This collection brings together some of the most prominent critics
of contemporary poetry and some of the most significant poets
working in the English language today, to offer a critical
assessment of the nature and function of poetic thought. Working at
once with questions of form, literary theory and philosophy, this
volume gives an extraordinarily diverse, original and mobile
account of the kind of 'thinking' that poetry can do. The
conviction that moves through the collection as a whole is that
poetry is not an addition to thought, nor a vehicle to express a
given idea, nor an ornamental language in which thinking might find
itself couched. Rather, all the essays suggest that poetry itself
thinks, in ways that other forms of expression cannot, thus making
new intellectual, political and cultural formulations possible.
This book was originally published as a special issue of Textual
Practice.
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