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Book SynopsisThe essays in this volume present a thorough re-evaluation of the idea of place for the twenty-first century, linking across theoretical interests in space and spatialisation and in motion and mobility. ‘Placing’ becomes an active process that happens in different parts of the world, and there is work here from the countries of the United Kingdom, from Ireland, the USA, Australia and mainland Europe. Placing also happens in different contexts, in the production of visual images, in translation, in performance and in poetry that is both ‘there’ and ‘here’. The range of poets under consideration matches the breadth of the range of the contributors. International in scope, and drawn from a variety of practices and processes, their combination in a single volume leads to unusual connections and new readings of their work.
Trade ReviewWinner of the M. Wynn Thomas Prize in the Open Category: Dr Matt Jarvis with his paper "In/Human Place: The poetry of John Barnie" – IJWWE. "This year's M. Wynn Thomas Prize winner in the Open Category is Dr Matt Jarvis with his paper 'In/Human Place: The poetry of John Barnie'." – IJWWE and the proud reaction of the winner
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Notes on Contributors Ian Davidson: Introduction Peter Barry: Just Looking Elżbieta Wójcik-Leese: Placing the Poem in Translation Alice Entwistle: Taking Place: Deixis, Collaboration and the Gender Politics of the Aesthetic Zoë Skoulding: Lisa Samuels: Unknown Cities Harriet Tarlo: Open Field: Reading Field as Place and Poetics Matthew Jarvis: In/human Place: The Poetry of John Barnie John Kinsella: The Movements of Yellow-Rumped Thornbills: Twittering Machines Nerys Williams: Lyric Encounters with Other Places: Juliana Spahr’s this connection of everyone with lungs and Robert Minhinnick’s ‘An Isotope dreaming’ Kaia Sand: Affording Entrance Jules Boykoff: Poets as Experimental Geographers: Mark Nowak, Kaia Sand and the Re-composition of Political-Historical Space John Wrighton: Ethnopoetics and the Performativity of Place: Jerome Rothenberg and ‘That Dada Strain’ Carol Watts: Zeta Landscape: Poetry, Place, Pastoral Index List of Illustrations
