Ekphrastic Approaches in Twenty-First Century Poetry

Writing Out
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-041-10969-3
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 272 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature

Ekphrastic Approaches in Twenty-First-Century Poetry brings together poets and academics from around the world exploring the evolving practice of ekphrasis in the twenty-first century. With discussion of diverse media, the authors explore ways in which contemporary ekphrasis has evolved, embracing media such as film, music, dance, and the built environment. Against a backdrop of digital image saturation and expanding definitions of art, this collection investigates how contemporary poets respond to visual and material culture while engaging deeply with theory and practice. This text offers a timely, nuanced look at ekphrasis as both critical inquiry and creative method suitable for readers and academics working in the field of poetry and creative writing.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Alyal, Amina

Hardwick, Oz

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

Amina Alyal and Oz Hardwick

1 Movement into Words, Words into Being: Yoann Bourgeois and Being in the World

Jen Webb

2 Cornelia Parker’s Cold Dark Matter, Exploding Form, and the Poetics of Grief

Patrick Wright

3 The Art of Disaster: Ekphrasis and the Windscale Fire

Jennie E. Owen

4 The Poet as a “Spectator of Calamities”: Violence, Spectatorship and the Speaker in Photojournalistic Ekphrasis

Sarah Holland-Batt

5 Recharging Climate Change with Akram Khan’s Jungle Book Reimagined

Amina Alyal

6 “Sometime a lovely boy in Dian’s shape”: Ekphrasis in the Stage History of Christopher Marlowe’s Edward II

Edwin Stockdale

7 Peckinpah Suite: Revisiting the Films of Sam Peckinpah in Verse

Paul Munden

8 How Dedushka or Nesting Ekphrasis (and Melophrasis) Evolved from My Own Practice in Writing The Detective’s Chair: Prose Poems about Fictional Detectives

Anne M. Carson

9 Art Adjusted: Encountering Larry Eigner and Ekphrastic Experiences

Kane Holborn

10 Ekphrasis and the Sacred: Mining our “Inmost Reality”

Niloofar Fanaiyan

11 Protest, Art and Ekphrasis in the Digital Age

Isabella G. Mead

12 “Playing Different Tunes”: Collaborative Ekphrasis on The Dark Side of the Moon

Oz Hardwick

13 TELEPHONE: A New Approach to Studying Ekphrasis and Intersemiotic Translation

Nathan Langston

Über Autor(innen)

Amina Alyal has published co-edited academic collections including Victorian Cultures of Liminality (Cambridge Scholars, 2018), and Classical and Contemporary Mythic Identities (Edwin Mellen, 2009), and creative writing collections including Everyone’s a Seed (Yaffle Press, 2026) and Tasseomancy: Creative Responses to AI (The Tea Set, 2024). She has published two solo poetry collections and several collaborative collections. She writes theatre reviews and programme notes. Based at Leeds Trinity University, she has co-written and performed for words and music with Oz Hardwick and Karl Baxter, Kaminari UK, the Japanese drumming group, and Leeds Lieder.

Oz Hardwick is an international award-winning poet, and Professor of Creative Writing at Leeds Trinity University. He has published “maybe fifteen?” full collections and chapbooks, most recently Retrofuturism for the Dispossessed (Hedgehog Poetry Press, 2024), as well as countless individual poems in journals and anthologies. With Anne Caldwell he edited The Valley Press Anthology of Prose Poetry (Valley Press, 2019) and Prose Poetry in Theory and Practice (Routledge, 2022); and with Cassandra Atherton he edited Dancing About Architecture and Other Ekphrastic Maneuvers (MadHat Press, 2024).