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This voice: the poetry of knowing and not knowing
This essay is concerned with how poetry—reading it, writing it, and adapting it—relies on a dialectic between knowing and not knowing, a flickering movement between understanding and ignorance that is central to the production of poetry and its effects. To illustrate this, I discuss my poem, ‘This Voice’, and its subsequent adaptation into what I call a ‘poetry soundtrack’, a form of digital audio poetry employing poetry, music, and sound design. The essay illustrates the centrality of the knowing/not-knowing dialectic to poetry by considering the following with regard to my works: the thematics of nescience; the liminal and virtual space of interpretation and play (the latter as theorised by D.W. Winnicott); ‘nocturnal poetics’; and sampling (both sonic and lexical).
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Axon: creative explorationsIssue
6Pagination
1 - 1Publisher
University of CanberraLocation
Canberra, A. C. T.ISSN
1838-8973Language
engPublication classification
C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journalCopyright notice
2014, University of CanberraUsage metrics
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