Ebook: Quantum Poetics: Newcastle/Bloodaxe Poetry Lectures

Cover; Description; Title Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; FIRST LECTURE: The Stronger Life; SECOND LECTURE: What Country, Friends, Is This?; THIRD LECTURE: Quantum Poetics; Notes; Biographical note; Copyright.

?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 oppor-tunity 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 m.