Volume
WinterPagination
22-30Language
engResearch statement
Background
-Nikki Santilli has tracked the history of the prose poetry form with ideas of jazz, rhythm and improvisation. She offers new perspectives on the ways in which prose poetry plays with traditional forms and shows that prose poetry is a relevant, if not the ideal, form to host twenty-first-century issues such as gender fluidity. These prose poems explore sensuality in dance to demonstrate the rhythm inherent in the prose poem form.
Contribution
-Holly Iglesias has written of her impetus to compose prose poems that “[my] desire is to tell the big story though the little story” and prose poetry has the capacity to briefly open up wide, suggestive and ambiguous discursive fields. In this sequence, there are large stories within the small in an exploration of Bob Fosse’s choreography. This portfolio traces the origins of the form and the importance of jazz to contemporary expressions of dance and rhythm in prose poetry.
Significance
My prose poems in this mini-chapbook are part of a work published by the peak body for Creative Writing in the UK (National Association for Creative Writing). It includes luminaries in prose poetry from Oz Hardwick to Anne Caldwell in the UK.Publication classification
JO3 Original Creative Works – Textual WorkScale
NTRO MinorPublisher
National Association of Writers in EducationPlace of publication
York, Eng.Source
NAWE Magazine
