In this innovative series of public lectures at Newcastle
University, leading contemporary poets speak about the craft and
practice of poetry to audiences drawn from both the city and the
university. The lectures are then published in book form by
Bloodaxe, giving readers everywhere the opportunity to learn what
the poets themselves think about their own subject. Gwyneth Lewis's
three lectures explore the connection linking form and politics
with the content of poetry while exploring how each of these
changes our understanding of time. She argues that the poet steers
a path between making music and making sense - not at the level of
the line, but in the deep structures of meaning which are poetry's
terrain. The accuracy of what they say is just as important as its
expression, both for their own well-being and for its worth to the
reader. Taken together, her lectures begin to posit not the science
in poetry but a science of the art form. 'The Stronger Life': Much
has been made of the volatility of poets, which is largely a myth.
Because it can be "confessional", poetry is often assumed to be
therapeutic, but it can, equally, be toxic. The lives and work of
poets are distinct but not unrelated. Using examples from Laura
Riding and George Herbert, Gwyneth Lewis argues in this lecture
that poets are more, not less resilient than the rest of the
population. Looking at her own modern epic, A Hospital Odyssey, she
questions how form is essential to health. 'What Country, Friends,
is This?': Using Illyria in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night as a
starting point, this lecture explores language politics and
writing, describing how far poets will go to negotiate safe passage
between one and the other. Fluent in Welsh and English, Gwyneth
Lewis reflects on writing in two opposed traditions at the same
time and reflects on what light the work of poets such as Nuala Ni
Dhomhnaill and Anne Carson, among others, throws on the nature of
poetry as a whole. 'Quantum Poetics': Form is the science of
poetry. Because of its peculiar relationship with time, poetry's
history isn't linear. Language works with a quantum indeterminacy.
With special reference to the early Welsh tradition's extreme
formalism, Gwyneth Lewis discusses in this lecture how what seems
like ornament conjures probability waves into being, adding an
extra, unheard, dimension to the sound of metre.
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