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Book SynopsisWhere can the poem go in the age of the supercomputer? Why is poetry taught so badly at school? What do Wordsworth, Byron and British rapper Roots Manuva have in common? Would Emily Dickinson have watched vampire series Twilight? Is slam poetry any good, and what is postavant anyway? These are just some of the questions posed in Stress Fractures, a new and wide-ranging collection of essays on the future of poetry.
Good news for poetry.
Richard Morrison, The Times on Penned in the Margins
Tom Chivers was born in 1983 in south London. A writer, editor and promoter of poetry, his publications include The Terrors (2009) and How To Build A City (2009). A winner of the inaugural Crashaw Prize, he is Associate Editor of Tears in the Fence, was Poet in Residence at The Bishopsgate Institute, London, and has appeared on BBC Radio 3 and 4. Tom is Director of Penned in the Margins and Co-Director of the London Word Festival.
Trade ReviewAn exciting introduction to new directions in poetry. - Times Higher Education This is a unique book brimming with some wonderful, and indeed weird, critical minds; I've seen nothing else quite so current and enlivening on the subject of poetry available at the moment. - Horizon Review
Table of ContentsIntroduction - Tom Chivers The Architecture of Fictional Rooms - Luke Kennard Post-Avant: A Meta-Narrative - Adam Fieled Emily Dickinson, Vampipire Slayer - Sophie Mayer Hejiniaian's Faustienne Beings-with - Emily Critchley These Terabytes I Have Tried to Shore Agaiainst Our Ruins - Theodoros Chiotis Every Rendition on a Broken Machine - Ross Sutherland Hidden Form: The Prose Poem in English Poetry - David Caddy Arranging Excursions to Disparate Worlds - Simon Turner Slam: A Poetic Diaialogue - Tim Clare Roots Manuva's Romantic Soul - David Barnes Composing Speech - Hannah Silva Radio And - - James Wilkes Enjoying and Examining Poetry - Alex Runchman The Line - Katy Evans-Bush
