Prose Poem Divya Nadkarni 10 Collaboration, Conversation, and Adaptation: The Prose Poetry Project and Renga Attitude Jen Webb

11 Framing Catastrophe: The Ekphrastic Prose Poem Patrick Wright

12 "An interlude suspended": Historical Biography through the Lens of Prose Poetry Edwin Stockdale

13 Who are the Contemporary Symbolists? The Prose Poem and the Decorative-Subjective Approach Ruth Stacey

14 One Foot; Many Places: The Prose Poem's Art of Standing Still While Travelling Jane Monson