Content
This module is intended to explore the varieties of linguistic experimentation within contemporary poetics and poetry in both North America and the United Kingdom. Since the advent of the postmodern poetics of Charles Olson in the 1950s, a whole range of alternative poetic practices set in opposition to orthodox poetries has developed, embracing sound poetries, concrete poetries, 'language' poetries, ethnic poetries, feminist poetries.

1. A Poststructuralist/Postmodern Poetics?

Essays by Eric Mottram, Charles Bernstine, Peter Middleton, Steve McCaffrey

2. L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Poetry and the New York Scene

Paul Hoover (ed), Postmodern American Poetry (1994); The L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Book, (eds.) Andrews and Bernstein

3. The Bay Area and Linguistic Expermentation

Paul Hoover (ed) Postmodern American Poetry, (1994); The L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Book, (eds.) Andrews and Bernstein

4. Radical Poetries in Britain I: A Class Apart

Tony Harrison, V; Allen Fisher, The Place project

5. Radical Poetries in Britain II: Dissonant Voices

Iain Sinclair (ed), Conductors of Chaos (1996)

Set Texts

The module wil work from the following core texts: Iain Sinclair (ed), "Conductors of Chaos" (1996); Paul Hoover (ed) "Postmodern American Poetry" (1994).