Approaches to Writing Epiphany

Selected Contemporary Women Poets
1. Auflage 2027
ISBN: 978-1-032-23392-5
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 196 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Creative Writing

Approaches to Writing Epiphany considers techniques for writing epiphany in a range of contemporary women’s poetry published since 2000. It uses established scholarship and definitions of the epiphanic mode to explore how women poets are working within and beyond this tradition and how they are doing so in a contemporary context that brings into question the validity of the epiphanic approach.

Organised into four parts, Part 1 provides an overview of writers historically associated with writing epiphany and introduces selected scholarship on literary epiphany as a mode of writing. It also explores how the writing practices of two contemporary poets, Judith Nangala Crispin and Tishani Doshi, engage with epiphany through interviews drawing on concepts and ideas introduced earlier. Parts 2, 3 and 4 explore the distinct and distinctive epiphanic modes of eleven contemporary international women poets: Janette Ayachi; Sheri Benning; Liz Berry; Elizabeth-Jane Burnett; Tishani Doshi; Jorie Graham; Kathleen Jamie; Harryette Mullen; Judith Nangala Crispin, Sinéad Morrissey; and Alice Oswald. The poets come from a range of multi-layered backgrounds and write in and about diverse places across the world. Each of these poet-centred chapters concludes with a writing exercise inspired by the techniques introduced.

Written from the perspective of a scholar-practitioner, the book offers practical insight for poets, literary scholars, educators and creative writers more widely.

Zielgruppe

General, Postgraduate, and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dixon, Joanne

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Schreiben und Publizieren, Kreatives Schreiben
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface: An Epiphany of Sorts; Acknowledgements; Part I: Writing and Epiphany: Historical and Contemporary Contexts; 1. Introduction: Definitions, Techniques, Patterns and Practices; 2. Epiphanies and Contemporary Poetic Practice; Part II: Epiphany as Rediscovery of a Permanent Presence; 3. Ways to Write Epiphanies of the Past Recaptured: Sheri Benning and Alice Oswald; 4. How to Harness the Everyday in the Epiphanic Mode: Harryette Mullen, Kathleen Jamie and Liz Berry; 5. Using Poetic Attention and Form to Capture Epiphanic Moments: Jorie Graham and Tishani Doshi; Part III: Sites of Epiphany; 6. Crafting Earthly Sites of Epiphany: Liz Berry and Sinéad Morrissey; 7. How to Use Thresholds to Imagine the Complexities of Epiphany: Judith Nagala Crispin and Liz Berry; 8. Ways to Expand Epiphany into the More-than-human World: Kathleen Jamie and Alice Oswald; Part IV: Epiphanies that Invite Participation; 9. How to Craft Unfixity and Uncertainty in the Epiphanic Mode: Alice Oswald and Kathleen Jamie; 10. Sustaining the Epiphanic Mode in Long-Form Poetry: Janette Ayachi; 11. Techniques for Writing Epiphany in a Book-Length Poem: Elizabeth-Jane Burnett; Part V: Conclusion; Conclusion; Index

Über Autor(innen)

Joanne Dixon is Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at De Montfort University, UK. Her poetry and critical writing appear in a range of international journals, and she is the author of the poetry collection, Purl (2020).